Skiathos, Perigiali Apartments

Hey everybody

JUST TO LET YOU KNOW

The owners of the bulding Perigiali have stoped the agreement with the English people.The owners wil run the accommodation from 2011 themselves .This winter Perigiali will be renovated to a very good standard. New bathroom, paints,boilersystem and bnext summer back to the old fashioned and good cleaning service.

Jannis

If you value your hard earned cash, your precious holiday time and your health and safety, steer well clear of these apartments. We stayed there for three weeks this summer, and the whole time was a catalogue of disasters, neglect and incompetence. The standard of cleaning was abysmal, completely disorganised. We had to put up with unswept, unmopped floors, very infrequent changing of towels and sheets, bins emptied only every two or three days. The record was eight days with no cleaning, and by then, we foolishly thought that at last someone must be coming in to clean the apartment and change the sheets, so we stripped our beds and folded the sheets ready for them. We returned at the end of the day to find the room hadn't been touched, we had to remake our beds with the dirty sheets, and because the floor was so disgusting I found an old yard room outside and swept the apartment out, leaving the pile of sand and dirt with the broom and a number of carrier bags of rubbish from the unemptied bins outside the apartment door in the hope that someone might take the hint that the room needed cleaning. We always made our beds, tidied the apartment and cleaned the kitchen area every day before we went out, so it's not as if we gave them much to do. If we had had access to cleaning materials, a dustpan and broom, a mop and bucket, we would have cleaned the apartment ourselves rather than have to put up with the mess that it was in. We saved all our carrier bags from shopping to use for the many days when our bins weren't emptied. In addition to all this, we had at least five days with no hot water. Apparently there was a fault with the boiler that provided hot water for all the apartments, and it needed to be turned on manually, but instead of the owner coming over to do this every evening she told me that if I wanted to, I could turn it on. She showed me where the boiler room was, and so every afternoon I would go to turn it on, getting strange looks from other guests as I went into the boiler room - little did they know that the reason they were getting hot water was because of me - what a bizarre situation! I was willing to do it though, because after five days I was really fed up with having to shower with cold water. On top of this, we also had one night and one morning with no water supply at all, and then there was a fire in the laundry room! The owner was joking that she was going to re-name the place Fawlty Towers, but believe me, what was going on was no joke. We thought there was no way that things could get any worse when there was a serious failure of duty of care, and due to the negligence of their employee, my wife was very badly injured. She ended up with a broken arm, bruised ribs, a swollen sprained wrist, and cuts, bruises and grazes along the whole length of her body. The owner admitted liability, fired the employee and had a compensation agreement drawn up. However since we returned home, she has virtually ignored my wife and had made it clear that she has no intention of honouring the agreement, which by now should have been settled. I will just say at this point, that I have evidence from the owner admitting that she cannot dispute any of what went on while we were there. We stayed at these apartments last year when the owner had a Greek couple looking after the place, and we had no problems at all, which is why we booked for three weeks this summer. However, the owner now thinks that she can run the place without them, and I think our experience shows that it has been a complete disaster. As second time visitors to the Perigiali, we got to know the owner and her family, and I am really disgusted at the way that we have been treated, especially as my wife is still suffering from her injuries. We trusted that the owner would honour the compensation agreement - this is how she treats loyal guests - she should be ashamed of herself.