Travel & Tourism Rhodes Residential

Rhodes - Greece 2017

 

As first year students, we have a unit that evolves researching, planning and delivering a residential for both Travel and Tourism year 1 and 2 students, and we chose to go to Rhodes for this.

The Island of Rhodes is such a beautiful place with so many things to do. Here is just a small list of what we did:

 

Day 1 was a long day travelling and began at college at 4 o'clock in the morning! After many hours of travelling, we finally got to our accommodation, explored the local surroundings and went out for dinner at a local Greek restaurant where we ordered the most English things possible.....burger and chips.

Day 2 was our ‘Discover Rhodes’ tour where we explored both the new and old towns of Rhodes. We looked at the history of the island and discovered all of its beauty, walking along the harbour. After a quick bite for lunch, we continued through town and finally ended up at Ellis Beach where we chilled, played games and started on our tans.

 

Day 3 consisted of another little tour round to the castle of Rhodes in the old town and then we made our way round to the Thrones of Helios museum where we experienced a 9D cinema. The showing of the history of the island and how the Island of Rhodes came to be. As we watched the video, we suddenly started moving in the seats; up, down, left, right, forwards and backwards. Not only did we move, we also felt the scenery around us with materials that brushed by our legs. We also got to feel the climate, if it was hot and windy, we felt the wind, if it snowed we felt the snow. Not only was it informative, it was enjoyable.

 

Day 4 was a fairly chilled day. We made our way to the aquarium where we saw all types of strange sea creatures. After a rather short walk round the aquarium, we went to the beach, which just so happened to be right next to us. Whilst at the beach, we played a game of rounders, where you had to be quick or otherwise you burned your feet on the sand for standing still for too long. After a relaxed 4 hours at the beach, we had dinner and headed straight back out to ‘The Escape Room’ located within the Castle walls. We split into four groups and entered our rooms. The rooms were allocated as ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Monopoly’, ‘Casino’ and ‘Mechanism’ rooms. After an hour of trying to escape our rooms (which we all nearly completed) we took a slow stroll home looking at our surroundings and settled in for the night.

Day 5 was switch over day where we left our accommodation in Rhodes Town and moved over to Pefkos village. Once we arrived, we chilled at the poolside for a few hours and then headed out for dinner. We then arrived back at our hotel and played some card games.

 

Day 6 we travelled into Lindos where we walked up to the Acropolis and took a few group photos and watched the donkeys carrying up the lazy few people who didn’t want to walk! Once we made it back to the bottom and into the town we located the Byzantine church and explored round it for a little and read through the history of the artifacts that were exhibited. Once finished in the church we split off and found some lunch and looked round the town market for a few hours. After a good 6 hours in Lindos, we headed back to our hotel and went out for dinner.

 

 

 

 

 

                         

Day 7 we had planned to go to the Falaraki Waterpark, but unfortunately, we discovered that they were closed due to weather. We made a group decision to split off into two groups and had one half go to the beach for the day and the other half walked in and out of every shop on the way back to the hotel. We chilled at the pool side, had some lunch, played a few card games then all met up for a meal together.

After a glorious 7 days in Rhodes, we had to come home. We spent another long day travelling to the airport and made our way home. It is safe to say we all really enjoyed our time in Rhodes and if ever we were given the opportunity to go back, we would. It was historical, cultural, relaxing and enjoyable.