Latest Reviews for Thassos

Visited in May and it was so peaceful and quiet a lovely place for grown ups to go and chill out as there is nothing for children to do at all !! Not a child in sight except for the locals who were still in school. Clean and Tidy town with excellent tavernas. Hire a car (Potos in town good to hire a car from)very cheap option to tour 60 miles the whole way around the Island and visit all the sights. Paradise beach is very beautiful. Panagia a lovely old fashioned town well worth seeing.

Hotel just been re-furbished and provided very good standard of accomodation Food and Drink prices excessively high therefore no one at hotel really ate or drank there....much to the annoyance of the owners. Owners not very friendly but Jordan behind the bar very helpful. Gardens are out of this world. A long way out of Thassos Town so be prepared for a good 30 minute walk.

Best resort in Thassos for Beach cleanliness and sand. reasonable prices

Within easy reach of the one road that goes all the way round the island

We have just return from a week's holiday at the Filipidis Apartments in Thassos (We arrived 25th May) and would most definitely recommend them for cleanliness, space, location and resort.

These apartments are family owned and the family live on the ground floor. The building and gardens are the family's pride, with the father looking after the lawned garden bedecked with geraniums, roses and beautifully shaped trees to the front and lawned rear garden surrounded by home grown salad and grapes.

The building itself is 2 floors high and nearly every room faced east, so the balconies caught the morning sun but was cool enough to sit in during the afternoon and the evening when the sun was going down. There is plenty of storage space (wardrobe and drawers) silver double sink unit with cupboards above and below, a fridge, a stainless steel hot plate with two electric rings. A table and two chairs inside, also a coffee table and one more comfortable chair. Our room had a double and a single bed inside and still lots of room.

Cups saucers, dishes plates and cutlery were available as was glasses and pots and pans, electric kettle but no toaster.

A tea towel, scourer and sponge was provided for washing up.

2 hand towels and bath towels were provided and was changed once during the week as was bed linen.

Although facing a camp site, we suffered no noise, although I can imagine when the camp site got really busy you would beable to hear it.

Just around from these apartments is some more called MARINA apartments which a small bar opposite which has its own swimming pool that you were free to use.

Lots of little supermarkets within 5 mins walk. reasonable prices. Lovely beach although no showers on beach. Cost for 2 sunbeds and parasol was 7E per day for the time we were there. Not many folk about this week. Temperature was approx 26 - 33degrees and although there is no air conditioning we slept with the patio doors open every night and felt safe enough and cool enough. Took my plug in mozzie repellent so didnt have any trouble although got bit outside a couple of times.

Not much to do except relax over a meal and drink in the evenings. Plenty of choice without going too far.

All in all - a lovely place (both resort and accom) to just relax and enjoy yourself. clean accom, clean beach, just take a good book and hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Not many wasps in May but apparently they are swarming everywhere by Sept.

brillant holiday for relaxing but willing to walk and explore.beautiful island and resort.

we went to thassos at the beginning of the season.the weather wasnt great but that made us do things we wouldnt normally do on holiday (walk, explore and hire quad bikes}instead of laying on a sunbed all day.Thassos is a beautiful island with fantastic views and wonderful people.we found nikki and her family in the blue bay hotel great and could not do enough to please,ask to rent a fridge in your room if you want one,nikki even used to take us down to the resort to save us walking,even though the walk isnt as bad as we thought.we never had a bad meal whilst there,the fedra is great value as most of the others.we cant wait to go back,we loved it and the blue bay has the best views of the island.

As in review of Hotel coral

We went to the Coral hotel last june for one week. Basic accomodation but cleanand decent air con, breakfast was average weak orange juice,bread cold boiled eggs same every day, staff never spokje. Nice pool area and bar, the owners son runs this and I have to say he is not a pleasant man. He never spoke only under effort. Coral is close to the beach but there are no sun beds or parasols, so we stayed at the pool. Good eating places about 20 mins walk away. All in all an average holiday. Going into thassos town every night saved it!

A great place for people looking for a quiet laid back holiday - very relaxing, great weather, long stretch of golden beach and plenty of places to eat. What more could you ask for?

We stayed at Filipidis Apartments for two weeks. It was the most relaxing holiday we have had. The apartments themselves were very clean and bright and well looked after. Having read other reviews, we cannot comment on the lack of air conditioning as this was not a problem for us at this time of year, nor were the wasps that several other people complained about. Although there were wasps, they were few and far between. Our only gripe was that there was no toaster in the apartment (and the fact that we couldn't stay for another fortnight!) We did not experience any noise from the camp site opposite, however, we appreciate that this may become noisy in the high season.

The beach was a short walk across the road, and there were several good restaurants within easy reach, Playa de Ora, Finikas and Fedras being three of them. Although other reviewers have slated Fedras, we found the food and service excellent. Again this could have been because we were not there in the height of the season - we can only assume that other reviwers had to wait a long time for their food - but surely this goes to prove that it is being cooked fresh. (And while you wait you can relax with a nice drink and enjoy the scenery!)

Thassos is a small island so you can drive all the way round it in less than 3 hours, but there are several sheltered coves you can visit. All in all a very enjoyable holiday and we recommend Filipidis to anyone looking for a quiet laid back holiday.

Ann Clarke & Rod Yardley - Coventry

Thassos Town is a typical Greek village/town - reasonable amount of tavernas and shops. On the main high street was a local potter's shop (Costis) who is 3rd generation potter native to Thassos - his workshop is just out of town. He had some lovely pieces, however some where a tad too large to fit in hand luggage!!

There are a number of tavernas in town which is about 15 minutes walk from the Thetis, enough to build up an appetite! We ate at a number of them - we were disappointed with Patriko's in the old harbour area - food was cold but it seemed to be a pretty popular place so we could have caught the chef on a bad day.

The Doukas and Thassian Tavernas were excellent - they are next to each other near the Dolphin on the main promenade. It was amusing to watch them competing for customers each evening! Of the two though the Doukas was our favourite - we went back a number of times, we almost knew the menu better than the staff by the end of our holiday!

One word of warning though - if you book the Mountains and Meze trip with Thomson it is not a 'gentle walk up a gradual incline' as advertised. It was more a trek up a precipitous path!!

All in all we had a fantastic 2 weeks and would recommend both the Thetis and Thassos if you are looking for a relaxing Greek holiday.

We can highly recommend the Thetis apertments. They were immaculately clean and reasonably well equipped. A small fridge, hob, a kettle (not that common in Greece we've found!) and enough plates and cutlery for 2 people to cobble together a breakfast.

There is a nice pool area which was well used by some of our fellow guests and a small pool bar providing the usual snacks and drinks.

The rooms are well furnished with very comnfortable beds, decent sized wardrobe, dressing table and a TV. We had a balcony overlooking the pool and spent many a happy afternoon playing Scrabble just looking out at the view over the mountains - bliss!

Special mention to our fantastic Thomson rep Emma. It was her first season but she was wonderful. Nothing was too much trouble and she went out of her way to find the answers to your questions.

Thassos Town is a typical Greek village/town with a reasonable amount of tavernas and shops. On the main high street was a local potter's shop (Costis) who is 3rd generation potter native to Thassos - his workshop is just out of town. He had some lovely pieces, however some where a tad too large to fit in hand luggage!!

There are a number of tavernas in town which is about 15 minutes walk from the Thetis, enough to build up an appetite! We ate at a number of them - we were disappointed with Patriko's in the old harbour area - food was cold but it seemed to be a pretty popular place so we could have caught the chef on a bad day.

The Doukas and Thassian Tavernas were excellent - they are next to each other near the Dolphin on the main promenade. It was amusing to watch them competing for customers each evening! Of the two though the Doukas was our favourite - we went back a number of times, we almost knew the menu better than the staff by the end of our holiday!

One word of warning though - if you book the Mountains and Meze trip with Thomson it is not a 'gentle walk up a gradual incline' as advertised. It was more a trek up a precipitous path!!

All in all we had a fantastic 2 weeks and would recommend both the Thetis and Thassos if you are looking for a relaxing Greek holiday.

Golden Beach was very busy in August. There were a lot of Europeans staying at the campsites situated in Golden Beach, although they didn't cause any trouble or worry.

The Greek people traveled from the mainland to Thassos at the weekends, so the beaches were very busy. The Greek people tended to leave cigarette ends on the beach and took their babies and young children into the sea to wipe their bums after pooing, which was awful.

Golden Beach would be fab if less busy, and probably very beautiful.

We would recommend a car to travel the island, since there are more remote and beautiful places to see, and Thassos Town is nice to visit.

Traveling from mainland to Thassos was fab and a great way to start the holiday, and we shall be returning but not to Golden Beach.

Blue Bay is in a fantastic location, with views over Golden Beach and it's surrounding mountains! Probably the best view in Golden Beach resort.

It's a 20 minute walk to Golden Beach from the accomodation, so not too good for the less mobile. The tavernas and shops are situated in Golden Beach, so it's a 20 minute walk to all amenities, and at night the walk back can be dark.

The hotel itself isn't really a hotel, more like an appartment but with no kitchenette facilities. Not having a fridge was really disappointing, particularly to store cold water and beer.

Breakfast is served by the owners, who aren't over friendly but OK. It isn't a typical buffet style breakfast but either cereal and toast one day, or canned fruit and toast the next, and if you're lucky scrabbled egg (twice a week). Really quite poor.

The rooms are cleaned every day, although when we first arrived there were hairs left in our shower, not too pleasant.

The price we paid for Blue Bay is for the view and not for the amenities or breakfast provided.

Golden Beach is not for you if nightlife is high on your list of priorities. It is a very good family resort also suitable for couples. The ferry crossing is a wonderful start to the holiday. There are many walks in the area and one we enjoyed began at the top of the hotel. We also enjoyed catching the bus to Panagia and walking back following the stream. The walk along the beach to Skala Potamia is very pleasant with numerous tavernas along the way.We caught the bus into Thassos town which is good for shopping and were surprised to see how it had grown especially around the port area. The port tended to be rather chaotic but we liked the general hustle and bustle. Golden Beach is in a lovely setting with wonderful views. The island of Thassos is still unspoilt

After reading previous reviews we were happy to choose the hotel but unfortunately it had changed hands earlier in the year and didn't live up to our expectations. the previous owners still own the Vigli down the hill and the food was good and the setting fantastic. The hotel is situated in a very quiet location which we liked. The hill was as we expected and this didn't pose any problems, except for one day when the hotel bus didn't arrive. Take care when using the steps at the deep end of the pool One of the fixings had come loose. Hopefully it has been repaired by now. We had a room on the first level after the main building. It was comfortable and clean with a great view and the balcony had an awning which was essential when it was very hot. It also had a mesh sliding door which kept out the wasps during the day. The fridge was a great addition. the breakfast consisted of the usual things. Eggs cheese meat jam honey yoghurt cake etc. And the toaster? Many friendships could be made standing by this machine as the staff kept turning it off if nobody was actually using it so when you needed it you had to wait for it to warm up. Breakfast was a problem because of the wasps being attracted to the food. (Not all of it was covered)