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Originally posted by Contender443 Sad mum you should try some of the other companies. We are going to Greece with Seafarer Holidays, one week beach club and one week flotilla. They were a lot cheaper than Sunsail and they still had availability. Perhaps less equipment and a different style to Sunsail. Anyone on here been to Seafarers base in Greece?

Hi,

Did you go to the Ionian Beach Club in Greece in the end?  I am looking at going there this summer but am not too sure - i have the responsiblity of booking my brother's family too!  Am desperate to get some feedback from someone's who's been to the resort, it's a lot better price than Sunsail but still quite a lot to pay if the organisation/boats aren't up to much.

Regards,
Julia

Errrr and the turkish government can't understand the reluctance of other member nations to let them in the EU! 

You can't have your cake and eat it.  You either have to embrace freedom of movement for workers and gain by investment from overseas or you have to encourage your own companies to fill the markets, you can't expect to have inward investment with no corresponding influx of foreign workers.  Apprently the lessons that should have been learnt by this paticular nation over 200 years ago still haven't sunk in!

And the Greeks will have no problem taking cash that was destined for them.

Edited by tack'ho

Sad Mum,

I too had difficulties getting thru but have now had a good outcome. While I was considering my options I looked into Sailing Holidays. They were very very helpful and I'm likely to consider them in the future. They have a week flotilla/one week villia with hire car from Lefkas and cefalonia see:-

http://www.sailingholidays.com/route-detail.asp_Q_RouteID_E_ 7

Good luck

Kevin

I have not been so lucky,over an hour on hold,on day1 now 3 days later holidays saved and lost due to sunsail staff ineptitude,kids in tears etc.still no where to go.looks like we will be doing our sailing in the uk this year.

very very unhappy

and an official answer from someone at Head Office:

I work in the Sunsail head office and therefore wanted to post to give you full information regarding our Sunsail Clubs in Turkey and help clear up all speculation.   We are extremely disappointed that we have had to take this decision not to operate our Sunsail Clubs in Turkey this summer - our Yacht and Flotilla operations, however, will remain unaffected, as will our Clubs in Greece and Antigua.  The decision has been taken for a number of reasons that impact our ability to deliver the exceptional holidays we pride ourselves on - and that our customers expect from us.    Sunsail offers a unique product which relies heavily on the use of specialist staff, for example instructors who hold RYA qualifications.  Turkish law requires us to employ 20% UK staff versus Turkish staff ratio - our current model is 35% due to our standard operating procedures, so we would need to recruit and train Turkish staff to fill these specialist roles.  Unfortunately our business model is not currently set up to be able to do this for 2009 and therefore we have taken the difficult decision to not operate our Sunsail Clubs in Turkey this year.   We have identified a number of alternative holiday options for customers who have already booked a holiday in Turkey with Sunsail Clubs and these customers have all been written to.  The customer care line has full details of these options, and can be contacted on 02392 334599.    Thanks, Fiona

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