Belvedere Luxury Suites

We booked a last minute break with Jet 2 to this hotel, we do not normally do all inclusive but the price was good so we thought we had nothing to lose.

Booked a sea view room, which was stunning, brand new furniture and bed etc, shame they didn't do the bathroom but it did the job, although the water pressure was not great!

Food options were good most of the time, breakfast great, lunch good too, loads of salads. Some evening meal less choices and once empty not replenished.

Drinks were obviously watered down, beer was very weak and wine too. Spirits seemed to be all the same colour white regardless of what you ordered. There are no snacks available just some biscuits or cake, which is a shame if you have kids. Overall, we enjoyed the week, the football was on in the bar up road and atmosphere was good. We would return.

The hotel has a great location within a walking distance to Gerakas Beach with lovely views around. If you feel like exploring the local area on foot, you can walk to the picturesque Porto Roma beach or even the long and wide, sandy Banana beach, or if you wish, you can rent a car to explore the island even more. From Gerakas beach you can also walk up the hill, following the path to the right, to see the impressive white rocks. As if it comes to food, the buffet serves tasty savoury food including fish, seafood, meat dishes (pork, beef, chicken), fresh and baked vegetables with new options appearing every day. You can taste and learn the names of some Greek dishes as there are lables next to the trays. The sweet options for dessert include delicious cakes, ice cream, fresh fruit, mainly juicy and sweet yellow melon, watermelon, pieces of oranges, grapefruit, apples, occasionally pineapple and kiwi. The range of food to me was sufficient, maybe not as wide as in bigger hotels, but there was a good variety to choose from to compose a balanced meal with fruit and delicious cake to end with. We enjoyed the Greek relaxing music sounds during our evening meals. The service is wonderful, the staff very helpful and hospitable. One small issue in the room was fixed promptly. The room we had was clean, beds with very comfortable matresses, which is important for us, the reusable glass water bottle in the fridge that we could fill up at the bar every day was a great idea. The only drawback may seem to be the insufficient number of sunbeds at the pool but we didn't have the problem, plus we spent some days on the beach and explored the island. Overall, it was a very relaxing holiday experience and I would return.

I would not rate this a 4 star hotel. Towels are supposed to be changed every two days, the bed linen every three days. Bed linen was never changed the entire week we stayed at the hotel. Towels were changed after four days. Two days our room was not cleaned. One day we got back to our room to find two toilet rolls outside our room door. We had a terrace outside our room, but it was covered in bird poo. The cleaning staff left the toilet rolls on the dirty table covered in bird poo! After complaining about the room not being cleaned and no towels, the cleaning staff turned up in the afternoon on our last day. They rinsed the shower and straightened the beds. Still did not clean the floor or change the bed linen. And, the cleaning staff strip the top sheet off the bed and leave it folded at the end of the bed. You have to make your own bed, which I have never experienced in any other previous hotel, regardless of the star rating. The hotel has over 80 rooms, suites, apartments and private villas and just 42 sun beds around the pool! Staff did nothing about people placing towels early in the morning, or people leaving towels on beds while they went on excursions. We booked our holiday through TUI, which states the pool bar snacks are all inclusive, which they are not! Be prepared to spend some money as the nearest shop is 1km away. And, the bar manager shouted at my husband when we tried to walk out the restaurant with our drinks. We had not seen the sign saying glasses can not be taken out of the restaurant. Yet, we saw numerous people taking glasses out of the restaurant and they were not stopped, or shouted at. We will not be back!