We have just returned from Tsilivi. Yet again we had many special evenings and wonderful meals in the fine company of Jan, Mike and their excellent staff. Nowhere compares for quality of meals and great service.

did someone say yiannis is homophobic? get out of here. i've known him for over fifteen years and can say he most definitely isn't. he may have sacked a g*y bar staff, but you can be sure it wasn't for being gay. yiannis sacks all of his staff at least once a day.

We just returned from another two weeks in Tsilivi and enjoyed many a great meal in the wonderful company of Mike, Jan and their staff. We can't believe some of the negative comments we've read on this page. We have spent enough time in this excellent restaurant over the past few years to know that they are really out of order. Sheila Prenderville, what's wrong with you that you need to be so spiteful? Mike's manner of service may not be everyone's cup of tea and the menu may not fulfil everyone's tastes, but you'll not get a bad meal here. Maybe one you don't like, but that's a different matter altogether. So if you want a safe, well cooked & reliable meal in a nice friendly atmosphere, Mikhalis is the place to be. And, what's all the fuss about Greek cuisine anyhow? Disgusting stodge, over-cooked veg and burned meat. Moussaka is just cottage pie without the mash and horrid greasy aubergines instead of veg.

We have just finished our second fortnight in Tsilivi this year and spent everyday visiting Theo at Cafe Romanza on the way to the beach. He has become part of our holiday. We have half a hour each day of fun and jokes over a frappe coffee and fries. Theo must be the only person left on the island who makes real chips - to order. No McCain's frozen stuff for him. We haven't even had real chips from the real Greek Tavernas out in the hills. Make at least one visit to Cafe Romanza and you will want to call back time and time again. It's not hard to find especially if you hire a bike or a car. Just take the coastal road out of Tsilivi past the Balcony Cafe and keep going until you start to descend the hill and there he is on your left in Akroteri.

I have just spent two weeks with my partner at the Spiros apartments at the North end of the village. They were not clean at all, the bedding was changed only once during the fortnight, after the first three days and then not again. The loo bins emptied every three or four days. The owner Anna was fairly hostile to any complaints. As far as the loo paper is concerned - we prefer to buy our own anyway, so it wasn't an issue for us. We didn't like it at all, apart from the location which was very nice. Everything in the shop below was at least 100 Drx more than any other supermarket and the choice extremely limited. It could be said that this is the end of the season and things start to fall off a bit, but there's never any reason for lack of cleanlisness in the rooms. I don't want to go on holiday and find that I have to clean my own room before it's inhabitable. I do expect to be responsible for helping to keep it clean to some extent during my stay. I would not recommend these apartments to anyone one. I'm not too impressed by Manos either.

Had it not been for the dirty rooms and the elusive holiday rep (the first we saw of her was on the pick up for departure), we would have enjoyed the holiday considerably. I think you need to develop a kind of tunnel vision to enjoy holidaying in Greece, to block out the bits that aren't so nice. However I can't extend that to dirty roooms.

We didn't intentionally stay at these apartments this Autumn. It was a mistake made by our booking company Holiday Hypermarket. When Spiros(Candita's - other end of village) came through on their computer as fully booked, the sales assistant found 'Spiros' through another channel operated by Manos and insisted that it must be the same place. It wasn't, and they're going to get a rather nasty letter from me.