Avra Beach Hotel

Stayed for 2 weeks AI mid August and overall had a lovely holiday . On arrival you will need to pay room tax at 3 Euro’s a room per night and there are safes in the room and again there is a charge for these. The hotel is in a great location right on the beach , a quick (albeit hair-raising at times! ) 10 minute local bus ride will take you into Rhodes Town , did this Twice by day and once at night and bus stop is right outside the hotel , would recommend Nikki’s Place (Island Lipsi) to eat out in the Old Town. The old town is lovely but got very fed up with people trying to get you to eat and drink in their bars especially at night . There is a busy road outside hotel and at times difficult to cross , however has lots of bars and restaurants. We ate out at Hippo Campus and enjoyed an evening of Greek Dancing And plate smashing , the food was very good too ( Tues and Fri nights) , also tried Romeos and again the food was excellent (prices much the same as Home ) . The hotel was very clean, the staff very friendly and helpful, especially the bar staff . We didn’t get a partial sea or pool view as expected , we had an internal room in a type of courtyard , didn’t complain as we had one of the refurbished rooms which was very nice , however had to go down to reception numerous times as although the maids made up 3 beds every day they didn’t seem to think we needed 3 shower towels, there are also blue beach towels in the room which they will change in reception for you. Had a few problems with the card system took numerous attempts to swipe to get into room and had it reprogrammed twice. The evening entertainment was mixed , music nights were good , really enjoyed the Drifters evening as they tried to get everyone involved and up and dancing but because of the location of the entertainment unless you got a seat early in the evening there wasn’t much point in the magician shows or acrobatic shows as you couldn’t see ! As per an earlier review didn’t appreciated getting dive bombed by children jumping off the bridges into the pool. Spent most of time on the beach where there was a nice breeze and bought some beach shoes from hotel shop to get in and out of the sea which was quite warm. If on the beach be aware of lying on the row directly in front of the bar , The first week of our stay it was particularly breezy and 2 chairs from the bar came flying over the edge and only missed my husband and friend because they jumped off their sun-loungers! After being to many AI hotels in the past 8 years I have to agree with many other reviews that the food in restaurant (snack bar was very good ) just wasn’t up to my expectations, much of it wasn’t labelled, meat dishes were very fatty, it was very repetitive especially the sweets - no I agree you wouldn’t starve and could always find something - thank heavens for the carbonara that was on every day/night. We ate out 5 times which is something we do not usually do on AI . A few suggestions to management : change the pool signs on the bridges to add no jumping or diving into pools, put up Perspex along front of bar like in the restaurant area just to stop chairs blowing onto beach and serve ice-cream in the restaurant in the evenings as an alternative sweet (I know it’s available at the bar area but think be good option for the restaurant too ). We were a party of nine and all enjoyed the holiday, would we go back to the hotel ? probably not because we like going to other locations and we felt the food let it down .

Stayed here the last week in August with my husband. We got a lovely room in the hotel with a sea view, bathroom was amazing, and the bed was so comfortable. All the staff in this hotel are lovely and friendly, from bar staff, restaurant, cleaning staff, all have a smile and greeting when you pass them, and reception staff so helpful. I feel I have to say that the cleaning and maintainance staff should get a special mention because the hotel is kept spotless and well run. Food and drink was fine , I can be fussy but always found something tasty to eat. The snack bar is a little gem, loved it. The location of the hotel was great, not to far away from bars and restaurants , and easy enough to get to Rhodes town. We used the hotel shuttle bus a few times which only cost 12euro return for both of us. We had a lovely relaxing holiday, and we would definitely return. Thank you Avra beach, we were sad to leave x

We came as a family of 6 and spent two weeks here. I can’t thank all of the staff enough for making our holiday fantastic! Our little girl Jessica loved mini disco, mini club and Yarra yarra. She enjoyed every minute dancing with the other kids. Liam really enjoyed football,waterpolo and volleyball with Nathan,Andy and Gino. Massive thanks to Andy and his animation team for all of the activities and effort in the shows and entertainment. The Food was great also, lots of fresh salad and fruit and lovely meals to try, massive thanks to Thanasis and his team for being so welcoming and attentive, Jessica loved you! I don’t know the ladies name but she is a chef and wore a black chef outfit...what a lovely lady!!! And your pizza flavours are fab! Literally everyone there is fantastic and we had an amazing holiday and we hope we can come back soon!