Returned home from our week's stay at The Galeon Playa Apartments at Costa Teguise. The apartments are in a quiet location, yet only a few minutes walk from the main area and only 500 yards from the nearest beach. We didn't eat at the apartments as we went self-catering, but we couldn't find fault at any of the restaurants we ate at apart from one (sorry, we forgot the name). However, the problem we experienced was when they brought a complimentary bread roll at the start of our meal. It turns out they are not complimentary at all, but in fact [View Full Entry]

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Lee (Heaton). We're on our way home from Thailand with Qatar airways and we have encountered a 'slight' hiccup but its not a real issue for us. We got to Doha in preparation for our connecting flight back to Manchester and there is a so-called 'technical problem' with the aircraft we were due to fly home on. Therefore, we've all had to be put up at one of the airport hotels here overnight at Doha airport until another aircraft has become available tomorrow. However, we've arranged with Qatar airways to stay in the Middle East for a couple of days and [View Full Entry]

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Monday 18th May 2009 - 7pm local time An update following on from our recent blog here from Chaweng Beach, Ko Samui. Just had a walk down the beach in the evening at the north end of the beach and got offered drugs (Cocaine and Cannabis) twice within 20 seconds. This has been a big shock, but no surprise considering we smelt someone smoking a joint whilst eating out last night. The shocking part of this, is that the people who just offered us the drugs are ice-cream sellers. We won't be buying ice creams at all from them from now [View Full Entry]

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Just arrived at our hotel, The Patong Resort in Patong Beach to find nothing much has changed apart from some slight alterations around the pool in the Garden Wing and also a new block within the garden wing has been built where our room is. We got our room for a very good price at a travel agents office in Chaweng Beach on Ko Samui prior to us coming here, where the room rates were cheaper than booking online with the hotel directly. Anyway, our room is lovely and this hotel rarely seems to disappoint. Just outside The Patong Resort Hotel [View Full Entry]

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Mixed feelings as to whether Qatar Airways deserves its five stars for outstanding service as an airline for a couple of reasons. Our flight to Ko Samui meant we had three connecting flights for our 21 hour journey here. The first leg was Manchester to Doha which went well with no hiccups. Food was good but mixed thoughts about it, with Steak and Mushroom pie, mash and vegetables served which rivalled any UK restaurant meal. Tracey opted for the curry, which was slightly disappointing as the rice was gritty (undercooked) and the curry a tad too hot to be served as [View Full Entry]

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Having a great time in New York City. Managed to visit the Fire Department museum, some shopping around Ground Zero and rode on the Subway (Underground). The Subway by the way is about 20 years behind our London Underground in terms of quality of service and cleanliness of the trains and stations, but still an ideal way of getting around the city. Restaurants are plentiful near out hotel unlike last time as well as many local bars so this has been real handy for us compared with our visit 5 years ago back in 2004. The weather is predicted to reach [View Full Entry]

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It must be the northern air that takes its toll on Clive...either that or the fact he can't cope with daytime drinking..hehe Merry Christmas and a happy New Year [View Full Entry]

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Firstly, just like to sday Hello to Mary, the lovely receptionist at Mavrikos hotel in Tsilivi, Zakynthos (Zante). She truly is a gem and helped us along with bits and bobs...so Mary if you're reading this, drop us a line to say hello ! So....Zante. The flight with Monarch from Manchester had the MP George Galloway on with his presumably wife and possibly brother and sister-in-law. Flight delayed slightly, but with a tail wind we weren't that late on arrival. The heat after getting off the aircraft hit you like a steam train, and at 37c you can understand why. Our [View Full Entry]

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Arrived to stay halfway between Paignton and Brixham on the Waterside caravan park staying at Freda's caravan. Had a great week, although the weather wasn't up to scratch even though its summer. However, we made the most of it by visiting places where I had visited as a child, including Teignmouth, Torquay, Paignton, Brixham to name but a few. The seafront at Teignmouth has been improved for children with a completed large park with outdoor type fountains which the children run through, so the tip here is to take a change of clothes and a towel for them afterwards like we [View Full Entry]

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Arrived to a cloudy Tenerife only to find it was cloudy the day after too. However, the rest of the week was hot, quite hot and unbroken sunshine. We stayed at “Parque Santiago 4” in Playa de Las Americas, and the resort itself was quite disappointing considering the amount of people we have heard visit the area before. There is little in the way of a beach and what there is, is the black coloured sand which makes the water appear dirty. Instead, Joshua was happy playing in the hotel pool, as we also had use of the childrens aquapark within [View Full Entry]

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