Having been to Corfu ten or more times, this is without doubt the best place to spend most or all of your holiday. They're pleased to see you whether you're staying on-site or not. The whole family are really friendly and welcoming, and have created just the most laid-back and relaxing atmosphere. Apartments are basic but very clean, the food is great and good value too. The pools brilliant and there's plenty of sunbeds. The bloke behind the bar is a bit dodgy - it'd be better if he changed from Panathinaikos to Chelsea - but we're working on him. (Not really - he's a diamond too)

I think Mr Skeavington must have recorded his comments against the wrong place. Was he in fact somewhere else? Any holiday when the weather is poor can be difficult, but his description of the place and especially Costa does not sqaure with my own experiences or those of the many others who have recorded comments on this site. If you go the Med and it rains then the kids get bored. Fact. Perhaps he should stick to Butlins.

Mr Martin-Quinn

The reason that there is a charge for things like kettles is that so many used to be nicked the family couldn't keep up. If you found them available elsewhere cheaper why didn't you buy one? Helen surely didn't make you hire one? In any event, I would have thought that if you really do travel to Roda every year, you would have bought your own travel kettle by now, as hardly any apartments there supply them any more, probably for the same reason that Helen doesn't. Otherwise use a saucepan, or perhaps use some of that hot air to just blow on a cup of cold water until it warms up.

I was at the Elizabeth at the same time as the Curtis family, and I had a high old time, except that some woman who always seemed to have a Smirnoff Ice in her hand kept dragging my present wife away to play pool. Why didn't she just accept that her brother in law Dave was the best at everything and give up? It is always a pleasure to go back to Roda and find that everything is still the same, and that the sea is the sea and always will be. This year was better than ever, and it was a real pleasure to meet Paul and Co. The kids (Sophia, little Tommy, Chelsea and George)are a great credit to them which is amazing really when you consider how the parents behave. I am glad the weather didn't let me down again. Thanks as always to Costa, Nikos, Helen and everyone for giving us all such a good time.

These two apartments are linked together in the Manos brochure but couldn't be more different. Robertos I is basic in the usual Corfu-style, but is ok. Location-wise the block is in the courtyard beside the church in the centre of Roda, and although there are a couple of restaurants nearby is relatively peaceful. Robertos II is just awful. Situated above the camera shop, opposite a building site and the communal dustbins, in the blazing sun all afternoon and into the evening so unbearably hot, with drains that don't work and have to be pumped out twice a week, on a very noisy street with motor bikes lorries and coaches going past all day and all night, smelling of petrol fumes or worse when the stink lorry comes, and with cleaners and their kids outside the door at half eight in the morning making as much noise as possible to get you out, and the whole apartment floods if you have a shower! The trouble is you don't know which Robertos you are going to get. We went to Robertos I last year and loved it. Asked for the same this year but got Robertos II. It is truly dreadful. Beware.

Dear Kayley Bradshaw

You are right. The whole place is rubbish and the dozens and dozens of people who have entered comments on this site are all liars. We all go back year after year just to punish ourselves. I knew the truth would come out in the end. You'll probably assume that I am a member of the family who run the Elizabeth Apartments too, and actually that's how I feel. And that is the point. I and many others feel exactly like a member of the family, and that is why we really go back every year. That is also why Helen joins in the banter on this site too. I do agree with you though, that you should go somewhere else next time. I wonder who you really are?

Mr Bomb, sorry Truth, sorry Clarke. Strange how you seem to defend a number of other places in Roda so fiercely and yet have such a downer on this one. Anyhow, thank you very much for bringing these serious matters to my attention. I intend to speak sternly to Costa and Athina about these issues as soon as possible. In fact I am so cross I am going to take my enture family to the Elizabeth again next week for the umpteenth time to find out personally just what is going on. I will conduct a full investigation, paying particular attention to the bar, pool and sunlounge areas, and report back afterwards. It is clear from the other messages on this site that many many people are being ripped off every year without even realising it, so if I see anybody pretending to enjoy themselves I will put a stop to it immediately.

It is a shame that we won't be joining our friends at the Elizabeth this year, although there are some rough old sorts coming out on Friday so it might not be a bad thing I guess. Do not let Susana Curtis drink white wine under any circumstances and beware, holidaymakers, if Paul Curtis starts singing 'Two little boys'. Sofia's alright though and generally takes care of her wayward parents.