San Stefanos Online ~ North West Corfu

Good post Agnieszka, glad you and your family enjoyed the village.

All, I'm reverting to Yammas Bar where this conversation can carry on with the Members without the outside world looking at the dirty washing :-)

Imagine the Romanza PR Function being flagrantly caught reserving loungers German-style!!

I agree with Jaxbubbles, one of the things we loved about San Stef ( 4 years at Olgas) is we never experienced any of the sun bed 'land grab' behaviour described on this post. Well done Rod for exposing this.

But, my oh my, ........by the hotel's head of PR. Abuse of position I'd say.....even allowing for the 'mea culpa' 

I'm not so sure Rover?

Every time I go into the sea it comes up to my waist. If the beach was lower would it not come up higher?

Based on 4 years between 2008-2011 we would vote for Zorbas' too, cheers

There is a small charge charge collected by the credit card company on all Mastercard/VISA/Amex/Diners Club transactions irrespective of whether the cardholder is using a debit/credit/pre-paid/no commission cards.

So for example, if you pay €1, the merchant will received something like 99.5 cents with the payment scheme collecting 0.5 cents before it settles with the merchant. This is called the 'Interchange' and is subject to ongoing monitoring by worldwide regulators to ensure the card payments schemes do not abuse their market dominance.

The small fee is in effect the cost the the card issuing comapnies and the merchants have to pay to maintain the payment scheme infracstructure.

The attached Mastercard link provides more details and it shows that in certain situations the prepaid card is more expensive for the merchant to process than a normal credit card. So although a good dea, on the face of it, for the holiday maker , not so good for the local SS businessman which this forum so loves to support!!

http://www.mastercard.com/us/company/en/whatwedo/interchange/Intra-EEA.html

An interesting topic and one which paid me well for 8 years :-)

I think piddling in the sea when young children are playing is a worse habit.,,,,,kind of peeing al fresco.