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SW3 Chelsea Tiger said:
After a chat with a travel agent, we have ruled out Cape Verde after he advised not leaving the hotel complex. **** that !!

So we have booked Puerto Morgan in Gran Canaria, known as Little Venice for all its canals. It looks stunning, have any of you visited there?
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We generally go to Puerto de Mogan at least once every year. I love it. Some great restaurants and bars around the harbour area and along the beachfront. It's not very large and has a more chilled vibe than a banging party town. It has a massive market on a Friday which brings in a lot of punters, otherwise it's fairly quiet. It gets a lot of return visitors. Some good hotels and apartments. It's fairly flat so easy to walk round. There's a archeological site which was discovered when building one of the hotels which contains some houses and burial sites of the Island's original inhabitants. There's a ferry which runs up the coast to Puerto Rico and other resorts and the bus service is really good if needed. It is the last resort on the coastline though, so transfer times from the airport are a bit longer (about 40 mins direct).
 
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Ernie Shackleton said:
We generally go to Puerto de Mogan at least once every year. I love it. Some great restaurants and bars around the harbour area and along the beachfront. It's not very large and has a more chilled vibe than a banging party town. It has a massive market on a Friday which brings in a lot of punters, otherwise it's fairly quiet. It gets a lot of return visitors. Some good hotels and apartments. It's fairly flat so easy to walk round. There's an archeological site which was discovered when building one of the hotels which contains some houses and burial sites of the Island's original inhabitants. There's a ferry which runs up the coast to Puerto Rico and other resorts and the bus service is really good if needed. It is the last resort on the coastline though, so transfer times from the airport are a bit longer (about 40 mins direct).
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Sounds great!
 
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Ernie Shackleton said:
We generally go to Puerto de Mogan at least once every year. I love it. Some great restaurants and bars around the harbour area and along the beachfront. It's not very large and has a more chilled vibe than a banging party town. It has a massive market on a Friday which brings in a lot of punters, otherwise it's fairly quiet. It gets a lot of return visitors. Some good hotels and apartments. It's fairly flat so easy to walk round. There's an archeological site which was discovered when building one of the hotels which contains some houses and burial sites of the Island's original inhabitants. There's a ferry which runs up the coast to Puerto Rico and other resorts and the bus service is really good if needed. It is the last resort on the coastline though, so transfer times from the airport are a bit longer (about 40 mins direct).
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fab! Thanks for this. Not606 always gets the question answered….its better than google!!
 
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Ernie Shackleton said:
We generally go to Puerto de Mogan at least once every year. I love it. Some great restaurants and bars around the harbour area and along the beachfront. It's not very large and has a more chilled vibe than a banging party town. It has a massive market on a Friday which brings in a lot of punters, otherwise it's fairly quiet. It gets a lot of return visitors. Some good hotels and apartments. It's fairly flat so easy to walk round. There's an archeological site which was discovered when building one of the hotels which contains some houses and burial sites of the Island's original inhabitants. There's a ferry which runs up the coast to Puerto Rico and other resorts and the bus service is really good if needed. It is the last resort on the coastline though, so transfer times from the airport are a bit longer (about 40 mins direct).
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The original inhabitants of Gran Canaria were the Canarios, a name for the indigenous people of that specific island, while the term "Guanches" more strictly refers to the inhabitants of Tenerife. These pre-Hispanic peoples are believed to be descendants of North African Berbers

oh ffs sw get it cancelled now before it’s too late
Can’t be too careful
 
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SW3 Chelsea Tiger said:
After a chat with a travel agent, we have ruled out Cape Verde after he advised not leaving the hotel complex. **** that !!

So we have booked Puerto Morgan in Gran Canaria, known as Little Venice for all its canals. It looks stunning, have any of you visited there?
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Which island and resort? I've seen a few programmes and vlogs of Sal (Santa Maria) and never heard anything along those lines. Maybe applies if traveling within the less touristy Cape Verde islands?
 
Three of us were in Glasgow last weekend, we stayed in an Adagio Aparthotel, they have them all over Europe. We had an apartment, would sleep 4 comfortably, with a kitchen for £80/night, which I thought was pretty good. Sits somewhere inbetween travelodge and a regular 4* hotel I'd guess. I'll be keeping them in mind next time we're away somewhere.
They also provide very classy reading material :emoticon-0102-bigsm

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SW3 Chelsea Tiger said:
Cheers everyone ! Greetings from Puerto Morgan

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Went to Puerto Morgan in lets say 1998-lovely spot indeed. We were staying just up the road from there at a place called Anfi Resort courtesy of the owner. He was getting married to an ex neighbor of ours from South Cave. As a consequence there were many attending from the Hull Area. It was a very fancy wedding. Of note, I was walking down to the wedding and the groom was being picked up in the grooms Rolls Royce (which had a gold plated front bumper) by the best man who turned out to be Tor Hyerdahl of Kon Tiki fame.
 
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SW3 Chelsea Tiger said:
After a chat with a travel agent, we have ruled out Cape Verde after he advised not leaving the hotel complex. **** that !!

So we have booked Puerto Morgan in Gran Canaria, known as Little Venice for all its canals. It looks stunning, have any of you visited there?
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I've been monitoring this thread with interest, and agree as per your previous comment that Not606 City board is better than Google for these things.
As such I've just booked to go to Puerto de Mogan on Tuesday.

We now need to find somewhere decent for new years eve.
 
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