Holiday advice please! Somewhere quiet and sunny?

[RobM77]

After two years of UK holidays, which have all been fantastic but cold and almost always wet, I really fancy a holiday with some sun and dry weather. A friend of mine has two weeks off in July, and we were thinking of going somewhere for a week or so. Could anyone recommend anywhere sunny, quiet (for me that means no chavs, high rise hotels, screaming children or rows of sunbeds) and with good snorkeling and walking? That's all we want really - scenery, sea (with stuff in it to look at) and sun.

Any ideas?

[oldbanger]

Gozo?

We went a few years ago and it was absolutely lovely (well apart from the hotel - which appears to have changed its name now, probably due to all the bad reviews). We stayed in Xlendi Bay and the St Patrick's Hotel on the seafront there seemed pretty good. The Maltese Islands are also a great place if you enjoy vintage truck spotting as well. Most of the tourists we encountered were Italians, as well.

http://www.islandofgozo.org/

[RobM77]

oldbanger said:

Gozo?

We went a few years ago and it was absolutely lovely (well apart from the hotel - which appears to have changed its name now, probably due to all the bad reviews). We stayed in Xlendi Bay and the St Patrick's Hotel on the seafront there seemed pretty good. The Maltese Islands are also a great place if you enjoy vintage truck spotting as well. Most of the tourists we encountered were Italians, as well.

http://www.islandofgozo.org/

We went there four years ago and did't really enjoy it I'm afraid. The snorkeling was very poor, with most of the sea access points too deep and rough for snorkeling, other than one freezing cold cove which we needed to get to before breakfast in order to enjoy it without screaming kids everywhere dive bombing off the rocks constantly. Xlendi Bay had good access, but alas very poor snorkeling and it was very busy in July. The scenery was also very barren and unnattractive. I'm not keen on going back.

Thanks for your thoughts though!

[Cotty]

Not sure of snorkeling and walking but I have just done a weekend in Murcia, Spain.
Quiet, lots of residential properties, largest building was our hotel (5 floors) most of the buildings were 2/3 storys, few resturants bars etc Warm apart from it rained one day
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&xhr=t&...

Hotel
http://www.alpharooms.com/costa_narejos_in_los_alc...
Good for golf if you play

Edited by Cotty on Tuesday 31st May 21:01

[RobM77]

Thanks for the suggestions. I thought I'd just post to say that we've booked a week in a villa in Ithaca, which is an island off the coast of Kefalonia.