I am glad you had such a wonderful time darren, you see us Travel Agents do have our benefits sometimes.
Here’s your original Post.
Your services are required - I want to get a weeks break from 14 - 21 October 2006, I am flexible with the days, providing it doesn’t move towards the school holidays which I believe, is the week after. I will be travelling by myself (yes, I know I’m billy no mates) and I am not bothered where.

Now the tricky criteria:

- Under £250 for flight and room only or B&B accommodation
- Walking distance to the beach
- Sunny weather
- Ideally no single room suppliment
- Ideally airport transport included (not fussed about plane food)
- Interesting places to visit - sights, and attractions
- Where speaking English isn’t going to be a problem
- 2 to 4 hours flight time

I want the type of holiday where I can sit on the beach, with a book and my iPod, and relax on an evening in a bar with a cold beer (or two) - basically I want to unwind. Would it be best to wait nearer the time or book something now - do you have any suggestions? Please help!

Sounds like we came up with the exact Criteria you were looking for, and all it took was a two minute posting on travel-rants compared to hours and Hours of trawling the internet.

I Wonder would you have found your paradise Holiday on the Internet? At Select World Travel we firmly believe in trying to matchthe Right destination and resort to that person or family, We’re not perfect and the World’s a massive Place, So we’re glad you enjoyed Mastichari so much.
Did you meet Tony and Maria at the Kali Kardia, Or Ilios the Travel Agent. I hope they remembered us?

[...] I’ve been on some great trips this year, visiting the Lake District, Prague, Paris and the Greek Island of Kos. I’m working my way through a list of destinations that I just have to visit before I’m 40! I’ll be 34 (I know I don’t look it!) in February 2007, so only six more years to go, and over 20 destinations on my list. [...]

Can’t really add to that other than the choice of eating places -it’s all down to personal taste ! Stayed in Karadonis - it hits all the spots!
Mastichari is superb - gives you all the options without the tattooed beer monsters. A totally great place to unwind - and if it gets too popular, I haven’t got a clue where else to run!
Pity - on a package tour - that it’s only Manos that goes into Mastichari - since the take-over by MyTravel the choice has diminished and the cost has gone through the roof, metaphorically speaking. A bit of competition wouldn’t go amiss, just to keep them on their toes !

I guess we’re fortunate in my having been all over the world since the sixties - I’d love to return to some ( and miss others by half a continent or so) - but Greece ticks all my boxes.
We’re using our holidays to spot our eventual “place to live” when I can afford to pack in work and decamp to Greece permanently.
Mastichari was always on our “must return” conversational list - and Kos is pretty good all round, too. It’s not all “Kardamena and chips”!
But Mastichari - great to unwind, friendly people, access to Kalymnos, Bodrum ( a great day out for both purchasers of copy designer stuff (that will fall apart on the first wash!) and culture vultures to compare the differences (and certain similarities) of Greek life and Turkish life combined with an excellent museum in the castle), watching the sun set over Kalymnos with the obligatory cold Mythos/Heineken prior to excellent food!
And no tattooed beer monsters looking for John Smiths and a “good karaoke” - now there’s an oxymoron - “good karaoke” !
Just friendly, hospitable Greek people well versed in the phiosophy of “filoxenia”.

I really need help guys me and my boyfriend are going on holiday to kardamena this june and he seem’s to think that we will need more than £300 for the both of us, is it expensive out there? and is he right?

Having been to mastihari on several occasions. we have tried most of the eateries and found to our taste and my palate the tasty palace is the best as the accomodate the fussy eaters like me. The appartments adjacent to the resturant are cleaned every day beds changed every other day and the owner is really pleasant are all of the family. we have staed at maria parvaki.s rooms again lovely and clean and the family are really nice to stay with. if we cant get te tasty palace accomodation we stay with them. We are of to get our mastihari fix in june this year(08) , the comment about no tattooed beer monster is very apt for mastihari. ( long may it continue)

with all the typos is my last posting i feel a mastihri calling me to calm my nerves, and relax my mind