Having read the bad reviews about this hotel, I was dreading spending a week there and my bad expectations were all met. The rooms are very basic and don't get cleaned properly, at least this was the impression that we got. Carpets, sheets, towels were stained. The bath tub had cracks and stains, the water pressure was just okay. The toiletries provided are not good, shower gel smelled quite bad. In addtion, the soap bar never got changed by the cleaning lady. The mattress of my bed was so soft I could hardly sleep, I asked for a change the next day but it hardly made any difference. We had a sea view room and yes the view was very nice, we could see Turkey from our balcony and the sunset was beautiful. Saying that, it was not pleasant to stay on the balcony as it overlooked a very busy and noisy road. However it was all right to sleep at night if the balcony was closed. Air conditioning worked very well and we had no complaints about it.
The location of this hotel is very good, 5 minutes walk to the main shops and 10 minutes to the beatiful old town.
Coming to the food, please do not book the half board option as the buffet dinner is appalling. I personally found the food terrible, there was little variety and nothing seemed fresh or well cooked. The whole dining experience was actually very depressing. For a start, the tablecloths don't get changed after people leave their table, the waiters just brush them to remove crumbles etc so those who arrive late (dinner is served between 18:30 and 21:00) will have to eat their sad dinner on a stained tablecloth. I highly recommed dining outside as Rhodes has plenty of restaurants to choose from.
We never used the pool as it was very small and constantly occupied and Rhodes has amazing beaches so it would be crazy to sit by the pool.
This is a very honest review that I hope will prevent some people who want 4 standards from booking this hotel. For those who can get a good deal and are happy with 2 star quality, it could be okay.

If you book the sea view rooms it's really nice, although the back yard rooms can be depressive... but then be prepared for a lot of noise from the road, as the island never sleeps and the bar street is only steps away...The hotel shop has really good prices, the buffet is quite nice with variety for dinner of greek specialties. The staff is nice and friendly, the bus stop to/from the airport is right outside, so you dont need to pay for a taxi. Within walking distance to the old town, the bars, clubs, etc. Generally, I'd go back to this hotel, as it's also cheaper than the other neighbour hotels.

I visited this hotel when I was sent from Semiramis hotel (also reviewed), due to a problem Semiramis faced with rooms availability and the reservation I had made.

The room I was given, was the worst hotel room I have ever seen. They called it "city view" room. The city view was the block of apartments just 100m across my balcony! I could see into the apartments people cooking or washing!

The room itself was dated, with very basic furnitures. The bathroom was so small that I could barely fit in there! In general, it did not give me the impression of a clean room and I could not stay in there not even for a minute!

I asked them to change my room. They told me that they didn't have any rooms available and that they did not know whether they would have another room available the next day.

I just left the room key, and left.

I'm guessing this hotel was a great 4 star hotel in the 70/80ies. Now it's a 2+ star.
My wife and I stayed here at the end of June 2011 based on the star rating and the many positive reviews. Boy, was I wrong about this hotel....
It started a month before our arrival when I found out we had a very late flight and needed a late checkout, shower facilities, or an additional night there. I sent the hotel a mail, which didn't get answered. I then had to speak to hotels.com(where I'd booked the hotel) to pay for an extra night instead. They were very helpful, the hotel was not.
Then, when we arrived at the hotel, we thought the lobby looked quite nice. But once we got to the room we were VERY disappointed. It looked like some youth hostel or something. The rooms were clean, but the carpet was stained, the bedspread had mold-specs(you can zoom in on the bed-picture to see), the bathroom was tiny, and the shower would give anyone claustrophobia. There were cracks in the ceiling in the shower, and all furniture, AC, carpet, hairdryer and bedspread were all from the 70/80ies.
This is copied from their own website: "All rooms are recently renovated.
They are elegantly furnished, have 24 hour air-conditioning, satellite TV, mini bar, hair-dryer and music in the bathroom." "The BLUE SKY Beach Hotel is a category A hotel"
Well, by recently renovated they mean that they have changed some of the lamps and the light swithes, a shower head or two, and in some rooms removed the carpet. Other than that, nothing has been done. I looked into other rooms in the hall, and they looked the same as ours.
We were mortified but had to make the best of it so we stayed for a night. That night involved screaming and yelling from the bar street right outside the window, cars with music blearing, and the AC cooled too much so we were both freezing(I'll get back to the AC). In addition to this the bed was so hard we actually had red marks on our bodys in the morning. (And I don't have problems with hard beds.) you can compare it to sleeping on a medium thick carpet on a hard floor.
Needless to say we were both unhappy and tired as we didn't get any sleep that night.
I spoke with the lady in the reception who was helpful and found an alternate room for us. This room was a little bigger, had a bath instead of only shower, and so it wasn't as claustrophobic. It was also a bit further from bar street so it helped a lot. But still the room looked the same. same furniture, same hard beds, same carpet, etc.
Let's move on to the AC. It was actually quite funny as in the first room the AC didn't turn on unless you set it to below 15 deg centigrade. Then it started and went on and on until you turned it slightly above 15 deg. In the second room you had to turn it to just below 5 degrees to get it to work, and slightly above 5 degrees to turn it of. If it didn't react when you did this you had to turn it on, off, move the fan speed up and down a few times then it started, usually.
We got twin beds in the second room. One of these had a large "dump" in it where people had weighed it down through the times. (see image). Because of the hardness of the beds we resorted to laying down some blankets under the sheets. This helped a little.
The shower pressure was not good but almost adequate. (See image.)
Someone had tried putting silicone in the cracks around the bath and walls, but I don't think that person was a carpenter.. (see image) But at least the cracks were sealed...
Next: the breakfast:
This was supposed to be American Breakfast. We were hoping the breakfast was nice at least. It wasn't.
They had sausages, fried eggs, bacon and sometimes french fries. Problem was the sausages wasn't very good, but alright (one morning they had some chorizo-ish sausage which only tasted of fat.) Then they had bread of different types which was alright, but the only thing you could have on were one type of cheese(which i wasn't particularly fond of), some cheap jam(which tasted artificial), and two types of meat (baloney of some kind) but no ham, no turkey slices nothing else. They also had some cereal, and some tomato beans(which i didn't try as it didn't look right.. The colour was more brown/yellow than red as they usually are so I skipped it)
They had some fruit as well.
The last day we bought some lunch at the grocer's next door. They had some mini baguettes with turkey ham and cheese. these were quite good. We would rather have bought our breakfast there than eat in the hotel had we known about it sooner.

Oh, yeah. The pool is way too small so all the sunbeds gets "toweled" before breakfast, but the sun doesn't reach the whole pool until between 1 and 3 pm. I'm guessing 1/3-1/2 of the pool area had sun at noon. The beach is alright if you rent a sunbed(large round rocks and pebbles all over(see image) with a constant wind to keep you cool. But for calm swimming I'd choose the east beach.

The sunset was nice though. And the location is alright. Bar street is close if you want it, restaurants are all over, and you're close (5-10 min walk) to the shopping area in town. You're also quite close to old town, but Ellis beach(eastern beach) is a bit far to go to every day.

If you expect 2 stars you'd probably be pleasantly surprised. If you're expecting 4 stars you'll be utterly disappointed.
A tip to the hotel: Get the hotel music working again and start playing Love boat theme, Bee gees, mambo and Tom Jones over and over again. In addition you could hang some 70ies clothing in the closets of the rooms for the guests to wear to get in the mood.
As for the people who has been giving this hotel great reviews...: have they done the 70ies theme all the way and lit up a doobie....? I can't imagine what else could have happened....