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Saturday 26 December 2015

Disgusting Customer Service at Ferryman's yeasterday

Yesterday my mom, Marti and I sat here for over half an hour with nobody bringing menus to our table or even acknowledging we were at your  dining Establishment.  So we moved on to San Marco where we were served in under 20 minutes despite the Christmas crowds.  Thank You for excellent service once again San Marco.

Thursday 24 December 2015

Mykonos Langebaan
8:11 AM
 
 
Good day Dave

Thank you for providing the positive and negative aspects of your stay at our resort. We will always provide feedback to our guests as it is very important to keep a good personal relationship. We want to know which aspects you enjoy, which areas improvements are needed and suggestions for more facilities that would improve your stay.

I would firstly just like to explain the scaffolding situation again. It was put up to fix a few tiles on the roof, it was not there to be an inconvenience to our guests and as all maintenance work it was declared to be a safe environment by the Health and Safety Committee as was indicated on the scaffolding itself. We understood your point of view and accommodated your query by changing your booking to a bigger apartment away from the work.

As the resort consists of 361 units and we are extremely busy at all times you can imagine how time consuming it is to get all the units ready in time. Our arrival and departure times are also in conjunction with other resorts of a similar size. Our guests are welcome to use the facilities before the official check in time or an earlier arrival can be arranged a day prior if possible.

The Cascades apartments you occupied is the 3 star rated option. If this is not to your liking we also have upgraded refurbished units. All the different types of accommodation are specified on our website for future reference,www.clubmykonos.co.za. Earlier this year we started with a refurbishment schedule in the Cascades as well, we will be redoing all these units to a more modern and new age standard.

Our sincere apologies that your unit door was not closed after cleaning commenced, also that you found the service just to be okay. Unit doors have to be closed afterwards, I am sorry that the staff refrained from doing so. I will definitely follow up with the responsible staff members to avoid a similar occurrence.

We are also currently busy with a television reticulation process throughout the resort, this will ensure that the signal will be perfect.

No need to be worried about the legendary Chester, he is probably the most well looked after donkey and have frequent check-ups by his own personal vet. Chester becomes quite upset if his handler Edward does not take him out to do rides, it is very comical to see the show he puts up.

Your thorough description of all the aspects that attracted you makes for a great read. I will definitely pay your compliments to our staff as well, thank you for pointing out the great service received.

Improvements can definitely be made in certain areas and we are most definitely up for the challenge. I assure you that our guests’ happiness is very important to the management of this resort and we will continue to strive for perfection.

Thank you for choosing our resort as your holiday destination, we sincerely appreciate your visit. You are more than welcome to contact us for assistance on 022 707 7000.

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Monday 21 December 2015

Club Mykonos

Recently I stayed at Club Mykonos in Langebaan "your piece of Greece on the West Coast" is their marketing slogan.  We booked it before our house sold so that we would have somewhere to go to on 1 December, the day our house got transferred to the current owners.  We booked two weeks (1-15 December 2015).  Our booking was made via booking.com  This resort has had really bad guest reviews before so I decided being an affiliate on a travel site and having two consumer/establishment rating blogs, heroawards.blogspot.com and heroawards1.blogspot.com, I would give my honest opinion on this resort.
Check-in - This was a quick and easy process but cannot be done until 4pm - why?
Rooms - We were firstly allocated a room on an active building site.  It had scaffolding and building rubble everywhere - I even had to move a plank of wood so that our porter could get his trolley, with our stuff in it, through the ruble!  This despite us asking for a quite room with easy access (I do have a slight disability! visit alifenotlikeyours.blogspot.com).  We never went into that room because once the porter had managed to jiggle the key in the Kaliva's lock (on the fifth jiggling of the key the door opened!),  my mom and I were so unhappy about the room we were allocated so we took our stuff back to our car and went back to reception.  The two young male receptionists were both very pleasant and offered to find us a new room as soon as possible. (my mom did however threaten to sleep in the lobby with me during our stay if this could not be sorted - seeing as how they had already taken payment of the R11000 plus we paid to stay there! and apparently the money was not refundable!  - I think that policy needs changing - SA consumer Rights would agree!  - If it wasn't your fault, it shouldn't be your problem!  
When we finally got into our Kaliva it was clean but very outdated furniture and very hard beds.
Cleanliness of the Kalivas is ok (and I say only ok because we were in our Kaliva one day during the cleaning process. (A squirt or two of detergent into the basis, collecting old towels, put all the dishes in the sink at once and clean them. Sweep the floor and that was it!)
The general areas near the Kalivas is a bit scruffy with rubbish (cans, chip packets and Cigarette butts are everywhere) – sis!
The staff here are all very friendly and greet you when you go past them.
The Cleaning staff did however not shut Kaliva doors behind them when cleaning the Kalivas.
This is super important regarding security – hotel cleaners MUST ALWAYS close a room door behind them when cleaning a room not only so that no Joe Soap can walk into your room and help himself to your possessions but also for the cleaners safety. Hotel cleaners in the world have been assaulted by thieves before when somebody of disrepute has gone into a room in a hotel to take stuff.  This was not done I walked into my Kaliva a few times and the cleaner just assumed it was me staying there? 
Conference Centre – I only went there to use the loo.  It is super clean in the Conference facility and the receptionist told me you can have 4 smaller or one big conference room. Good to know for my next conference!?!  One day maybe I will hold a conference there? 
Pools – There is a lovely big outdoor swimming pool and a few small ones near the Kalivas.
TV Reception - This was very poor on most stations.
Feral Cats - being a felinofile (a cat lover) I love cats, and this may sound odd but all these kitties running around is lovely!!
Chester the Donkey - he is a legend but is apparently being retired at the end of this.  His handler, William, who is also being retired with chester (he is about 80 too?!), told us in Human years Chester is about 80. My goodness.  An old age to be giving children rides.
Views - there are some amazing views at this resort, be it at the poolside overlooking the ocean or at the Marina or just the resort itself - you could almost imagine you were in Greece.
Overall - "It is what it is!" It needs a lot of improvements done - but done the correct way - i.e. do not allocate guests who have paid to stay at your resort, rooms on active building sites!  I have a hotel and catering Management Diploma and I did study via correspondence, but my notes did say when you do heavy maintenance in a hotel/resort you must block off the section being maintained and not have guests on either side of the room being maintained - the renovations on the Kaliva next to ours started at 6 am and ended at about 6pm?
My rating of this piece of Greece 6/10 - a low score but some good/ some bad "just get it right!" so that people get the value you claim to offer.
I await a reply from you Club Mykonos, if you do not reply I guess it shows that once you got the money you do not care?!?  Anyway if you do reply, your reply will be posted on my blog!







REVIEWED BY DAVE!

Wednesday 4 November 2015

sorry you get a Numpty Award For Lying!

Jack Darier of Parkhurst in Joburg asked his bank whether his loan had been securitised. No way, said the bank. It was the answer Darier was expecting. Meantime he had the proof that the opposite was true. It was a truth test, and the bank failed.


Tuesday 27 October 2015

The Consumer Protection Act is a distinct field of law and the concept is still relatively new in South Africa. The promulgation of the Consumer Protection Act, 68 of 2008 on 1 April 2011, consumer law has suddenly become a new headache for businesses and they had to make a lot of adaption’s to operate within the specific act.

Monday 14 September 2015

  Bugs And Sparks Complaint

SUPPLIER

Bugs And Sparks

INDUSTRYPlumbing and Electrical
BRANCH / AREACape townCOUNTRYSouth Africa
TIME / DATE22:12 Fri 3 JulPERSON RESPONSIBLEOwner
CUSTOMERpranelsView all reports by user
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PROBLEM

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post report
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INCIDENTFri 3 Jul
HEADLINE

Company rips people off. Stay away

Hi Rachel.

I will never ever do business with a immoral company and owner as bugs and sparks. This company is a rip of and a **** as far as i am concerned. I should have taken note to all the reviews online on this so called company before i hired ul.

Ul charge cheap inspections then come up with huge faults that almost all other professional service providers that i showed it to just laughed at it and told me that company's like yours do this for a living.

I had two sep company's in and it got passed with no faults. Both electrical and plumbing. So please give that quote to your manger and have him tear it up.

Do not contact me again unless it is to return the money this company ***** from me.

Thank you.

Wednesday 8 July 2015

MUGG & BEAN, BAYSIDE MALL

 I found a really long and really disgusting black coloured hair in my French Toast I ordered at lunch here today.  The manager was very nice and gave my mom and I complimentary cake as a gesture of appology.  Great service.  However why did this happen.  He said all the kitchen staff wear hair nets, maybe and maybe not!  Second time I have found hair on my plate at the Bayside Mugg & Bean - the waitrons do not wear hear nets, but our waiter was bald but he had a long beard.  Was it one of his beard's hairs eeww.  Last time the hair was on my plate and not the food thank goodness but nobody wants to see that when eating out!
Think I won't be visiting the eatery again!

Saturday 4 July 2015


Hi Neighbours, I hope someone can give me some advise... I got a electrician out to fix my UPS and to put new batteries in at my shop. It cost me almost 15k, Now, my UPS doesn't work and refuses to come out to fix his work.... he ignores all my requests to come out. Please help

Sunday 28 June 2015

Steers complaint


I have to give my 2cents worth of input about Steers- they lost me as client years ago because of price! There is NO way i am going to pay R50 for a burger and then it excludes your fries? Think again Steers... A bun costs around R1.50 and two patties around R5 because its your famous recipe and sauce, no tomato or salad or fries?? Nah not this boertjie. I make a much better and bigger burger @ home for around R10!

Thursday 25 June 2015

This Weeks Excellent Customer Service awards go to - Ackermans in Bayside mall and Cell C customer service

I bought a Nokia Luminia for R999 at Ackerman's in Bayside, this Monday and got a super cool phone, 200MB Cell Data time and Microphone Headphones.  The service there was good yet again (I bought my other cellphone (mobile phone) in Ackermans two years ago. A Nokia ?) The staff there are well trained and super friendly.

I had to call the Cell C customer care to get my other Sim ricaed and port my old cellphone number to my new one.  Usual Call centre long wait to begin with the phone message service asking for loads of info but not giving me a person to talk to and sort out my problem.  So here's a tip if you cannot get a person on one of those automatic customer service lines - our computer lecturer told us this one years ago- confuse the computer by entering too many numbers and you will get to talk to someone straight away - it worked!  He was super helpful and within two hours my old phone's # was transferred to my new mobile phone!

Friday 22 May 2015

South African Home Affairs

Great service South African Home Affairs

Our great service provider for this week is believe or not South African Home Affairs.  They used to be well known for their inefficient and bad service.  - Last week Friday I applied for a renewal of my Passport and after spending 4, yes 4 hours in their Paarl Office applying for this.  I was told to come back in 3 weeks or when I got a second SMS (text message) from them.  The first one arrived (text message to say my application had been received on Friday last week at around 4pm), I thought it would be the same lengthy process as when I applied for my SA Passport at Bellville in 2005 and had to go on my holiday (for my 25th birthday) in Mauritius on a Temporary passport!
Thanks for improving your service Home affairs.

Wednesday 29 April 2015

Checkers chicken blunder

Shock over Checkers chicken blunder

A disturbing image has surfaced of chicken on the floor in the deli at a Checkers store in Cape Town. The retail giant says the matter is being investigated.


Checker in Bayside Mall, chicken on the floor

The consumer, who wants to remain anonymous, was so appalled by what he saw that he snapped an image to capture the shocking discovery.
What happened?
He says nothing indicated to him that an accident may have occurred because no sign was put up and there was no rush to pick up the chicken from the floor.
"I stood in the queue waiting to be assisted ... there were three customers in front of me and two behind me.  For this whole time the chicken was just laying on the floor.
"Then a woman came from the back and packed the chicken in a white container. It seemed very normal. She was so relaxed."
He said what looked like the manager watched on as the employee packed over the chicken to the container without even assuring customers that there is no need to worry.

Monday 20 April 2015

San Marco - This place has seriously gone bad! -only 3 yes 3 waiters on the morning my mom, sister and I had breakfast there. It took an hour to be served. This is the first place I ever dined at at the V&A Waterfront in 1993 (age 12/13 so we go there because it is almost like a family tradition.)


I stayed in these two places in theCape winelands recently. Thought I would rate them for my blog readers.

Nice comfy guest House.  The magazines in the rooms a bit old.  Pool too small to be classed as a pool. They serve a vey good breakfast in their garden.  Only 4 Channels on the TV?!
Overall experience good.  Only stayed 1 night though - couldn't stay more it would be too long!

 
Excellent only stayed 1 night there too,  Only Complaint Mould in the Bathroom - Anthony of hotel impossible shows you why this is bad - if you have asthma mould can kill you, so easy to remove so just bad housekeeping!
 
 

Wednesday 28 January 2015

Our Excellent service Award of the week goes to Handyman 4 you

They offer a really good service and it is owner run and all work is done by Billy and his wife. No odd workmen in your home!

Friday 16 January 2015

FANTASTIC SERVICE - this weeks award goes to Clicks Eden on the Bay

For their excellent service in repaying the  extra money we paid when buying a R140 Cell C Data Bundle and we only got R50 worth of data time.