Firstly, I have come to the conclusion that the huge variation in people's reviews is largely due to the differences in prices paid. I booked 2 nights here with a friend who had to go home but it worked out at less than £16.50 per night each all inclusive so I don't think you can grumble about too much at that price!
Best things - The room was very nice with a terrace overlooking the pool. The pool and garden surrounding were lovely. I liked the food. There was less choice than in a lot of hotels but what there was was good. It wasn't too good for vegetarians because things weren't labelled and it was a bit hard to find out what was in them but you could get by-in fact I had a lovely vegetable stew thing. You didn't have lots of puddings (which are horrible in most hotels anyway) - there was just melon / water melon or ice cream when I was there. On the day I left I stayed for lunch and was glad I did because there were lovely whole fish (maybe sea bream?) and I have never seen that in a cheapo all inclusive before. The bread was lovely and the red wine was fine and the beer wasok. There was a nice little beach not far away that was quite unspoiled (as long as you didn't look around into the next bay and see the oil refinery or whatever it was)
Worst things - The hotel is on a very busy main road. It is set back a bit and you are not aware of it in the pool area but at night the pool bar is shut and the bar is in this vast reception area and the only place to sit outside is at the front of the hotel where you can really hear the road. They should really do something to make the pool bar nicer and have that open at night. There was not a great choice of drinks at all but maybe they were running out of things in Oct. The 'cocktails' were weird and were made from a bottle of something premixed and soda water.Also AI finishes at 11pm. Some of the staff were not very friendly but some were nice.
The location is awful in the sense that there is no real town or village. It seems to be just a string of hotels for miles along a main road. On the other hand the bus stops right outside and it is not far into Rhodesor to Faliraki and you can also get buses down the east coast. It makes a good base for exploring and I wish I had stayed there longer instead of then going to stay in Rhodes town because you could visit there really easily and the buses run till late.
- Hotel Princess Flora
