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Terry Smith’s Site |
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1995 Christmas. Our first holiday with Saga and we were well impressed. Only went for a week, to Puerto de la Cruz, and wished we'd booked a fortnight. The hotel (Tryp) was comfortable and the drinks were cheap (very important!) and our rep. (Biljana Mitevic - from Bosnia) was probably the best we've ever had. The weather was excellent (couldn't believe it was Christmas) and the Town was brilliant. One thing. If you go on holiday with Saga and you're only just old enough to go then WATCH OUT! The coach driver and I were the only ones fit enough to unload the cases! (A small price to pay). 1996/97 Christmas and New Year. We decided to do Puerto de la Cruz again but at another hotel (therefore with a different Company). Decided roughly what we wanted and went into the Travel Agents. In those days it was not general knowledge that certain Agents were owned by certain Travel Companies and this one was (unfortunately) owned by AIRTOURS. They guided us towards booking a Hotel (Dania Park/Magec) with Airtours and did we regret it! I'll admit that the weather didn't help (plenty of rain) but the food in the Hotel was below par and the Airtours Reps! Ask them about the buses, they didn't know - if we found out could we tell them! On one of their "exclusive" trips (not recommended) we arrived back at one Hotel and they realised that whoever was meant to get off there was missing! The two reps for we crinklies were on the trip (but were not in charge) and we asked them next day what had happened to the "lost" person. "Don't know, not our problem!". Typical of the Holiday. Airtours - never again. 1997/98 Christmas and New Year. Decided to go further South this time (we were advised to by, would you believe, Brian May - who we had met in the Airport coming home last year - he spoke to us first and was quite chatty after I told him that Edna worked with a chap he went to College with and played with him in his first band). Somewhat better. Sunworld, Hotel Oasis, Playa Paraiso - not too far from Las Americas. Large Hotel, we were on the 14th. floor, but the food was pretty awful, the restaurant was dirty and the service was diabolical (not enough staff). Don & Cynthia (who we met in Marathon in 1994) came to see us in the first week and we went to see them in the second week (when sister Ann and her husband Michael joined us). They were staying at Los Gigantes, looked a lovely resort and a nice Hotel (Thompsons). Our local at Playa Paraiso was the "WILD ROVER", a Scottish pub (the football on telly first attracted me). Run by Graeme who played a mean guitar and always invited (late in the evening) everyone to have a "swally" (presumably a Scottish swallow!), a small glass of a very pleasant liquer. We were called Middlesex by Graeme (apparently everyone is called by their County!). If you go to Playa Paraiso look out for the "Wild Rover" (I hope it's still there). Anyway, even with the drawbacks of the Hotel, we enjoyed our Holiday.
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