Begeti Bay

Here are the good things first. (1) Pool ok for the size of the hotel. Plenty of sun beds too. Clean & well kept. (2) Staff - Really friendly & want to do anything they can to make your holiday a happy one. (3) If you want a chilled stress free place to spend your holiday this is good hotel to come to. (4) Rooms- Spacious, clean & fresh. Towels changed on request as well as bedding. (5) Entertainment- one night a week but we knew that. The Greek night was really good & the dancers got everyone involved. NOW THE NEGATIVES (1) Location - Not the prettiest place around the hotel. Needs improving. Further up there is a beach but it is about 3’ to the sea. The beach near the hotel is stoney & full of middies apparently. I won’t go near it. Very isolated where we are. (2)All Inclusive package:- *Drinks- only until 10pm *Juices at meal times- often watery. *Food:- Cold Very little choice (unless you like salad) Same every day Not once was there any seafood Only fresh fruit was melon. The rest was tinned. It is one of the worst buffets I have been to. Sweets were awful. They did have ice cream

I could not fault the hotel! All staff were very helpful and accommodating. There is a shop on site that sells everything you could need. The buffet food is good quality and everything is well cooked, however there is not much variety and most dishes are meat or fish in a tomatoey sauce. On some nights we found it difficult to find things to suit our tastes (however we probably just have a boring english palette , and if you are more adventurous this may suit you better.) There is a variety of drinks available from 10:30am-10pm from the bar, bar staff lovely and drinks all very nice. Pool are is lovely and sunbeds were always available (no sunbed wars!). The only downside to this hotel is probably the location. There is only 1 restaurant and 1 small shop in close proximity, beach is okay. If you want to have a day out i would recommend Rhythmeno which is 20 ish minutes away (2.20 on the bus, or 25 in a taxi). If we came again we would probably hire a car to see more of the island. We really enjoyed our time here and did a boat trip and a bus tour, aswell as nice restaurants and shops. Rooms were all nice and clean and with lovely views.

First of all I would like to say we booked this hotel mainly on the reviews from trip advisor which didn't reflect our experience in any way.

The Good, We do a lot of holidays and have to say the staff were the best we have ever met,a credit to the hotel, special thanks to Hunter and Martina in the bar.

The pool area is beautifully done, very high end sun loungers and umbrellas and kept reasonably clean.

The Bad, No designated smoking areas, people just smoked everywhere, not great when you don't smoke. We never ate our meals outside because there's like a sewage smell, very off putting.

We struggled with the food, definitely not 4 star, juice machine and coffee machine were very weak and felt watered down. The soup which was only at dinner was disappointing, again watered down to have zero taste. The meat dishes mostly had no labels and of a very low standard We were very disappointed with the food.

The Ugly, Room was basic but clean, the bathroom on the other hand was the worst we have ever experienced going on holiday, totally outdated, you had to hold the shower with one hand and try not to stand on the drain which filled up the bath if you did and then you had to call reception to fix, Stopper in sink also broken and a toilet seat that you have to hold up to use, totally different to what's advertised in their photos.

The surrounding areas of the hotel were filthy dirty, just rubbish everywhere, very off putting. The local beach also filthy, not sure what the €70 tourist tax went towards.

In summary Fantastic staff, nice modern hotel let down by outdated rooms and bad food. Very quiet area with little to do. Filthy beaches, Don't understand why so many great reviews, funny how most, it was their first review, very strange.