Hermes Apartments

We stayed here back in 2011 and it was a lovely place...don't know what has happened now, but they seriously need to up their game. The staff there are very friendly. There is a young bar lady called Alicia. In our opinion she is the back bone of this place at the minute. What a lovely lady. She is friendly and always up for a chat. My positives are: Great views from our room (No 4). The food we had was really nice. The relaxed atmosphere in the bar was nice. Great central location to go exploring......and i have to say again...Alicia (she was great) Negatives: You have to pay for air conditioning at 5euro a day. They do not take credit card as they have no signal?? Every other place did. There was 18 sunbeds around the pool and only 1 parasol. There was only 1 beer on draft. Cold showers most days. The whole place appeared that they were just not ready for the season. Our room was dated. We had a broken light shade in the shower room and a nice burn mark on the oven. Our wash basin had a nice crack and chunk in it. The pool area looked very nice. But the quality of the beds were really bad. There was one of those cushioned double bed loungers there. This was in a right state. I think this place could be really good if it spent some time going round and checking that things look presentable. Would we go again? No. I don't have high expectations of any place i visit. I do expect value for money and things to be well presented. Sadly this place failed in my opinion.

The travel cot mattress we were given for my daughter was broke meaning she couldn't sleep in it, I told the man there and he replied "oh I did not know" and that was it, no replacement so my daughter spent the week sleeping in her pram or with me! The cleaners were lovely but not the greatest, I didn't feel able to put my baby down to crawl because it just wasn't clean enough. The pool (especially the children's pool) always had lots of leaves and dead insects floating in it, bit grim really. The hill up to the apartments is really really steep, seriously avoid if you have even the slightest mobility issue or tire easily, pushing the baby up it was great fun! The bar staff were always nice and polite but considering the other points made I definitely would not return or recommend staying in these apartments.

We've previously stayed at Hermes for a number of years, and the ones we didn't, we always made an effort for an evening meal. Having seen the reviews for 2017, we decided to give it a miss. However it seems that in 2018 it's back to normal, so we decided to try it out. I can say that we were not disappointed, although it did seem quieter than we remember. Maybe this is a good thing if you want a quiet holiday. I'd definitely consider returning.