Lindos Royal Resort

Just to state, the hotel was nice, and this is not a moan about the negatives. This is just honest and helpful info. We chose this hotel as its stated as 5*, but it’s nowhere near. It doesn’t even try to be, by customer service and condition of facilities. All it does it set a high bar and then fail. Its struggling to be a 4*, probably nearer to 3.5*. Let me take you through it... THE ROOM We had a family room in block 1, in the main building (room 1404). We can't comment about any other room, such as the swim up rooms or superior rooms. Spacious and reasonably clean, the room isn't tired, but they were also not as modern *as you'd expect from a 5*. There were only two chairs on the balcony even though the family room slept four people. The walk-in shower was nice though. The aircon controls in each room are pretty pointless as setting a different temperature makes no difference - they cool the room a bit, but not a lot. We asked reception 3 times to check ours, as our children’s room was noticeably cooler - they didn't come, and when we chased it they admitted the maintenance team were closing the jobs down without even looking. We gave up asking. We had ants in the room and a can of mosquito spray was sent up to the room for us to use. This was after we were accused of taking food into our room which we hadn't. An observation about the swim up rooms – they are not very exclusive – many are next to public areas, so there is little privacy, and the pools are shared, with little per-room space. Think of it like staying in a terraced house compared to a detached house. FOOD One main restaurant with indoor and outdoor dining areas. Busier inside due to aircon cooling. There is also a few stray cats hanging around at meal times under the tables. Large cold salad area and hot meals - all pretty good, although can be a bit samey after a week. Live cooking stations for pizza and pasta are always popular, often with a long queue. Always good dessert and fruit area. Some things are randomly placed, although you get used to it atter a few days. *Tip - butter is usually hidden at the back of the salads near the bread. Breakfasts are pretty good - seem to pride themselves on their American breakfast although you can make a good full English out of what’s available. The staff will serve drinks to your table, the only place they use glass - everywhere else is plastic and paper cups. *Tip - keep your glass and decant your plastic cup bar drinks into it. Snack bar at the pool bar serves different snacks on different days - pizza, gyros, hot dogs etc. GETTING AROUND It can be confusing where to go in the hotel - particularly as the lifts use different level numbers for the same floor. If you explore the corridors you will find routes to where you want to go, with lifts appearing in random places. *Tip - the quickest route from the pool bar area to the main pair of lifts, is to walk through the restaurant, towards the right, past the single lift

Upon going to this resort I read the horrors stories below of bad reviews, we actually tried to changed our hotel and weren't able too, we are glad we didn't. Just back from a week in Lindos royal and we had a brilliant time, Pros were definitely the outdoor restaurants, location, staff and entertainment. 10/10 for all. Tommy the entertainment manager was amazing and always checking in with us to make sure we were ok. The location beside the beach was beautiful, ten minutes in a taxi to Lindos which is our favourite place and the shop and rent a car place outside the resort we visited regularly were the staff are so helpful and polite Cons is the rooms and buffet is basic, we didn't have children with us but they are very fussy eaters I'm not sure how I would have fed him every night with the food selection. The room was standard. First night we arrived we could hear every door slam and was 4am before we got to sleep with people shouting and partying, I know this isn't the hotels falut but thicker walls or soft close hinges on the doors to avoid them slamming. Would definitely say 3 star for the rooms and buffet. However the rest is definitely 4 to 5 star. Don't let the bad reviews put you off. We had the best week staying here after dreading coming. And that's even with two days of rain were we hired a car and went exploring around the beautiful island 😊

Amazing stay at the Lindos royal, staff have been nothing but the best, food has been great and the rooms along with facilities provided have been fantastic (very clean). We also booked the restaurant called the thematic restaurant which is joint with the hotel. The restaurant has been an amazing experience, waiters and waitresses were very attentive. George the waiter could not have been more apologetic about the a very short delay for our wine and brought us two Greek drink shots to apologise, I want to thank George for this as he didn’t need to do this for us but me and my partner both appreciated this.

We ate at the thematic restaurant George was lovely really nice food and service. Not to mention the great sea view as well. Rooms are spacious the facilities around the hotel can be worked on mind a lot of the toilet doors around the complex do not lock, there doesn’t appear to be any showers around the pool areas and the walk down to the private bay where there are sun beds etc could be improved on by resurfacing and placing sofas / more comfortable seating I.e cabanas.

The hotel itself has good facilities and the beach is on the doorstep. Food is plentiful and good. We arrived around 11.30pm and the hotel had hot food waiting for us which was a great welcome. We had a family room for 4 which was nice, it had a dividing door and windows, but curtains would have been nice for extra privacy to change etc. Hotel staff were very helpful. The onsite shop which was well stocked was open until 11pm. There were lots of cats and kittens around the site, which we and many others loved, so avoid if you have a cat phobia. The only disappointing thing was they didnt have an iron to use, but did have laundry service. Also, the running machines in the gym were both out of order. We went at the end of season, so wasnt too busy and had a really relaxing holiday.