In addition, your leave cycle is started from when you arrive. The first leave was normally 17 weeks from in country date so you can forget christmas if you go out around september. You may be able to arrange it differently after that, if your section is happy to swap the dates, and the general manager is okay with it.
I can only give the company full marks for the way they treat compassionate cases, having had to return to the UK days after arriving back in Seeb. Tickets arranged and leave given over the weekend!
I believe there is new recreation facilities up at Seeb now. They were building a new beach club for us when I was leaving and I think there is a new gym and swimming pool there as well for the Airworkies.
The country is limited wet, in so far as it is tolerated, but the Concorde club at Seeb is a good wetting place, (you are accomodated at Maam camp, just a few clicks from the airport).