Robert Dickson
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If I could retract my previous post I would.
We popped in on the 1st June for. quick nibble as we had arrived very late.
Food was ok, but the staff just couldn’t be bothered-they have had the last euro from me!!
I’ve never really saw it being used any of the times I have been there.
I saw this being removed at the beginning of June (Apologies, I should have posted sooner)
I can certainly recommend. We popped in a couple of nights at the start of June. The owner is a fully trained sommelier, very pleasant to chat to and I’m sure he will show you all his award certificates behind the bar.
Other outlets onsite could learn a thing or two about service from him.
Looking forward to going back in January.
Got an email from Ryanair to say they had changed our flight time from Edinburgh in June, now leaving Edinburgh & GC around 6 hours later. They gave us the option to cancel if we wanted, as it was over a 3 hour change.
I tried ‘online chat’ and also tried calling them to ask why it had changed. On both chat and call I got through to some numpty who just could not understand why I was asking this and I also explained I could rebook and save money-could’nt they just refund me the difference, but they couldn’t understand why I didn’t just want to cancel.
Came off the phone in a mood and double checked online.
I called Ryanair again to cancel, they processed a full refund, I went back onto their site and rebooked, sitting in the exact same seats (as they had come available again after the cancellation) and saved the £85!!
Could have done without the hassle, but I suppose I’ll just have to have a nice lunch on Mr O’Leary!!
All in all we booked 2x flights, reserved seating and 1 x 20 Kilo luggage each way between us for £328
Every bit you can save certainly helps.
Regards
Robert
As far as I am aware you can only claim if you bought directly from Anfi, not resale.
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Robert
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.
Regards
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.
Regards
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.
Regards
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.
Regards
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.
Regards
Robert
