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don:

--- Quote from: JULES T on June 04, 2009, 12:07:13 AM ---Its such a special place as everyone is so friendly and the locals welcome you with open arms. No lager louts or speeding cars - a very relaxful place to be. The beach is lovely and clean and you have no worries abot the sea as it just gently shelves and you have to go a long way out before it gets high up your body.

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Latest from JULES SPELL CHECK "We do get Larger louts!"

Colin:
Driving down the Street in San Stef in my hired Jeep, the locals were waving and tooting at me, "that's nice" I thought, until I realised that I was driving the wrong way down a one way street  :-[ (true story)

SueLa:
LOL  Colin.

Last year we drove through the same village 3 times by mistake and each time the locals at the bar waved at us.

Zimmer:
Well it's entirely subjective,isn't it? And theres no accounting for that  ;)
Clearly a forum dedicated to it is hardly going to be negative nor, necessarily reflect views other than those held by dedicated Stefophiles.Of course there may be people out there who have never returned or not thought it particularly special.Maybe too quiet, too loud too boring ...whatever, you see what I mean?

From what I've read the place seems like a cross between Shangri La and Valhalla. I based my booking on the comments I found on Holiday Watchdog and Holidays Uncovered, I've rarely seen so much positivity and 10 out of 10's - clearly it has something going for it, the other factors were it's relative solitude,easy travel from where I live and within my price range

But, being a cynic,and just to play Devil's advocate for a moment,nothing more than that
The points made seem to be:

> "Local friendliness" - Well only in the UK do we seem to make a virtue of abusive chefs and intolerant hoteliers,why do we seem surprised that customer care is taken more seriously abroad. Clearly it's not in the village interest to be surly or stand-offish,and its a Greek trait to to be welcoming to strangers.It's not the locals that bother me so much as some of my fe;low Brits :) ;)

> "treated like family" - really? or made to feel at home...lol if I wanted to feel at home I'd stay at home lol.
Well I guess if you go three times a year for 25 years you will get recognised, but is that important? nice yes, but important?. Anyway this is a two way process,there are holidaymakers who are reserved and not naturally outgoing who may have difficulties forming friendships

> "Fantastic Tavernas" - well so have lots of places, I find it difficult to believe anything could beat the tavernas in Polis or Thassos but........

> "Great beaches" as above

At the end of the day it's what one wants from a holiday that makes it and whether the resort in question has enough of those factors to push the right buttons, whats right for me may not be right for you

So, when I arrive, I half expect to rose petals thrown at me, nubile young women to place garlands around my neck, and eat in Jamie Oliver like establishments at a fraction of the cost and woe betide if SS falls below raised expectations  ;D

ps my tickets have arrived

don:
Tickets arrived today .... All seems so much closer now!

Young Zimmer........... I think most of us post what we genuinely feel. I can only speak for myself when I say I don't post what I look on as the negative aspects of San Stef. The reason for this is my sense of fair play! There is one Taverna no one could tempt me to eat in as I have eaten there twice and had two bad meals. The Taverna in question is one of the most lauded in the village so I must be wrong!
I wouldn't say I overpraise the place. What I love is the lack of traffic, discos, PR people, Ingurland  and any other football shirts, drunks and the  high rise excesses of the most popular resorts.
I look forward to meeting you and hearing your opinion after a few days there.
We go from 26 June to 10 July and are seriously considering staying until 17 July.

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