By Sophie Foster, Deputy Journey Editor For Mailonline
17:25 15 Jul 2024, up to date 18:05 15 Jul 2024
- Rob Adcock, a BBC presenter, shared the ‘absolute cut price’ on Instagram
- The Sofitel Agadir Thalassa Sea & Spa is located immediately on the seaside
- The journey professional claims critiques have been ‘glowing’ and booked to check the waters
- Do you suppose it is a nice deal or not? Scroll all the way down to vote in our ballot…
- READ MORE: Is it attainable to have a vacation overseas for £100 – in TOTAL? Sure!
Thought you’d by no means discover an unique African vacation spot within the vacation cut price bin? Suppose once more. A savvy traveller has revealed how he bagged a visit to Morocco for simply £186 – together with flights.
Rob Adcock, a BBC TV presenter and journey aficionado who posts to Instagram utilizing the deal with @robadcock, discovered himself ‘skimming via Skyscanner searching for low cost offers’ when he discovered a ‘good worth flight’ with Ryanair to Agadir in Morocco that piqued his curiosity.
The journey content material creator determined to have a look at resorts within the North African metropolis and located what he calls ‘an absolute cut price’ with an in a single day keep, three spa therapies and breakfast included for £270 for 2 folks.
Chatting with MailOnline Journey, Rob says: ‘I’m a fairly unhappy particular person, and every time I’m bored, I simply discover myself skimming via Skyscanner searching for low cost offers.
‘So when Morocco got here up and Agadir appeared like an excellent worth flight, I did some digging.’
‘At any time when I discover a deal, I often skim round to see what resorts are close by. We got here throughout the Sofitel. I checked the critiques, they usually have been glowing. Once I was trying via their web site (I have a tendency to do this relatively than utilizing third-party reserving websites), I seen that they had one thing that appeared like an absolute cut price.’
Now, it wasn’t totally plain crusing to get the deal, as Rob claims it ‘wasn’t the best course of’ to contact the lodge with ‘numerous calls and faffing round’. Nevertheless, he provides: ‘I’m so glad we persevered.’
He says the ensuing vacation was virtually ‘too good to be true’ and ‘exceeded his expectations’.
So low cost ‘it is disgusting’
In a video explaining the deal, Rob says: ‘I am sorry I have been gatekeeping this absolute worldy of a vacation. The worth to remain right here and have a spa day is so low cost it is really disgusting. Me and a mate stayed right here and it is modified our lives for the higher.’
Breaking down the price of the vacation, Rob tells MailOnline: ‘For the therapies, in a single day keep and breakfast, it was £135 every. Which, to me, is unreal. For that, you couldn’t even get a room in a bang-average lodge in some cities in England.
‘I don’t suppose you may argue with the worth.
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‘[The Ryanair flights were] £31 out, £20 again. It’s certainly one of their newer routes so it’s nonetheless actually good worth.’
He and his pal did not pay something for flight extras, including: ‘Relating to baggage, we solely took our Ryanair under-the-seat specials from EcoHub. I hate paying for baggage, so I do something I can to keep away from it. It’s simpler whenever you’re flying someplace sizzling for just a few days — it’s very uncommon I’ll want greater than the contents of one of many small luggage, anyway.’
It is definitely worth the lengthy journey
Flights from the UK to Agadir take just below 4 hours, however Rob claims it is price it.
He notes: ‘I don’t thoughts the lengthy flights. Yeah, it’s just a few hours, however life’s busy. So I’m blissful to not be contactable!
‘The early morning flight doesn’t trouble me, both, as a result of I simply compensate for sleep after I get there. Additionally, let’s face it, it’s not precisely tiring whenever you get there.’
Whereas on the lodge – the Sofitel Agadir Thalassa Sea & Spa – they loved stress-free within the spa and making an attempt out its quite a few therapies.
Rob remarks: ‘One was being lined in mud and put right into a machine that enveloped you and obtained heat. The opposite was a flowery sizzling tub, to all intents and functions, and the ultimate one was a therapeutic massage. I think about there are technical phrases for all of them. However I’d be mendacity if I mentioned I knew them.’
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Displaying off the resort, which boasts three swimming swimming pools, a bar, a seaside, three eating places, a health centre and spacious rooms, he feedback: ‘Think about having a naughty little cocktail down right here. A Hugo spritz when the solar’s setting.
‘It is proper on the seaside as nicely. They have their very own little bar down there and the spa is high quality. We went all in on the therapies and obtained all muddied up. Simply interested by it makes me tingle.’
Pointing at a trio of aqua bikes, Rob jokes: ‘It is actually form of them to try to make me really feel at house by chucking just a few disused bikes into the water. It is like I am again in Stoke-on-Trent.’
Rob explains that he cherished the lodge a lot that he eschewed his common behavior of sightseeing.
He provides: ‘It’s the primary time I’ve ever simply stayed in a lodge for just a few days. Normally, I’m up and round exploring – discovering out what it’s like in close by cities and cities.
‘However this place was so good – we simply used the spa and chilled by the pool. That’s actually out of character, however we advised ourselves we simply needed to chill out earlier than we left, so it labored out very well. We solely left the lodge to look at the soccer within the native bar. Excellent!’
