Niamh Donaldson
My boyfriend and I stayed at Lydia Maris Resort & Spa for 10 nights in October 2025. We had the most amazing stay - we were even able to upgrade our room to a swim up! The hotel itself is gorgeous but what made it even better was the amazing staff. In particular, Maria at reception who was able to assist with any queries, and Juliano at the pool bar who was incredibly friendly and chatty - he made our experience at the hotel one to remember!
Mike Crane
First thing to say is that this is definitely NOT a five star hotel - its a decent 3 star hotel. It's an important point because the star rating is what Greece uses to base its additional room tax on so instead of paying around 50Euros (3 star) for a room for a week on top of your holiday price, you actually pay 105Euros.
Having got this out of the way, having just returned from the hotel for a week with a large family presence, we all had a great time. Brief comments on the following:-
Food - Perfectly OK but not great (where the hell do they get such awful bacon and sausages from) but always something to eat whatever your taste.
Rooms - Quite good, very clean and a good shower. Cleaned to a good standard daily.
Drinks - Lager is awful. Wine is OK. Local spirits not good but they rarely are anywhere.
Pool - A funny greenish colour for first few days but it seemed to clear. Some of the railings leading into the pool need urgent attention. They really need to review their glasses around the pool policy too. Regular depth throughout.
Entertainment - This is where the Hotel scores highly. The team of Mike, Gustavo and Evelina are superb and we all loved them.
Other Staff - Not awful by a long stretch but not great either.
Location - Pretty good - there are a couple of good beaches within a ten minute walk and nowhere near as stony as I had
expected.
I hope these honest comments help and do not put anyone off from going to the hotel - just don't expect a five start experience.
Jonny Hayward
Definitely not a 5 star hotel.
Very dated rooms, at first glance even seems grubby.
With all that said, the animation team were fabulous and the food was really good too (not great but it's all inclusive what do you expect) the pool was of a good size too.
Drink choices very poor, you have self serve for soft drinks and beer which always seemed to run out with no rush to replenish.
The pool bar wanted €8 for cocktails and even €2 for a coffee so the all inclusive is actually limited.
€20 for a safe key, €10 for the use of grubby towels.
All in all the place has the potential to be great if they just spent a little on the place.
Shame.
Clare marie
Overall had a lovely time. I was pleasantly surprised with my room allocation and took full advantage of the private sun terrace and swimming pool. The rooms are clean and comfortable, downside is there is only 2 English tv channel (bbc news and sky news) which if you have a bad weather day, which we did, can get rather boring. However, you don't come on holiday to watch the TV do you?? The food was OK, the temperature of it at times was questionable but even as a I am a fussy eater there was always a decent choice. The staff were friendly and welcoming and always said hello. Really enjoyed my week here.
Jayson
It was our first time to go Greece I emailed in advance to see if they can provide some sort of romantic gesture in our room as it was our anniversary they replied and said they will do what they can , unfortunately when arriving the room was just standard with no romantic gesture, In fairness catering staff was great from beginning as we had a late check in and they provided at least some cold food for dinner, the breakfast was repetitive but lunch and dinner had some change which was lovely , we were all inclusive so when I ordered drinks I noticed the cocktails were watered down tasted more juice then alcohol and they would give plastic cups for them a shame not on a glass. I came back to uk with insect bites and emailed them and they were helpful enough to reply and say they would look into my query. Lovely pool a bit cold, and good staff entertainment at night .Overall lovely stay
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