Sport with the Greek maintenance team!

We’ve been having some sport here over the past few days.  The story runs something like this –

Tuesday 21 July

Part of the evening’s entertainment was for the manger to introduce his senior and middle managers to us.  He finished by saying that, if there was anything wrong we should mention it straightway and not leave it till we were leaving.

Wednesday 22 July

I went to Reception to mention what wasn’t right for us –

1.       The Jacuzzi in our little inlet of the swim-up pool wasn’t working and one of the six plastic outer caps was missing

2.       The blind between our lounge and bathroom wouldn’t open such that it is always dark in there

3.       We only had 5 clothes hangers each

Within 10 minutes a lady (Eastern European with some English?) from the housekeeping team arrived with 10 more hangers.  She worked on our Jacuzzi and said “It’s now working”.  I pointed out that only one of the six jets was actually doing anything – which she acknowledged.  She then had a fiddle with the control button for the window blind and it still didn’t work, so she said she would report it to the maintenance team who would come to sort the two remaining issues

Thursday 23 July

Nothing happened

Friday 24 July

Nothing happened

Saturday 25 July

Nothing happened

Sunday 26 July

We saw the rep to book the second of our two excursions.  At the end of that conversation I mentioned the story so far about our room.  The rep commented that we had clearly waited a long time before complaining again and to go back to Reception to remind them.  At Reception, the main rep then came up to us, looking worried, to ask if everything was OK.  We told her the potted history and we agreed that, if we didn’t get some action pronto, we’d let her know

An hour and a half later two men (with almost no English) came to the door.  Now my Greek isn’t much good so this was going to be interesting with lots of miming and sign language to be relied upon!

And there was.  They had a brief go at the window blind control knob and made a sort of ‘hopeless’ gesture to one another and then moved on to the jacuzzi.  One of them pressed the button and said triumphantly: “It’s now working”.  As before, I pointed out that only one of the six jets was actually doing anything – which they acknowledged and a few tools started to be used.  After much fiddling about they said that they now had two of the six jets working and that someone else would come to sort that on Monday.  They then returned to the window blind, fiddled about a bit more and turned to me, saying: “It’s kaputt!”  I said I knew it was ‘kaputt’ and that’s why I'd asked for someone to fix it so that we could have daylight in there during the day.  Again, I think I was given to understand that someone would come on Monday to fix it.

Out of the blue, a couple of hours later they both returned.  They started to dismantle the whole window assembly, then seemed to think better of it and left that in favour of yet another go at the jacuzzi.  They achieved no more than before, except that, by now, the second of the six jets had no plastic outer piece on it which they left on the side nearby.  They then departed.

Overnight two things happened.  We awoke to find someone else’s air bed that they'd left floating on the shared pool outside had beached itself on our patio and the second plastic jacuzzi piece which had been resting on our poolside was now nowhere to be seen.  I’ve searched high and low outside for it, but to no avail.

We await the return of Bob the Builder and his team today.  But the question remains: “Can they fix it?”  The jury’s out on that, I suspect!