My husband and I have just returned from spending two weeks at Golden Beach in Thassos. We stayed at the Dionysus Hotel which I do believe was one of the best Hotels in Golden Beach, the view was literally out of this world. When we arrived, we went out onto our balcony and it was stunning, totally peaceful, all we could hear was a nightingale. There is a bit of a hill to climb which actually isnt too bad. They do run a minibus back from the beach 3 times a day, which is good when you have all your beach stuff.

The hotel had extra little things that really made a difference e.g. fridge, fan and one of the best things was the mosquito screens on the door and loo window. I had read quite a lot of the comments people had said from last year, which was the problem with Mosquitos (so we had bought a net!) but we did not have any problems at all (we did spray liberally though). But we do know that other people had major problems. The young woman that worked at Dave's Bar got 100 bites one night and had to spend the following day in bed as she felt so ill. We tended to eat early though, so we were usually at the bar in the Hotel at about 11pm.

We mainly ate at either Vigli or Fedra in the evening. We got a 10% discount at Vigli (as it is associated with Dionysus Hotel). Food there was excellent. Fedra was also very good but the service was diabolical!!

The beach at Golden Beach was good. The week before we arrived there had been quite a lot of rain, so the temperature was great when we arrived. When we went down to the beach there were jelly fish everywhere which was rather off putting. We spoke to the Thomson Rep, Katie, who said that they were the non stinging variety. The only ones you need to worry about were the ones with purple veins (which we saw two). They did clear up over the week though and by the time we left we only saw the odd one or two. It was quite shallow in some places and deep in other places. The only down side was the amount of cigarette butts in the sand (I smoke but I pick mine up)so I wish other people would do so as well, we often saw other english couples leaving empty coke bottles etc when they left which was also not very thoughtful.

If you want a relaxing holiday with not much going on then this is the ideal holiday. It was just what we wanted as we hadnt had a holiday for 3 years. We will definately go again and to the same hotel but would probably hire a car for a couple of days. We were told you can drive right around the island in approx 2 hours.

We were a bit concerned about the transfer time, but it was about 20 minutes from the airport to the port, 35 mins by ferry (which was a nice break actually) and then 20 minutes the other side. It was far nicer than spending and hour and a half on a coach. All in all we would recommend it highly.