Kouros Exclusive

We stayed at the Kouros 1/6/26-8/6/26 for the Boutique Soul Week. What a fantastic quirky hotel and extremely well run, all of the staff what ever role they did were brilliant the management should be very proud of the way their staff performed. Nothing was too much trouble. We went with a group of 10 and we all had different rooms all were great. The food from the pool bar was brilliant. The pool area has loads of sun beds, double sun beds and even bigger sun beds for groups. There are plenty of shaded areas as well if you want to get out of the sun for a while. We couldn’t recommend this hotel highly enough and will definitely be back.

The massage was such a wonderful experience, Ioannis is such a great professional. If you have the opportunity definitely book a massage with him, I promise you'll not regret it!

My partner and I stayed with Kouros Exclusive Suites from 08.06.26 to 18.06.26, and it was outstanding from start to finish.

We booked the penthouse suite with outdoor jacuzzi, half board, 10 nights, with a transfer from the airport. Our outbound flight was delayed; however, I had consistent communication with Kouros via email before our arrival in which they were more than accommodating to still pick us up from the airport despite the delay. The hotel is around a 25-minute drive from the airport, which is very convenient.

We arrived at Kouros at around 9pm local time and had just missed the cut off for half-board dinner service which runs from 6pm-9pm. We instead got settled into our room 406. The room was massive, lots of storage space, very clean, and spacious. However, our room was overlooking a new development space as Kouros is currently expanding. This meant we were subject to construction noise in the morning. We spoke with reception to see if we could move to a different room - still penthouse suite with outdoor jacuzzi, and they were more than accommodating. Our new room 305 overlooked the breakfast space on the 3rd floor. Room 406 was a newly renovated room, which is a slightly more modern. Room 305 is one of the quote-on-quote 'older' designs, but it was still amazing - very spacious, lots of storage space, and had a beautiful private balcony with outdoor seating and loungers. The room was fully air-conditioned, with a fridge, standing shower room with a sink, bathroom with a sink, and sofa.

Our room was cleaned every day, and the cleaners are very attentive. The toilet, shower, and sink was cleaned every day, alongside the bedding made and fresh towels provided each day. The floors are also mopped every day which really goes the extra mile. We also had people come around most nights to offer fresh towels if we needed them. Our jacuzzi was also cleaned once every 4 days.

Kouros offer a beach towel service, whereby you pay a 20 euro deposit for 1 towel and can have your towels replaced every 2 days. This was great for us!

What made this holiday so special was the food. The food in itself gets 6 stars. Half board has breakfast and dinner included, excluding drinks and snacks. Breakfast served from 7:30am-10:30am is a huge buffet selection including fresh fruits, delis, yoghurts, nuts and granolas, fried eggs and sausages, scrambled eggs and other omelettes, breads and other savoury items, and a massive selection of sweets and cakes, each varying day by day. You could also select a variety of juices, teas, and coffees on demand. There are plenty of spaces to sit for breakfast in the shade and in the sun at any time during breakfast. We made sure to fill up on breakfast, as we would then only eat again at dinner time.

In the daytime, you can make use of the pool bar that served a selection of drinks, including alcoholic beverages, and food bits - but these are not included in the half board. Anything bought here was paid on request rather than adding to the room tab. We made particular use of the iced chocolate milks and iced coffees! An iced chocolate milk was priced at 5 euros, so very cheap and cheerful!

On half board, dinner each night has a specially curated menu with bread and dips, a gift from the chef, soup of the day, choice of 2 appetisers, choice of 2 mains, and a choice of 2 desserts. Absolutely spectacular. Pictures are meals from just one night! In addition to the half board set menus, you could request items from the a la carte menus, of which they have their standard menu and a sushi menu, but these will cost extra.

As we were half board, we didn't have drinks or snacks included in our stay. Instead, when we ordered drinks at dinner time, we added these to our room tab and paid it off at check out. The choice of drinks was amazing, with wines, spirits, beers, cocktails, mocktails, juices, etc., all well priced. Your average cocktail was priced around 10 euros. We amassed around 25 euros on drinks each night, and between 30 and 40 euros per day altogether including drinks in the daytime. The alcoholic drinks were great, not diluted, and used branded spirits. You could also request items not on the menu.

The staff at Kouros are incredible. Super attentive, friendly, and willing to cater to your every need. As Kouros is quite a small establishment, you really get to know the staff, which is a really nice experience.

As previously mentioned, Kouros is currently expanding. This meant there were works going on every day including weekends. This at times got quite noisy, but you could quite easily tune it out, but something to bear in mind as I would imagine with will continue for quite some time. However, I loved the music they played during the day. A mix of old school English music, traditional Greek music, and Greek poolside remix music. Very relaxing listening for reading and sunbathing! During breakfast, some days we were greeted by a live harp player, a live saxophone player, and a live guitar player! All of which were outstanding and really added to the expensive feel of the place. During the night, each night had its own entertainment: live DJ, live singers, harp player, etc., which was really entertaining. However, if you are a light sleeper who likes to go to bed early – by which I mean before midnight – this might be a slight problem for you as the music would last until around midnight each night. As our room was overlooking the dining areas, we could hear the music quite clearly. But this wasn’t an issue for us as we quite enjoyed listening to it!

In the daytime, you have optionality of lots and lots of different beds and seats in the shade and in the sun. We were quite spoiled for choice most days as it was relatively quiet. But even on the busiest days, you could still have optionality on where you wanted to sit. As our stay was in early June, the weather was great – around 30 degrees each day, with UV peaking at 9. Some days had a gorgeous breeze, so sunbathing was perfect. The staff would come around during the day with frozen flannels to keep cool, cooling aloe face sprays, and to take any drinks orders.

Kouros is situated just between 2 bus stops to get to Lindos or Rhodes old town very easily, if you are willing to wait forever for the bus to turn up! Alternatively, you could get a taxi to anywhere on the island very easily.

One thing to note is it is a good idea to take extra cash with you before you travel for tipping and any bus journeys. Alternatively, you can use the local ATM, but it will charge you a fee for using the ATM. If you do use the ATM, make sure to decline the conversion rate, as it will default to your banks standard conversion which is much cheaper than what they offer.

If you really want a special experience, I would highly recommend visiting Yiannis in the boutique spa. He offers several different massages, of which we got the full body pampering massage. This was a really magical experience. Yiannis is extremely thorough in his approach, combining soft and deep tissue techniques to really get out any knots in the muscle. We got this on our last day, and it really finished off our trip perfectly.

Overall, this was an outstanding trip, of which I was very sad to leave! I will 100% consider returning to Kouros, as it has been a trip to remember. Ultimately, I score the whole experience 4.75 stars out of 5.