From:  mrfrankie57@aol.com

To:  rekotours@aol.com

Date: Mon June 1, 2009

Thank you so much for your kindness when speaking to you on the phone.  I have wanted to go to Greece for several years.  When my grown daughters graduated College I sent them both to Europe.  Their most favorite place in the world was Greece.

I saved for this trip and was ectastic about going.

Let me try and summarize what happened:

We landed in Athens on Thursday, May 14th.  There was a gentlemen waiting to pick us up and take us to our hotel.  We arrived at the Acropolis Select 1.  Everyone in the hotel were wonderful and very helpful.  The next morning, Friday the 15th we were picked up at our hotel on our way to Pireaus (Sorry if I cannot spell).  At the port there were 2 cruise lines both going to Myknonos, Crete, Kusadasi and Santorini.  At the port they told us to go on two lines.  I went on one line and Ilona Posner went on another.  They said this would be faster if we were on 2 lines.  I waited to sign some papers, (I think they were declarations, I'm not sure) They had my name, but not Ilona's.  Then the lady working there took me off my line across to the other line.  They said I was going on the Aegean Pearl.  I told them I was supposed to be going on the other ship,  They said don't worry, the ship goes to all the same ports.  I met Ilona at the end of the line and I told her that we were going on the Aegian Pearl.  She informed me that her luggage was going on the other ship.  We then had to run to the ship and take her luggage off.  We had to find it first.  After a few minutes we got her luggage.  Someone on the cruise ship, said you better hurray the Aegean Pearl will be leaving in 15 minutes.  We rushed and finally got to our ship.  Well we waited, and waited and waited until our ship finally left. (6 hours later)  The original ship we were supposed to get on, sailed right away.  By the time we arrived at Mykonos it was night time and we had 1-1/2 hours to see the Island.  All we had time for was Pizza.  The ship was very nice and credited our account 40 Euros.  That was nice, but I didn't care about 40 Euros, I wanted to see Mykonos.  Every island we went to were no more than 4 hours.

Our cruise was over and we went back to The Acropolis Select.  We stayed there for 7 more nights.  I have never been to Greece, so I did not know that our itinerary was terrible.  Our travel agent should have told us to stay at Mykonos 3 days and Santorini 3 days.  It was nice to see the changing of the guards and The Acropolis and a few other things but 7 days was way to much for Athens. 

We booked a few other things like late night in Athens which was very nice and we took a one day cruise to Hydra, Agean and I forgot the other island.  But of course we spent 40 minutes at 1 island, 1 hour and 20 minutes at another and 1-1/2 hours at the third. 

All I am saying is that Greece is beautiful, but unfortunately we did not see any island for any amount of time.  We truly were misinformed about what to do.

Of course after I came home I told several of my family and friends who have been to Greece what happened and they could not believe that we weren't told to spend a few days on each island.

Well, I want to thank you for your time and effort.  I hope we can come to some agreement about what to do in this matter.

Again, thank you Aggie.

Sincerely Carol Lisak and Ilona Posner

 

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