Returned from Zak on 28 July 2004, and it was great-- really! The thing is to avoid the hot spots which are indeed packed with tattooed youf, mostly Brits we'd guess. Zakynthos Town was very good on the Saturday night -- bustly, friendly and fun -- with a good mix of Greeks and tourists and fine entertainment (we watched a pre-Olympic toga'd music drama set to Vangelis-style music) in the main square. The main shopping street has useful cloisters for cool shopping by day. The mountains are surprisingly quiet and remote for such a small island and thank goodness the UK's health-and-safety paranoids haven't got round to posting warnings at every clifftop: one slip and you're doomed, so stay awake there! Up north there are pleasant boat trips to the blue caves and afterwards, you can all jump in the sea to cool off before returning to Ag Nicolaeus. Great fun. There are restored windmills for rent on a clifftop for EUR19 per night, which I have noted for a long weekend's laptop work some day. Louros Beach hotel is pleasant (with vg poolside snacks) though next to final approach at Zak airport -- but there are not really enough planes to spoil things too much. All in all provided you are mobile and choose your outings carefully Zak's OK. A big bonus are the (huge) turtles, which are now an eco-draw and looked after very well indeed.
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Returned from Zak on 28 July 2004, and it was great-- really! The thing is to avoid the hot spots which are indeed packed with tattooed youf, mostly Brits we'd guess. Zakynthos Town was very good on the Saturday night -- bustly, friendly and fun -- with a good mix of Greeks and tourists and fine entertainment (we watched a pre-Olympic toga'd music drama set to Vangelis-style music) in the main square. The main shopping street has useful cloisters for cool shopping by day. The mountains are surprisingly quiet and remote for such a small island and thank goodness the UK's health-and-safety paranoids haven't got round to posting warnings at every clifftop: one slip and you're doomed, so stay awake there! Up north there are pleasant boat trips to the blue caves and afterwards, you can all jump in the sea to cool off before returning to Ag Nicolaeus. Great fun. There are restored windmills for rent on a clifftop for EUR19 per night, which I have noted for a long weekend's laptop work some day. Louros Beach hotel is pleasant (with vg poolside snacks) though next to final approach at Zak airport -- but there are not really enough planes to spoil things too much. All in all provided you are mobile and choose your outings carefully Zak's OK. A big bonus are the (huge) turtles, which are now an eco-draw and looked after very well indeed.
