"No row (yet)" day Friday 10/10/2003

Had a great time, you get some fantastic views of the Island that you would never see otherwise. How they get the Land Rovers through some of the small villages beats me. Lovely water from the wells but not sure about the giant and his horse!

Sorry, forgot to rate everything as EXCELLENT on my last comment!

Just got back from a week's holiday (6-11/10/2003) at the Zante Star.
The whole setup is brilliant! The apartments are spotlessly clean and the bedding and towels were changed regularly. The pool area is excellent with a nice mix of sunny and shady areas depending on your mood.

The bar is very spacious with Sky television on a large screen and a decent pool table (could do with a new set of balls though!).

The events were a pool competition and a "games" night (quiz and race game) which were well attended. The Greek night on Saturday was cancelled since there was the little matter of a football match taking place (Turkey vs England).

There are 2 cute dogs called Louis and Zak (Zak is just a puppy) - they are generally very placid but watch out for your shoelaces!

All the staff have a great attitude and if we ever go back to Tsilivi we would not consider stopping anywhere else.

Many thanks to Yanni and Tracy for a great place to stay.

PS Irina the barmaid is gorgeous and has a great sense of humour.

Sorry to disagree with most of you - but I think this place is very overrated. The food was better and cheaper almost everywhere else that we ate.

For the record, my friend had the "garlic swordfish" (tasteless he thought) and I had the "Briam" (I am vegetarian). My first course of saganaki arrived still in the aluminium foil it was obviously cooked in - I expected better than that for the elevated price. The house wine wasn't that good either.

My 4 recommendations for an alternative are:
Popeyes (so good there was always a queue outside waiting to get in)
Ariadnes (you can get a free bottle of wine with the coupon on their website)
Athena (offering a free glass of wine each to get you in)
The place on the right of Ozzys bar looking from the outside(I can't remember it's name) was pretty good too, but we did get 15 euros off for winning the quiz at Ozzy's the night before.