Hi, we've never been to greece before, and are going to alykanas beach village on 20th october for a week. can anyone tell me what the temperature is likely to be then, and if we will still need the air con? we are booked into a studio and have 2 teenage daughters, any info gratefully received thanks sheila

our favourite restaurant in alykanas, visited there 4 times in the week 20th-28th october, which was the last week of their season, so all meals had 10% off, which was an added bonus. excellent food, lovely friendly waiters who all go the extra bit to amke you feel welcome.

we arrived back on 28th october, had a week staying at alykanas beach village. Everything is now open, supermarket on site for essentials, nice lady in there, snack bar open 8am to 6pm with a good range of hot and cold food, reasonably priced, and againn a lovely lady working in there. The apartments were fabulous, and in our opinion well deserving of the 4 star status. Everything new and clean, maids came in every day, loo roll supplied too! electric kettle and toaster as well as combi microwave. fabulous hard new beds, which i needed with a dodgy back! we were on the top floor in the middle, looking from the balcony at the beautiful mountains, and to the right at the sea. Although it was the last week of the season there was still activites/entertainment on 4 nights we were there. The pools are lovely, and huge. Reception service was good too, although they still charged 50 euros to keep the room on until our middle of the night departure, even though no-one else was coming into it! but it didn't spoil the week, which we just loved. The beach is awesome, the water beautiful and shallow for miles it seems. favourite eating place was the Posiedon, lovely food, plenty of it too, fab waiters and service really friendly place. second fave was La Caretta followed by Mantelana. Ate once at Neraida restaurant, food was nice, but spolt a bit by the very mangey cat that was practically attacked us for food, it looked like it was full of disease!. I would recommend these apartments to anyone, no complaint at all, in a fantastic location. Car hired for 3 days from Peppas, who were excellent and very reasonably priced, would also recommend Mr. Peppas. any question about this resort or apartments you can email me on usedtobedo15@aol.com i've been back 24 hours and have already booked for another week at the beginning of july 2003!

went 20/28th october,not a drop of rain all week, couple of days in the 80's and other days mid 70's. It was gorgeous. cooler in the evenings, but not cold. think we picked the best week, especially in view of the gales in england!