Hi all, new to this forum but an old hand on the Kos Aqua Beach Club one. Im one of those who have been totally devastated this week when the holiday weve had booked for nearly twelve months has been cancelled by first choice. We have been given the PP as an alternative and because there was only four weeks on Thurs to our hol we took it. But I cant get the enthusiam I had for Kos, I have read the forum and people are talking about having to pay for things such as drinks and things like that. With the price weve paid Im hoping we dont have to pay any extra.
Can anyone help me with any information they can on what to expect there are four adults as two have cancelled now and eight kids going from ages 2 to 15 please HELP

Thanks Debbie, Barnsley x

Deborah

Sorry to hear about your other holiday. Is there anything specific you want to know as i went last year and am returning this year despite the Tropical being closed.

Footballswampie

Hi Deborah,

With all the carry on with First Choice recently, as I'm sure you've experienced, I am trying desperately to hold on to my positive mental attitude. I've thought about cancelling, have looked for other holidays, but nothing I've found matches up to the facilities available at the PP for anywhere near the price we've paid.

I was on the KABC thread and pointed people in this direction so I do know what you's have been through this week.
Even with the tropical side closed, the pegasos palace still offers fantastic facilities. Yes, it did have problems at the beginning of last year when it first opened but if you read the reviews you'll see that the majority of them are fantastic towards the end of the season.

I truly believe that first choice will go all out this season for the Pegasus Palace, they'll have to. Because the lack of bookings at this hotel this season has bugger all to do with the bird flu outbreak, its to do with the bad publicity this hotel received last year!

On the positive side. The complex itself is absolutely amazing, go to the turkey photos on the gallery here and run it on slide show, it looks like a fantastic setting. And everyone who has been has seconded that! The pools are fantastic and the kids club has had nothing but rave reviews. So from the kids point of view they will have a fantastic time. In my opinion, if the kids are happy then you will be too.

There are three themed restaurants, which will be open. Indian, Italian and Turkish, which you can book once visit a week, I think? There is a mini disco every evening for the kids, held in an amphitheatre type setting. There is also a bar which does entertainment and I believe the beach bar usually has live entertainment of an evening. There are activities every day from the animation team.

The only things that I think you have to pay for are;
Fresh fruit juice at breakfast in the mornings, but from what I've read this happens at a lot of AI hotels.
Popcorn or candyfloss for the kids, I think there might be a cinema type thing (can someone confirm).
Branded ice creams such as walls etc. All inclusive ice creams are available from the beach bar.
Drinks excluded from the all inclusive package and drinks after AI ends at midnight.
I think thats it really.

The rooms in this hotel are supposed to be quite big and very modern too, there are a few photos of these in the photo gallery too, and it really does look beautiful.

You'll find the photos of the hotel here, set it in slideshow and give yourself half an hour to watch it, you'll soon be looking forward to it.

And if you've never been to Turkey before, take a couple of day trips, its a fantastic country and the people are beautiful, you'll love it.

And now I've typed all that out, I'm feeling really positive about the whole thing again!

If there's anything specific you want to know, just ask, everyone will help as much as they can.

Catherine xxx

I'm not going to bother with a tom watch this time if I can help it too. We had one at Club Julian last year and spent a flaming fortune because of it. Its far too easy just to go to the shop and load it all on your watch.

Its a good idea if you can't be bothered carrying cash about with you. I'm an accountant so usually really frugal with money, but I found myself splashing out as if I was a millionaire. No wonder I ended up spending £1200 on a two week holiday, and that was us half board!!!!!

So if possible, it'll be pounds or lira all the way for me. Oh and the fifteen euros I have lying in my holiday wallet. lol

Thanks to Scottishmum and Footballswampie, have been on the slideshow and it does look wonderful, I think I came across all wrong yesterday I suppose I havent been able to get enthusiastic about this hol as iv only known for two days im going and it hasnt sunk in yet, for nearly twelve months iv been looking on this forum for my hol to Kos and getting so excited and then the carpet went from under us.

I think I was really apprehensive at first, thinking why is this hotel so empty when its five weeks to go? That to me isnt a good thing, then I went on the forum and yes the ones I read were from early last season and because they were mostly naff I didnt bother to carry on. Just went into this Its going to be the holiday from hell bit.

Was really confused about these Tom watches thought being as my son is called Tom and hes a terrible teen that they had let the PP know about him and I had a childminder for the fortnight (only kidding) thought they were compulsory at first until Scottishmum explained you dont have to have them at all.

What are the kids facilities for early teens like anyone? We have two nine year olds, one ten year old, one twelve year old, one thirteen year old, one fourteen girl whos fifteen when were there and her friend whos fifteen, also got a two year old hyperactive boy. The pool party looks the most fun but read in the brochure that they have turntables for kids to learn how to mix music which sounds good for the two oldest boys.

Anyway thanks again for the info its all appreciated, new everything there was to know about the KABC feel like im in no mans land now.

Debbie x

Also Footballswampie I was told by First Choice that its only the accommodation at the Tropical thats closed not all the facilities, can you please tell me if that is true or is that another fob off iv had from FC.

Thanks Debbie x