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Actually paid to sleep somewhere that turned out to be less compfy, private or clean than the bench in the park outside? Tell us all about it.
Or perhaps you'd like to boast about getting upgraded to a sea-view suite next door to Stevie Wonder, like my colleague keeps doing? Over and over...
( , Thu 27 Nov 2014, 9:36)
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I stayed here recently. First holiday abroad with my girlfriend and figured it would be worth splashing out a bit of extra cash on a two week all inclusive in a 4 star hotel.
The only problem was - everything.
A Hotel offering all inclusive beer and food and snacks...free wi fi internet access as well as nightly entertainment.
Snack Bar - if you missed breakfast it wasn't a problem as the snack bar opened at 10:30am, only it didnt. On the first day when we missed breakfast (I was severely hungover so much so I was still drunk) I went to get a burger and chips from the snack bar that quite clearly had (AI) next to it. Only to be told that all inclusive snacks were only available when the hotel wasn't busy, or more precisely not during peak time.
All inlusive drinks - GREAT STUFF lager is available all day from 11am until well 11am the next day! But that was it as far as alcholic drinks were concerned. My girlfriend doesn't drink lager so we had to pay for any alcoholic drink she might have wanted until it turned 7pm and then local alcoholic drinks were made available.
Lunch and Evening meals - I was not allowed a pint of lager in a pint glass. Although if i ordered two halves a lager that was fine...there was no rose wine, there was however white and red which was so finely mixed right in front of us to create some hybrid that most certainly was not rose, it would have been better on chips.
Free internet - nope you had to buy cards from the recption area for about 10 Euros for an hour.
Entertainment - by far the worst part was that the so called entertainment that was supposed to be on every evening was only on 3 nights a week, and it was the same three acts the second week as it was the first week. Which were ALL shit. Some guy with a keyboard and CD player singing songs half of it in Greek and the other half in English was probably the worst and to top it off he really genuinely did have a look or a cross between Jimmy Saville (our lord and saviour) and Triple H (apparently). This meant that for the other 3 nights a week unless you wanted to sit completely on your own after the evening meal and drink shite lager on your own you HAD to go out and spend money.
Regardless of this, and regardless of the huge dent it made in my bank account we had a great time and met some great people and we didnt let it get us down. It was great fun informing all the new guests as they arived and went looking for a snack at 10:30 that they may as well be pissing in the wind.
( , Mon 1 Dec 2014, 15:33, 29 replies)
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The snacks bar was open and available pretty much all the time
The lager tap was available 24/7
For the ladies they also had red and white wine taps, plus cocktails were free from the bar while it was open
I was allowed a pint at dinner
Decent entertainment too
Don't know about the wireless because I was on holiday, so fuck the internet
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But the resort looked barren when it came to places to eat out, venture to in a drunken stupor.
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which wasn't spectacular but I did score some weed and the missus found somewhere that sold Strongbow
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Glad you enjoyed it, I love the Greek Islands, if I could retire early and move somewhere a Greek island would be a potential destination.
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...though the best thing I found was a rock on the beach, with YIUX carved into it, which my friend identified as a shot from one of the Rhodian slingers (from between 400-100BC) - YIUX translates as "Look out!" so it's the ancient world's equivalent of writing "Have a nice day" on the side of a bomb :)
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We did the whole Lindos Acropolis thing. Walking up it in that heat was pretty harsh though, walking down it was even worse. The bay there is lovely for a bit of a dip though.
I didn't even know there were any caves there if I had I would have had a mooch.
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The slingshot is in my friend's collection of antiquities, accompanied by a little card with my name and "Rhodes expedition, 2014".
( , Tue 2 Dec 2014, 11:19, closed)
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regardless of the shit hotel.
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That's some exotic shit, right there! Must have been a real disappointment when you got back to boring old Britain.
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The missus only really likes Strongbow for some reason - I can only assume it's because she grew up outside the UK and so never got sick off it as a teenager. It makes holidays a bit of a pain though because we always have to find some expat bar that sells the stuff, while I'm happy with whatever beer the locals drink.
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( , Mon 1 Dec 2014, 17:35, closed)
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The way I see an all inclusive hotel is an open prison. You don't want to eat out because you've paid for your food but the food you've paid for is usually bad. So you're trapped in some shitty hotel for the sake of paying up front. And because no one wants to eat outside there aren't any places outside to eat even if you wanted to.
We booked one night in a place in Fuerteventura because it was close to the airport and the early flight we had the next day. The town was called Caleta de Fusta and had potential (nice beach, promenade etc.) but so many hotels were all inc, that the potential was squandered - a tiny strip of bars and clubs was all there was.
The hotel itself was a shithole called the Broncemar Beach Hotel. Cunningly named because it was nowhere near the beach. It was quite impressive how they managed to screw people over while still boasting to be all inclusive - Thomas Cook scum class quality with ants partying through the rooms, people walking straight past the bedroom windows, cats crapping everywhere, ice cold pools, outrageous internet fees, and coin operated TVs(!).
Avoid all inclusive like the plague. Maybe some are nice but so are lots of restaurants. At least if you have a bad meal in a restaurant you can go somewhere else. If you have a bad meal in an all inc, tough shit you're stuck there.
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AI on Rhodes, AI on Rhodes is mostly shit
( , Tue 2 Dec 2014, 10:43, closed)
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I will know for next time.
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its all pool bars and beaches though, all quite nice
( , Tue 2 Dec 2014, 17:39, closed)
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Where I'm going, I don't need Rhodes.
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