Olympos Beach Hotel

Hotel 3 star at best hotel maids were absolutely brilliant the food court is what you expect plenty of choice but a struggle for the picky eaters the bar inside the hotel is very unfriendly the bar man is very arrogant and made our evenings uncomfortable all the other hotel staff were great a long ten days feeling uncomfortable

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,

We have been to this hotel 5 times as a couple very good reception staff very welcoming room large a d very spacious my only gripe would be the bathroom needs an urgent upgrade very outdated small bath and very small shower head not modernised food very good choice and replenished quickly very well run restaurant bar staff very friendly big thumbs up to all especially stavoras pool area very good and cleaned daily need to change the sunbeds style old and tired very uncomfortable pool bar ran extremely well big well done to Natasia always served you with a big smile thank you all for our lovely stay if the small improvements were made to this hotel then we definitely go back otherwise we will try another hotel in the area