If,like my wife and myself, you look for a quiet "off-season" holiday,you should avoid the Admiral-the sister hotel,the Captains,looks much quieter. Five of us (all adults) chose to go on the 20/09/01 because we thought all the school kids would be back in school.,but received a nasty surprise when we got there to find loads of school-kids (some quite old),almost all extremely noisy and very bafdly-behaved. We were in room 412 and 414 in the annexe. The rooms are good,the cleaners are fantastic,but the level of noise is unacceptable. Where were the parents of the 11-12 year olds hanging around the pool up to 2 or 3 int eh morning (on one occasion breaking bottles!)? If you have the misfortune to be in one of the rooms facing the pool/bar (another sourcqw of noise)take a tip: rent a fan (700 Drachmas pernight) and close BOTH doors,that way the yob-noise level is completely obviated. I would go to Argassi again,but never again to the Admiral.

Both the Ilision and the Eleana are slightly off the main drag and therefore thankfully unlikely to attract "Manchester Man". They are proper Greek taverna type restaurants and hence the ambience is much better than those pandering to those who want "English Nosh". The Tuesday "Greek Night" in the Ilision is good, but at the slight expense of the food being less good.(Should-nt every night be a "GReek Night"?-we are in Greece after all!)

Took advice from the web-site and toured the island by coach-can't remember which one, but know that it was run by T.E.Z. It was 5,000 Drachma each which included a lovely lunch in the tiny village of Axo Hora-first class coach driver (felt very safe)called Dimitres and the guide was Joanna. An excellent and throroughly recommended way of seeing the island-as it also allowed you ro stop for a boat ride out to the Blue caves.

Without doubt Argassi's best restaurant-no pandering to the "egg n' chips" brigade-excellent food,especially the stifado and the moussaka,service as good as the best.

Promised free bottle of wine did not materialise when we said that we preferred red wine to white.Service was noticeably cool after that. Wife wanted a rare steak,but both came on the well-done side of medium!