Robert Dickson
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We ate here twice last week, the first night I couldn’t believe how packed it was-we were lucky to get a table. Food, service and value were great as usual. Well worth a visit for anyone who hasn’t been.
We ate here last week-it was quite busy and the food and service were great as usual. Still my #1 restaurant when we go to Anfi.
We only popped in here one late evening for a drink, I think there was only 6 people there including us, and 2 of them left within 5 minutes.
Never seemed busy
Regards
Robert
We stopped in here for a bite to eat last week and were pleasantly surprised. It was the busiest restaurant at Anfi all week-morning noon and night!!
Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing refined about it but we had very tasty burgers, great and very quick service (I hate waiting for ages to pay a bill)
To be honest, hard to fault it-it was busy and there were empty plates everywhere.
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Robert
Only popped in for a pizza to take to the apartment-it was lovely and better service than the usual grumpy faces you get at Tapas Tapas or whatever its called now.
Incidentally, a Margherita Pizza was €6.90 compared to Tapas Tapas which was €9.95 for the same size Margherita-when you put that into percentage difference its huge!!
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Robert
Fingers crossed I haven’t had too many problems of late. The most recent was when they done the 2 for 1 weeks around 3 years ago, and as a resale owner of 2 weeks, I was bottom of the pile.
We just came back from Anfi on Monday night and I called this morning and spoke to an English lady called Fiona who was very helpful and quick and rebooked for next January.
She also helped us a couple of weeks ago when I changed my week in June from a Monday to s Saturday as the flights were considerably cheaper.
It may depend who you get on the phone, incidentally I have NEVER booked or requested weeks by email.
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Robert
That would be very interesting
Hi Brian
Managed to get Anfi to change the date to the Saturday and went with Ryanair, flying from Edinburgh.
By the time we added reserved seats and a suitcase between us it came to £414.
We saved £435 off the price TUI wanted for the same thing. Simply too good to knock back.
Ryanair have their haters, but to be honest Ive found them ok.
We are looking at booking for June from Glasgow .
We have normally gone with TUI, but they are getting expensive. We are currently looking at about £350 per person flying from Glasgow on a Monday, and that’s before we add suitcases.
Ryanair (AAghh!) – We can fly from Edinburgh on the Saturday with good flight times for under £300 for both of us, before we add suitcases!!
I’ve flown with them twice before and never really had any problems they got me there and back on time-or thereabouts.
I now need to see if Anfi is available for the Saturday changeover. Fingers crossed.
When we were out in June, Gran was looking great.
Looked a bit like Anfi in the old days when you look back at old photos.
We have 2x resale 1 bed floating weeks at Gran, we have to book through Customer Services rather than AVC.
We can’t change where we go as we are also excluded from AVC.
If I was looking to buy anything else, I would only look at fixed weeks as it is the only thing that seems to have any sort of value going forward.
Robert
Michael
I agree with Brian’s comments also.
Anfi would probably only be interested in doing something if it was to their advantage, like taking fixed weeks off you which they could convert to floating or points.
I am sure you could pick up another resale fixed week 2 bed for less than the amount Brian was offered, but it still leaves you with your floating weeks to move on, which isn’t easy as there is not much value there.
Perhaps the new owners may come up with some sort of solution that would suit EVERYONE.
I don’t know why Anfi treat resale owners as such.
If you work it out, Anfi have made more money from you buying resale contracts through the various transfer fees than if the original owner had kept it and just paid their normal maintenance every year.
Those transfer fees are extra income Anfi would never have made.
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Robert
Brian
Many apologies for the delayed response.
Unfortunately we never ventured that far with Valentino’s and El Gaitero still getting our vote, and euros!!
Regards
Robert
Hi David
We saw it on Monday when we arrived. I haven’t seen anyone in it working or bringing it to completion or anything, most things are still covered up
Nice to know of another good Italian.
Thanks David
Julie
Forgive me if I am wrong, but from memory you have, or had some sort of link with JLCA, so I understand your defence of them at every opportunity.
However, it sounds as if everyone has the same gripe with JLCA, and that is communication.
I appreciate that it would be a waste of time sending everyone an email every week to say that they don’t have an update, however I don’t think it much to ask for a quarterly update as a lot of people on this forum have not had any updates for quite some time.
Everyone seems to be doing all the chasing, which over time, erodes all confidence in the people you are chasing.
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Robert
Looks like I dodged a bullet there Brian!
I had actually just returned from Anfi after buying on a walkaround tour whilst on holiday with Thomas Cook (TC presented it at their welcome meeting!), came back and saw what they were going for and s**t myself. To be fair, they told me EXACTLY what to do to cancel.
I bought a week from them in Jan 2009, all the paperwork came back in May-booked it for June.
Went and came back with no problems, obviously thought of no problem and bought the other week off them-same again-no problems.
In fact the guy got me it for cheaper than advertised as he was buying a pair from a couple and if he could get someone else to take the other week he reckoned he could get a bit off.
Sorry to see it went off the rails for them, but the service for me, at that time was impeccable.
I wonder if it was a change of management or something? I just checked back on my emails, I was dealing with the owner and his wife-Jason & Nikki Clowrey.
They saved me a fortune, and I can only speak from my personal experience.
Robert
That’s good to know Tony as I’m sure many will agree that it can be a bit of a minefield.
The company I used in the past (Visions of the World) were great but I don’t think they are around any more.
Robert
Booked with Ryanair today for June from Glasgow-Too much of a saving to ignore as Thomson from Edinburgh was more than double the cost and I don’t fancy doing multiple stops. I enjoy my holiday far too much to be sitting in various airports.
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Robert
On that note I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.
Regards
Robert & Amanda
I had previously said that the flights with Thomson in June 2018 from Edinburgh for 2, with luggage and extra legroom seats was over £1000-that still remains the same.
Ryanair are £494 from Glasgow for more or less the same thing, albeit not the best flight times-but also not the worst.
I am sooooooo reluctant to book with Ryanair because of all the cancellations to their schedule but I feel it’s far too good a deal to knock back.
Does anyone else have any reservations (If you’ll pardon the pun) with Ryanair??
Regards
Robert
On a slightly different tangent-I think most people would be shocked to see how much their case weighs with no luggage in it!!
We bought the lightweight cases a couple of years ago and they can make all the difference, although we are always hold luggage rather than hand.
Regards
Robert
We had a few years where we struggled to get our 2 resale weeks together, however we managed to get 2017 and 2018 booked for 2 weeks each year.
But it’s certainly not simple.
Regards
Robert
Been going to Happy Valley for a 2-3 years now since it was recommended to me by Saverio Calo-excellent food, service and value.
It’s now a must for us since Mem Saab closed.
Regards
Robert
Hi Brian
Regarding the Rep saying Anfi wanted to take a bigger role in resales.
I feel that for years Anfi have almost ignored the existence of the resale market, other than to charge large fees on change of contract.
I think they could have had the resale market more or less sewn up years ago if they had taken heed to the fact that not everyone would be keeping their weeks until they were pushing up daisies. If they had done something, they could have at least offered a good return to owners and made a fee and everyone would be a lot happier than they are now, where we are in a position that floating weeks are more or less worthless and in some cases people just giving them away to others who will cover the transfer fees.
It would be great if they took a constructive and ‘open’ approach to resales
Let’s wait and see what happens.
Regards
Robert
