Beach or pool??

[Bruce]

The Pool, there is too much of a walk from the beach to the bar at the Mirage,
Lie on a sunbed at the Mirage and you still get all the sounds and sights of the beach, with your drinks delivered

Yours
Sulking because I still have 12 weeks to wait

[sue]

definatley the pool.
but i like the beach just watching people

[Eggy]

Beach or Pool eh!?
Right now we wouldn't mind either way. We've been here just about 2 months now and haven't had a chance to make a choice.
7.30 evening here now and I've just finished a pretty damm good set of cupboards/bookshelves.
Maybe "Thetis" tomorrow though as Spiros has offered to cook something if we're there.
I reckon August is "holiday time for us "
Cheers
Negg

[Lindypops]

Hiya eggy. I bet the shelves are lovely, you know I like wood etc. My daughter`s b/friend teaches same, and I am very envious. Sorry, of the woodwork, not the b/friend,lol. August sounds good!! Have a gr8 time. Carry on the good work.

[martin-w]

Hi all!
Definitely the beach. The water is sooooh inviting and usually like getting into a bath compared to British resorts! You can walk out a long way before he water gets deep enough to swim, just fantastic. Pools have chlorine and are much cooler!

[patrickjohn]

Hi
Beach or Pool.  For me the beach wins every time.  Just love the beach in Arillas especially the north end.
But best of both worlds is a day on the beach and on return (after taking a shower of course), a short dip in the pool, which is both refreshing, and if any sand is lurking where it shouldn't, does a better job than the shower.

That's me in the pool at the Horizon.
Regards
PJ

[Eggy]

PJ said
But best of both worlds is a day on the beach and on return a short dip in the pool which is both refreshing and if any sand is lurking where it shouldn't does a better job than the shower.

So you're the one who leaves all that sand in the Horizon pool. Wait till I tell Marino.
Negg

ps - I hope your speedos on on under that water!

[justlynn]

Well, as I am here now for the first time, I can confirm I made the right choice when I voted for the beach!  Typing this from the Mirage, which is my favourite pool (for washing the sand off.... whoops!) 
Eggy, not sure if that was you we saw at the Mirage the other afternoon or not???
You were all right about Arillas - it is FABULOUS!!!
lynn x

[Eggy]

Lynn & Colin
I confess that I have never been in the Mirage in all the time it's been open.
But..... I will be around the Coconut Bar around 3.30 pm if ll goes to plan.
As you're in Arillas now let me wish you a continuing happy holiday.
What a pleasant day it's been, has it not.
Cheers
Negg

[Lindypops]

Wish I was there Eggy!

[justlynn]

Hi Eggy,
Whoops, I meant did I see you at the Malibu, not the Mirage!!!
Although I don't think it was you now that I've taken another look!
May see you at the Coconut Bar today then, all being well.
Lynn & Colin

[patrickjohn]

Hi All especially Eggy, Lynn & Colin
Think we are all on the same beach/pool wavelength, but whatever your choice its allways just great to be swimming somewhere around Arillas.
For Eggy confirm that I was wearing my Speedos for the Horizon picture, but don't hold me to that if you wander up to the north beach.
Must work out how people do those tickers - am counting down to May 2008.
Best wishes to all Arillas fans
PS (?why do Thomson only use one L in their brochures/websites about Arillas?)
PJ

[James W]

Despite residing next to the pool at Rainbows, my wife and I went to the beach.

We preferred the more relaxed, and less commercial North part.

I did 'borrow' some Sun-Loungers a couple of days, and took them about 200 metres past the "Falling Rocks" sign. I did return them afterwards.

I didn't wear Speedos. In fact, I encouraged other beach users to enter the water, when they realised I had just a tan on.    My wife remained a "Textile"

We witnessed some Germans next to us, coating themselves in the "Green Mud"

[patrickjohn]

Hi
I think James has got it right.  The north end is definately the place for my wife and I.  Like Mrs 'James' my wife prefers to remain a textile (don't like that name but have not heard a better one), and I prefer to lose my Speedos for the pleasure of a complete sun and sea experience.
Our plan is to buy a couple of rush mats and umbrellas from Ina's on day one, and sometimes gather extra ones from the many which are abandoned on the north shore.
Bet James you wish you were back in Arillas now the British weather is breaking up.
ATB
PJ

[Sandy x]

I always leave a mat down on the beach, rolled up behind a rock, and this year a very nice Danish couple donated their umbrella to me when they went home....so I left that down there each day as well. I've never bothered before but with the poor summer in the UK I think I would have frazzled this year on the beach all day. The other thing I do is put a few small water bottles in the freezer compartment of the fridge at night - and I have a supply of cold water all day on the beach. Cheese, olives, tomato and melon and sometimes a  bottle of retsina and I'm set up for the day. I got through 6 books in August....paradise.