A few pics of our sailing holiday in Greece
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Hi,
I thought you might appreciate these so I've posted a few photos up. We stayed at the Retreat in Sivota in Greece for the first week, then went on Flotilla for the second week. My girlfriend and I had a 2009 Dufour 325. It was mostly wonderfully sunny but we had a horrible thunderstorm for 2 days aboard the yacht!
The resort....
I thought you might appreciate these so I've posted a few photos up. We stayed at the Retreat in Sivota in Greece for the first week, then went on Flotilla for the second week. My girlfriend and I had a 2009 Dufour 325. It was mostly wonderfully sunny but we had a horrible thunderstorm for 2 days aboard the yacht!
The resort....
Who did you charter this through?
I took my family on a sailing holiday out of Majorca the last 2 summers, with both my 16yr old daughter and I achieving RYA day Skipper during this year's holiday.
We are thinking about Greece for next summer, probably flotila as we are still pretty inexperienced, so a recommendation would be great.
Thanks
Alan
I took my family on a sailing holiday out of Majorca the last 2 summers, with both my 16yr old daughter and I achieving RYA day Skipper during this year's holiday.
We are thinking about Greece for next summer, probably flotila as we are still pretty inexperienced, so a recommendation would be great.
Thanks
Alan
weedram said:
Who did you charter this through?
I took my family on a sailing holiday out of Majorca the last 2 summers, with both my 16yr old daughter and I achieving RYA day Skipper during this year's holiday.
We are thinking about Greece for next summer, probably flotila as we are still pretty inexperienced, so a recommendation would be great.
Thanks
Alan
Yeah, of course. It was Neilson. We booked a week at The Retreat in Sivota. It looks out on the southern tip of Corfu. You can do either a learn to sail course there or a refresher, or just enjoy the resort. All included in the price is dinghy sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, water skiing, wakeboarding, scuba diving, as is all the training. The only thing you pay for are the yacht courses and day sails on the yachts. I took my family on a sailing holiday out of Majorca the last 2 summers, with both my 16yr old daughter and I achieving RYA day Skipper during this year's holiday.
We are thinking about Greece for next summer, probably flotila as we are still pretty inexperienced, so a recommendation would be great.
Thanks
Alan
The second week we did a transfer down south to the Nidri resort and sailing out from there. If we did it next time we would probably just stay up in the north. The transfer was relatively painless and was via taxi which was organised by the resort but it would have been easier to just sail from the Retreat in hindsight! I can't recommend the Retreat enough, it's fantastic! Food is excellent, staff are superb. My girlfriend has a nut and egg allergy and the restaurant manager personally came to find her each breakfast, lunch and dinner and showed her what she could and couldn't eat. He even made her special desserts.
Sorry, cut off mid paragraph, I’m at work!
The equipment was all brand new too and it was quality branded stuff, Laser dinghies, CWB wakeboards, Connelly ski’s etc. Plus there was never a shortage of equipment. My photo of the beach with all the dinghies on the beach is representative of how the beach was everyday! Not sure what it would be like in the height of summer though.
You can have a look through the rest of my photos here if you like: http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n16/bhgmarine/D... They give you an idea of what the yacht was like, and the resort. I would just make sure you get a modern yacht. Some of the old Moody’s were looking a bit tired, we had a 2009 Dufour 325 and it was lovely. Very clean inside and had all the facilities (except shore power), even had a good CD player with iPod input which was handy.
Also check out the Neilson forum. They have a forum on their website, it’s really basic but useful plus there’s a photo gallery.
The equipment was all brand new too and it was quality branded stuff, Laser dinghies, CWB wakeboards, Connelly ski’s etc. Plus there was never a shortage of equipment. My photo of the beach with all the dinghies on the beach is representative of how the beach was everyday! Not sure what it would be like in the height of summer though.
You can have a look through the rest of my photos here if you like: http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n16/bhgmarine/D... They give you an idea of what the yacht was like, and the resort. I would just make sure you get a modern yacht. Some of the old Moody’s were looking a bit tired, we had a 2009 Dufour 325 and it was lovely. Very clean inside and had all the facilities (except shore power), even had a good CD player with iPod input which was handy.
Also check out the Neilson forum. They have a forum on their website, it’s really basic but useful plus there’s a photo gallery.
You can see the resort here: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...
It shows the reef which goes from the hotel cliff face to the watersports beach on the little island opposite. Also the bays in which they keep the yachts (not shown on Google Earth though). The little island isn't that big, we kayaked round it in a couple of hours.
Accommodation consists of the main hotel block and several garden rooms scattered around. We had a garden room right at the top of the resort, about 200 steps to the beach! Fantastic views though so it was worth it.
It shows the reef which goes from the hotel cliff face to the watersports beach on the little island opposite. Also the bays in which they keep the yachts (not shown on Google Earth though). The little island isn't that big, we kayaked round it in a couple of hours.
Accommodation consists of the main hotel block and several garden rooms scattered around. We had a garden room right at the top of the resort, about 200 steps to the beach! Fantastic views though so it was worth it.
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