Messages posted by : AllyG
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Hi Sm4sh,
Does your £400 budget per person include flights, transfers, half board hotel/chalet, lift pass, and ski hire? |
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BB - that does sound pretty awful! I wonder what they were using the machete for?
Whilst cleaning, I often feel I would like to write reviews on my holidaymakers, and I vent my wrath by composing them in my head ;) There were the ones a few months ago, for example, that said the downstairs shower and wet room was only really large enough for washing their dog in ... And the ones who let their dog sleep in one of the bedrooms and left dog hair all over the bedding, and the dog chewed away part of the foot of the chest of drawers, and they left one of the rugs stinking so badly that I couldn't get rid of the smell even though I shampooed it twice and I had to take it out and buy another one. But I don't think there is a 'holidaymaker advisor' website where I could post my reviews ;) Most of our holidaymakers however, are really nice, friendly people who do their best to look after our properties whilst they're staying in them. |
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That's very sad news Snapzzz :(
I hope when his time comes he slips away easily and peacefully. My Dad was nearly dying for about 10 years - regularly on the brink of death - and eventually we sort of got used to it. So I used to go on my ski holidays wondering if he'd still be alive when I got back. But it didn't stop me going. I was very worried he would die during, or just before the group holiday to Tignes in January because he was critically ill in hospital. And then I worried that he'd die when I was ski-ing at the beginning of March. But he managed to live through both these holidays, and I visited him in hospital on my way through London each time, there and back. He still knew who I was and tried to listen when I was telling him about the ski-ing, and I plonked my ski boots on his hospital bed so that he could get more of the idea of it all. After my ski holiday in March, when he was very weak, he managed to eat a small nibble of the chocolate I bought him in Paris when I was waiting for the Eurostar. He eventually died 2 weeks after I got back from my March ski holiday. I don't know which way would be the best for your family, but for me and mine it seemed best to continue with our normal lives as far as we could, whilst trying to make time to visit him whenever we could. No-one could love their Dad more than I did, but yet when he was unconscious and dying I didn't want to go to London to see him. I felt that all the important things between us had already been done and said, and there would be no benefit to anyone if I went. And it took 2 weeks for my family and I to organize his funeral, so even if I had been abroad ski-ing when he died I could still have stayed until the end of the holiday and done my bit to help with organizing things - such are the marvels of modern communication. You and your family have all my sympathy at this difficult time. |
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We've been doing one of the cottages for over 16 years, and it's amazing what some people will find to complain about. For example, I had a holidaymaker come to find me once, when I was out mowing the grass, the evening before Easter, to complain that one of the cooker hood bulbs had gone (there were 2 and the cooker was well lit by the ceiling lights). I rushed off to town and managed to find another one and my husband fitted it for me. We had another one who said the dining arrangments weren't 'civilized' because we use a breakfast bar as a table (it's only a small cottage and it's at the normal height for a table). Someone else complained bitterly because the wet room wasn't suitable for a wheelchair (luckily she phoned up about this before she arrived) even though I never said it was, and she hadn't asked about it before. Our agents found her another cottage but because it was only a few days before she was due to arrive we never got another booking and we lost about £300. Another one was very critical about the fact that one of the children's videos wasn't working, and went on about how disappointed the kids were (how was I supposed to know - when I'm cleaning I don't have time to watch about 30 videos and DVD's). After they'd gone I just put it in the bin - problem solved! Anyway, you get the picture ... I have no idea if you can take it down once it's up, but I bet you can't, and I should also think you can't have comments removed once they're posted up, however inaccurate and unfair they are. |
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Trip Advisor asked us to put our 2 cottages up for review but I wouldn't do it. I was nearly scared witless! I dumped their piece of paper straight in the bin.
We could easily have a nasty holidaymaker who thinks it's fun to try and wreck our business by blowing up small faults out of all proportion. And anyway, we get plenty of bookings (a lot of them are repeats) without using Trip Advisor. I admit I do look at it when I'm picking a hotel/chalet for myself, and I've even written 2 reviews, but I tried to make my reviews as fair and honest as possible. |
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Oh dear Snapzzz what a shame, but as you say family matters more than ski holidays ...
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Yes - it will be great ski-ing together :) |
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8 sleeps until I'm in France and 9 until I'm ski-ing on the glacier in Tignes, assuming that all goes well and the Grande Motte is open :)
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