"My wife and I have just returned from a week-long stay at the Asterias Beach Hotel, which was a first visit for us, and what a wonderful stay we had.
We think this is the best all-inclusive hotel we have stayed in over the last 10 years !! As we checked in very late after the resturant had closed, the hotel brought up some sandwiches and snacks straight up to our room after check-in. With thought this was a lovely touch. The other interesting thing on check-in is that each person is gven a plastic water bottle with the hotel branding on it, which you can keep. You fill these up for free at designated cold water stations in a number of the bars. The hotel also has a lovely little shop which is very resonably priced.
The hotel is modern, spotlessly clean, in a fantastic location right by Makronissos beach, has superb facilities and well-appointed rooms. In our room we particularly
loved the walk in power shower and the fact that the in-room safe is free to use (a rarity these days especially compared to many places). Towels are also changed daily. The food in the restaurant is of very high quality with lots of variety. The restaurant has a different theme night every day which is a lovely touch.
The pool areas are also spotlessly cleaned and well maintained with more than enough sun loungers and umbrellas available to go around for guests to use.
All the staff are really friendly and engaging, from the cleaners, gardeners, restaurant, bar and reception staff. Particular praise for the lovely cleaning lady on floor one for looking after us, the reception staff for dealing with our queries and
Antonis (think I have his name right?), in the Restaurant. Always gave us a lovely welcome and fussed over us at lunch and dinner.
The hotel has a varied evening entertainment programme which usually starts at 9pm, we loved the Cypriot dancing group in particular. There are also activities in the pool and varios locations around the hotel during the day.
Couple of notes; drinks are served via table service at the restaurant during lunch and dinner and at the cocktail bar, with the AI package offering a wide variety of beverages. The free Wi-Fi is exceptional in all parts of the hotel, working in IT
Digital Services myself I was very impressed with this. We never experienced any buffering issues at all.
The beach area can get very busy during the day as it is open to the public, we got up early every day at 7am and went for a 45min dip before breakfast,again this was fantastic mixing with the older locals in their swimming club who use it for their daily exercises etc. Great to see the beach before the masses descended on it.
One useful tip - if you have a late flight on your last day (as we did), the Spa (which is amazing by the way) has locker, shower and changing facilities available and towels can be provided too as part of the AI package. There is a left luggage store as well located by reception. This allowed us to spend the last few hours of our holiday relaxing by the pool.
Main clientel at the hotel are german speaking, however quite a few of us brits were there too and a springling of other nationalities.
So the bottom line is, would we return. Absolutely, its amazing !!"
