Ok then, I'm shipping out four weeks from tomorrow to Lanzarote! And I won't be back until at least November 1st! Woohoo!!!

Not sure if I update people before, but because of the skills they perceived in me and how I interviewed, they actually offered me a better position with one of their luxury brands as a "Specialist Concierge". This means 24hr phone availability (with company phone, and only for 5.5days a week), more money, a company vehicle and that I will be personally looking after guests in different hotels and/or villas possibly in different areas of the island.

These are the villas, and frankly I think they look amazing:

http://www.meonvillas.co.uk/villas/Spain/Lanzarote

And here's an example of one of the hotels:

http://www.sovereign.com/hotel/6400

Very, very excited! Although I now have a ton of stuff to get organised in a very short space of time.

Having taken a little advice from Rachel in TUI HR (who is very chatty and has been in Majorca for the last 3 summers) on things she thinks I'll want whilst there, so far I'm thinking (in no particular order):
Purchase summer clothes and pack 40kg of them and other things into two bags
Purchase camera of some kind
Purchase mp3 player of some kind
Purchase portable HDD to stick all my 260gig of music on, plus some TV and movies to keep me occupied on the evenings when according to Rachel I "just won't want to go out, again".
Purchase some proper shaving stuff, coz if I have to shave everyday, I want some good stuff.
Either sell, or loan my car to someone as it can't sit around all summer, that's no good for it.
Organise any appropriate insurance situations.
Cancel phone contract and decide whether to port number to PAYG or whatever.
Organise all of my belongings and bin/give away anything I don't need.
Once I'm down to the stuff I have to keep, find somewhere to put it (hopefully parents, but don't know if they have room).
Pack up PC, BD Player, TV, speakers, two amps, CD player, MD player, switch, cabling etc. etc. and find somewhere to put it all, sell it, or loan it to someone I can trust.
Move out of the work flat by my last day of work, which is March 12th and find somewhere to sit tight until the Thursday.
Try to see all the people that I actually give a crap about and maybe organise some sort of leaving do.
Sort out a Nationwide account so that I can withdraw money for no charge (assuming they still do that).

I'm probably missing things, so any thoughts, or advice, would be very much appreciated!

Have you been to Lanzarote before? It's quite, barren.

Congrats fella!

If you're shaving every day, I can recommend some Geo. F. Trumper's Coconut Oil shaving soap with a decent brush. You'll balk at the cost initially, but it'll last you ages and give you a great shave. And some decent aftershave balm work wonders post shave too.

Not in Carmen it isn't - just about every second building was a nightclub IIRC.

I haven't, and yeah it's a whole lotta lava. But I've been doing a lot of reading and in the last couple of hours and it looks stunning to me. Plus when I heard, I thought it had a bad rep, but apparently it's now considered the most up market of the Canaries, which lines up with the brand I'll be working for.



Thanks man! This is exactly the sort of thing I was thinking, but I can't afford to go nuts. Will definitely be getting a decentish brush and some post shave balm, just have to do some more reading. I'll look into Trumper's thanks.

I was refering to flora, not fauna.

I liked Lanzarote, the lack of high rise make it nicer than most Spanish resorts.
You can do most tourist things in a week though.

Congratulations dude - have fun!

Sell/offload everything you can before heading out. Less to worry about while you're out there.
Well done on getting the job.

Mark

No advice, just congrats

Excellent, sounds great!

Condoms. You forgot condoms.

Of Joey from Friends quantities.

I have been to Lanzarote a couple of times – a friend has a couple of apartments in the old part of the town – a lot nicer than the new “Nightclub & Vomit” end of town. Having said that it is better than most.

If you have been reading up then you will have found all of the main tourist spots – defiantly worth visiting
- The Volcano
- César Manrique's house
Its thanks to him that it is not full of high rise apartments

OH and something else (un less you speak it) take some Spanish lessons on mp2 etc with you and learn the lingo

I am so going to visit the Volcano, no matter what people say.