We visited the Dolphin Bay Holiday Resort 10.6.-17.6.2006. The brochure described this hotel as 4*plus and so does the sign infront of the hotel. As soon as we arrived to the hotel's reception we knew this was not 4*plus hotel. Very basic reception hall. Never mind that, but when we got to see our rooms that was a real shock. The rooms had built in beds made of bricks (painted yellow) laid with mattress on top. Very hard to sleep on! The tiles in the bathroom on the wall were falling off. And our promised views on either the sea, the pool or the mature gardens were also far from the truth! Our view consisted of the look on the roof of the canteen and a bit of the entrance hall. Our friend's room had a view of some very dry trees and 5 chimneys from the not far oil factory. We actually changed for this hotel because we didn't want to see these chimneys at all! And instead going to the beautifull Apollonia Hotel next to us (which lived to its 5*), which is near the oil factory we chose the Dolphin Bay, which offers "the view" of the chilmeys anyway. And unfortunatelly our hotel's surroundings didn't make up for the terrible rooms and some of the views! Though I have to say that hotel's staff were cleaning the rooms on daily basis (clean towels, etc).
Entertainment was very poor. Only a bingo and some competitions which weren't funny at all because they were conducted by one qiute irritating man. Entertainment was boring and lasted from 9.45pm to 22.30 or 23.00 with very long breaks in between! So we had an early bed on most of the occasions.
As for the food (all inclusive), it wasn't that bad but it lacked fresh fruit. All we had was watermelon every day and tinned peaches. Few apples, oranges for first 10 people maybe. The man who was giving the water was very tight about it. We were all inclusive in over 30 degrees temperatures and he woudn't gives us enough water to drink with our meals!!! Why saving on water? The 50 litre container cost 3 euros in the shops. So it's not even that expensive. He treated the German guests with more respect and manners than the rest of us.
They had 1 man at the pool bar who didn't know who to serve first (on average 20 people waiting to be served each time).
As we were leaving we couldn't help ourselves and had to speak to the owner. He listened to us for a bit and then in the middle of my "speech" he started talking to another man in greek. So he ignored us pretty much and had very uncomfortable grin on his face! And therefore we won't be coming to this hotel ever again and won't be suggesting it to any of our friends! That's for sure. We would give this hotel rating of 2*plus!