Re: Melia Hotel in Santa Maria

[bellagio]

Millybess:
 
 I didn't get the rum either, but when I asked about it at custonmer services they said I'd get a bottle on leaving.   Well the next day there was a bottle of red wine in my room, so I assumed that they had given me that in lieu of the rum.
 
 I was quite happy with that so I never went back to ask for the rum.    I agree with you (hooray) about Night Porters though, they never seem to be the friendliest of people.

[millybess]

Well bellagio, I didn't even know we were supposed to receive the rum.  Wish I had.  Well actually if DH agreed, I would have traded it in for a bottle of red wine.
 
 Having worked with night auditors/porters, some feel it is "beneath" them to check people in. They specialize in accounting and spend all night correcting the mistakes the front desk clerks have made all day long.

[bellagio]

Originally posted by millybess:
  Well bellagio, I didn't even know we were supposed to receive the rum.  Wish I had.  Well actually if DH agreed, I would have traded it in for a bottle of red wine.
 
 

Millybess:
 
 I only read about it in someone's post (I can't remember who or when).   They were MAS members who had previously stayed in a Melia hotel.   They emailed a room request to the hotel and when they arived in their room they had a bottle of rum waiting for them.
 
 It probably isn't standard procedure, but it certainly is a good idea!!!

[lukefisher]

Thankyou ever so much, i'm going to email now

[bellagio]

LukeF:
 
 Good to see you again.  When are you actually visiting the Melia?   The reason I ask is I would leave it until two or three weeks before you fly before emailing them with your room request.

[Milli]

Originally posted by bellagio:
 However being a MAS member does give you the opportunity for a free late check out up to 4pm and also it helps IMHO when emailing ahead for a room - plus fruit bowl and bottle of wine or rum in your room on arrival.   Just a few little perks that's all,   Personally I'm not bothered about the points. [/QB]

I became a MAS member after I booked the Melia Las Americas.  I wasn't aware of the fruit bowl and bottle of wine or rum on arrival and needless   to say did not receive it.  Luke F, I did email the Melia 2 or 3 weeks before our departure with a request for a room on the second or third floors and I received a very gracious response the next day stating that they would do their best.  I had done this at the suggestion of other posters on Debbies, and had asked for a non ground level room as I had read stories about bug problems at other resorts.(ants, etc)  They must have had a good chuckle at the Melia as when I got there I found there were no ground level rooms in the Hotel.
   :o    :o

[bellagio]

Milli and Millybess:
 
 Well obviously I was lucky then, mind you a did drop a few hints that I was a personal friend of Cubaking, so that must have helped!!!!!
 
 Joking, of course!!!

[lukefisher]

we arrive there on 26th June and can't wait - the beach looks amazing in the pics and the rooms look of a good size and clean etc - so hopefully should be a good trip.

[bellagio]

Thanks for replying Luke F.  Yes the time is definitely right for you to send that email off to them.
 
 BTW please do come back and post about your experiences at the Melia, which you will love.   If you are a beach person you will just fall in love with it completely, and once you walk about 50 yards away from the Melia in the direction of the new hotel the beach is better still as the sand is firmer and easier to walk on.
 
 Please let me know your experiences with Excel Airways also.  I need to know whether or not you had to refuel in Gander and whether your aircraft was the Boeing 767 200 series or the 300 series.
 
 I am curently engaged in correspondence with Thomas Cook with regard to Excel Airways being their choice of carrier for this route so any further information I can glean could prove to be useful.
 
 You will be totally blown away by the Melia I can assure you.

[FredTracie]

Bellagio
   I'm under the impression that Excell were flying direct to Santa Clara with no stop in Gander. That's what I understand talking with some Brit's?......Although it was at the bar.. after a couple Cervesa's...  :1:  
 
    Cheers.....F&T

[bellagio]

Well Fred the first ever flight into Santa Clara was the one I was on (May 1st via Gander) the next flight was on May 15th (that was via Gander also) the third flight was on May 29th and that flight I have no information about.
 
 Now you would have been there when this third flight arrived so maybe Excel have the 300 series Boeing on the route now and that will be able to fly non stop.
 
 Thanks for that info though, so maybe the Cervesa's hadn't affected you as much as you thought.