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Sally from Sheffield travelled to Avra Beach Resort Hotel with
Olympic
on a couples holiday.
There were 2 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 10 2007 | rated the Avra Beach Resort Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness |  | | Location |  | | Staff | | | Food |  | |
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| said: The hotel was kept very clean but was very run down, maybe this was because it was due to be closed for the end of the season two weeks after our stay. The food was varied and plentiful. The hotel is at the far end of the hotel run so as such is furthest away from Rhodes town but there is a bus stop right outside so a journey into Rhodes town is quite easy. Being right on the beach is great as most hotels mean that the customer has to cross a very busy road to get to the beach, although calling it Beach is a little misleading as the only bit of beach is about 1 to 2 metres at deep before the sea. Entertainment was not very sparkling but was adequate for the people who did want to participate. We would not choose to visit again but that does not mean we did not enjoy our stay there.
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c mckenzie from honiton travelled to Avra Beach Resort Hotel with
med hotels
on a couples holiday.
There were 2 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 09 2006 | rated the Avra Beach Resort Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location |  | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: Did not enjoy the food, little selection and never hot. The hotel staff were not very friendly but always polite, it was always kept clean but looked a bit run down.
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palacedolly from Beckenham, Kent travelled to Avra Beach Resort Hotel with
Thomas Cook/JMC
on a family holiday.
There were 6 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 07 2006 | rated the Avra Beach Resort Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: Avra Beach Hotel is excellent value for money. Hotel was kept very clean although I was surprised at the amount of 'guests' who didn't bother to put their plastic cups in the many bins dotted around the hotel and was also surprised that glasses were used round the pool for alcoholic drinks.
The food, for an all inclusive, was good quality, plentiful and hot. We did eat out a couple of times locally.
Hotel location is good if you don't mind walking. Turn left out of hotel for a good selection of bars and supermarkets and right, again for bars and a larger a/c supermarket. Keep walking past that for about 10 minutes and you will reach the 'town centre'. Plenty of shops, bars/restaurants to visit. The staff were brilliant, very friendly and happy. You really get the impression that they want you to enjoy yourselves.
Evening entertainment was basic and unless you ate early you couldn't get a table outside where you could see much. Daytime activities were okay, aqua aerobics, volley ball, water polo, darts etc. so plenty to keep you occupied. The beach is a touch disappointing because it is stony, but only for a couple of yards whilst you get into the water when it is all sand. The hotel/local supermarkets sell soft shoes for around 6/7 euros and are well worth it if you like going in the sea (or buy some before you go). Whilst we were there the sea was fairly strong and easily took you along the beach to the left as you are in the water looking at the hotel so it would be a good idea to keep an eye on children, especially if they have lilos etc.
I would definitely visit this hotel again, we had a fabulous time. Rhodes is a must for shopping and eating and if you go during the evening find Rimeos (right spelling!)restaurant where the food is divine. It's a bit off the beaten track in the 'Greek quarter'.
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Doug from Chester travelled to Avra Beach Resort Hotel with
Olympus
on a family holiday.
There were 5 adults and 3 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 08 2005 | rated the Avra Beach Resort Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness |  | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: The hotel is in a perfect location, directly on the beach. Just be aware that if you do not get a sunbed in the grounds then you pay E7 on the beach. Although previous reports have claimed that there is a lack of sunbeds, this has obviously now been addressed and there are plenty to go round, but if you want a sea view whilst sunbathing then get down early. You must stay with the beds between 0800 - 0830 since if you don't they will take your towel to the reception.
The cleanliness of the hotel is superb, towels and sheets changed daily and all the drink glasses and cups cleared regularly throughout the day.
The food is excellent with a wide variety of Greek and European food on offer. Just be wary of the restaurant manager, he gets very protective over where you sit and will have no compunction in giving you a serious telling off if you sit without his say-so.. definitely not worthy of a tip at the end of your holiday.
The entertainment is, well to be honest, non existent, occasionally some strange looking dancers and a bit of music, but you're better off going out to the few bars and restaurants nearby the hotel. Be wary of bags / handbags etc. My wife had her beach bag stolen directly opposite the hotel so keep a close eye on your belongings.
This was a fantastic family holiday, apart from the last comment, with good food, plenty of good tasting drinks from all 3 bars, friendly staff and spotless rooms ( all with sea view). I would highly recommend this hotel to anyone and contrary to previous comments, we found that the Germans were not too much in abundance at all.
If you want to go Jet Skiing, from the pool turn left down the beach for about 20 mins walk, he's a lot cheaper than Ixia beach itself.
Rhodes town at night is an absolute must. E6 by Taxi each way.
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Mike from Somerset travelled to Avra Beach Resort Hotel with
JMC
on a family holiday.
There were 2 adults and 2 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 05 2005 | rated the Avra Beach Resort Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: Just back from a very enjoyable stay at Avra Beach.
This is an excellent 'value for money' hotel. Do NOT go expecting top of the range luxury. However, you will get a well run, very clean hotel at a great price.
Everywhere was kept clean by an army of cleaners, with our (spacious) bungalow cleaned daily. Staff were very helpful.
Food and Drink were plentiful and very good. Large range of meats, plus salads and pasta. Cocktails were a treat. Reasonable selection of snacks available between meals.
Pool was great for the kids, poolside great for adults to sit and relax. Lovely views from seating area across to Turkey. Pool-side bar very handy.
Entertainment a bit basic, but it was early in the season. Kids disco every night, plus greek dancing, Bingo etc. The animation team work hard providing games for kids and adults.
Some minor downsides.....Think it would get very cramped peak season. Organised trips very expensive...BUT just next door is 'Rhodes Island' shopping centre with a travel agents. go there - it's half the hotel prices.
All in All - 'Did what it said on the tin'. Excellent value for money. Would recommend it.
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Mette Jensen from Aarhus, Denmark travelled to Avra Beach Resort Hotel with
Dansk Folkeferie
on a family holiday.
There were 2 adults and 3 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 10 2004 | rated the Avra Beach Resort Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: We certainly enjoyed our stay at the Avra Beach hotel. Everything was kept very nice and clean.
The food was very, very delicious - lots of Greek specialties, always hot, and beautifully arranged. Also a great variety in the courses: fish, port, lamb, veal, turkey and duck cooked in various ways - loved it all. There was grilled meat every evening and kebab for lunch every day (+ lots of other stuff, of course). The kids loved the free icecream!
The red wine was not very good, though, but it was possible to buy quality wine. I was also told that the coffee was not too good.
Lots of drinks available at the bar; only thing I didn't like was the fact that if you ordered anything non-alcoholic (a mineral water, a Pepsi or an alcohol-free cocktail), you would always get it in a plastic cup. I like my drinks to look inviting, even if do not contain alcohol!
The pool was great, but a bit cold. The sea was warmer, but with too many waves and streams for the kids.
Avra Beach Hotel is situated at a very busy road, but when you're in the hotel garden you don't feel or hear that at all. Many shops and a busstop close by.
We found the hotel staff very friendly, though sometimes the bartenders appeared a bit stressed (which was understandable considering the large number of people coming to get their free drinks!).
Entertaiment - mostly dancers. It was okay, nothing special.
Both the kids and we enjoyed ourselves, and we would certainly visit the place again, if we return to Rhodes.
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Steve Duff from Widnes travelled to Avra Beach Resort Hotel with
Sunstar Liersure
on a couples holiday.
There were 2 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 09 2004 | rated the Avra Beach Resort Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: My wife & I vistited The Avra beach for a last minute week in the sun. Please bear in mind that the season was almost at its end, last week of Sept. into August.
The hotel buildings were clean & tidy. The gardens were well kept.
The sunbathing area was an abosolute disgrace. The pebbled area was full of discarded cigarette buts that people had stubbed out. There was no ashtrays for them to use. Smokers might find this acceptable but my wife & I don't smoke & found it abhorent.
Beacause of the large number of ferral cats it was inevitable that cat 'doo doo' would be found in the sunbathing & surronding areas. Not pleasant at anytime & even worse when wearing flip flops.
The hotel food was absolute basic.
Breakfast was so unappetising it was not difficult to skip it. Fried eggs swimming in oil, fried 'what looked like spam', cakes & bread etc.
Lunch & evening meals were a permutation of pork, veal, kebab meat, perch cooked in various sauces & various pasta, & of course chips with everything. You don't need a great imagination to picture the scene. The restaurant was akin to a works canteen & not as clean as some. The tables were packed so closely it was difficult to move about when the restaurant was busy. People were trying to manouvre around others carrying hot soup & food etc. Not the safest thing to do.
The location is very poor, we found it hard to cross the road & we didn't have children or wheelchairs etc. We chose to stay close-ish, to the airport & the noise from planes etc. did not detract from the holiday. It is cheap enough to take a taxi from the airport, cheaper than arranging transfers. It cost us 11 euros each way, just over £7.
Friendly enough but there seemed to be a distinct lack of them. The same faces popped up everywhere. It seemed that staff numbers had been cut to a minimum because it was the last couple of weeks in the season. There was not enough staff to open the second bar till after 20:30, probably after finishing other duties. Both bars are supposed to be open from 10:00 till 24:00.
Entertainment consisted of air hockey tables, TV & a diafunctional volleyball court. Oh & of corurse the obligatory Greek dancing. There was dancing for 4 nights in the week, nothing for the other 3. After seeing one set of Greek dancers you have seen them all, how many variations on Zorbas' dance can there be? Very poor. There was a total absence of any animation teams / staff during the week we stayed.
It may surprise some but I would definately not stay in this hotel again. Nor would I advise anyone else to.
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John from Newport travelled to Avra Beach Resort Hotel with
Holiday Now
on a friends holiday.
There were 4 adults and 4 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 08 2004 | rated the Avra Beach Resort Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: Here's as full and frank review of the Avra Beach Hotel as I can provide. Hopefully if you are visiting this location sometime in the future it will provide valuable guidance on the venue.
Cleanliness: The rooms were spacious and spotless. The cleaning staff were friendly, helpful and cleaned every day. New towels were provided and the room was always left spotless. We stayed in the 'bungalow' tyoe rooms - beware - there are two types. A 4 bed and a 3 bed. After paying for 2 4 bed bungalows we were very nearly palmed off with one 4 bed and one 3 bed. They would put another bed into the 3 bedded rooms and you would not have been able to swing a cat (of which many, by the way, were there in abundance). After some negotiation with the hotel management we eventually got 2 4 bedded rooms.
Cats: they were everywhere - in the garden areas, by the pool, on the chairs by the pool, we even came back to our room one day to find one under the bed. Fact: they all have huge fleas on them - beurgh. The hotel staff did nothing to move them from anywhere.
Hotel Food: quite honestly this was a disgrace. They do not cater for UK visitors at all. Breakfast was a mixture of often uncooked fried eggs, hard bread (which I suppose after toasting was OK), no bacon - it was fried ham, no sausage, something that looked liked scrambled egg, jam, marmalade, tea, coffee and watered down juice. There were hard boiled eggs that were in two piles - one saying 4 minutes and the other saying 6 minutes - they were both too hard!!! The snack bar - phah... what snack bar??. All that was put there was what was left over from breakfast... dried cake, hard sandwiches, and wafer thin piza. Lunch - again - remnants from breakfast. The fried ham appeared in lasagne, always pork... every day there was pork, boiled pork, roast pork, kebab, baked pork, yuk!! Desert was always either water melon, honeydew melon, a 1" by 1" piece of cake and maybe some grapes. Dinner - same old same as - absolutely no variety at all. Never hot, always the same, boring, greasy, smelly food.
Waiting staff: Men - simply dreadful, quite rude, not friendly. Women - much better. Warning - don't ever sit on a table marked for 8 people if there are only 7 of you in your group.... you will be pounced upon. it's OK to sit 5 on a table for 6 though!!!!!!
Hotel Location: Awful. Nothing around the area at all. The name of the hotel is Avra Beach... well if you like a beach about 10 feet from wall to water and comprising of all pebbles this is your type of beach. Totally devoid of sand and you cannot take your kids there to play at all. The water was always fairly rough and we went in the sea just once in the entire 2 weeks. No chance to do snorkelling as it is always too choppy. Long walks in either direction to get to a range of shops. Taxi to Rhodes town was 6 euros.
Entertainment: errrmmm.... what entertainment...?
Drink: the beer is watered down rubbish. They can't wait to get rid of you from the queue, seeming to throw your drinks at you after putting copious amounts of tap watered ice into the kids lemonade such that there is only about 20% liquid in the plastic cup (saves money you see). Staff very rarely smiled - in fact - this is the only time I have been to Greece out of over a dozen previous visits, when I did not feel welcome at all. I couldn't wait to get away from the resort. After staying all inclusive in Crete during the previous year where even bottled water was included - note - Bottled water is not free in Avra Beach.
Pool: very clean and tidy. Be warned - they have an exceptionally good rule about putting towels onto sunbeds. You have to stay with your towel until 8:00 or they will be removed by the dreaded Garden Man!! I was up around 6:30 to get prime spot in order to keep an eye on the kids when they were in the pool. Another point - for a location that was very hot indeed, the pool was strangely... very cold!!!
Sumamry: Definately would not go back there again. Period. An awful place. Nothing for the kids to do, no poolside entertainment, no kids club, evening entertainment dire, food dreadful (I mean really, really dreadful), location awful, rooms excellent, cleaning staff excellent, waiting staff dreadful ( again, I mean really dreadful), cats everywhere, very few brits (I'd say only about 5% of guests).
So... you go there... you have been warned.
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Mark from Newport travelled to Avra Beach Resort Hotel with
Independant
on a friends holiday.
There were 4 adults and 4 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 07 2004 | rated the Avra Beach Resort Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: The Hotel complex is great and cleaned non stop day and night, the pool is very adequate.
The food is basic and seldom changes in variety.
There is a total lack of entertainment and nothing for the kids to do.
Beware when leaving the hotel the main road outside gets very busy.
Cats are also allowed to roam free around the complex.
Some of the staff would benefit from a customer relations course.
Be up early if you want a sunbed and you must stay with it until 8 am or your towel will be removed by the staff.
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Patrick from Falmouth travelled to Avra Beach Resort Hotel with
independent
on a friends holiday.
There were 2 adults and 2 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 06 2004 | rated the Avra Beach Resort Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: Hi all
We found this to be a really good value for money hotel. The buildings are a few years past their prime but we thoroughly enjoyed our stay here and the staff were really friendly and helpful and the food was excellent but would not suit those who wanted to eat "British only".
The only real draw back that I could see was that the hotel is on the main road to Rhodes Town and trying to cross it during July and August will be pretty hair raising!
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Parky from Huddersfield travelled to Avra Beach Resort Hotel with
Sunstar Leisure
on a family holiday.
There were 3 adults and 0 child(ren) in the party. The travel date was 09 2003 | rated the Avra Beach Resort Hotel as follows:| Cleanliness | | | Location | | | Staff | | | Food | | |
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| said: We stayed there last September and found it good value. Rooms are clean and spacious, bedding and towels changed daily.
Don't expect English cuisine, but DO try all the Greek food.
Buffet meals, with a fast turnover, warm, but never hot and never cold. Trays of food always being changed.
Fully air con rooms.
Charges for Safe deposit box.
Management were reluctant to let out rooms for last day, but shower and changing rooms were available.
Colditz Clamp must be worn at all times. (wrist band)
The beer is a lot weaker than the Taverna just outside to the right, so always ask for a Megalis biere.
Get up very early for a sunlounger, about 4.00 if you want to beat the Germans.
Not the best quality of sun loungers.
Chargeable sun loungers on the pebble beach.
One bad point was the fact that moggies were strolling round the lounge and squirting on the arm chairs, with no staff seeming to bother about getting them out. If we had done that, we'd have been barred or arrested. (I don't like cooking fats - Smilie) Ta Mr.Spooner.
5 Euros for a taxi into Rhodes. (It's as cheap in a taxi for 4 sharing as it is on the bus)
Don't buy beer in the yuppie type bars in the old city. (23 Euros for 1 beer and 3 OJ's) They look very tempting in the tall glasses.
Car hire from the company in the hotel is dearer than the local places, but safer. They have to be good or they are out of the place.
Turn right out on the main road and you will be able to drive round the island easily in a day, without having to cross the traffic flow to get to and from the many beaches. (It's like a racetrack)
Be VERY quick when you cross the road on foot, and ENJOY
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