Eftalia Downtown Hotel

Not sure what has happened. We visited in August, 8 years ago. Had a lovely time. Came back this time, and it has just not been the same. I know it is peak season, but so were August. Maybe less people knew about the hotel before. It is not as welcoming anymore, (for the English anyway), but others may have a different opinion. It's as though other tourists do not know how to que, or use basic manners. The woman lifeguard clearly had a problem with me & my son. My son is autistic, and it does not seem to get acknowledged. He had retalliated to a girl kicking him, but because she had only seen my son later on pushing her, that is how her problem started with us. That family had left some days later, after the girls dad had come over furious with us during the evening meal. Yes that is right, the parents weren't even around when it happened. The lifeguard then went on to stand with other family's, all looking towards us and talking, just because my son had sung an innocent song and looked at someone whilst doing it, and we clearly wasn't from the same country. We are not going to stop using the pool because you hate us. Not sure I would return again anymore.

We stayed here for 10 nights, I wasn’t coming with high expectations after reading reviews however we had a brilliant stay. The staff were so helpful and attentive, the rooms were cleaned everyday, rooms were spacious & the location was great loads of restaurants around to try. My only thing was we couldn’t get round the pool because every morning the beds were reserved. Even though it says please don’t put towels on beds they still do. We stayed in the block near the playground so on a night when people were going back to their rooms it was very noisy, we also had a very noisy neighbour which we did have to tell to keep it down. You only get 1 card key for the room which is rather annoying because we left it in the room twice.

Overall we had a great stay and would definitely come back!