dear justin and kirst, hello honey's how you doing?? missin you loads and hoping your still having fun and being good and not too skint. kirst are you coping without me? have you found a replacement dream-team partner whos as s**t-hot at sweeping the floor as i am? i didn't think so - what are you gonna do without me? as for you justin, all i have to say is once a minger, always a minger. say hi to everyone for me, hopefully i can come over and see you some time. i will bring you some supernoodles to keep you going.
love you xxxxx from fatkaf xxx

I went here the first two weeks of Oct 2004 with my fiance and 2 year old daughter. I had read all the reports (after I had booked stupidly) and was dreading it.
To be quite honest I really didn't think it was all that bad. Our room was clean, the maids came in every day to change the bin and clean floors and although you only get the sheets and towels changed every two or three days if they are grubby you just have to leave them in a pile at the end of the bed and the maids are quick to change them.
We had planned to pay extra for the air conditioning and fridge but didn't bother with either. I think they are about 20euros a week or so. It might have been because it was oct but out room was freezing at night and we really needed the cosy blankets provided. As for the fridge my fiance managed to open it without the key so we could have used it for free but it was a bit mouldy (probably due to them locking the door shut) so there was no chance I was putting anything in there.
I meant to add our room had paper thin walls and you really do hear everything. We weren't too bad because we were on the 2nd floor and had an end room but I did pity the people who had rooms anywhere near reception on the 1st floor, they would be woken by everyone passing for their brekkie.....which by the way was ample, bread, cheese, ham, boiled eggs, cereal, juice etc.

We mainly headed for the beach every day as I found the pool area a bit dangerous for my little one, too many tiles to slip on! and the pool was the coldest thing I have ever been in. It seemed to be in the shade almost all day which didn't help. It seemed clean enough though. The pool side bar had nice food and drink and was okay price-wise.

As for laganas it was still lively in oct but I can imagine it is more for the younger party animals in the height of summer, it was good for us as a young couple with a family because we could take her out with us at night but I don't think we could have done it if it was july or aug. There are loads of places to eat and everyone tries literally to drag you in, you really just have to be firm! The same goes for the people selling boat tours. We did go on the big boat tour round the island and it was good, a long day for young children though.

All in all we had a good holiday, we had a two rainy days and there is little to do unless the sun is out but it is a nice place to be.
As for the Alexander Apts, we went out every night to eat and sit in other bars but it seemed very lively at night in the hotel and if you are in to hanging about the hotel and doing pub quizes/karaoke then you won't be let down. I guess you really get what you pay for.