Areti

Spent 2 relaxing weeks in Areti & thoroughly enjoyed it!!! Room 26. We have been to Greece many times & room was as expected, basic but very clean, decent shower with plenty of hot water. Bathroom was perfectly adequate. Kitchen as expected looked okay but never used it as why cook when you are holiday!!! Fridge kept drinks cool & worked with no issues. Room was a studio with 2 beds, mattresses firm but sheets changed regularly by brilliant cleaners. Air con was a god send & cheaper than i have paid before. Balcony was big enough for 2 & we sat there in the evenings drinking a glass of wine with the best views.... Pool area was very good with a great pool, great views & bar with snacks & drink. I saw someone complain they could not move the brollies but the sunbeds were comfortable & easily moved to go with the shade. Food was snack food & was very nice, granted it not a restaurant as there is plenty of restaurants within 5 minute walk. Food was enough for afternoon lunch or snack. Bus service was just outside & was perfect to get anywhere. Karen was a star & was a great source of information. Costas always was a great host, funny & again a good source of info & makes a mean Greek salad. Only point is the short, sharp hill from the bus stop to the apartments...be aware it gets you heart a pumping!!! Thoroughly recommend it...

We stayed here on a recommendation, wish we hadn't. We had room 24, which was exceptionally basic, nothing like the pictures seen on Tui's site. The beds mattresses were very stained and extremely uncomfortable, the bed sheets hadn't seen White in quite a while, one other guest questioned the yellow stains on her sheets! A very small balcony with uncomfortable chairs but you couldn't sit there in the afternoon as you were in direct sunlight, I noticed the owner apartment above did have additional awnings. A very old TV which we could only get Sky news, thankfully we didn't watch it very often. The bathroom shower wouldn't stay in place so showering was difficult, the toilet seat was wonky, the mirror was loose as were the bathroom fittings. The kitchen as adequate with cracked mismatched mugs one had Persil soap powder logo on, the cutlery was just as bad. The curtain didn't even fit the door space. We broke a glass and this was replaced by a glass with the beer logo on. The apartments are accessed by a very steep hill, and the location of the apartments are on top of a hill, you either have to go down to Troulos or Plantarns to go the shops etc but have a long steep climb back to the top of the hill, so not suitable for anyone with mobility problems. The only saving grace was the pool and bar area, amazing views, the pool umbrellas were disappointing as these were fixed to the ground so either getting shade or sun was difficult as were the little wooden disc which served as tables on the stem of the umbrellas, these were unstable and wonky. The 2 cleaning ladies did an excellent job and were very pleasant as was Karen who worked in the bar from 2 pm onwards. Not sure what the owners son did? Seemed to leave Karen to sort out keys etc. Drinks such as Fanta were poor value for money, beer ok, didn't try the food but looked ok, but it was frozen chips and pizzas, we saw them delivered. We tried the Greek night, the food was fine but the 2 girls doing the Greek dancing were poor, one seemed to know what she was doing and the other tried to follow her. We didn't pay for the air con as we had our own portable fans but we were told it was 45€ per week.

after being moved from our innitial allocated appartment ,as room was needed for someone else ,we were only in it 5 minutes ,We were pleasantly suprised to be moved to a much nicer room,the hotel has some very steep ramps to bar and higher accomodation and quite a walk to shops or beach down hill in either direction ,apart from that we enjoyed our stay