Comments on: Gay hotel: Sewage 'was actually sand'

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:49:30 +0000

Well Gabriele Neroni is back and is running Alternative Holidays again.. they have reappeared?! Shocking!

By: Kevin Watson

Kevin Watson — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:34:29 +0000

Why would anyone after the bad publicity and loss of money by Man Around / Respect Holidays / Sensations and Club Tucanes still want to book with any of these companies again?

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By: David Sanderson

David Sanderson — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:30:24 +0000

Just got back from Gran Canria yesterday, passed Club Tucanes, as the gate was open I went in, the place is trashed, but no sewer problem, the only problem from the two guys I spoke with was un paid rent and a trail of un paid bills. I then discovered that Respect Holidays have gone in partnership. also was having dinner and saw a furniture van take ( steal) the furniture from Retox, de Tox ( the bar that Respect got evicted from for not paying rent. and what will be a shame that the gay boys will book the new Club Tucanes. and it will happen all again, wake up guys, do not book this place.

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By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:54:19 +0000

Alan

I'm going out next Thursday week and I too had a very slight unease about whether the alternative hotel had actually been booked. I had also sent an e-mail without getting a reply.
I have just telephoned the hotel and they have confirmed that everything is as it should be. I have a feeling they don't always bother to reply to e-mails. Hope this helps.

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By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:46:13 +0000

I'm flying out to GC on Saturday and I'm apprehensive about whether the accommodation that was arranged for us at another place will actually be booked for us. I've emailed the new hotel but haven't had a reply.

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By: Lee Burton

Lee Burton — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:25:03 +0000

Hi Peter, I to have spent many a holiday in Gran Canaria, what gay venues went bust?, the only ones gone bust in the past 5 years that I know of, is Beach Boys and Club Tucanes, both owned by Man Around, Sensations Holidays…Beach Boys has now re-opened under new ownership.It was not the gay complexes that went bust but the owners of the holiday company, example, Respect, Man Around.the resorts still are there.

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By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:07:25 +0000

Well Lee, I tend to take things as I find them. For many years now, I have spent part of the winter in the Canaries. I have stayed in many places,hotels, apartments, bungalows,some gay and some not. I have seen the gay travel operators come and go, and I don't really care about who they are or where they are from or who is bankrupt or who is crooked or whatever. At my age, I simply have the holiday of my choice.
I have stayed at Tucanes since it first opened, sometimes twice a year. I like the space and the setting. It suits me. I have never had a bad experience of any kind. My holidays there have always proceeded smoothly.
I am sorry if the old Tucanes closes but I'm sure I'll get over it. It did last longer than most gay venues !

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By: Lee Burton

Lee Burton — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 07:46:16 +0000

I would ask Peter why he never booked a hotel in the first place, also when Sensations Holidays went bust, why did you book Club Tucanes as it is operated by Sensation Holidays ( Spain) also why book the new Club Tucanes, which will be operated by the old Club Tucanes , and Sensation and Respect holidays?
it just goes around and around………

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By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:35:48 +0000

Thank you Mr Andrew Jones

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By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:27:10 +0000

I too was booked at Tucanes for two weeks from 9th April. On the day after the press release about the shit I was telephoned by Lee from Tucanes and offered the choice of a number of good quality hotels. I have chosen one I have stayed at before which I know is of high quality. I have absolutely no complaint about my treatment by Tucanes and it's staff.

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By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 12:24:21 +0000

Ben please tell me why you say l dont know what l am talking about as everything l say in my one post is fact

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By: David and Kyle Burton

David and Kyle Burton — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:58:23 +0000

Last year Mantrav saved our holidays when Respect Holidays went under and it appears they are helping people on the Club Tucanes problem, who by the way have be caught out in lies to everyone.
I have never heard of a company called AMRO Holidays so I can not comment.

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By: David Kyle

David Kyle — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:53:42 +0000

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By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 10:42:04 +0000

Regarding Greg, they are opening a new resort in 17th April, so thoose booked will turn up at the new resort, not what you paid for and not that private. and who ever Tony is, you don't know what you are talking about.

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By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:34:12 +0000

interesting not much mention of respect involment with mr nereni. and yes respect are on the island with him wheeling and dealing but he doesnt always use his proper name. john smith is what paul from respect holiday calls himself at busines meetings. and i have to agree that amro are as you desbribe dignified in their silence unlike mantrav who someone described as like parasites. who gives a flip how many names mantrav have on there database. these are taken from one wreck of a company to another all the time and sold on. how do you think respect after they closed the doors last august managed to email their customer list to sell tucanes.

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By: Greg

Greg — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:54:17 +0000

So does anyone know where those of us stand who have an upcoming stay at Tucanes booked? Naturally a little concerned about all of this.

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By: Brian Burton

Brian Burton — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:05:17 +0000

The reason I mentioned Gay Hotels is because the only really Gay Hotels in the U.K. is male Prisons-catch my drift Boys?

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By: Brian Burton

Brian Burton — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:59:56 +0000

Good Heavens! Is there such places as Gay Hotels?

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By: Tommy

Tommy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:41:54 +0000

It is always a shame when a business runs into difficulties and an even bigger SHAME when another business jumps on the bandwagon and tries to gain from it.
I am a customer that has been affected buy what's happened as i was due to stay at the complex next week. I was contacted by the Tucanes people and was explained what was happening. I was offered alternative accomodation by them which they would organise at a 4* hotel on the same street or I was given the choice of postponing my holiday to a later date when the new complex opens.
As a regular Tucanes client I as well as others are aware of the problems that the complex had – I've witnessed drains having to be unblocked and people having to move rooms because of it. The so called refurbishment that happened in 2007 but nothing really was done. The shoddy electrics at the place (even after refurbishment). But people still used to return to the place and mainly for two reasons – the staff and the atmosphere of the place.
In a time when many gay customers are turning their backs on gay tour operators because it's cheaper and usually easier to book everything independantly these days I would have thought it best that businesses would try to remain dignified and offer help by maybe advertising their services more rather than advertising the fact that another company may or may not have done something wrong.
When XL/Freedom Travel went under last year you didnt see the likes of Thomson Holidays and Thomas Cook behaving in the way that Mantrav is behaving now. They just helped all the stranded tourists how they could.
I would howver commend AMRO holidays for their conduct throughout maintaining a dignified silence has shown the maturity of your business does not need to retort to underhanded tactics in the way that Mantrav has behaved.
I myself am looking forward to my weeks holiday in Gran Canaria next week even if it is not at the Tucanes Complex

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By: Alex S

Alex S — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:16:25 +0000

2 Simon Murphy: I would like you to go to your high street, walk in to a place like Thomas Cook or Goingplaces and ask them to book you in a gay men only resort, see what response they give you.
Maybe you like to stay in a huge apartment complex for £200 a week with a huge swimming pool and enjoy your holiday surrounded by eldery people and screaming kids – and all that with a spare change in your pocket, is this your ideal gay holiday?

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