Amarillis Stable | Ιππασία - Εκδρομές με άλογα — Attraction in Municipality of Chersonissos

!!!DON’T GO HERE PLEASE!!!

We reserved a spot for this Tuesday the Saturday before. Paid the deposit and agreed to get picked up at our hotel.

We were waiting in front of our hotel, at the only entrance, 10 minutes before the agreed pick-up time (we are always early).

We waited and waited, yet no one showed up. One of us went to the reception while the other one waited out on the street, just to be sure we didn’t miss the guy picking us up. The guy at the reception told us no one reported or asked for us, also, no one showed up at the front gate of our hotel.

Then we got a call from a woman from Amarillo’s Stable stating we lost our spots because we were not at the gate of the hotel at the designated time. She was arguing on the phone we weren’t there (we were) and that “Nico” waited for us and also went to the reception and asked for us (he did not!). He was never there and never showed up, since we waited early and the receptionist told us no one from outside of the resort reported to the desk.

They took our deposit (30,- euros) and we won’t get it back. The woman on the phone was very rude. Easy money for this scam stable. No service, no attempt to even pick us up, they simply decided not to show up at all, yet they keep your money.

Later we learned today is a holiday on Crete and they will have a military parade on the island. That might have something to do with this stable not wanting to honor the agreement and also stealing our deposit with their lies. Cheap, scandalous and horrible people. If they treat customers this way I don’t even want to find out how they treat their horses. Don’t...

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