San Stefanos Online ~ North West Corfu

Sorry Tony, posted this on the other thread just now. I've prob not been watching so thoroughly on price movements as you, as we've now booked 'private', but didn't seem that much cheaper, but if you say TB is then fair enough.

Just checked Portland and Thomsons, and to be fair Tony i didn't notice that much difference in price from a few weeks ago. Checked on some June departure dates and early July. The likes of Thomas Bay, Athina, Teresas, Little Prince and Romanza still around £1100-£1300/couple for a 14 night stay. Olga, Voula cheapest at around £700/couple, then Barras, stamatis and Tsaros at around £800-£900/couple.
Maybe later in July is cheaper. Cheers

Here's my simple comparison:

14 nights for 2 at Romanza, incl. flights with Thomson - say, £1000.

Ejet flights for 2 = £350 for 2, plus 14 nights at Romanza, assume they charge £30/night/room = £420. Therefore total £770 + £80 taxi return = £850.

The couple save money. Romanza gets £30/night/room all to themselves (compared to £8/night thru' Thomsons). With loyal client base should fill rooms from may to sept. Let's call it 20 weeks. £4200 for Romanza with private bookings. With thomson they only receive £1120. No brainer in my book.

What Yannis above says is so true!!
The bottom line is what you pay - my philosophy for more years than I care to admit now!!
The way I see it is  - - - - it's a game - I am only interested in the bottom line price, what you pay for any product.
The rest is total Bull****!!

Supermarket BOGOF's - what is the point of a free one - if it's fresh food and you have to chuck it as you can't eat two!!!!

But if you want to go with companies like Thompsons - you have no choice at times - but to play this silly discount game!
The prices go up and down like a yo-yo, different airports etc. different deals.
When you book the price you see is then loaded again - extras!! (I hate this! Just want the price in the first place!).
RobinAire/sleazyjet are two big culprits on the mark-up game as well!!
But no point in getting annoyed - it's a game - understand that and play it well - you can still get a bargain - but it is also a gamble!
Good hunting folks - may the force be with you!

Too true Tony. But i'm happy with my Ejet flights at £150 each from my local airport; i mean they're flying for nearly 4 hours to an island that wasn't accessible from BTL on a flight only before. Private apartment booking gives us a cost of £650. That's v.reasonable to me.

I feel Thomson's won't get anyway near that, even with discounts.

Last we heard was October for July flights! We are looking every day!

The dates are already set-up on the Ejet website, but can't actually book yet. I reckon the later summer flights for 2010 will go 'live' in the next week.

I guess Tony means 0.98 to the £.

On another note, i received an economic bulletin from Capital Economics today and they're predicting 1.25 euros to the £ by next summer.....i'll take that, even if it is still far away from the 1.45 to the £ of a couple of summers ago.

I booked Fedra Mare independently the other week for next June and Dimitris wanted credit card details for the deposit. I think you'll find the owner will want a cc or debit card payt, unless the owner lives in UK and then you might have to send a cheque in the post.
Hope this helps.

I shall hate it if you are proved right!! LOL

Tony, i hope i'm completely wrong about the prices in San Stef thru' the holiday co.s for your sake.

Tony, you may or may not have gathered from some posts i contributed on the forum a few months ago, but i'm in a job which requires analysis of certain companies and finance, and i'm almost convinced that as Thomson's control more of a resort's holiday accommodation they can 'manipulate' prices to their advantage.

I've just got a feeling that Thomson may 'exclude' San Stef from their price promotions that may come over the next few months. As Zimmer said on another thread this afternoon, San Stef has a lot of repeat visitors from the UK so they can keep prices high. And as they dictate to the 'Thomson property' owners in San Stef the terms of any contract, the owners have very little say in the matter.

I hope i'm proved wrong for the sake of some on here who are playing a 'waiting game'. I've opted for the Ejet + private booking option now, because the Ejet flights from BTL to Corfu started to increase over the last 2 weeks and i'm a bit of a fussy so-and-so about accommodation i stay in, so i like to book early and know where i'm staying.

Even though we haven't chosen Terezas for 2010 (we stayed there this June) due to Portland's current prices, i'll be interested to see if it features in any price promos over next few months, as i reckon June 2010, for example, is near fully booked. We booked it in October 08 for the June 09 stay and 14 nights cost about £850 total; at the mo it's £1100 for June 2010. Will that price drop in any promo during Oct/Nov. I'll be watching! Even though it'll be too late for 2010.