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Leivatho Hotel met all our personal criteria: good location and prime view, fine sense of design and architecture, green areas, attentive and friendly personnel, large beds with sleep-friendly mattresses, good nearby infrastructure with good taverns, a non-crowded sandy beach (Avithos Beach) located nearly at the door and last but not least ... SUSTAINABILITY We like the hotel's ambitious environmental engagement (supposedly pretty rare in Greek tourism so far). Suggestions for further improvements: Why not become “plastic-free” (the beautyful island partly sinks into plastic waste, you can find plastic bottles seaming roads, covering fields, waiting in dry waterbeds just to be washed into the Ionian Sea by the next autumn rain). Why not strictly use paper straws, offer honey and butter from local acriculture in glass cups? Why not provide a charging station for electric cars (we saw more of them than expected)? CULINARY The rich breakfast offered some typical greek elements and is fine, if your definition of the perfect breakfast is not equivalent to fancy bread. Since we've had outstanding nearby taverns (like Avithos Preview) we didn‘t even try the hotel's cuisine. But we liked their tasty smoothies, welcome-juice and the free accessable flavored water. WIFI Even if full WIFI access is not granted all time in all studios (bugging Youtube-loving teenagers) the hotel complex always provides free accesses, e.g. in the lounge. WEBSITE COMMUNICATION and EXPECTATIONS Concerning the Hotel's communication and in this regard potentially raised expectations: please don't build on an expansive pool or cold, sterile, polished architectural magazine-like perfectionism. If you can live with a small (but neat) pool and overlook tiny ravages of time flaws you can have a great relaxing time in this resort. So, why a 5 star rating? Despite the above-mentioned minor things that could easily be fixed or improved, we love the hotel's overall package (attitude, design and staff). We would choose Leivatho Hotel again at any time.

We stayed half board for 7 nights, my wife and I along with our 19 year old son. Room: We were in room 17 which was quite modern with lovely decor in both a large living room and bedroom. The bathroom was however quite cramped. The shower was powerful enough but the shower screens weren’t big enough and the drain for the shower wasn’t big enough either so by the time 3 people had showered, the bathroom floor was soaking. Relatively comfortable beds, loads of storage space for clothes, air con in both rooms (which was an absolute god send as the weather was very warm). No smoke alarm but you could see where it had been on the ceiling. Rooms cleaned daily and of good standard. It was a ground floor room so had a terrace instead of balcony but had no view so that was a little disappointing. Restaurant: Both myself and my wife had no issue with the food. It was all very tasty and freshly cooked. My son struggled a little although he’s very fussy…..he didn’t rate breakfast too highly but that was only because they did bacon on 2 of the days 😂. We thought plenty of choice across both meals although if you’ve young children then you may struggle as little choice for them. Staff in restaurant were lovely and pleasant and always had a smile on their faces. Pool: A good size pool and because of the hot weather was another god send. Plenty of beds (maybe too many for size of pool) and umbrellas. We never struggled to get 3 beds together. Minor gripe was that due to the the number of beds, you couldn’t manoeuvre your bed unless you were in the corners of the pool area. Very soft cushioning on the sun beds. Reception/Bar area: Again very clean and well decorated. Reception staff always helpful with smiley faces. Bar staff, at times weren’t as smiley and if the bar was busy, you could have waited a little to be served however spirit measures were often quite generous so I wasn’t going to moan! Cocktails ranged from €9-€10 and the ones we tried were nice. Location: We literally didn’t move from the hotel (apart from the shop across the road and a quick walk down to find where the beach was) so can’t really say what the area was like. There didn’t appear to be too much but there was a bus stop by the beach. Location of hotel to airport is very close so consider a taxi instead of waiting on a coach once you land. We did taxi and it took less than 10 mins. You can see planes landing from pool area. It wasn’t constant throughout the day it shouldn’t bother you however you’ll certainly hear them throughout the day. Overall it was a lovely hotel and we would return. We were a little disappointed when we asked to keep the room on due to a late checkout and were told it would be €360! We then asked if we could shower somewhere and change before leaving and unless you want to use pool showers and then change in the toilets, they offered the Spa but that was €10 each and was for half an hour.

Good hotel with private pool and terrace. Enyojed it so much