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abbo:

--- Quote from: julied on June 14, 2012, 09:30:10 AM ---abbo

As you said personally and that it what it is. My Personal feeling is that most people dont want
Bed and Breakfast, that is why they book an apartment and not a hotel, as for happy hour why
is that not done now why wait until they go independant.
I am certainly not slating the Tsaros Apartments as I am going myself in August

--- End quote ---

For me an issue Tsaros could have is people staying there but not using the Pool Bar as it is 50yds away. The reason previous people DO keep using the Pool Bar is the extremely friendly welcome, excellent food and good atmosphere of an evening.

The onus is to get people in-the-door and breakfast is a low cost way of forming that bond, whilst 10pm is prime-time walking back to the chalets time to capture customers.

To answer your question as to why not do these already, well it's a fair point but I suppose theyve just delivered whats been asked of them as Thomson customers and not been too proactive in attracting custom.

Gavlah1973:
I think that due to the ridiculous margins he would get from Thomsons they probably need to sell alcohol at a decent price to gain some profit back. If he went direct then he could probably afford to have a happy hour etc as he wouldnt be needing to 'sweat' the take from his customers and could use food/drinks offers to attract other customers/passing trade etc!!

swedebasher:
Now official, the Tsaros will not be with Thomson from 2013. Damn sad I say.

UPDATE 18/07/2013......just had contact from Thanassis to say that the Tsaros IS out in the latest brochure so will be staying with them. What are Thomson's up to???

tonyco1:
They did the same with Tereza's - a game of bluff with the owners.

They tried to drop the price they pay until owners would have made no profit at all.
They tried blackmail in that they would drop the accommodation - the owners just couldn't afford it so refused.
Thomsons then gave in - it's just a game to that lot - - money - - money!!

sunshinegirl:
Agree with you Tony - we have booked the Tereza for 24 August this year for two weeks.  It will be our third time in SS but first at Terezas as we have booked independently before.  We monitored the price online with Thomsons for about two months then saw it at a bargain price but my husband was out so waited till he got home before booking just to check date was okay. This was on on the Friday evening  but when we went back on line that eveening Thomson were saying they had no availability so we were really disappointed as we thought we had lost it.  It then came back on the system on the Monday so we booked it.

It seems they take hotels on and off as they please which is so unfair the the Hotel owners as they could also be missing out on bookings as we could of booked another hotel thinking that the Terezas had not availability. Dont know why they do it - wonder if the Hotel Owners are aware they do this - suppose there is nothing they could do about it though!!

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