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Old Aug 25, 2019, 6:06 am
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KLouis
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Heraklion, Greece
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Sometime in the early 90s G.A. Ferries started a daily ferry service Piraeus-Heraklion. To beat the competion (ANEK and Minoan), they advertised heavily the night clubs on board and the swimming pools. The latter were never filled with water while there were very few passengers visiting the former (with an arrival time around 5:30 am, no wonder). I think they stopped the service after a couple of months or so. At any rate, the boats' names such as Romilda, Milena, Dimitroula and a few more stayed in the minds of most Greeks as the apotheosis of unreliable ferry service, though there was a vocal minority that simply loved them!

PS For Greek speakers I found a rather interesting article on G.A. Ferries' owner, Capt. Makis Agoudimos. Even if not all true, it is well conceived!
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