Robert Dickson
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Due to being fed up paying, as Brian mentioned, the ever increasing fees for baggage (almost £240 for a checked case each from Edinburgh) and fed up waiting in check in queues, we are thinking of taking the plunge to ‘carry on’ luggage.
I’ve tried to read through some t&c’s, which sometimes aren’t very clear.
Are there any glaring things that we can’t take onboard?
I’m fine, but Amanda is thinking of a small hairdryer or hair straighteners.
All help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Robert
Eaten here twice this fortnight and still lovely food and service.
Yeah. It would appear it’s only the pool bar that’s opened now.
We ate on 7th of this month. Wasn’t great. I still get the feeling the waiters don’t really know what they’re doing.
To be fair, the. Spicing and flavouring was lovely but the chicken we both had was dry and overcooked. I couldn’t get my fork through it. My chicken pakora was very dry and my wife’s Prawn Puri was a little short on the prawn side. We ordered a garlic naan and left most of it. It never tasted of garlic and the texture was stale pizza base.
Not for me, but glad to hear some are enjoying it. Seems to be busy most nights.Has anyone else eaten here?
Just looking for other opinions.
Newsletter was great, thanks to all who helped.
I think the restaurant survey (so far) was interesting-many restaurants I’d never even heard of.
I only hope more contribute to the survey to give us a good spread of results.
I’m certainly no expert, but I would imagine just adding to the current owners would be the least expensive option. I would imagine there wouldn’t be a problem as they are close members of the family. I think if you went for a full transfer there would definitely be a fee, which I doubt they would waive.
This might sound like a silly question, and I may already know the answer, but what better than to dip into the font of information and knowledge on the forum.
We are going to Anfi in June for 2 weeks and I’m about to book the transfers.
We are staying a week at Beach and a week at Gran. Am I best to do 2 separate transfer requests-one to Beach and one from Gran. Just thinking that if I put Gran on an arrival/depart (so that my transfer voucher goes to Gran when Im leaving) my luggage would end up in the section of the coach going to Gran, instead of beach-which might cause bother when I’m trying to get off at Beach (Does this make sense?)
Any help appreciated. Oh, and while I’m here, how do I get my luggage transferred from Beach to Gran after the first week-do I put it in the transfer request or just let Beach know on check in?
Regards
Robert
I think it’s terrible that they are increasing the costs 6 fold.
If anything, it may deter people not in AVC being able to rent or allow their families to stay there and spend money within the resort.
I’m sure Anfi, with some foresight could have had the Rentals and Resale Market controlled some time ago.
Ridiculous
We dined her twice during the week earlier in the month. So busy on the first night we had to wait 20 minutes for a table, despite booking. We didn’t mind though-it’s always worth the wait.
Still love it after all these years.
We ate twice here earlier in the month and it was extremely busy both night.
lovely food and service.
We were hoping to eat here earlier in the month, after 16 years of trying. Sadly it was closed as the original owner and founder had passed away.
We ate here earlier in the month. Food and service were great as usual. Still my favourite place for a steak.
Speaking to the waitress, she seemed to think they would be closed Jun/Jul & Aug.
Well.
After eating there last night, I would agree with the positive reviews.
The place was certainly busy enough, with most of the tables taken.
We had starters of Prawn Puri and Chicken Pakora. My wife said the prawns were very tasty. My Pakora was nice , although 2 of the pieces of chicken were more like strands of chicken-a bit thin for pakora.
For mains I had Chicken Madras and my wife had Chicken tikka masala. We both had the option of Medium or Spicy sauce- we both opted for medium.Both curries were nice enough, but I reckon Taj Palace in Puerto Rico was slightly nicer.
It’s early days yet, and I think that showed with some of the waiting staff, but i would certainly go back and good to see an Indian restaurant back at Anfi.
Just an update regarding a Currensea card.
I got one of these cards before we went to Anfi in June. I used it for the full holiday and found it absolutely flawless. When I used it, mainly through Apple Pay on my phone, I got an instant notification of the transaction, the transaction exchange rate and their estimate of what I have saved versus a ‘conventional’ debit card.
Whilst I am not qualified to offer any financial advice, I would certainly recommend it, based on my personal experience. You don’t have to top it up and it just seems to work in the currency of the country you are in.
Since I got this, my own bank debit card (Bank of Scotland / Halifax) now no longer charges ‘overseas fees’
When I went to pay my maintenance yesterday, I compared both. The difference between paying with my regular debit card and the Currensea was almost £40-in favour of the Currensea card. Whilst my regular debit card might not charge fees any more, it certainly doesn’t give the best rates of exchange.
My regular debit card was exchanging around 1.17, whereas the Currensea was almost 1.21.
The currensea App tells you exactly what the rate is at that time-using its calculator function.
For me, it was a welcome saving and, I hope this info helps others.
Regards
Robert
I had the following reply back from FNTC. I hope it helps others.
Dear Mr Dickson.
Thank you for your email.
I can confirm that there has been no data breach from FNTC and that we do not operate “awaiting action” registers of any sort.
If you are/have been suspended you would have been notified directly by Anfi in the normal course.
Unfortunately, as you note, there are many companies of this type who acquire resort member lists illegally and then make various spurious claims. Our advice is that you should ignore them and put down the telephone immediately.
Thanks Roger
I’ve dropped him an email, I’ll let you know if and when he comes back to me.
Regards
Robert
Hi Brian
What I was curious about was they said it was on the FNTC Register, who are obviously the Trustees for Anfi, although that’s maybe just a name drop in order to mean something familiar with me. They mentioned they were a ‘dispute management’ company.
Probably just the usual scaremongering rubbish.
Thanks
Robert
Congratulations on you re-appointment Roger.
Had a read of this-great, and thanks to all who contributed.
Hi Caroline
Although I’m not vegetarian, I do agree that many of the menus haven’t changed in the 15 years we have been going-apart from the price.
Thanks for that Brian, I must have missed that.
Personally I use Affinity Photo-it’s on its 2nd version now. Been using that for a couple of years-it’s a one off fee for that particular version-they also do a free trial.
For cataloging , I have just started using Adobe Bridge-which is absolutely free.
Again, there are multiple YouTube videos on both of these.
Hopefully this helps someone else.
Glad to hear this-we’ll give it a visit in January.
We just booked again last week for next June.
Ryanair from Edinburgh. Only about £120 saving from Glasgow prices this year, but much more favourable flight times.
Ryanair gets you back into Edinburgh around 4pm whereas Jet2 gets you into Glasgow at 3AM!Thats a no brainer for me.
