Best Hotels near Plakoutses beach, Ithaca

If you go to this hotel be aware to clarify EVERYTHING price wise in advance. My experience and I see from other reviews I'm not alone is the owner tries to rip of his customers where ever he can. Don't book direct with the hotel, check out prices on other sites before you do, normally booking directly with an hotel the prices can be very keen, not in this instance. We went as a group and used the hotel minibus for trips, but rather than charging a fixed amount he charged each of us separately and an extortionate amount. As well as over charging for the rooms as per other sites and then tried to charge extra for breakfast! On the plus side, the rooms were nice and clean although a good sea view they aren't, more a glimpse in the distance. Breakfast was nice but not special. The staff; George and Raphaella and another girl at reception were all lovely and very helpful and kind but the experience was definitely marred by the last day where we spent most of it trying to sort out the convoluted overcharging of the bill and waiting around for the owner to handle the situation. He did take the breakfasts off and money off the taxi but not enough and kept trying to convince us that a taxis would cost more but on shopping around this turned out to be untrue. (originally he was trying to charge nearly 1000 euros for the bus) I would definitely not go back as I don't support businesses that treat their customers this way.

I'll start off with a few of the good things about the hotel before listing the poor things. The view from the room was too die for. You couldn't beat it, absolutely amazing. The staff were always helpful whenever we needed anything so have no quarrells with that one either. The pool facilities there are also great, one of the best pools I've actually ever used, the sun loungers are a bit dated but they're good enough! However, the steps... You'll read about this in most of the reviews. If you have any disabilities, this is not the hotel for you. We counted over 150 steps you have to go up for our room, now if you plan on doing the pool, then lunch, then dinner, these steps do mount up. ”There's lifts!”, there are two lifts which do help, however, one of them is broken and by reading other reviews, has been for over a year. We were actually lead into the first broken lift by an employee and was stuck in there in the heat for 15 minutes before being let out by another employee. I'm not sure if this is just a european thing, but I do feel obliged to mention these two things. The beds are rock solid, if you're british and used to a lovely soft bed, forget what you know because these are something different. We woke up aching some days. Another small gripe and again, seems to be a greece in general thing, 'Don't flush the toilet roll down the toilet, use the bin next to you', first of all, how disgusting to have a bin full of excrement, I'm sure you can guess what we did, flushed it. We went down for breakfast every day at roughly 8:30-9AM, there's a wide selection, but all the hot meal items were cold, every single time. Such a shame, I did report this but alas, no change. There's so much potential with this hotel and definetely was not the worst hotel to stay at, but there's much better out there.