We've just got back from the Tassia studios and have had one of the most enjoyable, relaxing holidays ever. Costas (who owns it)and his family work really hard to keep the place so clean and tidy and are really friendly too. The apartments are immaculate, but basic and have a hob and a large fridge. We had our room serviced and clean towels every other day. I would definately take a bath towel though, as the towels supplied are a bit on the small side (but like the rep said the Greeks prefer to use small towels to dry themselves). Before we went to the Tassia, we thought the distance to Laganas would be a problem, as some people made it sound as if it was in the middle of nowhere, but in fact Laganas is one long street and the Tassia is at the beginning of it with the beach at the end. We walked it once and it took us 25 minutes to reach Laganas, but I wouldn't recommend walking it in the dark, as there are no pavements or lighting until you reach Laganas and anyway we used taxi's, which Costas phoned for us and cost around 5 euros each way, which isn't much. The food at the pool bar is gorgeous and has a good range at a good price (my favourites were the mousaka and spaghetti carbonara). Just down the road is the Palataki supermarket, which has everything you will need and they are really friendly too and opposite that is the Palataki restaurant, which was really nice, one of the nicest meals we had in Laganas. Just remember to take your earplugs as one of the waitresses is a bit on the loud side and when she brought our drinks over she shouted "YAMMAS", we all jumped a mile! The Tassia in our opinion is in a great location as you can have peace and quiet and enjoy yourself at the pool bar, where we spent many a night drinking Costas' cocktails and jugfulls of his dad's homemade wine (which by the way is like rocket fuel!!) or you can go into Laganas and party until dawn. Every Tusday Costas has a Greek BBQ night, we went on our first week. We paid 5 euros each and got a platefull of traditional Greek food and a glass of rocket fuel, which was lovely and then his nieces and nephews took it in turn to do Greek dances, it was a really nice night. The Tassia is the first stop-off after the airport, so your only on the coach for about 5 minutes, which is also a bonus. All in all we had an excellent time at the Tassia Studios and Martin and I plan to go again sometime next year.

Hayley, Martin, Janine , Robin, Myley and Dot. (12th-26th July 2004)

Just got back from two weeks in Laganas, it was a great holiday, gutted to be back home though, but we are definately going back next year. Laganas is fantastic, there are some really good bars and clubs and drinks are reasonably priced. Laganas beach is really long and narrow =crowded, so you might be better off heading down to Kalamaki beach, which was lovely. There is a water park now that was built last november, its about 20 minutes from Laganas. I think tour operators have trips to there, but they charge 25 euros and if you go with your own transport it only costs 16. If you go after 2.30 in the afternoon its only 10!, thats what we did and it's plenty of time to get all the slides and stuff in before the park closes at 6, as theres a lazy river and 7 slides, thats it! Zante town is nice and has some nice harbourside restaurants. There are some nice restaurants in Laganas, we enjoyed Acropolis, Lokanda, Family taverna, Dallas, Bollero and Palataki. There are also some right dives that are mingin' and totally rip you off, so be carefull!!(like the chinese and indian restaurant on Kalamaki road and Chinatown on the main strip!) We hired a quad bike to get around Laganas, which was great fun and cost us 85 euros for 3 days (the price goes down the longer you hire it). I went with my boyfriend and we spent £1000 between us, although we wern't on the pop everynight, i would say you will need about £400 for a week and £700 for a fortnight. I'd heard a lot of horror stories about Zante airport, but let me confirm.........IT'S AN ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE!!!! Our flight was for 07.30 and we were picked up from our apartments at 04.00, we got to the airport and were greeted with about 400 people all in different lines and then dumped there by the rep to stand for nearly 2 hours, whilst they only let in 30 people at a time as the airport only has 4 check-in desks and 4 gates!! What fun! Once your inside you think it is all behind you, you'd better think again, you have to queue for the check-in, then they herd you like sheep back on yourself to passport control and then finally into the departure lounge. Here, you have to fight your way through people to find a little piece of floor to sit on (as you've been standing so long your ankles swell up like mine did!!) as there are about 20 chairs. I'm just thankful that i didn't have a midday flight. Although there have been some improvements, as i overheard one women say that last year there wasn't even any shade from the sun, but now there are two big canopies out the front of the aiport. They are currently extending the airport but that could take years, they havent even managed to complete the olympic stadium in Athens in time, so what hope is there for Zante airport!!! BUT that won't stop me from going to Zante again next year!

Be prepared....VERY HOT!!! We went 12th-26th july, the first week was around 36 c, and a little cloudy, which was nice as you got a little break from the sun, the second week was absolutly redders! saturday the 24th our apartment owner Costas took his thermometer into shade at 5 in the afternoon and recorded 35c and then put it in sunlight and it got as far as 45c before he removed it before it exploded!! Don't go in July if you don't like the heat.