July
30

As of  07.30 in the morning on Friday July 30 2010

Buses are still running and we see taxis in all the usual places, so far.

Petrol/gas delivery lorries/trucks are still not delivering fuel to petrol/gas stations(for the most part).

This will be over with in a couple of days (75% probability) and before the 3rd August (95%+ probability)

[ I would hardly give any event much more than a 95% probability as the world is just not made that way! ]

As Taxis and buses (well all buses, some taxis) run on diesel, diesel supplies are still intact  for longer.  Also, diesel cars are just about unheard of and almost unavailable here, so they don’t use up any remaining supplies.

I understand the concerns of our visitors – and apologize for your having to even consider this nonsensical situation.
I think that it will be ok quite soon as you can tell from what I have said above.

That’s the on-the-spot and “boots-on-the-ground” update from our observation point in Crete, reports from other areas of Greece and a combination of news and personal testimony from those areas beyond Crete itself.

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December
24

Were you ever “assigned a leadership outcome”?

Jargon. The final frontier to go through, beyond and leave behind.

Let us make the New Year one of clarity, one free of jargon, more understandable, happier and one with better communication.

In the travel industry there are terms or acronyms for oh so many things. FIT, PAX and more – all can be and are better avoided. Individual travelers and number of people sound far better and are more easily understood. There is little time saved in using these clunky monikers and they turn valued guests, customers into a statistical marketing component that is unfriendly, bad thinking and against the spirit of good business relations.

So for the New year let us speak with our customers and guests, let’s talk of 5 people (not 5 PAX) and let’s “get real” and… enjoy the process of our business so much more as a result.

Merry Christmas
Happy Travels
A healthy and prosperous new year to all our readers, guest and customers.

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December
3

Give your special people travel as a gift.

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November
23

SuperbGreece could expand to cover many more countries.

That’s really what we should do after our visit to WTM, otherwise known as the World Travel Market in London recently. (And, after so many SuperbGreece customers have begged us to offer them the same service, for Italy, Spain and anywhere they happen to be traveling to.)

WTM is an annual confab and show for those in the travel biz – from what we saw and yes it was helpful, there is, much room for great creativity and imagination in the travel business – there are but few who are “new”. So it really suggests the totally “new” methods of doing business with the unique honesty and bountiful helpfulness of SuperbGreece – started in fact, new, some 5 years ago!. We are thinking, we are planning and who knows where we will go next!

The show took place at the massive London Excel centre way out east on the ever expanding London river scene. As we booked late we found ourselves staying in a hotel within a few steps of the entrance of the show, one with rooms in which it would have been impossible to take more than two steps. So small were the rooms, a modular glass fibre bathroom unit, WC unit and separate wash basin appear to have been installed on a plug-in basis, giving rooms the feel of a low-price cruise ship or ferry. Very functional however, and you can’t beat the price (for London anyway).

So will there be a Superb Italy next….? Perhaps Spain..? Only the future will tell.

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April
27

More than ever to get really good advice is valuable. No less so for travel planning and decisions than anything else.

The personal group of SuperbGreece, CreteHotelRooms and CreteTravel – offer not only on-the-spot expert advice but mold this to what each guest likes best.

When you can find uniquely descriptive, mouth-wateringly-easy-to-use travel websites with honest-promise descriptions of hotels – and – and get free advice, ask questions, talk about where you went last year, why you enjoyed it, what you’d like to enjoy this time – well then, you have the recipe for lifelong-memory-building joyous holidays.

Try it (only available so far for Greece! ) >

Travel Guide to Crete the biggest Greek Island ( “it has everything” )
http://www.CreteTravel.com

Beautiful Small Hotels in Crete ( villas too ! ) >
http://www.Crete-Hotels-Rooms.com

Greece – cherish-able memories and small beautiful hotels >
http://www.SuperbGreece.com

And yes – valuable free advice, without which you may make the wrong vacation choice… but with it you will be happier than a lark singing in the spring and looking forward to summer.

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April
19

Best European places to live – Forbes lists Kefalonia at No.4

Of course Kefalonia is an island rather than a city – but it gets mentioned !

See Forbes – In Pictures: Europe’s Most Idyllic Places To Live >
http://www.forbes.com/2008/11/18/europe-homes-dollar-forbeslife-cx_po_1118realestate.html

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April
1

The New 5 Star Raft Hotels group launches

We are delighted to announce the first of our new hotel brand – “5 Star Raft Elafonisi Crete”.

5 Star Raft will build and float super-luxury wood raft floating hotels. The first is the 5 Star Raft Elafonisi Crete. The new hotel phenomenon will be rolled out with hotels around the USA, Hawaii, The Falklands, Australia and Greece over the next six months for a fast-accumulating total of 112 hotels. After that another 375 5 Star Raft Hotels will open every 7 months.
Most will offer 75 “Deep-Luxury” dream suites, according to Overt Symptom the company’s president of operations and expansion.

Creating a new market, a new level of sophistication, service, luxury and sense of movement.

The demand for the vacation that “does everything” and suits the whole family, and confers bragging rights for inclusion in the “best holiday destination in the world” category, is increasing.

Few want to risk the expense of a once in a lifetime “luxury beyond luxury” vacation in today’s financial madhouse if by being stuck in one place, the very experience could be compromised by a deterioration in the location of a hotel…by changes in the surrounding landscape, or even weather.

5 Star Raft ® solves all problems, in fact it eliminates them. For example the 5 Star Raft Elafonisi Crete only stays in Elafonisi if the weather is good and the area is not too crowded.

If it rains the hotel sails to better climes, if it gets crowded it sails to a quieter bay.

If you wish to arrange a large family gathering vacation or a corporate retreat, just book the whole raft and we will bring the 5 Star Raft Hotel to a port near you.

5 Star Raft combines the romance of drifting on a raft with luxury that could only have been dreamed of:

- Teak wood floating virtual city – with nightly performances of world-standard operas, concerts, rap artists, poetry readings along with circus performers, movie premieres, and many more.

- A selection of 20 of the world’s best restaurants including Marine Puch’s, WaterBucks café, The Water Ivy, Floating Sushi, SoftShoeMama’s, Taglietelle Delight, RandomSteaks, DriftwoodCanapes, TheFloatingChampagneFlute, WhichWayWasabe, Ming’sDishes, CaptainAhab’sCatchItIfYouCan and more.

- 3 Members of staff for every guest – and the exclusive “ChangeThatOne” feature which means if you don’t like your waiter…change him and choose another, if the bartender won’t laugh at your jokes…call in your own substitute ‘tender’

- Make your time useful and educational – all 5 Star Raft hotels are stocked with at least 59 university professors chosen for their expertise, usually department heads from Stanford, Harvard, South Carolina Tech, Oxford, Cambridge, Beijing Institute of research and even the Falkland Island’s own Professor of economics – all waiting to give a lecture, a debate, personal coaching and tuition.

- Unique to the hotels is the sense-sensor ® fuelled by 73 high powered computer servers, after being injected with the Mood and Feeling intravenous submarine detector on check in…we will know exactly what you want, when you want it, whatever it is. And with our worldwide “what are they gonna’ want next?” network, you’ll never wait for more than 2 minutes 23 seconds for what you feel like doing, to be what you are doing! Think of that!

There is one thing that might be considered limiting about the 5 Star Raft Hotel concept (we are working to overcome this) – at the moment you can only book up to noon on April 1, 2009 because there’s a storm brewing around the 5 Star Raft booking center and we just can’t keep the internet and phone connecting wires plugged in after that time.

5 Star Raft Hotels – ready to float!

An April diversion of SuperbGreece.com and CreteTravel.com

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March
29

A great list :

“10 Things Travel Websites Should Have”
http://talk.2sane.com/business/10-things-travel-websites-should-have/

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February
16

Families getting together, households combining to share a great vacation, it’s families holidaying together in Crete.

Rekindle those great times, create new memories, let the grandparents enjoy being with the children, let everyone have space – together…an ultimately refreshing and fun time.

On the island of Crete there is more to suit everyone, yet you can all be together.

Here are some splendid places to stay and do just that:

http://www.crete-hotels-rooms.com/Reservations/Family_gatherings/index.htm

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February
15

Family Gatherings – vacations and holidays – the villas, houses or groups of these right next to each other in Crete, Greece. Where can you find them…?

Here’s a fine selection of houses and villas with pools, views, charm and appeal – good for getting great grandparents, grandparents, parents and children…all branches of the family together again, on holiday.

These places are good for gatherings of friends too!

http://www.crete-hotels-rooms.com/Reservations/Family_gatherings/index.htm

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