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Information and help please / Re: EasyJet 2014
« on: October 10, 2013, 12:00:39 AM »
Re easyjet - been flying with them from BTL for around 12 years now and it's pretty obvious their business model is changing.
This v quick ramping up of flight prices on 'day one' is getting more and more prominent.
We are frequent visitors to the Algarve - if i dont get a flight in first few hours of release, prices really ramp up within next few hours.
I cant book at mo due to my wife needing clearance from her work - i've never known easyjet flights to go so high so quickly on 'day one' since we've been using them.
The days of cheap flights, from their regional bases, are gone imo.
I'm actually finding it quite depressing.
I think any recession in travel overseas is well and truly over.

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Where to stay / Re: Who are you kidding Thomson?
« on: September 20, 2013, 09:55:36 PM »
It's pretty simple to explain Tredegar Boy -
Thomsons do not want fly-only passengers, plus it's likely that their package sales are v strong and indicating near-full capacity for when u want to go next year.
Simple supply and demand.

My advice is to wait for Easyjet July flights release and book them straight away. The one downer is that Ejet flights to Corfu, from Bristol, are crap times!

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Information and help please / Re: Flight or package?
« on: September 01, 2013, 10:01:14 PM »
Quote from: Caz on September 01, 2013, 07:29:29 PM
Just been speaking to a friend who found she and her husband had the chance of a weeks holiday in Corfu this September in an apartment, okay not in San Stef but nearby. However she said flights were horrendous in price and they didn't think they could make it. Then her husband found a Thompson flight with  studio accommodation for age group 20+ in Kavos for just over £160. This included baggage so they have booked it and will tell the rep when they arrive that at age 60+ they wont be using the transfers or accommodation but have booked the apartment they wanted in the area they wanted. She said transfers won't be a problem to arrange and they now have a reasonable priced flight

Clever - i like their style.

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Information and help please / Re: Flight or package?
« on: August 30, 2013, 01:16:13 AM »
Well, the choice is there for many of us i guess.
There's enough credible insight on the forum over the years on the Thomson v Independent issue - we're all consumers and we can easily make an informed choice.
Whatever you prefer, taking everything into consideration, you choose.
Simple as that really.

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Where to stay / Re: English brekkie at B and B's as standard
« on: August 23, 2013, 11:30:38 PM »
We stayed at Fedra Mare in June 2010 - booked it way in advance (Oct 09 i think). We'd never stayed there before.
I'd like to come back to SS but 'the boss' is a bit lukewarm on the idea.
If we did plan to return i think i'd see if we could book FM, before anywhere else in SS.

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San Stefanos news and views / Re: Got back yesterday and beyond depressed!!
« on: August 21, 2013, 11:53:33 PM »
I agree with Jimbo's steak comment.
In 20+ years of visiting the Med i've rarely had a decent steak (as we know it in the UK).
My wife's father was a butcher by trade and he lived in Spain for 10 years and when we visited back then he'd always say avoid steak - the cuts are cheap and not what we're used to in the UK.
The only place i've had a decent steak is in a restaurant in the Algarve we use each September - the owner and chef is a Scot (his wife Portuguse) and he can source ribeye which is usually pretty good in their restaurant.

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San Stefanos news and views / Re: Mozzies now
« on: July 21, 2013, 05:14:44 PM »
Quote from: sarah_suarez on July 21, 2013, 12:41:38 PM
Daughter currently has well over 20 in last 6 days, using plug ins and various anti mossie stuff doesn't seem to be doing much  :(. She must have fantastic tasting blood!

When we last visited San Stef in 2010 we got bitten loads of times and we used autan spray, citronella from the village and we always kept our liquid mosiquito plug in on.

Normally any bites in the Med or canaries are v few and far between - some hols zero bites.

Without doubt San Stef was, and still is, worst place we've been for mossie bites in last 20 years. Anyone know why the blighters seem so resistant to spray, etc in San Stef?

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San Stefanos news and views / Re: Corfu Weather Prospects April/May 2013
« on: June 04, 2013, 01:19:38 PM »
Thunderstorm risk remains for coming week.
When we visited in early June 2009 for 2 weeks one of the weeks was v humid with early morning rain/thunderstorms - one of the days we had a huge thunderstorm that lasted until midday. Then the 2nd week it was completely clear with much drier heat.
Thunderstorms not unusual for 1st half of June in the Med, as the weather settles down for the rest of the Summer.

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Where to stay / Re: Fedra Mare - 5 star
« on: May 29, 2013, 10:32:40 PM »
My wife and I stayed at FM in June 2010 for 10 nights
Can echo all comments on here.
Lovely apartments, great hosts. Dimi even arranged our personal taxi from and to Corfu airport at a v reasonable price.

If Easyjet flights from Bristol to Corfu were at better times than they currently are,  i'm sure we'd return.
Should really make the effort next year.
We stayed at Teresa the year before and although they both have v good qualities, some of a different nature, i think i'd lean towards FM, as a preference.

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San Stefanos news and views / Re: Corfu Weather Prospects April/May 2013
« on: May 11, 2013, 02:08:10 AM »
Quote from: lilly on May 11, 2013, 12:08:22 AM

Hi, I had a look at acu weather and they have the forecast for your first week showing sun,sun,sun all the way and pretty much the same for your second week with a little cloud on some days. I doubt very much that it will rain all day long every day. We looked at the forecast one year just before we left for Corfu and that also said rain every day and guess what it did not rain once, enjoy your first visit and have a great time. We fly out on the 3rd June for 3 weeks and can't wait.

Ignore accuweather - complete waste of time - they just follow each weather prediction model run that are run 4 times a day.

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Where to stay / Re: Fedra Mare
« on: May 11, 2013, 02:04:36 AM »
We stayed at FM in 2010 and it is a lovely place to stay.
Dimitri put us in one of the ground floor apartments right by the pool - in the morning he used to bring me a cooked brekkie onto our little terrace.
I'd like to return next year, if i can persuade my wife.

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San Stefanos news and views / Re: Thomson 2014 holidays on sale
« on: April 26, 2013, 01:34:27 AM »
Being in finance and analysing markets the fact that the prices are much higher for 2014 tells me Thomson and the like have come out of any recession that there was in the travel industry in last few years.
The higher prices ties in with a much leaner company whose shares are viewed as a 'buy' by the analysts. Along with Easyjet who have also raised prices in last 12 months tells me the 'bargain' prices of the last few years may have 'flown'.

Should've added that i realise if u can be really flexible on days and times of flying, esp from gatwick, then i guess one might get a cheaper flight.

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San Stefanos news and views / Thomson 2014 holidays on sale
« on: April 25, 2013, 11:59:21 PM »
Had an email earlier from Thomson informing 2014 Summer on sale.
Took a look for San Stef, as we are thinking of returning in 2014 after a 4 year absence.
But, expensive or what!
Over £500/person for a week in mid-June, flying out of B'ham on a Monday morning.
Anyone think the 2014 prices will drop?

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San Stefanos news and views / Re: Smoking while dining Alfresco ?
« on: April 01, 2013, 02:48:05 AM »
Quote from: Gavlah1973 on March 31, 2013, 04:56:04 PM
Brizzle Boy.....

Most pubs aren't actually brewery owned..... they are now owned by Punch and Enterprise Inns and the like who charge nigh on full list price for beer despite receiving hefty discounts and who also charge high rents.

With regards to Brewery Increases...... we deffo only put ours up once a year,  same goes for our competitors.  The amount does vary..... we only went up 4%....... Heineken put John Smiths up 2.5% but also reduced the ABV saving themselves about £7m quid in duty!!

I can't remember a year where any of the big boys put through more than one increase!!
4 % isnt a bad increase when you consider price of fuel and also the effect on hop prices the bad summers have had!!

Yes i know.
My wife's parents used to be leaseholders (when they were alive) - i worked in a pub for 3 years many years ago; my current boss owns a pub.
I know how much pub landlords/ladies have to pay but it's a fact that the beer suppliers increase their prices each year far more than the govt tax - has been for years.
Just look at the balance sheets of the large brewery conglomorates - huge profits. They've only got themselves to blame for less customefs using the pubs and turning to cheap supermarket drinks.

It's a fact that beer inflation in pubs has been double normal inflation for last 30 years.

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San Stefanos news and views / Re: For all involved in the smoking debate.......
« on: March 31, 2013, 04:14:41 AM »
Just dont blow your smoke over my gyros. ::)

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