Alykanas Beach Village - (Accommodation in Alykanas)
Lauren H 
We are due to visit this complex in September, just looking for some advise.
First of all, it seems a stupid question but, does the complex have "english" sockets or do you need to take some sort of converter?
Also, what did people take for currency? We got stung a bit when we went away last year with travellers cheques and the extra you have to pay to exchange them and realise you can withdraw money for free via Nationwide. Know there are safety deposit boxes but seems a bit tight that you have to pay for them considering they are for your peace of mind so don't know whether to bring cash? Read somewhere that someone got burgled and the whole safety deposit box got ripped out the wall and stolen which makes me paranoid!!
Finally, we are travelling as a couple, no kids or anything. We like to go out for a meal and then a couple of drinks afterwards, where do people think is the best place to go? Seen lots of recommendations but mostly from people with kids...
Thanks for your help people!
- GBAlykanas Beach Village - (Accommodation in Alykanas)
Lauren H Should have done this one! Please read comment below... (Didn't mean someone got their safety deposit box ripped out here by the way, just something I read about what had happened to someone else!)
Alykanas Beach Village - (Accommodation in Alykanas)
Lauren H
Also, completely unrelated but sorry, I have tried to register to be able to join in with the message boards but I don't get the activation email. Have even tried opening a new email address and it still doesn't work. Thought I'd ask on here although nothing to do with it but there doesn't seem to be any help on the website regarding this.
Alykanas Beach Village - (Accommodation in Alykanas)
L
How easy is it to change travellers cheques here and how much do they charge to change them up?
Valais Hotel - (Accommodation in Alykanas)
L 4/10
4/10Stayed here for two weeks in August and to be honest would not go back again.
The room we had looks nothing like what's on their website. The TV only had one English speaking channel which was Sky news so incredibly boring. I know you're on holiday but when getting ready to go out it's nice to have some background noise you can understand. The bathroom was small and had the most disgusting mat to step out on, absolutely filthy and when it got wet from the shower it squelched and who knows what you were treading in. The shower itself was okay but did suffer from pressure/temperature change. On the last night there didn't seem to be any hot water at all.
The maids came in every day to change the toilet bin, towels and bedding were changed about twice a week. Towels didn't look the cleanest of things. There was a sign in the bathroom asking for towels not to be put on the floor or to mop up anything that may stain them but think it was a bit late for that. Also one time the bedding was changed we found long black hairs on the pillows. Not nice and easy enough to be seen for them to removed before they left it like that. The good thing about the maids was that they didn't come too early so there was never the chance of them walking in on you.
For some reason during our stay they started doing up one or two of the rooms, chipping plaster off the ceiling at nine o'clock in the morning. Didn't make for a good lie in after being out all night. Then you could still hear it round the pool. Not sure why this couldn't have waiting til the season was over.
Breakfast was okay but not really worth getting up for although served til 10am so no big rush to get up.
Pool area was clean enough although the pool itself was pretty grimy around the edges, so much so that people have written their names in it. Also sunbeds are plastic and hard and they charge 2 euro's if you want a mattress thing to go on top.
The bar and seating area is always nice during the day and the food not bad. Dead at night times though.
The best thing is the location as you're just across the road from the beach so easy to hop from pool to sea and back again.
All in all I would recommend the Alykanas Village over this any day of the week. We have stayed there twice before but it's now a bit overrun by kids as it's a Thomson Superfamily hotel so wanted to try somewhere different but with a similar location.
This would probably have been better if you're paying less money than what we did, but for what we paid it just wasn't worth it.