What a holiday. Seriously, i have never had one like it or enjoyed one so much. We arrived and the hotel was much, much better than i expected. There were no problems with cleanlieness as the reviews had suggested, and although the rooms got really hot and sweaty it was probably our own fault for having 3 in a 2 man room.. and air conditioning was avaliable. Anyway, pool tables, tennis tables, 24 hour bar and a wicked public pool meant it was brilliant and only 2 minutes walk from bar street for night time so i loved it.
We arrived and literally checked in, dumped our bags and then went out. Our first experience of bar street was a learning curve, we were new to it all so weren't very good at avoiding the bar reps so only got about halfway up before we moved on to this nightclub called Status with a group of lads from Reading (they became our holiday mates)cfor the night. Once we got there there weren't very many girls so we all got absolutely smashed and celebrated the start of our holiday.
Thursday was Tom's birthday, he was one of the 13 of us there so we all went out for a meal and then onto barstreet again. This is where half of us split up and went to Downtown (cheesy music), and the other half went to Starlight. Aparrently both had great nights, Tom had a good birthday, he woke up in a doorway on the other side of the island.. and all of us who went Starlight met a group of girls from London who we also kept in touch with for the rest of the week and who were a right laugh.
The next night everyone went starlight again for DJ Spoony's set but he was piss poor. He played the wrong tunes, like a "Craig David Exclusive" song being the climax of his set. He would start one song, play a bit of another then go back to the original song which i didn't like, he did too many shout outs to girls, and i was really annoyed because the tickets were 15euros each! Considering he was a radio 1 DJ i don't know how he got it so wrong!
The next night Saturday,we were back at Starlight again for the foam party which we had heard so much about. All over the internet all year and that day people had been talking about it, and it didn't let us down as Spoony had. The foam went about 6 and a half feet tall under the machines, and it would have been so easy to die without anyone noticing! Theres no way it was safe but it was too much fun to stay out of, so by the end of the night every inch of you smelled of soap and your eyes were red raw but it was so worth it.
The next night i think we all went to Status with some girls we knew from Manchester who had flown out the previous night, Monday everyone went back to Status but instead i went and met up with one of the London girls for the night, Tuesday night was Starlight again for the water party which was extremely sexy to be a part of.. it was like the Step Up 2 Trailer when they're all dancing with the sprinklers on.. The final night for me was back in status, and then i made my way to the airport the next night but had an absolute nightmare getting back.
I waited in the reception for my coach from 11.00pm onwards, it was meant to arrive between 11.30 and 12, so when it got to about 12.30-1 i asked at reception and he just said the flight must be delayed and thats why the coach wasn't there, so i just sat back down and didn't panic. When it got to 2.30 a coach pulled up and everyone in the reception got up and went to it, but when i showed the guy my ticket it wasn't for me. It was for the 5.40 Newcastle flight, my flight would already be boarding so he let me get on the coach and we made our way to the airport. I checked in at 3.00, but was so lucky because Thomas Cook hadn't sent a plane so there was a delay until 5 and we were now flying with Jet2.com. When i get there i asked the rep. what happened and why i had been left? She didn't know who i was and had nothing on me getting on her coach so i had been completely forgotten about. I wasn't happy, because if there hadnt been a delay i would have been stuck, but it wasn't my fault! I had been there early!
Apart from the panic at the end, it was such a good holiday, everyone was really friendly, older girls love a big group of 17 year old lads! We got up to loads of mischief, was a week of pure laughter, memories etc. When i get my camera back next week i will put some photos back on here.
At the moment i am 100% up for going back out and spending my summer working out there, i spoke to many reps and they said it was the best thing they'd ever done. I cannot wait.
