4 / 5 star hotel ? Mmmm. Well maybe by Greece standards but no way is this a 4 star resort.
A lot of the place although tidy looks still unfinished, The area around the pool is crazy paved and very rough. Walking around in bear feet maybe a problem for some and the footpaths around the outside (entrance to bedrooms) are rough concrete. For wheel chair users there is a ramp to the entrance of the hotel but not then down to the pool area. You can gain access by going around the side of the reception though and this is the route we saw most parents with small children take.
To the right of the complex is a small wall, behind this is a rubbish tip and we noticed the cleaners putting black bin liners behind this wall on a almost daily basis, these where collected I think once a week, it can only be a matter of time before this will attract the rats that we saw elsewhere in the village.

Nicos in the cafe by the pool was a great waiter and will have you forgetting all your worries, he saw us trying to find our room with our suitcases on our first day and came out to escort us and carried the heaviest for us. Shame the hotel did not explain where our room was in the first place as over the 2 weeks we where there we saw many people wondering around trying to find their rooms also.

We went with Air Tours / My travel. We had booked a car and was told to pick it up from the airport. We spoke to Avis at the airport and was told there was no car for us and the booking had been canceled because we had picked a class F (automatic car) and they do not do a class F on the island. The travel rep left us to sort it out and indeed left us at the airport with no way of getting to the hotel. We re-booked a car locally but had to pay again but there was not a car available that day so we had to get a taxi to our hotel. Not the best of starts to a worry free holiday.

Strange key system to your room. You have to put your key into a holder which then turns on the power to the room. We paid for the very expensive aircon. 90 euros for 2 weeks. plus 35 euros for a key to use the safety deposit box in the room. Having the power go off meant if you left your room then the aircon went off which means on your return the room can be warm instead of how you set it. I am in favour of saving power but after paying for the 90 euros I expected it to work 24 / 7 and not just when we was in. The rooms where however larger than I thought they would be and a family of 4 would not have a problem like I have had at other hotels on the island. Dont exspect much more than CNN news and MTV on the TV though and the tv went into black and white most of the time.

Most Tavernier's are great places to eat but I would avoid the Greedy Greek. How come this restaurant was full most nights I can only assume its because of the free horse and cart they offer to get people there. We did fall for this one night and their menu is Greek , Chinese , Indian and Italian. Being a big curry fan I decided to try a chicken tikka massalla. I was shocked to find it severed with roast potatoes and even more shocked to find how badly the whole meal tasted. I was not impressed either later that night when I was sick and had to experience the whole meal again. Easily the worst curry I have ever had in my life and I have eaten at a lot of restaurants around the world.

The sunbed problem I read about got even worse while we where there. my wife and myself are early risers and was shocked to watch all the british come down and put towels on the sunbeds and then return to there rooms to go back to sleep. When we got there all beds where gone around 8:00am but by the second week 6:30am was the norm. Almost everyone we spoke too moaned about the sunbed situation, there are just not enough for the size of the hotel. I did not count them but I guess there was about 70 beds for a hotel with 140 room (most 4 berth) it dont take long to do the maths. This problem ruined the holiday for some people there who wanted to sit around the pool, we took a small walk down to a small cafe called costa's (walk left on the beach) and there you get 2 sun beds for 5 euros and if you want a dink the cafe is just a few feet away. its quite and the people are very friendly.

It may sound like I am picking faults with everything here but we did have a good holiday. Would I go back to this resort ? well no, there are much better places in the world to go to with out these problems.

I took pictures of the rubbish and the sunbed problems so if anyone wants to see them email me on chris@chedgzoy.com and I will forward them to you.

Dont understand why people got a little upset with my prevous posting. I told it as we found it and I am shocked that nobody else has spotted or commented on the rubbish tip to the right of the hotel which seems to be growing, very veiwable from our room and I hold by the fact that we saw rats under 1 miles away and it can only be a matter of time before you will see them here as well. Yep I like a curry and I am not ashamed of that which is why when I saw there was curry served at the greedy Greek I just had to try it. Every other night we eat at the local taveraners so most of the time yes I eat greek food. As I said before by Greek standards this hotel is above the norm but I would also say that it is below par compared to other countries for the rating it has. By the way I am not as picky as you may think I have stopped in a lot worse hotels than this.

To debbie+millie

You will struggle getting from the bar to the pool with either transport for your child. There are steps which although more than possible to get down you may prefer to go out the front door and then around the side of the hotel which is flat. There are steps up to the front enterance but there is also a slop which I guess is for people like yourself or wheelchair people. Just a shame they did not do this out the back as well.

To ALLAN DAVID BARNSLEY

Dont understand why you say I am so off the mark. Please re read what I have posted, I gave a honest review good and bad. Yes I pointed out the bad bits but I also pointed out the good bits. I also said I had a good holiday but would not go back to this hotel. Just because I did not find this the best hotel in the world you seem it fair to have a pop at me. I have also made public my email address so if you want to contact me please do so. Oh and by the way I have posted a couple of pictures of the rubbish on this site if you can be bothered to look.

LOL just came back to view this site after a long time and see I am still be talked about because of my honest review. OK its not the best hotel in the world but you will have a great holiday.

What I was trying to point out in my original posting was the pit falls of this hotel and there are some. Ok I agree by Greek standards it rates highly but compared to other places it fails. But come on its Zante and things are a little below par compare to other palces and that is reflected in the price. I read the sun bed problem has been sorted out and so has the rubbish towards the right of the hotel which can only be a good thing. The bigest thing I could advise to people who have not been before is to eat local and dont get tempted by places like the greedy greek which offer home delites.

Yes ?I agree while on holday why eat what you would eat at home but you do get tempted and I promise you that it will not 10% of what you exspect.

OK I am gone from this website now and anyone gong I wish you a great holiday, I am sure the greeks will have you dancing till the early hours and drinking the local drinks (which is great by the way) so a great holiday for people who want to sit around the pool 24 /7 but maybe a little less if you like met the locals. They are there but you will have to go out and find them.