Daniela Ferguson
Absolutely stunning location and beautiful looking hotel.
Rooms: generally clean and look nice and modern , though missing a few wee touches like hooks or rails to hang towels up in the bathroom area, a shelf in the shower for toiletries. Safe needs to be paid for separately, which I think is just rude.
Our room wasn’t always cleaned properly and towels weren’t always changed even when putting them on the floor.
Bin was emptied, but full bin bag left on desk.
Dirty cleaning cloth left in bathroom.
Floors weren’t cleaned either, a couple times we removed dust bunnies ourselves.
Explained all this to reception and was told “the cleaners probably didn’t have enough time” I asked them to make sure our room was cleaned properly and to provide fresh towels, but it still wasn’t done properly.
Food: good food hygiene, edible for the most part, given its buffet style food, it’s good, but some nights we had to opt for salad based meals as the meat just doesn’t look all that appealing at times. Desserts are always spot on!
Staff: a bit hit and miss tbh, some are your generic hotel staff friendly, some not so much, did not really experience the “Greek friendliness”
Entertainment: was fairly disappointing to the point we opted to go into ixia for some entertainment or just went to our room a few nights. We found one of the entertainment crew to be creepy, so avoided him at all cost.
There is absolutely nothing there for teenagers, nor do the entertainment staff even attempt to get them together.
Overall, I would say a neutral experience, leaning a little more to positive than negative, I would highly recommend for the location and possibly for older childless couples, but wouldn’t really recommend for single parents of teenagers.
Luke Dearnley
Avra beach hotel what an amazing experience!! Everything was just perfect for our family of 4. The food choices, drinks, facilities, pool, beach and the kids/family entertainment was absolutely super. The main bit for us which made our 2 young girls holiday was the entertainment reps/staff, they were so caring, friendly and super helpful. To name a few my 4 year old Millie loved Tibi, Erina but he main one was Boogie, he absolutely made her holiday and made it extra special.
We couldn't fault anything and would love to come back in a heartbeat (Time to start saving)
We all have the holiday blues and didn't want to leave.
Thanks you so much for everything and hopefully see you all again soon.
Marie Faulkner
Avra Beach Resort Hotel and Bungalows is situated on the beautiful bright blue coast of Rhodes. There is immediate access to a stoney beach with plenty of parasols and sun beds for guests. Over all the hotel is clean, well presented and has constant supply of food and drinks from 06.30 to midnight... The hotel is well adapted for most families of all ages and most needs if you like noisy family entertainment and don't have any allergies. However if you are a coeliac and dairy free like me, please AVOID! They claim they are knowledgeable and adaptable to all allergies but sadly food comes contaminated using utensils as used on glutened food and on many occasions food labelled GF had normal glutened pitta bread diced on top of dishes. We had to avoid the desserts display as the allergen information and desserts did not match up and the mousses labelled GF had sponge or a profiterole hiding under the mousse topping. We questioned the so called GF foods/desserts and was always reassured no nuts but yes to gluten... Information labels were soon changed by restaurant management to state Gluten... Sadly their actions and knowledge proved to be too little to late.
Katie Elsey
Just spent the last 9 days here, its truly beautiful! The food is amazing, huge choice!! Cocktail menu is giant!!!! The staff are wonderful!! Bar staff soon learn your drink order, are always soo friendly!! Anastasia is the kindest barmaid and always asked me about my day. The entertainment staff are just amazing ! Their energy is next level! They make sure you are having the best time. Tibi was my sons favourite! He was such a joy to be around! Boogie (Bogdan) constantly made us laugh! Sam runs such a great team! They really made our holiday great.
No fighting for sunbeds, no pool side drama, (April we came) Pools cool but as the week went on it seemed to get warmer.
Room was clean. We wasnt in a refurbished room but it was fine, glass divide between the kids beds and ours.
Shop onsite was great, again staff really nice and got to know my son well, as he went in most days haha
Taxi to old town was €10 from the hotel, well worth a trip.
10/10 !!
We were a family of 2 parents, a 6 year old boy and a 16 year old girl.
J W
We got a great deal on this place as it was end of season (very end, it shut the day we left) but met multiple couples who payed over double what we did.
The welcome was pleasant and helpful and we had been upgraded to a twin room. The atmosphere was also nice, quiet due to the time of year but still a bit of a buzz with children playing football and adults lounging about. The sun was setting and being right in the beach this looked amazing!
Our room was one double bed (two singles pushed together and two single beds in a lower section. The room was quite clean apart from under the bed where there was a lot of dust, bits and even a soft toy. The room was outdated but did the job for what we payed and they have now got newer rooms. The room was hot when first walked in but the receptionist helped us solve this as the AC had been left on hot, but, as the aircon was downstairs with the two single beds, getting the upstairs where we slept to be cool was hard. There were also only two sockets in the room, neither of which were anywhere near the beds, no kettle or tea/coffee (you can get coffee from near the beach but still expected) and no iron. The balcony was a nice touch with a sea view, but only when standing as the front was frosted glass, I assume for privacy, but it meant we didn’t really use it. The door key to the room was also odd as the lock was too close to the frame (actually cutting a chunk out of it) meaning you had to unlock and then quickly move your hand out of the way so it didn’t get trapped.
We went for drinks, which were nice, very sweet, but better than some other resorts we’ve stayed at, the beer and Avra beach special were particularly nice! The service was polite, not particularly friendly but fast and decent. We then tried the buffet which was good! Not the widest range of foods but with a different theme each night, there was enough to keep everyone happy!
The entertainment was not great but for end of season to about 30 people it was ok. The entertainment guys were a little pushy and would sit on your table and not get the prompt to leave us be.
The next day one of the staff upset my partner by commenting on her body, a completely unacceptable thing for anyone to say to someone, let alone a member of staff. I spoke to the manager who apologised and was nice about it.
We took a few trips to the old town and Symi island (highly recommended) and were well organised by the on site excursion company.
I did ask for an iron at one point and was directed to a ‘laundry room’, basically dirty staff room full of sheets, a plastic cup full of cig butts and one broken iron (took us over half an hour to get it working). One iron for a whole hotel is crazy!
We did enjoy our stay but was disappointed by the resort, and would have been very upset if we had paid what we know other couples we met had paid (one of which arrived to there room and it hadn’t been cleaned and still had towels on the floor and a pile of sheets on the bed.)
Definitely more of a family resort than romantic and in the height of summer, with more people there and the staff in full flow it could be nice but unfortunately not our experience :(
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