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One of Belleair’s Heritage Farmhouses in Gozo Holiday Options’ Villas Malcusa in the quirky and small hilltop village of San Pantaleo, Sardinia
British holidaymakers pause for thought. near the beaches of Marina di Cottone and and linen-makers. Prices start at £591 based
“The standard of accommodation is high Taormina. It has seven spacious rooms and on four sharing, including flights, with 30%
but people are loath to book ‘blind’ when costs £614 per person in June based on two off holidays completed by June 30.
they are spending upwards of £700 for a sharing, with Air Malta direct flights. Olympic Holidays features good value
week in high season.” New from Holiday Options on the offshore rural accommodation in the village of
Selling better is a range of Rural Retreats island of Pantelleria is Club Levante, a Omodhos, with free car hire. Two weeks
in Corsica, a choice of five small hotels of private estate with 13 rooms created out self-catering in the two-bedroom Olga’s
two- and three-star standard. of the traditional “dommusi” – small House costs from £435 per person based
Moorish houses built of black lava rock, on five sharing, with flights.
SARDINIA. with white-domed roofs. Cosmos says larger villas are the best sellers
This is also a destination for people who as two families book together to economise.
know what they want rather than the mass GOZO.
market. Malta’s second island has a more peaceful GREEK ISLANDS.
Holiday Options has added a few villas atmosphere than its neighbour, with Taverna-style accommodation or village
with pools this year, mainly on the Costa superior beaches, diving, and sightseeing rooms were the mainstay of Greece before
Smeralda, including the quirky Villas Mal- including ancient ruins. large hotels were built, and some operators
cusa in the hilltop village of San Pantaleo. It is renowned for its converted luxury still offer them including Goldtrail, which
If a barbecue in the form of a ceramic mo- farmhouses, and many feature old-style fur- has taken over some accommodation used
saic of a woman with a cauliflower on her niture. They are mainly located inland in by failed operator Kosmar.
head is your bag, this is the place. It’s like a beautiful settings, but as Gozo is small it is But there are also plenty of more upmarket
miniature Parc Guell (the Gaudi sculpture easy to reach the sea. options, one of the main operators being
park in Barcelona), an architect-designed Belleair has a wide selection of Heritage Greek Islands Club.
fantasy. Farmhouses costing from £461 per person Villas are offered in Paxos, Ithaca, Kefalonia,
A week in August costs from £918 per per- for a week in June, including flights and car Corfu, Lefkas, Alonissos, Skopelos, Skiathos,
son based on two sharing, including flights. hire. Crete and Santorini, and most have a private
Camping is another unusual and much Gozo appears in the Cosmos Villas with pool. The House of Hermes in Paxos, a
cheaper option in Sardinia, available to Pools brochure for the first time this year, traditional island house for four people,
agents through Keycamp. with prices from £369 per person based on costs from £598 per person for two weeks
Baia Blu Tortuga campsite is well placed eight sharing the Farmhouse Ta Hgieri in with flights and car hire.
for exploring and offers windsurfing, Ghasri.
snorkelling, scuba diving and dinghy sailing.
CYPRUS.
SICILY.
KEY OPERATORS
This is another island better known for its
Sicily’s more unusual options include a rural large hotels than its character properties, ■ mallorca.co.uk ■ keycamp4agents.co.uk
property where you can pick your own fresh but it offers village accommodation in the
■ cosmos.co.uk ■ sunvil.co.uk
lemons to squeeze into your gin and tonic. Troodos Mountains and also luxury villas.
■ reisdemallorca.com ■ olympicholidays.com
■ classic-collection.co.uk ■ greekislandsclub.com
Feudogrande Farmhouse is added by Sunvil has added Red Door and Blue Door
■ holidayoptions.co.uk ■ goldtrail.co.uk
Belleair Holidays this year and is in an old Houses in picturesque Lefkara, a mountain
■ belleair.co.uk
citrus grove with superb views of Taormina, village of artists’ houses, cobbled streets, lace
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