but when it is cold outside this place is not to appealing.

Likes:
-pool was open early April (too cold to swim for us

She was cold to the friends I was with as well, giving them one word answers when they asked her questions about tours.

Negatives 
Pool was too cold to get in, no pool bar (being renovated), the food served at breakfast was terrible and horrendously overpriced (7 euro for 2 eggs & 1 slice of bacon!).

It was a little cold when I was in Santorini

:) 

The only issue we probably encountered was that we had to let the water run for 5-10mins before showering because it takes a while for the cold water to heat up.

Spent 3 nights in Hostel Manos, the room may be a little cold at night,

but since it was low season (mid october), the bar at the pool was pretty much closed in the evenings, but the pool water was cold anyway at this point.

A proper sized fridge for keeping food and drink cold, with an ice box which was very effective at freezing drinks.

A mini fridge in your room will allow you to keep any snacks and water cold.

..' on for on, off for stop, up for warm, down for cold" we laughed, it was exactly that!!

Rooms are dark, Beds have a fitted sheet and top sheet.

Instead, the bathroom was small and dark, with no shower gel, shampoo, and hairdryer.

however didn't seem to go to Villa Manos from Thira after 11 as well so we had to walk in the dark.

Road that takes you to fira is bendy & hilly and has no pavements so it's dangerous especially after dark which means the location of the hotel is not what we wanted (I.e a leisurely walk into town).

I didn't even trust this walk after dark,

However, the room was dark and there was a busy road literally outside the door where large lorries were always going past.

I often found myself walking back alone in the dark

Just be careful if you want to walk in dark.

If you are going to walk along the road at night, bring reflectors to attach to your clothes or a flashlight to swing as you walk; there are virtually no sidewalks and the cars sometimes come flying around the corner (even in the dark).

We had to walk back with two kids (in a pram) to the hotel in the dark.

I walked this back and it took me 25mins (downhill) The road is also very dangerous especially if you have children and uphill on the way to Fira
6. the so called beautiful village of Karterados is also a 20 min walk in the dark back as no street lights
7.

Since both my husband and I do not have driving license, we need to walk to the town every day and we did not stay too late in town to avoid walking in the dark along that dangerous main road.

returning to the villa alone late at night can be quite scary as the road in is dark and dimly lit.

We visited for a week with my fiance 
The place is like new amazing rooms clean and with character
 the restaurant is stunning next to the pool 

Great value for money and the staff was amazing
The location is great 
Take the recommendation for the catamarans as well the transfer service.

The rooms were clean, affordable, and perfect for our needs.

Excellent people clean room big pool amazing cocktails .

The room was clean and the furniture looked new.

The grounds were beautiful, my room was clean, and my bed was very comfortable.

She gave us her best room and it was the best room clean and big .

Friendly staff, clean rooms, beautifully designed.

The rooms are quite clean and the food is good. The bar and restaurant stay open late (1 AM I believe) and the bartender (Luda, Ludis (?))

The room was always clean, updated furnishing, included a kitchenette, a beautiful bathroom- just incredible value for our money.

The rooms very clean and better than photos.total renovated .

The barman makes the best omelet :)
Room is clean and comfortable.the common facilities are very pleasant.

Nice and clean rooms and very helpfull people working in the hotel.

This hotel is so welcoming, from front staff to restaurant and management to cleaning staff.The rooms are always clean and tidy.

Our room was clean and spacious, especially the bathrooms!

debora and her friends ensuring the room is always clean and neat!

The location is perfect the rooms are very clean and poppy the owner is so lovely!

Villa Manos

cold

dark

strong winds at night, cleaning ladies or other guests in the morning); I would recommend bringing earplugs, and perhaps a sleeping mask since the curtains are not really sufficient to keep the room dark.

Jacuzzi in our room smelled funny and a creepy dark road leads to the center of Fira.

And walking back in the dark can be a bit uncomfortable 

There are advantages to being a bit far away - quieter, no problem for taxis to arrive - as long as you expect it.

The room is dark and upstairs bedroom has no window and floor height is low.

Though it's only a 10 minute walk, some part of the walk is unlighted, unpaved, and almost no people walk that road after dark.

however i found the room to be very dark with not a lot of natural light and the bathroom seemed worse than the one we already had.

With everything being white in the room, I don't see how the room can be dark!

I did not want to eat alone and did not want to walk back from the centre in the dark, as the hotel is on the edge of land that is not all developed yet (although it all seemed safe).

The hotel location isn't great given that is the road it's on is only under construction and the walk from the town centre back to the hotel is very dark at night.

But in fact the rooms are too big and dark.

nevertheless, the room we got was dark with very little lighting.

We looked at the "other" hotels we had considered and many of the cliff facing rooms were dark and stuffy with hotel pools that were really were just splash pools.

It's a small, dank, dark room with 3-4 machines. 2.

You need to walked around 1km to reach the city of fira, there is no light along the path, its really dark at night.

The room is very clean and very romantic, every spot on the hotel make a beautiful picture.

The room was clean and beautifully decorated.

Rooms are very clean and spacious, breakfast is excellent and service is extraordinary.

Our room was spotlessly clean, and was cleaned every day.

Everywhere was spotlessly clean and the room was simple and elegant.

The rooms were immaculate and every morning Tattia would make beautiful towel art in our room.

Our room was spotless with loads of space and a  private pool.

Tatiana kept our room spotless and was so kind and bubbly - truly an amazing person who worked at incredible speed!

The rooms were all immaculate and cleaned to a very high standard daily.

our room was cleaned to high standard  and replenished the minute we left and even pool cleaners out at crack of dawn.

All the staff were so lovely from the bar man to the reception to Dina who made who made our room spotless everyday.

The hotel is very close to FIRA (5mn) and it's really a good advantage as you are in a peaceful area when you are staying in your room

The room was clean and the private pool area was perfect.

A Big Thank you Antonia and Dina for keeping our room spotless .

The room was very clean and comfortable and the view from our room was spectacular!!!

Rooms were immaculate, the cleaners did such a wonderful job every day.

The room was very clean and tidy and the bathroom well stocked with enough for the many showers wee would have.

The hotel itself is beautiful - the rooms are spotless and nicely appointed.

The bar staff around the pool area are a little slow with the service

but I guess it's the slow Greek way of life there.

(Although Oia is still the best place for views/sunsets in my opinion) 

Despite service often being slow we found most of the staff friendly and would try and accommodate you as best as they could (for example because there was only one English tv channel we asked if it was possible to have a dvd player in our room and

The only other con which sounds ridiculous as you're on holiday is that the wifi is stupidly slow and connection drops literally every few minutes, we got better wifi on the beaches, for a 5 star hotel would have expected better connections,

but the response was slow and still left us unsatisfied.

Service a little slow and we would have liked a little more variety on fruits and cereals or bread/pastry,

but if you like to take things slow and just relax, you may enjoy an afternoon by the pool.

Super slow speed and only in the patio location not in the bedroom! Yikes!

Would suggest removing the strong perfume smell from the lobby.

The thing we didn't like was smoking by the pool and bar, very off putting when you are eating, it would be better if the hotel was totally non smoking.

We were picked up in a battered old small mini bus that had no air conditioning and was full of exhaust fumes, the driver was a little reckless and far too fast, not all of the seat belts worked either!

To answer the questions below:  There are non smoking rooms, I cannot say it is a non-smoking hotel,

but then by afternoon they are in the shade - however we were there in cooler month of late sept and had it been warmer may have used more however there is not a lot of privacy between the pools adjacent, unfortunately the only thing that really lets this hotel down is the sewage smell that wafts up over these rooms, it was very unpleasant and we had to keep doors closed to pool when in room.

The bathroom was very basic (small, a little smelly and leaked everywhere when we took a shower as there was nothing sealing the bottom of the shower screen) and that isn't at all what I would have expected from a luxury hotel that comes at such a luxury price.

Yet, even in September the sun was still scorching, so walking that small distance meant breaking some sweat.

The bed hard and we had a piece of molding missing from our wall and mold on the wall under the entertainment center!

We needed to go across a bus station with terrible smoke and through some bushes and then uphill to reach the main area with restaurants and shops.

The air con does not work in our room , we had to originally change rooms because the first room we were in - bath plug didn't work and the bathroom stunk !

And there was a smell of sewerage outside of our rooms.

Also the mini bar gave off an awful smell which they did try to address without success.

The beds were uncomfortable and there was a bad smell coming out of the closet.

Stale ingredients, low quality ingredients, etc. -Bathroom was designed poorly -- door could not open past tub, shower was broken when we arrived (later fixed)
-hotel staff did not deliver on simple requests expected at a 5-star hotel (example: I arranged to rent a car through the front desk, starting at a set time,

The rooms are nothing special and it did smell quite a bit as we initially checked into our room.

It was like they'd tried to use bleach or something.

In addition, the tub had clearly not been cleaned in a while because I saw mildew and mold in the corner of the tub. 6.

Astro Palace Hotel & Suites

slow

smell

Really, there is nothing to complain off.

The rooms were very clean and staff were helpful, nothing was too much for them.

The rooms were clean, the staff was absolutely brilliant and super helpful with all our questions and the location was great.

Daily housekeeping meant we had fresh towels and a clean room to come back to every afternoon.

On arrival we were shown to our room which as always was spotlessly clean.

The rooms are immaculate - clean with even beach towels provided.

Our room was immaculate (as usual) with a view over the beautiful gardens and the mountain.

The room was spotless and was cleaned every day to a very high standard.

The place was extremely clean and the room was serviced every day.

Stellios picked up at airport and when we arrived we were quickly shown to our spotless room.

Rooms are clean, pool is really nice, clean & good in size (compared to others in the area that are a little bigger than a bath tub).

The rooms are kept very clean and Stelios and his family are very friendly and helpful.

Spotlessly clean room with daily house keeping and fresh towels.

From the complimentary pick up at the airport to the impeccably clean rooms, we were over the moon with our hotel choice.

The rooms are immaculate and cleaned from top to toe each day.

Our rooms were clean and comfortable, and Stelio and his family were very accommodating (they cook a great breakfast!).

In the en-suite our shower had no cubicle on 2 sides, just a curtain which resulted in a wet floor when having a shower.

There was also a place outdoors to hang wet suits and towels.

Our floor also got wet when showering, and we simply wiped it with the floor towel they left and didn't even think twice about it.

In the meantime you try to manage all this, the bathroom gets completely flooded with water, because there is no curtain or glass around the shower, so the next person will have to walk over the wet floor (that gets immediately dirty).

Stelios Place

complain

Room was clean and had no problems, bed was comfortable and the room was cleaned every morning with fresh towels .

The room was immaculate, the staff where incredible, nothing was too much trouble..I would high recommend Afrodite, we will be staying again next year.

The room was always clean they did an amazing job the cleaning staff definitely deserves a tip.

I have to say the room was very clean fresh bedding and towels everyday we were very impressed.

Our room was exactly as we had imagined and the maids kept our room clean and tidy every day, including changing the towels daily.

The room was spotless, beautiful, with amazing seaview and balcony jacuzzi.

It was very clean throughout, our room was immaculate everyday as was poolside which is a huge positive and we really did appreciate this!

Very clean room, nice pool, breakfast did the job and the location is perfect!

The room was clean and simple and cleaned every day.

The room was very clean and we had enough place for three persons.

Room was very clean with a very good shower in the bathroom.

but I did get to see one :) Our room was basic but if you don't like to spend too much time in your room then its clean and perfectly adequate.

The staff were very helpful with cases, taxis, etc and the cleaning staff did a fantastic job ensuring the rooms were immaculately clean and had everything topped up multiple times a day.

The room was well-appointed - very comfortable bed and powerful waterfall shower.

Rooms are clean and nicely decorated, some rooms are newer than others in terms of decor.

Rooms - Rooms where clean we had room 734 facing pool and was junior suite it was a little bit of struggle with 6 girls getting ready and make up artist & hair dresser

The hotel is very clean and the rooms are spacious.

Only grumble was our room originally on allocation the shower was well too small for us rounder gentleman -

The shower is so small that I had to stand outside the shower to wash my legs.

There were no bathrobes, slippers, or other toiletries apart from a very small bar of soap and two very small bottles of what can only be described as green sludge.

Toiletries 2 small bottles of shampoo 2 small soaps  this seems to be it for our 7 day stay.

No drawer storage and bathroom very small with a standard shower .

but the shower is tiny and the furniture ,a little dated.

The bathroom was quite small and you had to be very careful not to stand on the doorstop that was located right in the middle of the bathroom floor!!

The room was very spacious except from the shower it was tiny .

I eventually accepted the first room offered, which was pleasant and roomy with a tiny bathroom,

The rooms are extremely noisy, the bed linnen feels like paper, the shower is so small you cannot move at all.

Small shower (typical of Greece, so I hear),

The rooms are small and the bathrooms are tiny.

On the downside is the crowded poolside and very small bathrooms (and I mean small).

On the downside the bathroom was so small it was difficult to get into!

THe bathrooms a bit small, baths tiny and some of the bigger residednts struggled to sit down in the bath tself.

The upstairs room (the "maisonette" for 4) clearly lacks storage, shelves and especially a mirror in the bathroom.

The room was not what we expected - there was very limited storage space, the room was grubby, the fittings damaged or not there at all, the beds were rock hard and very uncomfortable.

Could do with some better shelving and drawers.

By 8am, all the beds around the pool already had towels on, so there was no chance of getting a space there anyway.

It was a little tight for space with our luggage and travel cot,

If there was one thing I would fault it would be the bathroom, definitely need a shelf or towel hooks

Would have been nice to have had a full length mirror, drawers and some towel hooks in the bathroom,

Room: there isn’t a single drawer, no tea

although small, more drawer space would have been appreciated.

I had a triple room and they gave me a room without balcony ( the initial space of balcony is closed with a wall for more space) with AC which didn't work.. terrible place, no airbto breathe!

but very little space to put your clothes or suitcase; The bathroom was clean, but a but old and again not much place to put your stuf.

The tiling around the wash basin was filthy with encrusted mould and filth as was the shower shelf.

Our standard room did not live up the cleverly contrived photo's and the pool areas is small, cramped and again uninviting.

Doesn't appear to be enough spaces for the number of people in the hotel.

Our room was small with limited storage space

The pool area often got too busy and cramped

Talking to others there all rooms seem to have very little draw space so we lived out of a case for underwear and shirts,but all in all the room ,bed and shower room were very good.Free air con,safe and sun beds and towels on the beach are a plus.Kamari has so many taverna's and bars to keep everybody happy

The room decoration was not complete the walls had paint patches and room and balcony was very small

we attended reception to see if we could change rooms as we were given possibly the worst room in the place, room 501 a ground floor ,tiny balcony which looks out onto a concrete wall and the rear service entrance.

Was different set up than the pictures, actually the pictures were better enough, fake walls and ceilings and not clean enough.

We got a room, facing four walls.. no air.

however while seated on the small balcony the panorama I had was just the balcony wall in cement.

but the balcony was very small and the view was in front of a wall.

Massive 4 poster bed, walk in rainfall shower, lighting set into the walls & led strip tastefully put in places where it should be.

My one complaint is that they should put up some carpet or fabrics on the walls in the hallway to block some sound.

We figured out that it was the lack of sealant as the shower stall came in contact with the wall.

Although we had requested a sea or pool view we ended up with a view of a wall above a walkway

Sea view rooms are very limited, we were a little disappointed as we had a wall to look at (room 328)so maybe check on this before you book.

The pool bar closes around 11pm so we had no problem at falling asleep, plus the walls seemed to be pretty thick since we never heard any disturbing sound coming from the outside.

When sitting on terrace it was not very private as sunbeds just the other side of wall,

I was not happy with the room I was allocated as the outlook was a concrete wall!!

The rooms are very basic and feel cheap, the (re)painting on the walls and doors look like they've been done by a 5-year old and the reception room is extremely basic.

The bathroom was in a very poor condition : no glass door at the shower with water coming in the room, walls with mold, and water from the shower not draining as the tub shower was not right made/built.

We were initially given a room with a view of a concrete wall, and it was only through our persistence that we were eventually given a slightly better room.Again, the response was 'frosty' and unhelpful to say the least.The bed was very hard, so I slept badly.

but you will find it on your right just as you drive in to Akrotiri and it has 'fish tavern' painted in white on the wall.

Afroditi Venus Beach Resort

small bathroom

space

wall

Also when the  bar/restaurant is closed in the afternoon, guests should be permitted to eat snacks and drinks around the pool, that they have bought from the supermarket or alternatively the bar/restaurant should remain open.

» at 7:48 p.m. whereas the pool closed at 8:00, even lying about the time it was when I asked it to him in order to force me into leaving the pool.

We came very early in the morning and the reception was closed,

We asked waiter there and he said that kitchen is closed so can’t serve anything.

Also was informed once we got there that the workout center had been permanently closed, very unfortunate since that was one of our must haves when booking our hotels.

When my daughter asked for Internet code she was told 'the office is closed you'll have to wait until the morning!'

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