Olympos Beach Hotel

Service was so good in Olympos Beach hotel, 5/5. The whole staff was so friendly every day. My family really enjoyed our trip in this hotel. Facilities were a bit old and worn 3-4/5, but it didn't matter. I'd go again to Olympos beach hotel, total 4/5.

At first, I was going to rate this hotel 2/5, but having stayed there for two weeks and my initial anger subsiding, I decided to give it 3/5 instead. But first things first: We booked this hotel many months back through the travel agency, and when we finally got there we were told by the receptionist that the hotel is currently over-booked, and we will be staying in a nearby (3 minutes by foot) hotel. This stay lasted two-days. When being asked is this normal practice, the receptionist answered that yes, indeed, it is quite normal on the islands. Yeah, right, quite normal my ass (pardon my French), especially when it seems that the hotel is almost half-empty most of the time. Eventually, after two-days we were told that our room is ready, and we've got a ground-floor family room, the doors of which is adjacent to the pool. In the evening, we've also got a compensation in a form of crappy dry white whine that no one would actually drink and some fruits (you know, the standard shebang). A couple of days after, I've noticed that some other guests also were receiving such "compensations", so, be careful, if you are thinking of booking, because you might be transferred to another place entirely. The room that we were in was okey, I guess, but in comparison to the apartment building, to which we were transferred for two days, it was bad: the bathroom did not have any air-extraction system (or if it had, it did not work), so after any kind of warm showering the bathroom was quite moist to a point that even the toilet paper gets wet. The shower also is kinda interestingly built - it has a glass panel, but it's length is clearly too little, because water gets easily out on the bathroom's tiles from the shower cabin. Mini-bar is filled only once and never again (this is mentioned in the booklet), however, we did get a refill twice (probably because we stayed there for two weeks). What I found odd, however is the fact that, if you want any bottled water (outside from that which you get in a mini bar once per stay), you're out of luck unfortunately - you will have to buy bottled water in nearby shops. First time I'm seeing this kind of non-sense, especially in a four star hotel. The main hotel building is large enough (has five floors), but its environs are quite small. You go out from the sub-floor to the pool area, you go some 100 meters and you reach their private beach. I'm guessing that 4 stars was given just for this fact, because, IMO, no, this isn't a four star hotel, more like a 3 star (out of curiosity I then began searching up the ratings for this hotel, and it was one hundred seventy something, while the apartments [which are not even a hotel] in which we stayed at was in the seventieth something place). The hotel has some over-priced shops, so your best bet is to either catch a bus to Falikari or just walk one give or take kilometre and find some cheaper places to shop around at. On a plus side, I don't know how they are during Summer,

Nice hotel with a few disappointments, firstly a very slow and disappointing check in with the hotel being overbooked and members of our booking had to be relocated for two nights but the receptionist decided to wait until the rest of us went to our rooms to tell them hoping to not make a fuss. Additionally we booked 7 days and nights but didn’t arrive until the early hours of the first night, meaning we payed for a day we didn’t use, we asked could we keep a room on for our last day as we weren’t being picked up until 8pm but got told no meaning we had to sit in reception for a dreadful 8 hours. Man in the pizza bar was extremely unhelpful leaving people standing when he was finished making pizza before his break. Although pizzas were nice. Additionally housekeeping came into our room when we had the do not disturb sign on with our belongings scattered around the room which made us feel uneasy. Food was okay the Sunday night dinner was there best with steak being offered. Only thing is food is repetitive with the same things being offered at both lunch and dinner 7 days a week. Food was not the best quality either especially breakfast. Gyros would have been a nice edition to the menu. Entertainment was not the best most of the time it sounded like drowning cats with absolutely no atmosphere. Daytime entertainment was horrific with the same music same games every single day. Taking up most of the pool meaning in the hot hours we had to navigate around a bunch of dancing grannies or get out. Additionally if your spending a lot of time in the pool maybe this is not the hotel for you with the pool being quite small and the bottom being dirty. One evening during our stay we ran out of toilet paper and asked reception for some more we got told they didn’t have any to give until the next morning meaning we had to go to bed and wait, the next morning we still received none. Maybe it would be helpful for the reception desk to have a storage of essentials for emergencies. You only get one room key meaning you are relying on your companion. The lady at the pool bar during day time hours was lovely as-well as the lady cooking at the live cooking station. Reception was always happy to call a taxi for you. Room was nice but balcony view was blocked off by the restaurants roof. Additionally higher floors seem to have a nicer room with updated furnishings and kettles. Although we have these complaints we did have a lovely stay and would come back for the price we payed.