Holiday Discussion 2G7 (not applicable to many)

DarloJo · Post by **DarloJo** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 12:31 am

Chris said I could make this thread before anyone moans...

OK, I think we have it sorted

After finding nice villas, enquiring (Batesy's done all of it despite me making the lj entries), and finding they're available, we (Batesy) kept going to book stuff to be told it was no longer free. Argh! Anyway, the 5 definites (me, Stel, Batesy, Joe and Chris) have agreed on http://nerjavillas4rent.co.uk/Englsh%20 ... _abril.htm. It's a shame we couldn't get a slightly bigger place to keep options open for other people, but everything's getting booked up and none of us want to spend loads if not many people come. It's not too far out (checked the maps and asked) and it has everything we want. Well, apart from a lemon tree, and we need to see if they have Fizz! But yeah, by suggestion of Chris to keep things off LJ, I've made this thread about it. All discussion will be here from now on. The 6th place, well Andy wanted it and is more likely but Adam said he wasn't completely ruled out, so I'm just letting you guys know the deal too.

Let's just hope she doesn't rent this one to someone else too

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:15 am

Get's!
What are the dates and shit?

I might be the old man of the group this time

DarloJo · Post by **DarloJo** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:15 am

16th - 30th of June

The old man?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:23 am

Yeah, I'm the only one that's not the same age as you

That's going to be a mega globehopping month for me

batesy · Post by **batesy** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:22 pm

The villas definitely booked now (well the deposits not yet paid but Joannes gonna sort that once she can reply to the email she has), so unless she changes her mind and decides it's booked we're going http://nerjavillas4rent.co.uk/Englsh%20 ... _abril.htm

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:46 pm

Pool doesn't look as fun as last year, but the place generally looks great

Thanks for all the work you've put in!

DarloJo · Post by **DarloJo** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:46 pm

There's plenty of cheap sea front places in Nerja where we can buy random crap for the pool

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:01 am

We need another Schnappi, and I want a Pokemon ring (could bring my other one, but that's half teh fun

).

DarloJo · Post by **DarloJo** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:06 am

Yarrr

Anyway just to let people know, I phoned the woman in Spain (hi phone bill

) to sort out payment for the deposit, and it turns out she's northern

And was really happy cos she didn't expect me to be northern too, lol. I thought she'd be Spanish but turns out she just lives there cos her husband's Spanish.

Aaaaaaaaaaaanyway back to the point, villa deposit is sorted, it's all definite

Can look into flight times and crap soon.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 7:32 am

Where's she from then?

Did you manage to wangle a discount for being a Northern Barbarian too?

DarloJo · Post by **DarloJo** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:35 pm

Cumbria - like just straight West from here I suppose. No discount, but her northern card machine is rejecting my northern credit card for the deposit (but I have enough on it) so I'm gonna have to sort it out another way

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:56 pm

Arsehole

That's what you get for still trading in livestock tbh.

Char · Post by **Char** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:33 am

Hi I would like to rewgister my interest on this holiday

also register on the sex offender's list because i diddle kids

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:40 am

Char can sleep on a sun lounger on the stairs.

DarloJo · Post by **DarloJo** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:23 pm

lol

I'm not sure if any of that was serious (apart from the fiddling kids thing

) but there's an extra sofabed in the villa, and unless Andy comes there might be a spare bed anyway.

But don't bring any kids

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:07 am

Char can sleep in the pool.

DarloJo · Post by **DarloJo** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:12 pm

Holiday status

Well the deposit has been sent and recieved, and everything is confirmed now.

So, us northerners (me, Stel and Batesy) have flights booked now.

Departing:
From Newcastle (NCL) to Malaga (AGP)
Saturday, 16 Jun 07
Flight TOM 1221
Depart 15:10 Newcastle (NCL)
Arrive 19:30 Malaga (AGP)

Returning:
From Malaga (AGP) to Newcastle (NCL)
Saturday, 30 Jun 07
Flight TOM 1222
Depart 20:15 Malaga (AGP)
Arrive 22:25 Newcastle (NCL)

Flight info

Just so you guys can work around those times. We can't get into the villa til 4pm and have to leave by 10am, but we can waste some of the day getting back to the airport on the way back. Flights are all around 120-130 at the cheapest, but I've not checked from London airports so I dunno if they'll be better or worse for you guys. Our cheapest option was thomsonfly.com, who also have a 25 kilo baggage limit instead of 20. Gets!

Once we arrive

Also she's basically said we can have a minibus from the airport which they'll provide, which is about 15 euros each (from what I remember) for the 6 of us. If anyone else comes, they're welcome to, but some people will have to get the bus then cos they don't want more than 6 people staying. It's not bad by public transport as long as someone who's been to Nerja before stays with the others. Or, obviously if people arrive after a week or whatever then this'll be the case anyway. I think it's a good idea to get this minibus though so we know where the villa is straight away.

Extra people who want to come

We have 6 beds in total, and 5 of us (me, Stel, Batesy, Joe and Chris) have called the first five. I'm assuming Andy will be coming for the final bed. However Char's showed interest but I dunno what the deal is with the rave thing he's going to, and the same applies to Adam. Stine also said she might come for a bit and Joe was gonna sleep on the sofa to offer her his bed.

There's technically an extra sofa bed, but when I enquired she said it was crap in a little room with no door, and that she doesn't want anyone else staying there. This is why we have to pretend there's six at the most (regarding the airport minibus when we arrive)

But provided people don't mind sofas/floors/lilo in pool then nobody has a problem. I call a sun lounger during the day before they're all taken though!

stel · Post by **stel** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:21 pm

as long as newcastle airport has ddr

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 7:02 pm

I never got to play DDR at the airport last year

Guess we'll have to get our flights booked soon too

DarloJo · Post by **DarloJo** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:09 pm

I had a quick look for flights from London to Malaga (just specified any airport cos I dunno which is best for everyone) and found the following:

- Your best bet is EasyJet I think... around £110 and at convenient times which minimise waiting for both groups
- Monarch airlines had some for about £90 but would involve waiting around overnight at a pretty boring airport
- Thomsonfly.com had some for about £90 but again would mean you not arriving til the day after and going home a day early
- They were about £140 with xl.com, but only £50 deposit is needed upon booking and the rest is payable 8 weeks before. Dunno if that would make life easier for anyone
- All the other budget airlines are either at crap times or about £130-£140+... I searched all the ones I could think of from the top of my head anyway, might have missed some

(We ended up paying about £130 each to fly from up north as a guide... it was still cheaper, and less effort, than paying to travel to fly from the south though

)

dcom · Post by **dcom** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:11 pm

Well I dunno when ill have teh moneyz to book tickets yet D:

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 10:19 pm

Tell me when you do. I can pay you back in March

Seriously though, I'll wait to make sure I'm on the flight with you. I'll pay up fucking front this year.

stel · Post by **stel** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 1:13 pm

yes, its 1:15pm, yes im still drunk

AMAGAD HOLIDAY GETS

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:06 pm

Why are you drunk?

stel · Post by **stel** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:37 pm

was out last night for a friend's 23rd

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:23 pm

Delightful.
Did you play ITG?

stel · Post by **stel** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:20 pm

DarloJo · Post by **DarloJo** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 11:45 pm

Pretending to like ITG is the new injoke in London from what I can gather...

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:40 am

How's me and Andy liking ITG an injoke?

DarloJo · Post by **DarloJo** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:22 pm

The texts and everything? And the fact that Andy used to hate it

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:23 pm

He's recently had a change of heart.
We play it about twice a week.

Chi · Post by **Chi** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:40 pm

Indeed - and Andy has actually said to me - in a non-joking context - that he would rather play ITG2 than Supernova.

I still refuse to play it, right now. Maybe one day this might change.

ANYWAY. Where is the holiday deskcushion?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:16 pm

He says it all the time.
I'm currently prefering ITG2 at Surrey Quays too.