Why Book With Nisos?

Our base in Nidri is at the Iris Premium Hotel. It is a beautiful place to start and finish your holiday.  It is quiet, scenic, well sheltered and we have all the facilities at the hotel at our disposal, including swimming pool, restaurant and bar.  It is also only a 5 minute walk into Nidri.  This is so much better than starting in Lefkas Marina or other ports on Lefkas!  We are also only a short sail from Meganissi, so you can quickly get across to one of the many fantastic bays there for your first night.

When booking a sailing holiday or yacht charter there is normally a large number of options, most of which are obligatory, such as end cleaning, fuel, insurance, outboard for the tender etc etc.  With Nisos all of these are included in the price.  We keep it very simple and transparent.

Included in the price is the collision damage waiver, which basically covers you from any financial exposure if the yacht is damaged. There is no excess to pay and no security deposit held at base. Why do we do this? We want our sailing clients to tell us ASAP if they damage the boat. If there is a significant security deposit at risk, there is a natural barrier to perhaps not mentioning some damage. We want to know so we can check it and repair/replace it before it becomes a bigger problem.

If you arrive at our base by 4pm on the Sunday afternoon, we can get you onboard the yacht, briefed and away from base on the same day, and we only require you to return back to base by the Sunday morning of departure at 9am.  Thus you get every night away from base!  We have many beautiful harbours and bays within an hour of our base at Nidri for that all important first and last night away from base.  If sailing from further north on the island, such as Lefkas Marina or Preveza, you have very limited options close by.

Nisos Yacht Charter is rated as a 5 star operator in the Ionian on Trip Adviser in our area – make sure the boat operator you are booking the holiday with is on Trip Adviser.  Trip Adviser is widely regarded as being the largest and best independent review site on the web.  It is free for companies to list themselves and they have no control over reviews left by clients.  It is a superb method of advertising and it is FREE!  So if a charter operator is not on Trip Adviser, you need to ask yourself, “why not….?”.

Our yachts are “owner managed”. They are owned by individuals and entrusted to Nisos Yacht Charter to manage the yacht on their behalf. The yachts are all very high specification, lovingly prepared and expertly maintained. There is no advertising plastered over the hull and boom either!

When enquiring and booking your boat, you will only deal with Rowan Carver, one of the owners of Nisos Yacht Charter. Rowan will guide you through the process, ensuring you are on the correct programme (bareboat, assisted bareboat or skippered) and the best matched boat to your requirements. Rowan knows what is possible and what is not on holiday and will make sure your expectations are managed to what is possible by the Operation on the ground in Greece. Once in Greece, all the Nisos staff will be extremely welcoming, accommodating and helpful.

If you have any problems at all whilst out on your sailing holiday, we are only a phone call away.  If something stops working or you have a medical issue, we can be with you extremely quickly using our ex RNLI Atlantic 21 life boat.  Our superb mobile engineering team can fix pretty much anything and get you underway again with the minimum of fuss.

We do Bareboat Charters, Assisted Bareboat Charters, Skippered Charters and Villa Holidays in the Ionian Islands, Greece.  We can accommodate all sailing abilities and ages.

If you have ever laid awake agonising over if your anchor is slipping or indeed having problems finding somewhere shallow enough to anchor safely, be it for lunch or over night, you will appreciate the importance of having lots of anchor chain and a decent anchor! We fit a minumum of 60m of all anchor chain, and usually much more (100m on a 34ft boat for example!) and ROCNA anchors across the fleet. It really does make a huge difference to your holiday! A decent operator will be able to tell you exactly what kit is fitted to the boat you intend to charter. If they can’t/won’t then look elsewhere!

On all yachts we have now fitted UV treatment/filter systems to the water supply, so that the water in the tanks can be safely drunk.  This massively cuts down on the need to purchase bottled water which apart from the financial benefit has a huge environmental benefit to the area.

Most charter companies will require you to refill the fuel tank at the end of your holiday.  If your chosen charter company is based in a busy marina, then the “bun fight” on your last day, trying to get on to the fuel dock, is not the ideal end to a holiday!

With Nisos, we do not require you to refill the fuel tank.  We will do that once you have vacated the yacht.  Much more relaxing!!  The fuel cost is even included in the price of your holiday!