Sometimes, just sometimes you get a good feeling about what you do for a living.
As a tour guide, I often wonder about how other countries stack up with Israel in tourism.
Well, folks, Greece gets a big D-.
Quite frankly, it’s a beautiful country that seems to do its best not to give service.

Let’s start with the hotel. No air-conditioning in the lobby. Rooms that are in need of repair and doors that don’t open. Charging guests for water in the dining room. That’s right. If you don’t buy bottled water, they take the glass off your table!
No driver-guides. We had a tour guide for Lindos in Rhodes and she didn’t go up to the Acropolis there with us because “it was too hot.”
Trails not marked.
Almost no signs anywhere in the old city of Rhodes.
In short, you really don’t appreciate something ’till you see another place.
I’m not surprised that their economy is on the ropes and causing great concern to all of Europe. A strong work ethic doesn’t seem to shine here.
Since I’ve seen little of other countries on the Mediterranean, I really think we do a great job in Israel.
I’ll give you the hotels are pricey, but remember-when you pay peanuts, you get monkeys to do the work.

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