Atlantica Thalassa Hotel

To start with the positives- The hotel is beautiful, rooms are clean and facilities are spotless. The entertainment staff were lovely and we didn’t feel pressured to join in with entertainment like at some other resorts. The location of the resort is perfect as it’s an 8 minute bus journey from Kos town for 2 euro per person. Some negatives we found some of the staff to be quite rude, very hit and miss. I want to highlight the staff at the main bar were great, always smiley and friendly. The food was bland and the selection was not great. We’d visited a resort the year before in Marmari with the same stars and the food there was amazing so we were expecting better for the amount of money we had paid. The snack bar was okay, the drinks were fine, cocktails made to order not pre mixed however the juice used was from concentrate not fresh so everything was overly sweet. Again with the soft drinks they were very sweet almost like there was too much syrup in them. There was plenty of sunbeds however the ones around the pool are better than the ones on the grass and there was lots of people reserving sunbeds. If you weren’t round the pool by 8am you would end up on the grass and there were no umbrellas for shade around the sunbeds on the grass. You have to pay for sunbeds on the beach 4 euro per person. The beach had lots of debris on the sand. There was wood chips sticking out of the sand which meant we had to wear sandals. The beach was also very rocky, not the hotels fault obviously but if you don’t like rocky beaches it’s probably not ideal. There is also no bar on the beach so you can order drinks and food for additional prices but we just went back to the hotel for lunch as it was free. Because of the quality of the food we ended up eating out lots. The reception staff were really nice to begin with. We had an issue where we had ants in our room and they offered to spray our room I asked multiple times what they are spraying it with and how long we have to wait as we didn’t want to be breathing it in as we were going to bed. They seemed to be agitated by me questioning this and after this they were frosty with us. The ants were sorted and we didn’t have any issues again. I didn’t have a problem with the ants (this is out of the hotels control) I was worried about the chemicals we could be breathing in and they just kept talking about how it’s a hot climate and ants are common which I understood. When we checked out the reception staff didn’t ask us about our stay or wish us a safe trip home which made me think we had annoyed them with this situation. Overall I wouldn’t recommend this resort or stay here again as I feel like the quality doesn’t reflect the price that we paid.

If you are in Kos I would recommend the 3 island boat trip we travelled on the odyessy boat and it was amazing and worth the price. We paid £26 per person and it was the highlight of our holiday!

brilliant hotel. pool was a decent size, lots of sunbeds, however some sunbeds were on the grass which has mysterious water pools around it which had a vile smell, must of been stagnant water but that can’t be helped. also limited umbrellas with sun loungers. food was okay, very repetitive with meat, just seemed that it was mainly pork and turkey meat based meals. besides that it had a lovely selection of sides. rooms were amazing, cleaners every day. however some of the walls were extremely thin, resorting in next door waking us up with their normal noise level conversations, aswell as noise from above us too. staff were amazing, reps kat and jay were lovely, entertainment was good, we won the quiz and were gifted a bottle of champagne from the bar which was nice of the hotel to do. theirs lot to do around, we hired an electric scooter for a week which was 20 euros, only taking us 15 mins to go to the old town, we also booked a boat trip with get your guide which was amazing!