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Original letters & selected photos...
A letter from Oliver, who has chartered our Lagoon 440 in 2005 & 2006!
Dear Istion Crew,
thanks for a good charter, we spent a wonderful sailing holiday on
"Speranza". Your support and all charter handling was very relaxing and the tech crew
made a good job. Attached you find one picture expressing relaxed holiday on your
Lagoon 440 (Taken on mooring in Porto Vathy, Astypaleia). I remember this holiday
as perfect and would repeat going with Istion any time.
Kind regards
Oliver Utsch
Florian with her girlfriends chartered a sailing yacht in 2006 with Stelios, Istion's Skipper.
Her comments:
Dear Iannis, a short notice to thank you and your team for the unforgettable holidays
you offered us once more. Stelios is great skipper, he is getting better and better!
it is now the fourth time he is join us. Dodecanese and Kos base is finally the best.
For the last 3 years we were sailing the Cyclades and the Sporades, so we missed
the Dodecanese (Patmos, Leros, Marathi...), the next one will be from Kos again.
All the best and meet you soon!
Florian and crew
Sylvia has chartered Istion, one of our Lagoons 380 in Kos (May 2006):
Hallo Istion Charter, we are back from our wonderful sailing trip through the Greek Islands.
Thank you to make it happen so smoothly. The Skipper Yani was very professional and
took us to little islands we have not been yet. He was very pleasant to the whole crew
and made our whole trip great.
Sylvia Warren
 
Mr Lifonti has chartered Istion’s new catamaran Lavezzi 40 and hired our company’s
Skipper Thanassis. They have sailed the Dodecanese for 2 weeks in August 2003.
Date : 26/8/2003
From : Lifonti & Nocerino
To : Istion Manager & Mondovela – Guglielmo Masala
Dear Sirs, Let us express in writing our appreciation for the excellent job that our skipper, Thanassis, carried out during our cruise of 09.08-23.08.03 on the Lavezzi 40 Catamaran. Thanassis is an outstanding professional and made our vacation absolutely perfect, both
at sailing and entertainment (route, ports, bays, tavernas, fishing, etc.) level. We have
always felt safe and cared for during every single minute of the cruise. It will be difficult
to cruise with other skippers in the future, since this guy has become the benchmark for
us now (and we hope that we will be able to request him again next time in Greece!).
Please thank him on behalf of all of us once again and wish him the best of luck,
Diego Lifonti & Carlo Nocerino”
Mike & Sherine have chartered from Kos a Sun Odyssey 33.1 (Kos 33.1) and an
Ocean Star 51.1 (Christianna VI) in July 2002.
Original message:
“Hello Virginia I just wanted to say a BIG thank you to your self, Nicolas and Christo
for all the effort you put into making our holiday such a great experience.
We really appreciated your professionalism and your friendliness - always making
us feel like what we were asking for was no trouble at all!!!
We enjoyed our time on Kos 33 but sailing Christiana VI was a real highlight for us all.
It was just so much fun and I know we are all wishing we were back in Greece
instead of Debs and Rich being in London, Mike in Port Elizabeth and I'm currently
in Kenya on business.
Anyhow - hopefully it will not be too long before we can come and visit your
lovely islands again....and all the friendly people who made our memories so special.
Thanks again for all you guys did personally
Mike & Sherine”
Richard Pearce from the UK has hired a Sun Odyssey 37.1 (Kos 37.1) from
Kos for one week with Skipper, in August 2002.
Original message:
“Hi Virginia,
Just a quick mail to thank you all ever so much for making our holiday such
an enjoyable experience (speaking for all of us when I say that!).
Special thanks to the skipper (Stelios)! Once again many thanks- sure you will
hear from us again in the near future regarding a similar trip.
Richard “
David Baker & Maria Vericonte from the U.K. have chartered our Elan 295 (Stratus)
for 4 weeks July 2002. (They came back to charter the same yacht for 4 weeks
in 2003!!
Original message:
“Dear Virginia,
Having arrived back in the U.K. we would just like to say thank you once again for
a wonderful month in Greece.
We were very pleased with the boat (Elan 295) and the helpfulness of the Istion
staff.
Best wishes,
David Baker Maria Vericonte”
 
Volkmar Damm from Germany has chartered our Sun Odyssey 33.1 (Kos 33.1) in
May 2002.
Original message:
”Hallo Virginia,
nun hat der Arbeitsalltag schon wieder begonnen hier und der tolle Urlaub ist schon
Historie. Wir sind folglich gut wieder hier gelandet und ich war noch ca. 10 Tage mit
meinem jόngsten Sohn zum Segeln auf der Ostsee (mit meinem eigenen kleinen Boot).
Wir hatten natόrlich nicht so schφnes Wetter wie in Kos. Zu Anfang heftiger Regen
den ganzen Tag und Wind zwischen 7 und 9 bft. Aber es gab auch ein paar sonnige
Tage, die waren dann aber leider ohne Wind. Kos ist wirklich eine gute Kombination
mit Sonne plus Wind! Virginia, nochmal herzlichen Dank fόr Euern tollen Service!
Ich denke, ich werde wiederkommen (oder auch einer meiner Kollegen, denen ich
von Euch erzδhlt habe). Ich wόnsche Dir und Deinem Team noch einen schφnen
Sommer und wenig Δrger mit den Charterkunden. Laί mal gelegentlich von Dir hφren.
Ciao "Volkmar“
  
Harri Forstrom from Finland has chartered an Ocean Star 51.1 “Christianna VI”
in September 2002.
Original message:
“Dear Iannis,
It was the 6th year chartering a boat from you in Kos, and I would like to say that
we all had wonderful time once more.
Is it possible that You try to arrange us one way sailing, from Athens (or some
other place) to Kos, about 1-13 September 2003. We want to look different
places between.
Harri.”
Mr. Meyer has chartered an Oceanis 461 in 1999 with our Skipper Steve.
His comments:
Dear Yiannis,
This is to thank you and your team for the wonderful holidays you offered us! Steve
is great Skipper and also spent much time to teach us many things in Navigation
and sailing. My wife Linda and our kids Wolf and Marian really love now sailing
yachts and look forward coming back next year. Is it possible to book the same yacht with Steve?
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