DavidLedger
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But if you wanted a week in a two bed instead you would only get 10 months. (Assuming your 2 weeks are in a one bed).
They can’t. We have 2 weeks in a two bed at Emerald on an 18 month booking, but we only get that 18 months if we want to book in a 2 bed at Emerald. We’re down to 10 months advance booking even for a one bed at Emerald. It’s 10 months for everything except exactly what and where we own.
I’d have to check back through the minutes of AGMs from before I joined the committee as to which way round it is, but, if I remember correctly, the fees for rental and for resale adverts were introduced to support the website and subsidise the AGM.
The adverts on our site have two great advantages over social media. Firstly they are all there in one place all the time. You can browse the all the adverts whether they were put up last week or months ago. The owner doesn’t have to keep repeating the advert to keep it within a reasonable number of screens from the top, and the customer doesn’t have to keep monitoring screenfuls of posts daily. The second advantage is that we have genuine contact details for everyone that advertises. This means that the customer is sending money to someone who is identifiable as an owner at Anfi and a member of this club. Many FaceBook accounts are fake and backed only by ‘throwaway’ gmail addresses. Would you send money to someone who advertises on FaceBook without doing some research into their real identity? That’s not needed here.
We are working on improving the advert layouts, listing in date order for example; and I am hoping to introduce a system where adverts are ‘gold starred’ if we have seen a scan of the owner’s current year’s maintenance invoice, proving identity, address, and Anfi ownership (at least as at the beginning of the year).
None of the committee member gets paid, but Steve manages Rentals and Resales as a service to our members and to bring revenue into your club.
David
Karen Pearson has posted about the walk in the past.
This below is pinched from the Anfi del Mar Friends FaceBook page – a post by Lynn Williams
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Alternatively, go through the passage between Gran Anfi and Los Caideros , down the hill then go right at the beach. Make sure you take water as it’s a slight climb and if it’s a hot day it gets to you !!
Right at the top of the hill, you walk between a couple of boulders and hey presto you are on top of Puerto Rico. It’s a lovely stroll downhill then towards the marina & you’ll be surprised to see a green park area with a running stream and shady palms. All the years we’d been going we never knew it was there !!
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Sunshine started as a part of Hays Travel and became independent in 2013 under MD Chris Clarkson.
sunshine.co.uk was registered on 21-Mar-2005, presumably by Hays. It is now registered by someone at 14 Berrymoor Court, Cramlington, Northumberland, NE23 7RZ which is a private house. It was registered through the same company that hosts our club website. They claim to be a UK Limited Company, (Company number: 5954656).
There are lots of complaints against them on TripAdvisor since 2013.
David
Food isn’t a major priority when we’re on holiday. Mainly it’s ‘food to stay alive’ rather than ‘food to die for’. When we have a car we tend to use small local restaurants, and bars with food. The everyday things the locals eat. We often don’t know just what it was.
David
For those at Emerald I would add the Guantanamo.
Although it’s not really a restaurant and the range is small, the food at Bob Gorman’s pub and music store is very good. And you get the music too. (€5 cover charge to pay the band).
David
The papers had to be sent out 14 days before the closing data. It can depend on the precise wording of the rules and how that is interpreted. It can either mean that papers have to be physically leave Anfi 14 days before, or that the papers have to be in a ‘sent out” state 14 days before. The latter means the same as ‘at least 14 days’, which makes more sense. I know that in UK Parish Council nominations it means ‘at least’ because I’ve fallen foul of that with a secretary who thought it meant ‘on the day’.
Our wording will be in Spanish and so who knows what it really means.
Anfi publish a graph of ‘Occupation by Entities’ on the noticeboards. It has sections for Owners, AVC, RCI and Anfi Sales. ‘Owners’ means owners of fixed weeks using their fixed week, or possibly banking and booking. AVC is all floating and points bookings made through AVC. ‘Anfi Sales’ is occupation given by Anfi Sales – promotions, taster weeks etc, allocated from their ownership of unsold weeks. They pay the maintenance charge so they have use of those weeks.
At Emerald ‘Anfi Sales’ is huge, almost 60% summer last year because there are lots of unsold weeks. RCI is tiny at 0.5%, as is ‘Owners’ because there are very few fixed weeks at Emerald. You should be able to check at any resort you have access to.
RCI do not have exclusive use of the ground floor at Gran because that is where the disabled access apartments are. My in-laws have used one. I suspect that this is just the lower orders at Anfi making things up as they go along.
RCI should only be able to offer weeks that have been banked with them by week owners.
Robert
Both Continental Trustees and Anfi should be able to tell you, but persuading them to do so may not be easy. It’s generally best to just turn up at the office down the walkway to the right off from the first turning point under the Monté gardens (reception being the second) – but not at lunchtime. You may need proof of identity.
I think they will end up having to change all floating weeks to fixed, but they’re not ready to admit to the need in public yet. There are two problems (at least).
They are currently appealing against all decisions against them as far as they can take them. This is partially a delaying tactic and partly to put people off from taking action. As soon as they mention replacing contracts they are admitting that there is a problem with floating/points and those appeals will be weakened or collapse. The were advised years ago (but after 1998) that by registering the resorts as having floating/points they were allowed to continue selling them (or some very similar arrangement). That was their lawyers’ interpretation of the law in 1998. The judge in 2015 decided otherwise. Anfi are appealing that their initial interpretation is correct.
Secondly, how to allocate apartment/weeks so that everyone is happy. All floating and points contracts do have an apartment and week against them in their database and that is recorded with Continental Trustees who safeguard our holiday rights. They cannot reasonably just fix weeks to this week without allowing some free way to float apartments and weeks around their home resort for current floating owners and to float apartments and weeks around all resorts (including Emerald) for current points owners. This is what AVC does for a joining fee plus an annual membership fee. AVC (or a replacement) would have to be made free for this all to work. Some of those who paid to join AVC may object to others joining for free, but in the light of current circumstances I think they are just going to have to put up with that.
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That message is worse than most. Usually they try to frighten people with the fact that their contracts don’t comply with Spanish law, claiming, wrongly, that they need to sue Anfi. It’s true that Anfi is now 50% owned by someone who is very big in the hotel business, but the five Anfi resorts are all held in trust by Continental Trustees which ensures that it all remains as timeshare.
Even if there were a problem, the company making those claims about the future should be the last to consider using.
The Ancora Centre is a little nearer to Anfi than the Arguineguin Spar. It’s in the angle between straight on and left at the whale tail roundabout. There are lots of local shops in there. It’s a bit of a warren but worth exploring. You could lose an adventurous child in there for a while.
If you go away from Anfi past the Spar to the next (and last) roundabout and turn left, you’ll find the Hiperdino which I’m told can be cheaper still. It looks an ‘industrial’ shop intended for locals rather than holiday makers.
David
I personally feel that the lack of an obvious tree structure makes the new forum more difficult to navigate too, but having started installing computers in banks in 1969 I realise that my feelings for what is easier on a computer may lag behind the times a bit, so I don’t push for what I like. I use the command line on my Mac a lot.
If you just click ‘My Club’ rather than use its menu, then select the ‘Latest Forum Activity’ tab, you get a list of forums with the latest posts down the right hand side under ‘Freshness’, with the most recent at the top (mostly). The old forum used to keep track of every thread each member read and when. That way it could tell you which posts had been added since your last visit to that thread. That system was also very expensive. Instead, this system tells you when the last post to a thread was made – ‘4 hours ago’, ’17 hours, 55 minutes ago’, ‘1 week, 3 days ago’ etc., and relies on you remembering roughly how long ago you last visited. The same information is available on the right when viewing forum threads, but they come below the list of forums. The tree structure is still there, but the top level is brought out into the ‘My Club’ -> ‘Member to Member’ links which obscures them a bit. When viewing threads links to the top levels also appear as the very bottom part of the right hand side column, below ‘Forums’, ‘Active Topics’,and ‘Recent Replies’.
I don’t know what facilities are available for subscription settings and the like, but we can look at it.
The website framework is WordPress, and there are thousands of people who know how to make sites in it. The number of people who understand vBulletin (our previous framework) is small, and they are all too expensive for us. If, heaven forbid, our current designer stopped working, we would survive; with the last system we wouldn’t. The forum is ‘bbPress’. We can only present a selection of what the developers of WordPress and bbPress decided to include. Choices have been made, but they may not be the best choices for our members. It’s feedback like yours, Liam, that will help us to move over time to a better set of choices.
David
Just tried ‘Places’ in the ‘My Club’ menu under ‘Member to Member’ and it worked fine. As with the previous site, if you hit it while a backup is happening some things fail, but it should be ok a few minutes later. Please try again, and if it still gives a ‘404’ then come back here or email webmaster@anfiukmembers.co.uk with details of where you clicked and when. If we know the time, ideally to the minute, then we can check the log files and hopefully see what happened. I only know of one ‘Places’ link, but there may be another problematic one that I haven’t noticed. We’re all still getting used to this and spotting oddities.
David
The latest is at the bottom because the whole thread is a sequence of posts in time order and we naturally read from the top of a page and down.
Until tablets and smartphones came along, email conversations were all in time order too. You can get away with top-posting where there are only two participants, but it can get very difficult to follow with more. Some email based discussion lists reject top-posted replies.
You may also notice that if the correct ‘REPLY’ button is used, the posts are indented, showing which previous post a new post refers to. This also makes more sense if new posts go below older ones. (This is where I may reply using the wrong reply button 🙂 )
Good question Robert.
Hopefully people will reply to this and say if they too find the forum difficult or less intuitive than the old one – or otherwise.
What do you most miss that we had with the old forum? I miss the branching tree structure myself.
David
As someone else with no personal interest in taking legal action I can quite understand Robert’s thoughts. But as you say, Robert, this is only one forum thread. In fact ‘Claims’ is only one of eight threads (or ‘Topics’) in one of five main forum sections. The forum is still a ‘tree’ of sub-sections within sections, but we’re not shown the top level as such. The sections appear individually in the ‘My Club’ pop-down.
And we do need more posts on other topics. Gran has a new restaurant – what is it like? Monté’s bar will be changing – we will need to be told what it’s like too. How is ABC’s pool? Can someone please tell us… Other members are interested to hear from people they ‘know’, even if they haven’t met.
David
Anfi will tell the resort committee reps when something is going to happen when what they mean is, when it is planned to happen at that moment. We don’t necessarily know in advance when it will happen, and neither do they. This isn’t all their fault, Apparently they need local authority permission to refurbish a pool, and all sorts of other things that we would expect to just happen. Normal buildings seem to be treated more like listed buildings are in the UK.
I raised this with Anfi and received the answer that there is no fee, but that it is only one each way per year. I’m emailing you to see what we can do about this.
I believe Monte Anfi has on-site storage and maybe others. Emerald does not, and we (the Emerald committee) have been discussing the possibility of installing some. Because of lack of space they would have only been available of those with four or more weeks as they are the ones with greater need. That’s when we learned of the Monte (?) storage. At our October meeting we were told of the external service instead. I have a leaflet somewhere – I’ll try to find it. There is a fee per month plus a collection and delivery fee. Your property is stored away from Anfi. Large items like golf clubs can be stored there, which the Anfi storage can’t take.
David
RichardFixter
Anfi UK Newbie
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Mar 2001We have been told that the beach will be complete within one year and you can see the publicity shots on the Anfi web site.
RichardFixter
Anfi UK Newbie
Join Date
Mar 2001An artists impression of the new Tauro beach / development, look forward to seeing the real thing!
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