Arrived back home on 30th June 2004 after a super 14 day stay on the island of Thassos.

We stayed at the Anna Beach apartments in limenaria having booked through Kosmar holidays.The owners, Dimitri and Tanya were very friendly and the accomadation was clean and tidy. The apartments were loacated on the beach front,however the beach in Limenaria is probably one of the poorest on the island.

Our only real gripes about the holiday was the very cramped apartment we had to put up with for our stay,whilst being modern it could only be described as compact and you had to climb 62 steps to reach our room on the fourth floor.Air conditioning was avaliable at 5 euros per day. I really could not get excited about limenaria, the resort is very commercialised and the restuarant owners do their utmost to get you into their premises.

Well those were the bad points, now for the good bits;

We had visited Thassos in 2002 and stayed in Potos,whilst we loved the resort we didn't rate our accommadation( Villa Keti).Our immediate task on our first evening on the island was to visit our friends George and Theo who run the Cafe Bar Anonym on the front at Potos. As ever they made us welcome throughout our 14 day stay, if you do get the chance call in and see them, they are always polite and treat you very well. The bar is well used by the locals and is one of the few bars that remains open all year round.

As many of you are aware there are many lovely beaches on the island,our favourites were Psilli Amos, Potos,
Alikes and Trypitti. We made our first visit to Paradise beach but it wouldn't figure in our list of "must visit" beaches when we return next year.

We hired 90cc scooters(brand new) from a shop in Potos for a week and they were more than adequate for my wife and I to ferry our 2 teenage daughters around the island. Hire cost including insurance for the week was 70 euros each, unleaded fuel costs 80 cents(51 pence) per litre !!.

There are good restuarants to eat at in Limenaria and Potos.

In limenaria we could recommend Asterais on the main promenade and Costas on the front by the harbour. In Potos our favourites were "Zoom"(situated ion the main road in the centre of the village) and "Taverna Irene" located on the sea front next to the "Boomerang Bar"

As previously stated we will all be returning in June, 2005. We have been able to view apartments in Potos which we will book ourselves together with flights to Kavala.The overall saving compared to booking through a tour operator is minimal(Its not the accommadation its the flights which cost the real money when travelling independently) but at least you know what you are getting and there are no hidden costs.

We thoroughly enjoyed our holiday but would suggest that limenaria is not the best place on the island to stay unless you intend to use it as a base.