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Dinghy Sailing Holiday in Porto Heli, Greece with Neilson

months available

May, June, July, August, September, October

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Description

Dinghy Sailing Holiday in Porto Heli, Greece with Neilson.  Porto Heli is the perfect destination for keen dinghy sailors, whilst still providing excellent facilities and attractions for non-active family and friends.

Porto Heli stretches around the head of a large bay at the tip of the Argolic Peninsula, opposite the island of Spetses. A pine-covered headland almost encloses the bay and creates a large, natural, safe sailing area, beyond which are attractive pine-fringed coves, quiet sandy beaches and waterside tavernas that can all be explored by mountain bike or dinghy.

Porto Heli is also in a great location for exploring classical Greece with Mycenae, Navplion, Epidavros, Athens and the islands of Hydra and Poros all within easy reach.

The bay and area just beyond provides the perfect conditions and space to race and improve your technique and skills on our excellent range of high perfomance and asymmetric dinghies.

Our beach is across the road from the Nautica Bay Beachclub. The spacious hotel grounds and extensive facilities offer plenty of independence for youngsters of all ages who will quickly make new friends. Evening entertainment is mainly centred around the hotel bar and roof top taverna. For party animals, there are a couple of nightclubs and late bars in and around Porto Heli village.

Good For:
 - All dinghy sailors
 - Dinghy race training
 - Beginner and intermediate windsurfers
 - Mountain biking
 - Flexible half board arrangement
 - Exploring the local area

What's Included:
 - Dinghy Sailing
 - Windsurfing
 - RYA instruction & courses
 - Mountain biking & guiding
 - Tennis
 - Try-dive
 - Children's clubs (excluding Starfish & Hot Shots)
 - Flights from Heathrow
 - Return airport transfers
 - Club Board

Dinghy Sailing
A wide range of dinghies offers variety and the opportunity to progress for everyone from beginners to experts.

We make the most of our extensive fleet of asymmetric boats with highly qualified and experienced instructors. We offer racing five days a week, beginners are most welcome and the wide range of boats allows everyone to improve their sailing, regardless of age or ability. A weekly day sail takes us out of the bay to a local taverna for a swim and lunch and when conditions allow we take improver groups out of the bay into the Argolic Gulf to experience higher winds and the opportunity to sail the RS 800.

Inclusive Tuition and Equipment
• RYA Dinghy Sailng Level 1-2, Seamanship Skills, Sailing with Spinnakers, Performance Sailing and Start Racing
• 2 Laser Funboats
• 27 Laser Pico
• 14 Laser 1
• 5 Laser 2000
• 4 Laser 4000
• 2 Laser Stratos
• 4 Dart 16
• 5 Optimist
• 6 RS Feva
• 3 RS 200
• 3 RS 400
• 1 RS 500
• 1 RS 800
• 2 29er

Windsurfing
Beginner and intermediate windsurfers will enjoy the mix of wind conditions, with flat water in the bay creating excellent conditions for learning the basics and intermediates to learn harness technique.

Inclusive Tuition and Equipment
• RYA Windsurfing - Start Windsurfing and Intermediate (planing and non-planing).
• 50 Beginner and improver boards from Starboard, HiFly and F2
• 10 Shortboards from Starboard, HiFly and F2
• 60 Rigs (3.5m to 8.0m) plus junior rigs Mountain Biking Porto Heli offers great riding for all abilities.

Beginners will enjoy the wide open trails, which allow a relaxing introduction to off-road biking. Those willing to go further afield will experience more challenging climbs up to some fantastic viewpoints and fast, flowing descents to the quaint neighbouring villages and lots of technical singletrack trails.

Our Bikes
This is one of our recommended resorts for mountain biking and as such, we offer a fleet of 16 high quality mountain bikes, predominantly from Gary Fisher, two experienced bike guides, trained to cater for all your biking needs and on most days, there will be two or three rides available including routes with greater distances and more challenging terrain. 

Scuba Diving
For all of our diving in Porto Heli we use the PADI recognised Kallianos Dive Centre based on a small island opposite the village of Ermioni, just a few miles from Porto Heli. The island is home to nothing more than the dive centre, it's diving platform and a shaded area to create the perfect getaway. The Discover Scuba Diving course goes directly from the small island whilst those with more experience are taken by boat to a variety of dive sites nearby. Dive courses are bookable locally and are subject to avaiability

About Neilson
We've been around for around 25 years. We started as two separate companies, one providing top-end ski holidays and the other taking people sailing in Greece. For around two decades we became better and better at putting together holidays, one company doing fun things in the snow, the other having adventures in the Med. Then, in 1999, Thomas Cook, who owned both companies, decided that it would make sense for us to join together. That was when the famous orange logo appeared, and Neilson as we know it came into existence.

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