We’ve been regulars at Hedo II since2010 (when we moved across after the closure of Hedo III).
We immediately loved the place despite the obvious need for improvements. For many subsequent years we’ve spent 4 weeks per year at the resort (2 trips per year) and we even managed to win the 5 night prize for the most repeat visits at the Repeaters party the year before last.
And so we were looking forward to many many more visits over the coming years ………….until we got a price quote for this year from our travel agent. OMG!!!
We know the recent improvements will have had an effect on room rates but the rate we’re being quoted for 14 days OVP is exactly DOUBLE the rate we paid in 2015 for the same period.
(We only managed 14 days at the resort last year (in April/May) and we were lucky that only 9 nights were paid for as a result of our repeater prize, so I guess the price increase wasn’t as noticeable at that stage).
When added to our airfare costs from the UK, we cannot justify the total vacation price as it stands now. We know we could do a shorter vacation but with a 10 hour flight and a 6 hour time zone change in summer, we really couldn’t face that journey for a 7 day trip.
It might be naďve, but we suppose our hope/expectation was that the improvement works would eventually pay for themselves thru higher occupancy levels whereas the owners seem to have simply loaded the refurbishment spend onto room rates.
So, our question (which we guess is primarily, but not exclusively, aimed at fellow Brits on this forum) is whether our experience is typical of how rates have shifted over the last 12/24 months?
Bookmarks