Guest User
June 18, 2024
My partner booked this hotel after visiting the pool on her last trip to Alikanas last year, assuming that the level of quality and service at the poolside would be matched in the hotel. Sure to say we were both disappointed with the reality. I’ll start off by talking about the pool/bar area which is where all of their money clearly goes into and I’m sure must be ran separate from the hotel because the two groups of staff never seem to interact. I have no faults whatsoever bar one minor gripe which is that the music is far too loud, they have a DJ on as well once a week and they just crank it to 11 when he is playing and we actually left early on that day because you just couldn’t escape the booming music. But other than that the pool is always clean, the staff are always friendly and chatty, the food is IMMENSE, some of the best food we had for our whole trip, sometimes we would prefer it over the local restaurants. The pool is open to the public as well so it can get busy on the weekends so definitely be on the lookout for that, also bring your own towels too, you’ll be purely drip-drying otherwise. If I could rate the pool separate from the hotel I would give it 4.5/5 Moving on to the hotel itself, it has seen better days I will say that much. The staff always try their best to do whatever they can to help, they are not bad or rude at all, but it all just seems a little false, every day there are at like 4-5 people complaining about something with their rooms. Also they charge €50 for air con, which is not refundable and have no remorse for, fair enough it covers you for your full stay but it really would only have the best value if you bought it on your first day. Don’t even bother asking for an extra keycard because they will just flat out say no. They initially put us in a room “close to the pool” which was up two flights of stairs, completely the other side of the pool and having to endure the smell of sewage, we asked to move rooms after this due to my wife having pain using her legs. They have apartments and other rooms across the road that are really lovely but the rooms they have in the main building, which we were put into after moving, leave much to be desired. The shower is tiny and isn’t actually sealed properly so water just floods the bathroom, the beds are so uncomfortable we woke up more tired than when we went to bed, we asked for a mattress topper (twice I might add because they just didn’t do it the first time) which helped somewhat. Aside from the solid beds good like trying to sleep with mopeds and ATV’s ripping down the road until like 2am, which I suppose the hotel can’t really help but the walls are paper thin. Hotel food-wise we only had breakfast which was a little depressing, the food was not bad by any means but the selection could have been wider and things could have been labelled at least (for allergies sake, it’s pretty clear the scrambled eggs were scrambled eggs). Overall the stay was okay but it to