Yipee! Today at last those words came!!

 

My excitement was short lived. Looking at the website it said no flights available from East Midlands for my dates! For some strange reason I then changed the request from Paxos to Corfu and tried again. It gave me 53 choices of accomodation to book!!! I decided to phone Olympic. She confirmed that there were no flights from East Midlands. When I asked how come then I can book to stay on Corfu she rambeled on about it being a package and they have to charter a plane and thats why they need to know how many are going...still with me? No? Well I hadn't a clue what she was saying either! ....So says I if I had tried to book yesterday I could because it did not say no flights yesterday? So what is the difference from yesterday to today? She replied "Are you sure you were looking at East Midlands" I was sure. To which she replied "In that case I don't know."

 

So does anybody know why??

 

A very fed up Helen

 

 

 

 

Maddening thing is I was doing it for Mum who wants security of travel etc in her late 70s, not hassle. she is now going independant too, flight booked, no room yet but I have sorted her transfers already, and they will look after her.  

 

Olympic have removed the ability to post your own question now, so you have to tag onto the end of one of their adverts. Suprisingly they removed comments about someone booking accomodation to find it has now disappeared off the website!

 

Not sure why but September flights are more than June. Playing around with the cheapest option now, possibly 2 different airlines and airports?

 

Good luck with the rant!

 

My poor blood pressure Elaine! I was so frustrated! After two calls to reservations one call to customer services and messages left on Olympics facebook page I was beginning to think I would go mad if someone would not explain the reason why I could not book the holiday!!  I decided to give it one more try and so with a heavy heart I phoned reservations again. This time I got lucky with a lovely lady called Stavi. She wouldn't have been more helpful explaining how they bought at the beginning of the season x amount of seats from Jet2 at reduced prices for Paxos only. Some were for 2 weeks and some for 1 week holidays. The 2 weeks that I wanted had gone. What she could not understand was why if rooms were available I could not book them with flights with Jet2 but might cost me a bit more. She wanted to investigate what she could do with flights at the cheapest price. She asked me how much it would cost for my transfers if I booked them myself  and thanks to help from Tina I was able to tell her it would cost me about 150 euros. She was hoping to see if Olympic would throw in the transfer for me. After a nail biting few hours Stavi phoned me back with the good news. Bastas room available Jet2 flight available but about £50 more  and Olympic would not charge me for transfers!! So I think the moral of this story is keep trying and talk to the other person on the end of the line as if your world is going to end if you don't get that holiday ..... if all else fails ask for Stavi the lovely lady from Cyprus! 

 

Tina...come on girl you can't be the only one of us not to be going this year. I will be watching and waiting for your good news!

 

I'm off now.....to start writing out my packing list.....!!

 

 

Glad he reached the right (and only) decision

 

Jeff