I've been to Laganas twice previously and stayed at the Olympia on the main strip both times before but just booked to stay at the Pallas Hotel from 21 to 28 September.  Is anyone else staying there then? 

Excellent, looks like we will see you there then!  Bit worried that the hotel would be empty at the end of season but it seems like I'm wrong! 

  Got back on Friday 29 September.  Spent the whole week visiting Rescue and talking to Ollie, Leftie, Demitri, Tyson, (although I'm sure that Tyson was intimidated by us!!) Dan and Jamie (PR).  It is a fantastic place and no matter how often you see the fire breathing act it is still amazing.  Drinks are slightly more expensive than other bars but they are sure to give free shots to regulars and if you are lucky and hit the place at the end of the season a free t-shirt too!  Cheers everyone for making us so welcome, you never know, we might even bump into you again somewhere (although for everyone's reference, Bexley is nowhere near Rotherhithe!!)

Where to start??

Very impressed when we turned up in the middle of the night... oh how things changed!  The room was clean although we were stuck at the back of the hotel on the ground floor despite requesting a second floor room with pool view and balcony.  There were these black millepede type creatures in our room  when we turned up and on the corridor outside our room and being two girls we were a bit grossed out by them.  We managed to miss our rep meeting but as I had been to Laganas twice before I didn't really mind that too much.  The pool was ok, very clean and at least it was a chlorine pool, not like many pools in Laganas. 

The room was cleaned every night and this is where the clincher comes!  On our last day my friend and myself vacated the apartment by 12pm as instructed.  When it came to getting changed ready to go out that night my friend realised she had accidentally left her belt in the room.  When enquiring with the witch of a receptionist (beware of her!) about it she was told that anything left in the room the maid assumes is a present to her.  My friend practically laughed in her face thinking she was joking but apparently not.  THE MAIDS ARE THIEVES!!    This would not happen in England (or anywhere else in the world or Laganas probably)!  Eventually the witch had to call the maid at home and get her to drop it off to the hotel before we left which she done in the end.  Still, not very happy about the service here though!

I am now on a one woman campaign to get this hotel to wake up and smell the coffee!  You can't treat your guests like this, they come on holiday to relax, not to be stolen off of, ripped off with the food and stranded in the middle of some olive groves with no entertainment! 

Flights and transfers were ok.  Took a while for our luggage to arrive at Zante airport but to be fair they were working to Greek time as usual, it just happens to be noticed more at 6am than it would at 2pm!!  We managed to get on the right coach and the rep (Steve) was Scottish and we couldn't understand a word he was saying.  We got to our hotel and we had to struggle to get our cases out of the coach (two girls with no hint of a muscle between us!) and drag them into the hotel foyer with no held from our muscular rep (cheers Steve!).  That was the last time we saw our rep all holiday.  Our hotel was so far away from the main strip and other hotels that I guess the cheeky beggar couldn't be bothered to make the walk to our hotel (not that I blame him, I wouldn't either!). 

The flight on the way home was ok though and the staff on the plane were very efficient.  10/10 for them, shame the reps let Thomas Cook down.   If you look closely that is a very slow sarcastic hand clap for you all!!