yes roobarb, my agent foned the hotel this AM and was told the same.
are you anxious about going?
i have found out that only our flights are booked with FC and the hotel with 'phenix' via medhotels. iv had the option to change hotels, but if this one is open then i think its a great value for money.
karen

Krazi, yes it is the same hotel they have changed the name because it is not now being offered by FC.

i think i will fone tomorrow, you know, just for piece of mind
thanx for the number
and may see you and yours by 1 of the many pools?????????
karen

Hi,

I've just found this site and thread....a bit like some of you other guys, I found it a few minutes AFTER I booked a holiday there. I'm due to go out on 26th August with the wife and 3 kids.

My wife originally found the holiday (not that I'm blaming her, I booked it all). She got it from Teletext with one of the Coop group. They did refer to it as a First Choice holiday!? We were about to book with them, when I thought I would trawl the net and see if I could find more convenient flight times....those 2.30am flights are not pleasant with a two year old!

I wasn't successful....but I did find exactly the same holiday with another operator (I won't mention the site, coz I can't remember if that would breach some terms and conditions of this board) for £200 cheaper, so we booked with them.

Now, that means I don't have a written guarantee that everything will be OK....but I do take some comfort that the Co op were prepared to allay any fears in writing in advance.

That said, I'd be VERY keen to hear from anyone who got out there early!!

Fingers crossed that our gamble pays off. Ay worst, we'll get stuck on a Greek island that does have plenty to offer outside the resort.....gulp.

Good news, (i think)

a friend of mine put me intouch with someone who speaks greek, she foned the hotel for me and they reasured her that it was fully open and that all the facilities were up and running.

so anyone who will be there between 26th july and 3rd aug, may see you around and about
il be the one who's at the bar for the AI beverages, no not really !

karen

See you all at the pool bar next week! Drinks are on me!

Cheers
Roobarb

hi all, ive taken the plunge and am leaving for aqua club 23 sept 06 for 10 nights. anyone else going soon ?............ would love to hear how you get on.
good luck to all
mark

hiya mark

i'l post here when i get back, be around 4th/5th aug

yeah roobarb, see you and yours at the bar, and anyone else who'l be there the same time

karen

thanks hon.
would appriciate it. hears to the best holiday of your life.
mark

hi there ,we should have gone to kabc on the 5th july ,but was cancelled at the last minite.we have just come back from pegasus tropical in turkey and have to say we had the run of the hotel for the first week because it should,nt have opened untill the 17th july .it was really lovely.i had a bit to moan about ,but will tell you about that later.we should have been meeting 2 couples out there in kos which had booked into another hotel they text us while we were in turkey and said the hotel kabc was no where near ready and how they could have told us it was they will never know.so you lot that are due to leave please don,t hold your breath as i was told it was all ready ,i was sent my tickets ,i had everything ready on the friday as iwas due to leave on the wednesday ,i had no phone call i just saw a message on the internet telling people the hotel was not opening .we were gutted as there was a party of 16 of us ,(where were they going to get 16 of us in 5 days )but it as,nt been that bad.

Don't know if this helps, but I've found a review from someone who seems to have actually been there and just got back!!!

Here's the link!
http://www.reviewcentre.com/review205660.html

9/10 isn't bad for an opening week!

Well thanks luke warmwater, I have read the review while taking a hard earned cool down from the packing for the holiday we should have been on today!! Instead we travel early hours of Friday morning to an accommodation we have already been to once - 3 years ago and is nothing like comparable to the holiday we booked 14 months ago to KABC - alas FC has become our actual 5th choice due to COST of 12 people travelling inc. 3 free child places which were not honoured 3 weeks prior to departure. I am actually sick to the stomach to think that we could have gone to the holiday we had been looking forward to and after viewing it on alternative hotel sites, with flights (from FC) we could have saved ourselves around £300 pp based on our original holiday cost .......not to mention the additional holiday cost of 12 FULL paying passengers FC have now charged us for - at peak rates for peak season based on today's prices.

If anyone feels like-minded, I have contacted "Holidays Uncovered" at the top of the page, not outlining our situation, just an enquiry!! Their first broadcast goes out on Tuesday 25th July and they are indeed interested in any "Holiday" stories throughout the season... So if you feel inclined either email, or call a very nice lady in the "reasearch" deprtment.

Rite back to the packing. .....bells out - round two.

hi all weve just got back from the pegasus tropical in turky, it was a good holiday untill we found out what flight we were coming home on, instead of a first choice plane it was a turkish airline that first choice had put on for us as they couldnt get a first choice plane out there, there was no tvs or radios in the seats so trying to entertaine a 3 year old for 4 hours wasnt easy. we are still going to book the kabc next year so fingers crossed all is well.

If anyone's interested, have just been on lastminute.com and the first holiday that popped up on my screen for August was Kos Aqua Club. Departing 2nd August from Manchester for 1 adult & 2 kids it came to £1087 total which is very good for this type of AI holiday in peak period, though obviously somebody has a whole hotel to fill!!!

There were about 4 photos on there as well of the actual place, not the artists impressions. Have booked with FC to go next May (before it got canned for the year!) after being cancelled this May. However, I have been offered to change my booking FOC by FC so may just jump for going there in August instead!

After reading the review on the other site I decided to book this hotel for two weeks from the 26th July. The price was fantastic for a hotel of this quality and I am really looking forward to going now.

Hopefully see a few of you there next week.

I paid 4.5k for kabc with fc, just priced exact same holiday on last minute.com and it was 1808k.

Unbelievable

What travel agents are now selling this holiday?

http://www.holidayholiday.co.uk are still selling this for this year

hi all im going on the 26th july booked it through last min . com phoned hotel up they said everything up and running so hopefully it will be ok