We got from the airport for quite a long time, almost 2 hours, because we were in the farthest hotel and there were about 20 people on the bus with us, until everyone was brought in... But this is perhaps the only negative.
We settled into the room instantly and were stunned by the new renovation, new furniture, the whole hotel seemed to be built yesterday, super new renovation. We took a room with a sea view, we recommend it to everyone, it's very beautiful. (we had 3208)
We liked the food, of course, not for sophisticated gourmets, but no one will remain hungry, there is always a choice of meat from 4-5 courses for dinner, some fish. Lunches are a little less varied. For those who are especially lazy on the beach at lunchtime, you can also have a bite to eat at the bar, only one thing is bad from alcohol on the beach, only beer, strong alcoholic drinks by the pool...
The hotel is purely for couples with children and for couples over 35, young people will be frankly bored there, this is a hotel for passive recreation.
So what else. . . The sea. . . The sea is SUPER!! ! The beach is 3 minutes from the hotel, you need to cross the path and go down the stairs (69 steps), there are a lot of sunbeds. The sea itself is magnificently clean....Just crystal clear water with many fish, a huge number of stone boulders at the bottom, who likes to swim with a mask - I recommend it, it's very beautiful. Yes, who with children do not forget to take a bun with you to the beach after breakfast and while there are few people in the morning feed the fish, the children will get indescribable pleasure, huge flocks of fish just pounce on pieces of bread...
Beach towels are provided at the spa and are changed every other day.
Be sure to rent a car!! ! We took it for 2 days and, in principle, this is enough, we traveled around the entire island and looked at everything, there are not so many sights on the island, I won’t tell, you will find it yourself, but the nature is just CHIC, small mountains and the beautiful Aegean Sea.
So Greece and specifically Rhodes were very pleased!
The resting contingent was approximately 30% Russian, 30% Italian and 30% French, who were replaced by the Germans after 5 days. All of us behaved culturally. On the beach, a sea of sunbeds, you can always find free ones. On the beach, ours are always the first, by 8 in the morning, then foreigners come up. But this is probably because of the time zones. I have a time difference of + 3 hours to the local one, so at 7th place we are on our feet, and foreigners probably minus an hour, so they will sleep more. I'm talking about the myth of Russians greedy for sunbeds. By the way, it was funny to watch a couple of German pensioners, both in thongs and topless, who changed their thongs for new ones every 20 minutes, right there, near the sunbeds. On the beach, an Englishman is engaged in water attractions, always dissatisfied when you do not understand English well and kindly smiling at foreigners, although it was mostly Russians who took jet skis and boats from him. You can also eat at the beach bar, drinks only non-alcoholic cocktails and beer.
The climb from the beach to the hotel is steep. It's hard at first, then you get used to it. Animation - Well done Italians. The whole day on the beach, in the bar, by the pool is occupied by those who wish, in the evening there are shows. Laid out in full. The penultimate day was the hotel's 20th anniversary. Thought it would be something special. All the tourists gathered at the pool in the evening, take their seats at the bar. Service staff with their wives and children in the center. We are waiting 2 hours. Then the manager arrived, the chef brought out a huge cake, they cut it for the servants, poured them champagne each, under our eyes. Then fireworks. Curtain ...We went to a bar . . Excursions were taken only to the island of Symi, for Christians. Excursions around the island do not advise, everything is expensive. Better to rent a car. Renting 4 days of a Volkswagen Polo came out at 180 euros + 50 euros of gasoline. And any excursion costs from 55 euros to 80 per person, even to Lindos, which is 20 km from us. And you don't have to wait for everyone to be picked up and taken away. Dashed 700km, Were everywhere.
Moreover, they left after breakfast and arrived an hour before the end of lunch. You go wherever you want, you arrive until it's hot and there is no influx of tourists from buses. The signs on the roads are faded and you can skip the turn, so take your time, although everything was already familiar on the 2nd day. I do not advise the water park, there are very few slides, in general, with children, a dozen. Moreover, if a child has bought a child ticket up to 12 years old, they hang a bracelet on their arm and they will only let him in where the baby is. On slides with rafts, rescuers do not look after people - you wait in line to slide down, you ask? Rescuer poking around in the phone waving Wali himself, as you wish. Once I managed to save a child from a collision, when at the end she got stuck in a raft, and her mother flew after her. I pulled the girl out, with my foot I kept the blow from the mother’s flight, and all this with the complete inactivity of the rescuers, who were not there at the end of the descent. Butterfly Valley is interesting at first.
Climbing uphill along the path and around the butterfly, though not very beautiful and the same, and you can see them before entering the turnstile for free. People are rising higher, languishing from fatigue, thinking of seeing new butterflies for their money, but nothing changes around and after walking for half an hour it will be the same around. Prasonisi, of course, you need to go, but after reading the reviews, you are waiting for something magnificent. And then the wind, the waves, people on parachutes on the boards on the waves. Here once again you understand how good it is that you looked at the car, looked like it, and then you drive or go home.
In general, the holiday was a success. By the way, the owner of the hotels Rhodes princesses, Lindos princesses and Adrian princesses is the same and the quality of service is almost the same, and the price of Rhodes princesses is the lowest. Yes, and more, for fans of Metaxa, buy better in Rhodes in stores than in duty free. the price is almost the same, but the taste is very different.
For themselves, they make more delicious and smelly, even 3-year-old, and taking 7-year-old and 5-year-old in Rhodes duty free, I felt the taste of ordinary alcohol, like our "cognac" for 300 rubles. In general, we had a good rest, the hotel is decent.
The cuisine is varied (and pork, and lamb, and chicken, and beef, and fish, and mussels, and fruits (watermelon, melon, grapes, apples, pears + canned pears, peaches), and pastries, and pizza (last day before departure and they got to it, and, of course, traditional Greek stuffed vegetables (tomatoes, eggplants)...
Swimming pool with 3 slides, one for children, 2.3 for adults.
Beach - I would call it very coarse sand (or pebbles with a diameter of 2.5 mm), there are also pebbles. Near the shore there is a place deeper (where they already swim) - there are large stones and a lot of fish (you can feed). On a ship with a transparent bottom, you will not see a richer bottom for living creatures! Umbrellas, sun loungers, towels - free of charge. The beaches in Rhodes are all free and municipal, so it’s better to take your mattresses at night (we had 2 nights, and disappeared on the third... ). On the beach bar (drinks, ice cream, fruit, pizza). You need to cross the road to the beach (there are few cars, you can only hear how a sightseeing electric car drives along it) and go down the stairs (it’s inconvenient with a stroller without a dad... )
There are many children. There is a mini-club, but Animators for children speak Italian, German, French, so they don’t take very young ones (4 years old) for a long time... We were near the pool, and the child was in the club (this is 3m).
In the evening animation on the open stage, first for children 20-21.00. Then an adult. Italian animators, visitors with their own program, scheduled for the days of the week - laid out 200%%. And then they also work at a discotheque (closed)...
In general, everyone works in their place at 150%. You can't think of a better hotel, especially for families with children.
I recommend renting a car, where to go to write, I won’t have this info enough.
We were very lucky with our fellow travelers, in addition to us, two more people came to this hotel (mother and daughter). My daughter (19 years old) knows English perfectly, so she translated everything for us. Even on the way to our room, we began to get very upset, we ran along the corridor, where the wind was howling, there were no tiles under our feet in some places, it was twilight and there were no windows around - it felt like we were in the basement. The room was standard, ten steps across the grass in front of our veranda were the windows of another building. This room was sold to us as a garden view room! Leaving things, we, with the same porter and our neighbors in misfortune, rushed to dinner, we were the only one there, we were offered cooled fatty pasta with the same cutlets, and slices of dried pizza, the waiter who was there gave us from a plate For some reason, there were 3 plums for four, after which he took this plate out of the hall.
Having had a bite of pizza, the four of us with our fellow travelers went to the reception with a request to change our rooms, but the smiling uncle sent us to bed and advised us to come up with this issue in the morning. The next day, having previously agreed with our neighbors, we were already at the reception at 9.30, where smiling pleasant women came to replace the uncle, we asked through our “translator” to change our rooms, having learned the reason for our dissatisfaction (basement, windows to windows) , she told us that our Russian tour operators booked exactly these rooms, although others were offered. We came to the conclusion that for us (Russians) the cheapest rooms are booked by our tour operators, and they are sold to us, no longer as cheap. By the way, the entire wing was indeed inhabited only by Russians. After that, we were given two keys to other rooms, in an additional building across the road.
We really liked the rooms, with balconies on the second floor, with a private pool, overlooking the sea, the neighbors are Germans, Italians and French. We then thanked the aunt from the reception with our Russian chocolate, which she opened in front of us and began to eat and smile. On this, all the bad things on our vacation ended, and a fairy tale began. After unpacking, we went to get acquainted with the hotel and its territory. All life there is concentrated in the center, on the 3rd floor the reception and the main hall, on the 2nd floor the main restaurant and bar, which continues to the 1st floor on the street, on the 0th floor there are swimming pools, a snack bar, ice cream, swimming pools (outdoor and indoor), a bar by the pool, a stage for evening performances and a road to the sea. Go to the sea for about 5 minutes, then go down the steps to the sea. Beach own, small pebbles, sunbeds, umbrellas and beach towels - free of charge. There is also a bar on the beach. Everything everywhere is free (ALL) and in unlimited quantity and good quality.
For breakfast, lunch and dinner (dress code) we went to the main restaurant, how everything was beautiful and tasty there (special thanks to the chefs) - can not be described in words. I was pleased with the choice of dishes: meat, chicken, fish, salads, seafood, vegetables, fruits, sweets, wines to choose from for lunch and dinner, friendly waiters. We went to the snack bar only once. We decided to go to an A la carte restaurant, made an appointment with our neighbors for the day, dressed up and ended up ...in this unloved snack bar.
The table in this eatery was covered with a white tablecloth (everyone else without them), and there were cutlery for 4 people. When we learned that the restaurant would be in a snack bar, we were very upset, but decided to go through with it.
The absurdity was that one table was set for us, we were sitting there in front of everyone, dressed like in a restaurant, and everyone walked past us in swimsuits and swimming trunks for a snack, we were offered to go to the same food ourselves as for everyone to the buffet (salads, pizzas), after which they brought everyone a fish baked on the grill, poured wine ...and, as a matter of fact, A la carte (fish, there is no other) ended on this. We were finished off by the fact that we were finishing the fish, looking at the cleaners who were waving rags around us. We have a good sense of humor, as well as appetite. Of course, we laughed a lot about this situation, but we left there hungry, so we decided to go to the main restaurant and eat normally. What does the choice of fish and seafood (there were very tasty mussels that day) was more than in the A la carte fish restaurant! We noted this in the wishes of the hotel. Also, we were pleased with the animators, entertained everywhere, everyone and always.
Unfortunately, they did not speak Russian, but still we understood each other perfectly. Evening performances were always interesting, after which they still had enough energy for a disco in a bar. Awesome guys! The only Russian speaker in this hotel (except for guides) was the Kamelia bar (woo) men, in the pool bar. A very friendly woman, made amazing cocktails based on my favorite Baileys. )))) They cleaned and changed the bed linen in the room every day, the maid, a friendly Albanian, every day built from my nightgown either a flower or a butterfly.
We left tips every other day, but this did not affect the quality. This is about the hotel. Now I will tell you about our excursions around the island. We bought 2 excursions at the hotel: to the Butterfly Valley (50 euros) and Rhodes (50 euros). Independently went to Lindos and Prasonisi.
We went to the Butterfly Valley by a minibus from Tez Tour, this is a very beautiful place with a large accumulation of butterflies of the same species, they fly here from June to September to breed. Then we visited an ostrich farm, something like a mini-zoo with different animals, bought an ostrich egg and ate an ostrich meat chop (we liked it - delicious). The third place of this excursion was a visit to 7 sources, walking along the stream from these seven sources, and it is very cold and underground, you are cleansed of everything bad (the guide told us so). A day later, we decided to go on our own to Lindos, to the Acropolis. We went there by regular bus for 2.5 euros. We walked around Lindos itself, there is a very beautiful floor lined with beautiful stones, the stones are smooth, as if they were being polished, wandered around the souvenir shops, and then climbed the mountain to the Acropolis (116 meters above sea level).
It’s hard to climb, especially when it’s +40 degrees outside, but it’s worth it, the view from there opens up fantastically beautiful! It was possible to get there on a donkey (5 euros), but we felt sorry for these little pretty animals, and it was somehow scary! )))) We returned back by taxi (20 euros). Our next trip was to Prasonisi (the confluence of two seas: the Mediterranean and the Aegean), the view is amazing - the Aegean is always with waves, and the Mediterranean is a calm surface! We swam in two seas, admired the surfers and went to the hotel. By the way, there in a cafe, the Greeks, having learned that we were from St. Petersburg, began to chant “Zenith”! )))) We went by taxi, it was expensive (50 euros one way), but the impressions were worth it. Well, our last trip around the island was to the city of Rhodes.
We visited the Acropolis (three and a half columns)))), as the guide said), the embankment, and the old city with the castle of the knights, the guide was a Greek, perfectly speaking Russian, he told everything so exciting and interesting that everyone listened to him, even children! We took a ticket to the city of Rhodes from Belion Tour (the representative's name is Igor - a very intelligent and friendly young man), and were very pleased. Our representative from Tez Tour was always kind of tired and lethargic.
Also, on the beach, we bought tickets for a ride on a speedboat with a transparent bottom (25 euros). The tour was towards Lindos and in foreign languages (German / English) the captain led, but the views are amazing and without words. Dashed with the breeze, nakupalis, and gained a bunch of positive emotions! In general, we are delighted with the trip! My husband now tells everyone that he has been to heaven! )))))) We flew back on an airbus from Ural Airlines, with a delay of 1 hour.
I was surprised by the presence of wine in the assortment of water and juices on board the aircraft.
Vacation was fabulous!
+ few Russians (we rested from our compatriots)
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I wish you a pleasant stay.
Now about the hotel. We arrived at about 17.00, placed us immediately in a standard nice room with a large loggia and a view of the sea and the pool. Those. we lived in the center) cleaned the room well, changed towels and fasting every day. underwear. The territory is clean, well-groomed, the pool is large, the beach is across the road down the stairs, but you can also take a bus. We personally have never used it, because it takes 5 minutes to walk, and it’s not bad to walk once again after a hearty breakfast or lunch. The sea is clean, the beach is small pebbles, your feet are drowning in it, you can’t really walk along the coast, but we still went for a walk on the braids. There were always enough sunbeds and umbrellas for everyone, both on the beach and by the pool. The food is very good and varied, and from morning to night. Even at 11pm we sometimes ate freshly made pizza at the bar. Drinks for every taste. Great service, we loved sitting at the pool bar, thanks to the bartenders Tom and Janis, funny cool guys. Now about the animators. We just fell in love with them! It is impossible to forget them, what cheerful positive people, an extraordinary sense of humor! high artistry, the undoubted leader of Johnny, also Marcia and Monica, yes, all the guys are excellent, Gros, Francesco, Luca and everything! they entertained us from morning to evening, the evening shows were beautifully staged. I especially liked "Cats" and "Fire Show".
In general, the rest was a success, and 11 days flew by unnoticed.
The lack of a disco may be a minus, as people wanted to move to the music. And the remote location of the hotel can also be a minus, if you go on excursions, then we were the first and collected everyone else. But there are such beautiful views outside the window that it’s a pleasure to go!
Many vacationers with young children, especially Italians, many elderly Germans. There are few young people, most likely a hotel for middle and old age, for a relaxing holiday.
I liked everything very much, I am grateful to all the staff of the hotel for a wonderful stay.