Brian Taylor
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The UK is ending travel restrictions at 04:00 on Friday – no more passenger locator forms!! – details on BBC news – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60741158
when we were out last Nov we went to a couple of Liam’s favourites which we like
– Palm Garden – long term favourite of ours
– Valentino’s – lovely food
– Sagitario (above Patalvaca beach) – on Sunday evenings the have a jazz player on from about 7.30pm – be aware they do close fairly prompt around 10 ish
also we went for first time to Restaurante Fernando – this is in Patalavaca just off the mini roundabout along the parade of shops and restaurants – location here. Great food, good service, and very good value – we booked and from 7.30 to about 9.oo there were people waiting outside for a table to come free
and for Indian the Taj Palace in the newish Mogan Mall is good – need to book if you want outside seat and get to see the water fountain display in the evening – the Mall also had local musicians on the evening we went
– Cabosuroeste – used to be a favourite, but haven’t used after we got put on outside table near where the staff grouped to smoke & indifferent service
Just to give you an idea of the questions we have had in and avoid repetition the 12 questions so far are
1 Current state of contracts in perpetuity
2 What is happening to the sales team- it would appear that they are not being brought back from furlough. Does this mean we will no longer have people traipsing through the site being given unrealistic expectations of what they can expect from Anfi management
3 Is it still true once you have signed the contract you can automatically leave if you do not pay the maintenance fee for two years, as ours only seem to say you MAY be able to leave only!
4 What are the ways of giving up an Anfi week other than private sale?
5 Richard Weston made a commend on Facebook regarding not to bye timeshare at Anfi for now. I’d like to have some more details on that – why not buy??
6 We want to use points from 2021 that could not be used before the end of 2022 due to pandemic restrictions or availability to be used in Feb 2023 but we have been told that is not allowed. Anfi had a concession in 2021 to allow unused 2020 points to be used in 2022. This is a post pandemic issue and there will be others in the same situation due to using up banked points. Can we expect another concession while this problem continues?
7 Updated on current internal legal situation with various Anfi owners
8 Is anything being done to ensure that all who own at del mar get their weeks, as the system now appears really skewed by Tauro owners who can get many more weeks for their points at del mar, leaving del mar owners unable to get their weeks, and not having adequate points to go to Tauro. Given the Covid voucher scheme, could there not be a week for a week arrangement to ease the log jam of weeks required
9 We signed our original contract 2008 yet the new contract states year signed up as 2020. We think the 50 years should be taken from that point – 2008 still. Our family are not able to use our 4 person apartment now as have 5 in their family now.
10 Are there any threat to spending my weeks in Anfi in view of the current bankruptcy of two of Anfi companies?
11 Internet at Anfi – still very slow and unstable – did they not pay enough for a good speed or is there a bigger problem??
12 The general maintenance of the Beach Club – still a lot to be done. Sealings in the bathroom and rust at the railings outside the Apartment’s. Why have they not done that under Corona lockdown?
I have sent out an email invation to all members – and please see copy below
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6th March 2022
Dear Member
We plan to hold a meeting at 6.30pm on Wednesday 23rd March by Zoom to update members on developments at Anfi since our last members meeting in November.
If you are interested in joining us please make a note in your diary and complete the brief reply form on the link below so that we can send you the Zoom details. The form has a section for questions you may wish to raise upfront and we will also try to answer any questions raised during the meeting.At our last meeting with members in November we discussed developments at Anfi, administration etc as an update to our OGM in October. The November meeting followed the October liaison committee meetings (see forum post for brief notes of November meeting), and we agreed we would hold another meeting after the the February Anfi Club liaison meetings.
If you wish to join the meeting on the 23rd to hear the latest news please complete the short form on the link below – we will only send Zoom details to those who complete the form and indicate that they will, or may, attend the meeting.
The form is quick to complete and just asks for your email, name and whether you will be joining us, and any topics to cover – the link to the form is – https://forms.gle/v5EyREGVNFNiJPqe9All of your Committee will be at the meeting on the 23rd including the 3 who are elected representatives to the the Anfi Club liaison committees (Roger Byatt – Gran Anfi / Richard Weston Anfi Beach & Club Anfi Monte / Geoff Mathews – Puerto Anfi).
I will email details for the Zoom call a day or two before the meeting to those members who have indicated they intend, or may, join the meeting.
Kind regards
Brian TaylorTreasurer
Anfi UK Members’ ClubNB
1 If you can’t join us you can still ask questions via the reply form and we will try to answer and send some notes after the meeting.2 For any members who missed the statements from the Administrator and from the Trustee which were sent by email from Anfi – there are copies on the Club’s news pages and forum, and the Club’s Facebook group plus of course in the members area of anfi.com – the links are:-
– statement from Administrator 14th October
– statement from Continental Trustees 1st November
I’ve put some notes about financial issues at Anfi into the next Newsletter as another member asked about this recently and one of the committee did some notes.
We’ll also no doubt touch on this topics in the members meeting on the 23rd March. I’ll be emailing the invitations out very soon.
Kind regards, Brian
Just a quick update on progress on membership fees – first though, I would be really grateful for feedback on any ideas for using some of the Club funds to improve services to members please email me – treasurer@anfiukmembers.co.uk or post in this forum.
All members subscription fees had been updated to the new rate by the end of last year – you can check your subscription in the subs area of your membership – https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/my-club/my-details/ and then click on the “subscriptions” link to the left of the screen.
Members with 3 and 5 year subscriptions are being updated manually – members due to renew in March and April have already been updated. There remain a considerable number to work through, though we will complete these before the renewal is due. (We are adjusting the renewal date so that the months remaining from 1st Jan 2022 are priced at the new reduced rate, which extends the renewal date for the membership.)
I asked Richard if he had heard more about the children’s playground being resurfaced and opened up and Richard said that no change so far, and no work at the moment, and the liaison committee have chased and want completed before June.
Anfi have now issued the following statement on the anfi.com news:-
“Some of our members will have seen that the children’s playground has been closed for some time pending the complete renovation of this area.
Before any new playground equipment can be installed, the area is to be extended slightly, the ground needs levelling, and a small retaining wall will be built where the ground slopes away. Then the new playground equipment will be installed, new soft impact flooring will be laid and a new fence put around the whole area.
Artificial grass will also be laid on the remaining surfaces, particularly around the children’s picnic area.
We will keep you informed of the progress.”
Just a shame it’s taking so long, though sounds like will be good when finished.
I had overlooked posting some brief notes from the Nov meeting – please see below:-
Notes from members meeting by Zoom 29th November 2021
1 No current cause for concern regarding safety of our weeks
2 Best to pay maintenance fee for 2022 and if not paid for 2021
3 Expect more from administrator in months not weeks – the next liaison committee meetings are in Feb and hope for update around that time
4 Some members looking to get out of maintenance liability and one option is just to hand back to Anfi
5 Members who bought direct are under pressure to sign new contracts and the latest Anfi tactic is to ask for new contract before actioning voucher (see note at end) – we don’t know if Anfi will start to approach resale buyers to sign new contracts, though the members on the Zoom call with resale weeks have not been approached.
6 Members are not responsible for Anfi’s debts
7 Elected representatives will continue to engage with Anfi regarding administration
8 That the maintenance fees have been held down compared to the last year the clubs were fully operational, to the benefit of all. The reduction in 2020 compared to 2019 was 10%, in 2021 it is 7%.
9 We expect 2022 to be back to around 2019 levels.
10 All points (and weeks) expiring at the end of 2021 are extended a year – see details with 2022 maintenance invoices
11 Anfi Sales inventory is available to book in order to increase effective capacity.
12 Members with fixed weeks who could not bank them, and those who had booked with floating weeks or points but then were ‘no shows’ at the clubs can obtain 60% reduction in the maintenance fee bill (We recommend this over any voucher offer). See details with 2022 invoices
13 The Administrator has currently confirmed existing management in post. There seems to be little effect on daily operations. To preserve their rights, members should pay their bills. This process is likely to take some time.
NB Anfi have been telling some members that any compensation entitlement that they are due for missing weeks will not be honoured until they sign the updated contract.
easyJet just announced release of flight up until and including 28 February 2023
thank you to the members who have replied with contributions to the Newsletter and if you haven’t replied yet there is still time
perhaps members with younger family might have some drawings to send in – or some budding journalist to write up about their holiday
my granddaughters did this
2 reminders for members based in the UK:-
1 health cover – if your EHIC is expiring or you haven’t got one, then apply online https://www.gov.uk/global-health-insurance-card (this also steps you through options if you are in UK but have other citizenships) – please remember as stated earlier in this topic, the EHIC is not a substitute for proper travel insurance.
2 passports – recent news highlighted cases where people turned away at airport because the don’t have enough time left on passport – see earlier posts in this topic and the note below from Graham on our Facebook group:-
“I think a reminder about passport requirements would be good. It was flagged today on Virgin radio.
Your passport must meet 2 requirements. It must be:
a) less than 10 years old on the day you enter (check the ‘date of issue’)
b) valid for at least 3 months after the day you plan to leave (check the ‘expiry date’)Check both the issue date and the expiry date in your passport. If you renewed your passport early, extra months may have been added to its expiry date. This could affect the requirement for your passport to be less than 10 years old.”
latest info from gov.uk on travel to Spain –
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Spain travel advice –
Change made:
Travellers can now enter Spain by presenting documentation that certifies they have recovered from COVID-19 infection in the last 6 months. (‘Entry requirements’ page)
https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/spain/entry-requirementsTime updated:
5:07pm, 28 February 2022
we found that the member who could see the menu bar was not logged into the website and when they logged in it disappeared from all the browsers they tried
We have passed that info onto our website developer along with some other tests and hope that will help isolate the issue
Richard Weston has posted on our Facebook group about the rules Anfi follow for week 53
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The “ghost week” is unowned and offered in this order.
1. Owners week 52&1 offered to rent 1st
2. Owners of week 52 2nd then
3. Owners week 1 3rd.
4. When the week is not taken up by any of these owners the rest of us will be offered to rent the week.
That was confirmed to us in our recent committee meetings
I don’t know when it will be put on offer but likely after June.
a member doing some testing today has told us (using Windows) that he found the problem is with Firefox browser but not with Opera or Edge. If you have Edge or Opera could you give it a try please & let us know
we do have ongoing problem with menu bar not appearing for some members and our web developer is still looking into possible causes
The links below will go to the main sections of the website and members details
Rentals – https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/rentals/
Weeks wanted – https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/forums/forum/anfi-uk-members-club/rental-wanted/
Resales – https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/resales/resales-tiled/
Your membership info
– https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/my-club/
– https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/my-club/my-details/
– your timeshares https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/my-timeshares/
– your adverts https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/my-adverts/
Forum – https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/forums/forum/anfi-uk-members-club/
– resort info https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/resort-info/
– club info https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/about-us/
– club contacts – https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/contacts/
Please take a few minutes if you can help with content for the Newsletter anything you have about your visits to Anfi, travel experiences, news or photos would be great – please send them to news@anfiukmembers.co.uk – or post in reply and we can use from here.
Please note the fee advert offer ended some months ago – we have reduced the price of rental adverts to £7.50
the Canaries islands insurance scheme ends on 3rd March – https://www.hellocanaryislands.com/covid-19-travel-insurance-policy/
If you want to reminisce copies of the newsletters are on the Club website and go right back to 2004 – https://anfiukmembers.co.uk/my-club/newsletter/
Hi Moira
There was a similar question on our Facebook group a few days ago and Geoff Mathews and other members replied
– first though I’ll put 3 links at end of this where you can check for latest as things can change though hopefully will ease rather than tightenFor fully vaccinated which includes booster within last 270 days
– for entry to Spain/Canaries – need to fill in Spanish locator form – you can do most upfront and complete last bit within 48 hours of going
– you don’t need PCR or lateral flow test
– best to print off your vaccination record and take paper copy in case needed– coming back to UK (for England, check for Scottish / Irish / Wales variation) the day 2 test has gone and the passenger locator form (plf) is due to be simplified – you must fill in the plf before you check in to fly back – suggest you do at Anfi and ask reception to print off
Possible government will have changed plf requirement before you get back – just keep lookingFor links to latest
– Canaries tourist site – look under coronavirus section – and scroll down to bit for non Schengen travel and UK – https://www.hellocanaryislands.com/travelling-to-the-canary-islands/
the Spanish travel form is on https://www.spth.gob.es/– for UK gov view on Spain / Canaries rules – https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/spain/entry-requirements
– for UK gov requirements for return – https://www.gov.uk/guidance/travel-to-england-from-another-country-during-coronavirus-covid-19
Hope that helps and that you have a great time at Anfi – do put any feedback on the forum or our Facebook group – https://www.facebook.com/groups/anfiukmembersclub
Spain is relaxing travel rules for teenagers from Monday – https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60335735 –
“Mr Valdés said that 12-to-17 year-olds who have not been vaccinated against Covid will be allowed into the country from Monday 14 February, if they present a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours of arrival to Spain.
The restrictions will be lifted from 23:00 GMT on 13 February.”
I think it depends where you prefer to be – and at what floor they are offering you.
I like Gran Anfi but it is further away from the central area
Anfi have not been asking resale buyers to sign new contracts – all the focus has been on direct buyers
Some members have asked and Anfi said not necessary – whether that will change remains to be seen. So far no resale buyers have taken a legal claim forward and the claims companies seem to look only for direct buyers – the original court case was a direct buyer so no precedent for resale.
Regards, Brian
