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Our best family holiday ever, booked it ages ago as a very special holiday, so looked forward to it for months and Levendis has lived up to our expectations in every way. Our lives are usually hectic and we’ve enjoyed a relaxing routine, sleeping late, eating late, thoroughly lovely days spent all together, and long fun evenings over board games (Eileen) Thanks for the backgammon tips, still lost! Don’t forget to look at the stars, even they look better from Levendis (Richard), Simply wonderful holiday, immensely beautiful island, excellent food, and perfect for anyone with an interest in the classics to wander around Homer’s school. I would recommend Frikes by day and Stavros by night. (Matthew, 18), Absolutely everything about this long-anticipated holiday at Levendis has been truly perfect, nothing prepares you for how wonderful it really is (Nicholas, 16).
Eileen, Richard, Matthew, Nicholas

The simple personal luxury of Levendis beats corporate luxury anytime, thank you. Food has been delicious, pool huge success with our 3 children, they’ve made new friends and Sam has learned to swim. The cicadas, the crickets, the lizards, the skinks, hearing the Scops owls were an essential part of the stay. One week not enough, we don’t want to go home. Thanks for your labour of love and for opening it up to us. We hope to see you again.
Carolyn and John, Oscar (8) Sam (6) and Poppy (3)

We’ve had another wonderful 2 weeks summer holiday, it’s gone too quickly again. Hope to be back again before too long. (Marilyn) It was great here, I liked going to Perivoli beach (Harry, 8) This has been a fun holiday and I liked the beaches of Aphales bay best (Natalie, 11)
Marilyn, Harry , Natalie

Levendis strips away the frantic pace of city life and you can only kick back and relax here overlooking the bay. We’re going home recharged,having had a wonderful time with our children (4 and 5). Completely brilliant child care service so we enjoyed time off and so did our children! Our hosts are fantastic, you can ask for any ideas or help and they are happy and so chilled, it makes for a wonderful summer holiday for us all.
Catherine, August 2009

Thanks, once again, for our September family holiday. We’ve done more this time. Long walk to Marmakas beach and down to Frikes was stunning. Ag Yannis beach amazing, a beautiful place to swim and see coloured fish around your feet. Boated over to Fiskardo for lunch and people watching, tourist shops there a serious rip off. Yefiri Café/Restaurant at the end of the track still our favourite.
The Collip Gang, September

If somebody asked me, ‘Why have you been to Levendis four times?’, I would answer, ‘Because we’ve been very lucky’. Beware of Levendis’ addiction……………. We have no intention of going through any kind of rehabilitation. We only hope to come back again. Thank you for letting us come to know all this beauty.
Antonio, Antonella and Valeria (11)

Thanks, once again, for creating this beautiful spot! As usual the attention to detail in every way has been much appreciated. We love Levendis and Ithaca and will definitely be back. (Nick, Aileen) It’s been a brilliant time, we loved it (Scott, 7) We went snorkelling and caught an octopus at Marmakas, and a sea cucumber, starfish, crabs and sea urchins, and we made new friends at Levendis (Robbie, 9)
Nick, Aileen, Scott, Robbie. August 2010

Arriving here at Levendis felt like returning to old friends, even though we’ve never been here before. We felt instantly at home, and have had the most perfect relaxing week together. Thank you all for a very special Honeymoon holiday, never to be forgotten. Love, happiness and peace to you.
Stewart and Caroline. July 2009

With apologies to Cavafy:
If you should travel to Ithaca
Pass by Levendis on the hill
Ad stay a while to listen
To the cicadas and the sea
To the breeze in the olives and cypress trees
Learn from them as Homer learnt
Learn from the beauty of the gardens
Where purple sage, thyme, oregano
And lavender, dance before you
And if you rest a while in Ithaca
Be sure to take your rest
By a bay in the north
With distant islands dotting the horizon
And the lap, lap of waves on rocks
Plunge into blue
Into the world of fish and dolphins
With the tinkeling of water on pebbles
Explore caves, and fields of sea grass
Where the sea will yield up her treasures.
Before you move on for other Ithacas
Keep a piece of this one in your heart
As you make your way through the rocks of your journey
Come back to Ithaca if you can.
Lucy and family, August 2009

Gorgeous accommomdation, we’ve loved every minute of it. Boating, early morning trips to watch the fishing boats coming in, late afternoon swimming when the sun is cooler, all the foods, walking down the track to Yefiri café where the food was great, thanks for the brilliant child care.
Stephen and Katie, Ellie (10), Freya (8) and Dan (2).

Views are stupendous, and food and wine grand. Great family holiday. Thanks for fantastic babysitting to give us some ‘free’ time together. This has been a perfect set-up for two families holidaying together.
Nick, Sarah and Rory (18 months).

Thank you for a truly relaxing and memorable holiday. The turquoise sea, the lapping of waves at night, the cicadas, fig jam and lattes, AND I managed to read an entire book with four children in tow. That’s a testament to a babysitter so lovely with all our children! Thank you so much.
Orla and Martin, Cormac (8), Sara (6), Senan (4) and Lorcan (6 months). June 2009

What a wonderful stay, totally relaxing. There is clearly a spell on this place that removes your brainpower and forces you into a state of deep relaxation. Frankly it was a struggle to get to the pool. And then a struggle to make the 20 meters back to our lovely house! A fabulous week, thank you.
Sally and Sophie, June 2009

We’ve had another fantastic relaxing holiday here at Levendis. It’s been great to share it with our family this year. We are planning to be back next year already.
Susan, Matthew and Isla (20 months). June 2009

We’ve always said we would never return anywhere twice as there’s just so much of the world to see, but Levendis has captured our hearts and here we are again! There’s so much to do here, but goes without saying that just staying put and relaxing by the pool and in the gardens in simply the best. Can’t wait for next May!
Tanya, Mark & Ben (2)

We’ve explored the island by boat and driven to great heights in the mountains. The flowers are stunning and I’ll have fond memories of picking apricots with my daughter and niece. Levendis is unique and provides for everyone to find their own tranquillity, away from the pressures of everyday life. We’ve enjoyed being together as a family and sharing our holiday with my sister’s family.
Farewell, Maureen, Andrew and Ella, June 2009

We’ve had a lovely time, setting gorgeous. We’re on holiday with our friends and have had a truly relaxing and fun time together. The four kids have had marvellous adventures in the forest! It’s the one place that I have been that I want to come back to.
Helen and Charles, Joe (9) and Mia (8)

Words cannot describe this paradise, thank you for making the first two weeks of our lives together so very special Carl and Kath April 2008

From our verandah, we watched the dolphins playing in the bay below our house, we've explored the island and taken every little track and road, found perfect deserted beaches, taken picnics and hired a motor boat, tried the village tavernas by day, and enjoyed the experience of walking to the taverna at the end of the track in the evenings, taking advantage of wonderful child care. We leave early tomorrow and so we should have an early night but, having seen dolphins playing in the bay just now, we'd rather sit here a while longer and appreciate this wonderful island, this beautiful place, and what a fantastic honeymoon this has been.
Gareth and Katherine Vaughan-Davies and Eleni (4), April 2008

I have the job of feeding the sheep at 8 o'clock so I have to get up at 1/4 to 8 and run down to the paddock. We feed them dry corn seed and grass hay but you have to shake the hay out for them, then we get clean water for their trough. After that we all go up to the coffee shop for breakfast. And after that
my dad said we should swim. The water was a bit cold but he said he'd drink the rest of my only-had-one-ship-of-got-it-today-chocolate milk if I didn't go in. Of course I couldn't stand that so I did some breaststroke. In the evening Katherine said to come and see the dolphins. I saw about 131 of them.
Nova (6) April 2008

We can totally recommend that you come here in spring while all the flowers are out and at night you might just see the fireflies under the trees. We found beaches that no-one else has found and if you go out at night, after you get home go down and jump into the pool, it's warm at night (Tom (13) and Joe
(11) Just enjoyed our drinks on the terrace, listening to the owls and sound of the waves and watching the fireflies. Spring is a grand time to be here. It bit cool for swimming but we still managed to be in the sea or pool every day. We hurtled around the island on a daily basis, walking in the mornings, picnic lunches on the beach or in old villages, swimming in the afternoons at a different beach each day. Glorious weather, felt like summer. We ate at 'home' in the evenings then went to Stavros for icecream, wine and to play cards with our boys while we watched villagers prepare for Easter celebrations. We'll be back, everything has been perfect, thank you.
Michele and Chris, April 2008

The website looked enticing and pre-holiday conversations encouraging, but we still only could hope it would live up to expectations for our first and much needed family holiday. We've had the most wonderful stay, peace and calm refreshing and my brain has gone to putty. We slipped into a lovely slow routine. It usually takes me a week to de-frazzle, so it was nice to reach that stage in less than 48 hours - clearly a testimony to the unique environment created here. Can't get over the view, and it gets better after the evening wine! You've got the balance just right. The kids have loved exploring the forest, having picnics on the tree stumps, looking for gifts from the fairies (fire flies), swimming in the pool and collecting pebbles at the beach. We've loved the gardens in all their flowering glory and the foods are wonderful. The sheep have been a big hit, even if they had absolutely no interest in eating, but were more keen to show off to their small visitors. We'll be back to this special place.
Carolyn, Alister, Eliza (3) and Seb (23 months), May 2008

Wish we could stay longer, thanks for your fresh bread! Loved catching the octopus but threw him back.
Lauren (12) and Ben (9)

It's easy to run out of superlatives, quite simply there's a stillness here. Pool? best ever on a holiday. Food? Fresh, local and very special. House? perfect resting place. Garden?
Well, no words, but idyllic springs to mind. Company? our thanks for connecting and caring.
Lauren and Ben's parents, May 2008

Thank you all for the effort you put into your little bit of the world and letting us share it with you. You've set the bar very high and will be the standard against which all fuure family holidays will be compared.
Paul Lynn and Maddy (2), May 2008

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