"Positives:
Its not far from the airport – just €15 in a taxi
Its just 5 minutes walk from the main town
Its close to a bank (right across the way with an ATM)
Its close to a well stocked supermarket (5 minutes walk)
The showers get hot
The main double bed was comfortable
The rooms are a reasonable size
The air conditioning is very good
The WiFI was OK (~6-8mb/s)
It has pool
The rooms have full length mirrors, a small TV, a table to eat at and the kitchen has plenty of cupboards and a fridge
On most days you could get a sun lounger by the pool with no problem and they are in the sun all day with shade if you need it
There is a reasonably well stocked and not too expensive vending machine on site and it seems you can bring your own drinks and food to the pool
Good sized balcony with great views – you could see the sea and airport runway
Cupboard space in the bedroom was good and there were plenty of hangars
Blackout shutters kept the room nice and dark at night
Breakfast is plentiful albeit odd – cereal but no milk, 1 cold omelette for four people, 4 cold coffees but no milk
Negatives:
57 steps up (and of course down) each time you come and go although the hotel staff will help with your cases if you can find them to ask
Its tatty and tired – the host’s photos are a long way out of date (many years I’d say)
The shower wouldn’t stay on the wall and you had to hold it with your hand, it also had a split so water shot out sideways or into your eye
The towels would hardly go round a toddler, let alone a fully grown person and they are laundered on-site and dried in the sun by the pool. This makes them quite harsh
The pool was grimy with a green mark all around the edge and it made your swimming costume green. It was clearly not cleaned regularly enough or at all
The sunbeds around the pool are old, dirty and tatty
The breakfast is served between 08.30 and 10.30 but arrives between 08.30 and 08.45 like it or not
We had a 4 person room with a double and two singles. The dining table only had two chairs, the balcony only had 3 chairs, the bedroom had an office chair
The kitchen cupboards were like the aftermath of a Greek Taverna night as almost everything must have been smashed and the remains shoved in the cupboard - we had just 2 small dinner plates, one side plate and two bowls for four people
The kitchen drawer was stocked as if someone had stood at the other side of the kitchen and used the drawer as a target and chucked the cutlery to see what would land – for four people we had, 2 dinner knives, a steak knife, 3 tablespoons, 1 teaspoon and 3 forks.
We had two wine glasses, two tall glasses and one small one to share between us plus two coffee cups
The bathroom was tatty, rusty and poorly maintained, honestly I don’t think anyone has paid any attention to it for at least 10 years
There is no bar on site
People from other hotels seemed to be using the facilities
The pool was full of variously deflated and semi deflated pool apparatus which effectively became a free for all as no one seemed to own most of them. This is all very well but if you bought your own stuff and turned your back someone was entering your donut or playing with your balls.
There was no orientation discussion or anything to speak of in the room to explain anything and no one once asked us how things were or if we needed anything during our 10 days
Like the bathroom the kitchen is also old and tatty. Its billed as self-catering but there is no microwave – just a dangerous looking, old fashioned two ring burner if you dared use it
There was a window in the kitchen which was very overlooked but no curtain or blind
There was one old arm chair and an old sofa both covered with a throw which for sure isn’t laundered between guests – both were grubby and there’s a coffee table too
The steps up to the twin beds were precarious to say the least, anyone unsteady, particularly young kids would need help. If you have anyone under the age of about 8 you’d want to help them up and down, even if it were in the middle of the night
There is some noise from planes landing and taking off but its not a major issue to be fair
In Summary:
All in all this is an average to under average hotel, definitely too expensive and very under invested. The on-site staff were pleasant enough but the hotel manager clearly doesn’t own the place and doesn’t really care too much about guests or the hotel’s reputation. This really could be a nice place if they just spent a bit of money. Get rid of the hotplates in the kitchen - I bet no one ever uses them – replace them with a microwave – its far more useful. Get down to the shops and buy some cutlery and crockery so that you have enough for four people to eat at the same time instead of having to eat and drink in shifts. Make sure you have sufficient chairs for the number of guests. Its not rocket science it’s just basic stuff. Invest in some bath towels, fix the shower head (I saw one for €12 in the supermarket and nearly bought it myself), update the bathroom and kitchen. Straighten the cabinets out, replace the rusty old glass and toilet roll holders and the waste bin. Fix the sliding shower door so that the two sides actually meet in the middle and keep the water in. For the lost income from the few guests who read this and similar reviews you could do all of this and significantly improve the guest experience and the review ratings. I wouldn’t stay again as things stand and unless this was at the lower end of the cost spectrum where you expect to make compromises I wouldn’t recommend it to friends."
