TUI’s Robinson Club has lost one of its properties. The owner of the five-star Kalimera Kriti on Crete has cancelled his contract with the German group at short notice just before the planned summer season opening on April 24 following a legal dispute.
The hotel owner, the Maho Group, claimed it had not been informed properly about the insolvency of the club’s management company last July and only learned on April 8 that the hotel would not operate as a Robinson this year. But Robinson claimed it had made all legal payments connected to the insolvency and had assumed the club could operate normally this summer.
The hotel will operate this summer as a Helios Hotel instead. Some 3,500 bookings for the popular 408-room resort, which had been a Robinson Club resort since 2012, will need to be cancelled or re-booked to alternative hotels.
The loss of the Kalimera Kriti leaves TUI’s club brand with two properties in Greece, one on Kos and one on the mainland Peloponnese peninsula.
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