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"The Casa dei Mezzo Music Festival is a great arena for sharing musical experiences between high level classical musicians from Greece and many other countries and is always thoroughly enjoyed by audiences of visitors and Cretans alike."* This year's festival begins Thursday 24th June, and features the music of, amongst others, Schumann, Chopin, Berlioz, Rachmaninov, and Beethoven, performed by an international line-up of artists. The festival concludes Tuesday 29th June. "Everyone involved in making the 'Casa dei Mezzo Music Festival' come to life each year..." writes festival organiser Gunnar Strømsholm "...is now really looking forward to opening the main doors of Villa Casa dei Mezzo to let the public take their seats, as it's our public we're here to entertain, and in the best possible way we know how." For more details see the festival web site.
* Steinar Larsen, Managing Director, The Trondheim Soloists, commenting on the 2009 Casa dei Mezzo Music Festival
Book an Easyjet flight before midnight on Tuesday 16th March, for flights between 19th April and 15th July, and save up to 25%. Easyjet fly to Heraklion from London Gatwick, Manchester, and Bristol in the UK, and also from Berlin Schönefeld, Geneva, Milan Malpensa, and Rome Fiumicino. For more details and to book flights, see the Easyjet web site.
South East Crete Holidays, in association with maCreteland Tours of Makrigialos, is pleased to announce that you can now book selected holiday accommodation in Makrigialos online. We currently offer 11 properties, ranging from studios priced from €20 per night to a luxurious villa priced from €660+ per night, with more properties coming online daily. The association with maCreteland Tours allows us to offer the convenience of online booking, supported by a back office staff of multi-lingual personnel.
In a short article titled Travel Focus on Crete, published by the flight comparison web site Cheapflights.co.uk, Makrigialos is named as one of the top 5 things to do in Crete. The resort is praised because it is "...perfectly designed by nature with shallow waters that are ideal for the little ones." Top spot is awarded to a "...stunning coastal drive along the north-east of Crete" in which the visitor can "escape the hustle and bustle of more touristy areas...", an area which is easily reached as a day trip from Makrigialos.
Makrigialos continues to rate well with visitors this year, according to the reviews published since the season ended. Although small in number, the reviews are unanimous in their approval of both accommodation and restaurants. For restaurants, Porphyra ("Food is excellent") and Gabbiano ("Fantastic food") have now joined Stratos on the TripAdvisor review pages, each collecting a 5 out of 5 review. For accommodation, reviewers' favourites Maria Tsanakalioti Apartments ("A dream come true") and Asteria Studios ("A piece of heaven on earth") both expanded their impressive collection of high-scoring reviews.
For more information on visitor reviews published during the season, see our previous news item.
If you want to review your Makrigialos holiday, you can do so right here, in the South East Crete Holidays Guestbook. If you have already written a review elsewhere on the internet, you can simply add a brief introduction and link to it from the guestbook.
Makrigialos is described as "...one of these special corners of the earth – a little-known gem of a place that is all the more charming because it is rather undiscovered..." in an article titled Witness the real Crete, published in the online travel guide simonseeks.com. It is a place of "...total relaxation..." where within minutes of arrival "...you’re released from the burden of life at home...", according to the author, who also took a shine to Diaskari beach, the Lassithi Plateau and, it seems, the local cake shop. Read Witness the real Crete at simonseeks.com.
The Kastro Mountain Tour is the latest addition to the growing list of South East Crete Holidays guides, offering a gallery of images that illustrate the tour, and a google map showing the route. The tour is a self-driven scenic drive, suitable only for 4x4 vehicles, that climbs on dirt tracks into the Thripti mountains. As well as some impressive mountain and valley scenery along the drive itself, the tour includes a short walking excursion to the Minoan ruins at Kastro, a site which was occupied between 1200-650 B.C. Located high on a promontary, Kastro offers stunning views of the Mirabello Gulf and the Ierapetra isthmus. The tour also takes in the Monumental Olive Tree of Kavousi, estimated to be some 3250 years old, which makes it a living witness of the Minoan civilisation.
View the Kastro Mountain Tour gallery and map here.
A review posted to leading review site TripAdvisor in September acclaims the Sasteria public observatory - located in the mountains at Agios Stefanos, 6km (4 miles) from Makrigialos - as a "...first class attraction". The star-gazing facility is currently ranked third in the TripAdvisor list of most popular attractions in Crete. Sasteria was also featured in the easyJet inflight magazine earlier in the year. As well as evenings with the stars, Sasteria offer guided walks and art workshops during the day. For more details, see the Sasteria entry in the South East Crete Holidays directory.
Makry-Gialos is "...a truly unspoiled paradise". These are not the words of some marketing machine or glossy brochure, but an opinion given by a recent visitor in a review titled Wonderful Unspoiled Crete. It is a sentiment that is echoed in many reviews written by people who have visited Makry-Gialos this year.
Read more: Reviews - Makry-Gialos: "...a truly unspoiled paradise"
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