Going to the Captains for 2 weeks from Sept 11th. (10 days to go) If there is anything anyone can tell me about the place I would be great full, as I haven`t been to Zante before. Please e-mail me on
geverard@hotmail.com or graham.everard1@ntlworld.com
Many thanks

Returned from the Captains yesterday (25/9/3)after 2 weeks and couldn`t wait to gethome, what a s*** hole.
To begin with, its at the top of an incline which starts with about a 30 degree climb and on a bend increases to what seems like a 45 degrree climb, talk about breath taking it surely does that, and gets you at the back of your legs too. We where in the basement after being told "a good sea view" what a joke, it looked out onto a block of apartments except for one corner were you could just see the sea, the room was like a cell without bars, combined with a hospital ward (to many beds).
Meals seemed great when we arrived but every day was the same but arranged in a different position to give you the impression it was a change from the day before, plastic eggs on the breakfast menu daily and other things also the same, tea is always with condensed milk, ug! water melon almost every day for after dinner sweet.
The rooms are cleaned daily, mopped and bed sheets folded, to get a towel change you have to put them in a pile on the floor, bed sheets too. The cleaners seemed to spend more time sweeping up dropped leaves outside than doing anything else.
Pool area was ok but due to the hoseing down every morning, always seemed to be flooded,if,like me you get there to early, (8-45), far to many sun beds and hard plastic so buy a li-lo, talking of which they allow too many in the pool, so a decent swim was out of the question. Also far to many kids ( and I like children so don`t take it the wrong way) but we went to avoid them thinking they would be back at school, no such luck, we got that one wrong.
Our own rep. (Cosmos) we saw at the welcome meeting day after arrival, but never again until the evening before departing. Thompson rep. Karen, on the other hand was always there and only to pleased to help, no matter who you are with.
Hotel staff, a special mention here for Donna, a 21 year old from near Bristol (I think) worked very hard and tried her best to please every one , she really is a nice pleasent girl. She`s moving to The Factory next year (a pub. down the hill) all being well. Also the main receptionist, Andreos, he is also very helpful and speaks good English, George the chef has a good grasp of English but to me seems to be under a lot of pressure from the top. The rest of them arn`t worth a mention, oh Nicco is ok, but by far the best is Donna, she will be missed next year if she does move.
Would I go back to Zante? yes but certainly not back to the Captains, Lagana or Kalamaki is much better,flater and cleaner than Argassi.
As a last word or two, on car hire (which is worth a few days) see George at Olympic car rentals, he seems to be the best around and has a lot to choose from, Mention the Just Zante web site and get 10% off.
You don`t have to take my word for the above comments as you make up your own minds, but in closing i`ll just add that my holidaying partner was in bed ill for 5 days with the super runs.