Real Motivation Blog

LOTS TO OFFER in 2008

Gosh, things are taking off over here (I'm in Crete, remember).  Here is just a sample of what is going on next year.

WINTER RETREATS...just ideal to take you into Spring, out of the depths of post Christmas credit card blues and panic.

BEWARE CAR RENTAL in ABERDEEN

I have very happily returned to this paradise island after a week in Aberdeen, North East Scotland.  I had some business to complete, best done in person, but I needed transport.  Rent a Car.  I already did the research here in my office in Crete, and identified what seemed to be a great deal.4 or 5 days.Aberdeen Airport branch of a particular company  When I arrived in Aberdeen, I telephoned the chosen car hire company...........I should have taken the warning then!!......only to be told there were no cars available, end of conversation!  Goodbye.  Not to be beaten, I telephoned again and asked when there would be a car available.  Not rocket science (maybe it was actually).  They had to ring me back.  OK, tomorrow, and I would get a train, bus and taxi (there is NO easy way to get to Aberdeen Airport, the oil capital of Europe) and collect the car before 9 a.m.  I confirmed it was the minimum cost option as described on the web-site.  Yes I was told.  Great.

So next morning, off I went in the pouring freezing rain, still dark at 7.30 a.m. (its a 30 mile trip, so yes it does take an hour and a half, and I was only two minutes from the train station too.!) I get to the airport at 9a.m.
Pleasant young man, supervised by a bossy young blonde who delighted in making it obvious he was new to the job.  Poor guy.  Little did he know what he was letting himself in for.