Australis

It is some years since I write my last review for the Australis Hotel and have stayed there many times in the intervening period. It feels like a good time to write another. The warm welcome each time makes one feel like one is coming home. What also struck me on my most recent visit is how many familiar faces one sees there each time. It is almost like a club. For people to return every year for twelve years, as some have, says something about the sustained excellent standard of all aspects of the hotel - food, cleanliness, comfort, environment - and its situation just fifteen minutes easy walk from the centre of Skala, makes it a great place to stay. Pandelis, the owner, aka Peter, is kindness personified and his father, Fokas, who created the hotel and still tends the beautiful garden, is always a delight to meet and talk to. For all of the above, and for value for money, I can't ever imagine staying anywhere else on the island.