I’ve just been on a holiday
for four nights for eighty quid for a family of four.
Let me recap. Four nights.
Eighty quid. Four of us.
That’s a fiver each a night.
They say you get what you
pay for.
Well.
I expected a fivers worth of
holiday and I got at least that.
The offer was through the paper,
and as an obsessive bargain hunter, I was all over it.
Our best mates, who also
like a good bargain, did the same.
You chose your resort online,
put in the codes and Bob’s your Uncle, blah blah blah.
Thing is, I hadn’t really
looked at what the resort was like other than it was less than a couple of
hours drive and we had visited the nearby beach before, which was beautiful.
So it was a bit of a surprise
when my mate e-mailed me one of what turned out to be thousands of awful
reviews.
By awful I mean fucking
horrendous.
The most recent of which,
which must have been submitted whilst we were staying there, include:
The only good thing is the arcade if I'm honest but just bear
in mind to bring plenty of money cause that's really all there is to do.
Food vile, staff were so rude, no activities were open.
Please don't go here, I can't think of anything positive to
say about the place.
I don't advise anyone to go there and certainly not if you
have a medical condition.
Or my personal favourite:
I THINK THIS PLACE NEEDS SMASHING TO THE GROUND.
‘Crumbs,’ I thought. ‘This is no Butlins.’
The local shop.
But, bearing in mind we spend most holidays
crammed in a hot tent using a rolled up coat for a pillow and squatting around
a one ring gas stove to cook, this sounded like luxury.
And forewarned is forearmed as someone once
said.
So equipped with our own bedding, pans, litres
of Detol and enough booze to forget the whole holiday if necessary, we set off.
Now, the only thing I like better than a
bargain is a bit of retro/ nostalgia.
And shit me, this place was bursting with it.
From the sticky-floored nightclub that stunk of
fags where we were greeted by the Blue Coats who enthusiastically gave us our
room keys, to the council estate/ prison-style layout of apartments.
It was like living out an episode of Phoenix
Nights/ Prisoner Cell Block H. Both of which, I should emphasise, I LOVE.
OK, so the lawn in front of our flats was more
fag butts than grass, but, as long as you weren’t planning to sunbathe there,
then it was fine.
And a swing park on every corner meant the kids
went absolutely mental for this place.
An all-time high for me was going to a disco at
11am with the children on the first full day, where the Blue Coats took them
through the dance moves to Agadoo, Superman, and the Fast Food Song, all of
which I knew so well I was half hoping that I might win the Easter egg prize
for best dancer.
These songs would become the soundtrack to our
holiday.
That and one about a Big Fish swimming in the
sea that is set to a kind of gabba sound track.
Larging it in Lunars.
Every time I walked past the reception the
queue of people waiting to complain was getting bigger, whilst we were having a
total ball.
And I realised, however obvious this is, as
long as the kids are going nuts for it, you’ve got good friends to hang out
with yourself, and enough wine to sink a ship, it really doesn’t matter where
you are.
Even if you’re sleeping on a torn pleather sofa
that doubles up as queen size bed.
So here’s to shit holidays.
And good friends.
And making sure that you never stay for longer
than four nights.
As Donna from East London put it better in her
review: Yes, the apartment is tired, and
it is very basic, but if you want better.......don't be so bloody stingy and
stay in a hotel! Let's face it, if you stay in budget accommodation here it's
cheaper than the YMCA or a youth hostel at £69 for 3 nights. YOU GET WHAT YOU
PAY FOR!!!!!!
made me chuckle ...ive had a couple of cheap holidays at the same firms establishments. Best was when we were first courting , Mr was horrified at the place i just got a lung infection from all the mould..lol
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