Expect the venue, host and Island to do exactly as it says and more. Stergos promised to collect us from the airport and he did. He promised clean accommodation which we got and he we helpful throughout our two week stay without overcrowding us. We found the island to be beautiful, if quite windy. We spend the first few days recovering from being desk bound in England. Then we visited Kos by local bus which we found easy to use. We hired the bikes from Trust (other bike hires are also available) which were 5euros each for the day and when I got a puncture they delivered me a fresh bike before I had finished my beer in a Tigaki tavern where we called them from. We bought tickets from Tigaki Express to spend the day in Kardemera, we were dropped off in quite a shambolic manner but the day was lovely with a good range of tourist shops and restaurants. We had the most amazing fish platter for two at the restaurant owned by the Christopholous family. However we had to take a taxi back to Marmari due to a mix up over Tigaki Express collecting us. A couple of days later we visited Zia which is a village in the mountains and we had a lovely meal in a restaurant designed to give maximum photo opportunities of the sunset. The wind dropped for our second week so we spent the last few days on the beach, reading and swimming. My only slight negative is the singing that can be heard sometimes from a central hotel who allow singing (of sorts) through microphones on the roof of their building. This noise travels such that I felt sorry for the other hotel owners and guests.