Hotel Stays

Cruise Ships

 

Holidays I have enjoyed...in the 2020s

 

DATE Type, Airport and duration Destination Cost Insurance Spending Who?

28/04/2025

Hotel BHX HB 10 nights

Lanzarote - Playa Blanca - Hipotels Natura Palace - Partial Sea View

£1,832.86 £120 XS for annual   PJ&LJ

22/03/2025

Hotel BHX HB 10 nights - Jet2

Son Caliu Resort And Spa Hotel, Palma Nova, Mallorca

£1586.00 12x£18 = £216   PJ&LJ
Opening a Nationwide account meant the setting up of a new annual travel insurance policy

12/12/2024

Hotel BHX HB 10 nights

Lanzarote - Playa Blanca - H10 Timanfaya Palace - Sea View - Room 169

£1,857.88 £198.77 €500 PJ&LJ

24/06/2024

Hotel BHX HB 10 nights

Lanzarote - Playa Blanca - Hipotels Natura Palace - Partial Sea View

Lynne - Scrape on foot caused suspected blood infection - high temperature and shakes - had to call out the doctor. Needed an antibiotic shot and course of tablets - no alcohol for last few days. In room for a day - cost £765 - claimed back £715.
£1,685.30 £165.02 €400 PJ&LJ

19/04/2024

BHX Cruise on the

Marella Explorer Junior Suite Cabin - 1212

14 nights

Day Port Arrival Time Departure Time
1 - Friday Santa Cruz, Tenerife Embark 23:00
2 - Saturday
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
08:00
23:00
3 - Sunday At Sea    
4 - Monday
Funchal, Madeira
08:00
18:00
5 - Tuesday At Sea    
6 - Wednesday
Gibraltar, Gibraltar
12:00
21:00
7 - Thursday
Motril (for Granada)
09:00
19:00
8 - Friday At Sea    
9 - Saturday
Palma, Majorca
08:00
18:00
10 - Sunday At Sea    
11 - Monday
Cagliari, Sardinia
08:00
17:00
12 - Tuesday At Sea    
13 - Wednesday
Valletta, Malta
09:00
18:00
14 - Thursday At Sea    
15 - Friday
Corfu Town, Corfu
07:30
Disembark
Lynne - picked up a nasty virus on day 4 in Funchal - hacking cough and tired - not well enough to disembark until Malta.

Stuck overnight in Corfu Airport

Scheduled Time of Departure

18:30 GMT 03rd May 2024

Actual Time of Departure

13:40 GMT 04th May 2024

Reason for Delay

The crew due to operate your flight had reached their legally permitted operating hours. Therefore, your flight was delayed overnight. Your flight operated at its earliest opportunity the following day.

Total Length of Delay

19 Hours 10 Minutes

I wrote to them.... they replied:

Thank you for taking the time to speak to me following on from your recent holiday to Corfu. We are truly sorry that this was the experience you had at the end of your holiday. We wanted to reach out again to let you know of the following actions we have taken now that you are home. To acknowledge the disappointment this has caused, we can confirm we will be sending you a £150 (one hundred and fifty pounds only ) per person in the form of a bank transfer which will be sent to you via email within the next 28 days. Also you will receive EU261 flight delay compensation this will be paid proactively and a link has been sent directly to you.

As per relevant Air Passenger Rights rules – LYNDA JONES and Peter Jones are entitled to £350.00 per passenger. This equates to a total of £700.00 compensation.

So we got £1,000 from Tui

£3803.44

£188.10

+£64.07 (PJ)

+£56.47 (LJ)

€100 PJ&LJ

08/12/2023

BHX Cruise on the Marella Explorer

Cabin 1212

7 nights then

Hotel HB 7 nights

Day Port Arrival Time Departure Time
1 - Friday
Santa Cruz, Tenerife
Embark
23:00
2 - Saturday
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
08:00
23:00
3 - Sunday
Arrecife, Lanzarote
09:00
18:00
4 - Monday
At Sea
   
5 - Tuesday
La Palma, La Palma
08:00
18:00
6 - Wednesday
Funchal, Madeira
18:00
23:59
7 - Thursday
Funchal, Madeira
00:01
13:00
8 - Friday
Santa Cruz, Tenerife
07:30
Transfer to hotel

 

Tenerife - TUI BLUE Los Gigantes - sea view

£3,367.42 £227.45 €250 PJ&LJ

23/04/2023

Hotel BHX HB 7 nights

Tenerife - TUI BLUE Los Gigantes - sea view

Katy - sunburn by evening of first ful day - and period started day 2 - spent most of the week in the room during the day
Lynne - Norovirus - lost a whole day!
£1,306.56 £95.74 €130 KJ&LJ

06/10/2022

Hotel EMA All Inclusive 7 nights

Croatia - TUI BLUE Kalamota Island - Dubrovnik & Islands Kolocep

£1,228.28 £83.68 €200 PJ&LJ

19/06/2022

Hotel BHX HB 10 nights

Tenerife - TUI BLUE Los Gigantes - sea view

£1,399.20 £156.73 €300 PJ&LJ

10/03/2022

Hotel BHX HB 10 nights

H10 Timanfaya Palace Hotel

£1,682.70 £115.23 €300 PJ&LJ
Covid caused cancellation of annual Travel Insurance Policy

24/02/2020

Hotel EMA HB 7 nights

TUI BLUE Madeira Gardens Funchal Madeira - Junior Suite with Sea View and Balcony

£986.52     PJ&LJ

 

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