Ialyssos Beach Hotel

"Lovely hotel, wonderful views - bar and reception staff were excellent. Lots of nice touches and features. If this were a four star hotel I'd be rating it excellent. Gripes: Breakfast had a huge range, but few coherent meals - missing basics like strawberries, bananas (most days), granola. The pool bar staff were lovely, but the cocktails were essentially 11 euro waters. It took 48 hours after requesting it for our private pool to be cleaned - despite us watching them clean pools in empty rooms. Our "skyline view" room had no view of the sky until you went out onto the terrace - the rooms are oddly nested so that your pool and terrace is elevated - so the view from your bedroom is essentially a wall. We went very early on in the season, but it felt like we were a dress rehearsal for the season. We did not take the half board option, and I'm very glad we didn't as the majority of options were buffet dining - which never feels special. We opted to walk 2kms most nights down the main road to restaurants - but appreciate few would want to be doing this, so you're either paying 15 euro taxis to get to restaurants/nightlife or you are accepting you are in one of three venues to dine your entire stay. Overall: it was a perfectly pleasant place. If you just want to switch off and be taken care of then you'll have a fantastic time. It is a 'big' hotel and so it naturally lacks some of the personal touches. It was one of the cheaper 5 stars, but still felt 4 star. "

"Excellent staff and great hitel"

"All of it"

"Had a great stay. Maria is very helpful always ready when we complain about the ants in our room and Rafiq always had the smile every time we dropped by, telling us which bus ride and places to visit. "

"Staff were really helpful and accommodating "

"Personalen va helt fantastisk! Det dåliga va att halva anläggningen hade stängt utan att vi visste om det, så ingen bangolf eller 3 restauranger!"

"The hotel upon check-in to check-out was excellent. Staff were very friendly and we would stay there again due to location and just thd sheer pleasure of being welcomed warmly and nothing was any trouble. "

"Rooms clean and functionable possibly could do with a be a bit updated"

"The pool and hotel itself is stunning, the food is good quality and loved that there was plenty of sunbeds and the beach was lovely too. The hotel staff were also really friendly and attentive. I do however felt like it wasn’t quite 5* as it lacked that feel, for example the QR code service was a great touch but took ages to come and the bar itself could have had a few more people on there serving drinks. The hotel is quite hard if you have allergies as it was hard to know exactly what the food contained as almost everything had a label to say traces of nuts and seeds etc so this made it hard to eat. But I would definitely recommend the hotel and would love to come back again. "