Galaxy City Hotel

The hotel itself is in a great location - quiet but close to town. It was a very modern style which we liked and had a lovely pool area with lots of outside seating. There were a few negatives for us: 1. Beds are extremely hard and gave me a bad back. We used the spare blanket in the room to put underneath the sheet to make the bed a bit softer. The availability of a mattress topper would have solved the problem. 2. The breakfast selection was not great. Scrambled eggs every day gets a bit boring! There were no other eggs available and no pots of yogurt - only a bowl of thick Greek yogurt. Fruit was extremely limited and most days they only had white bread. Fortunately there was great food in the many restaurnts in the town. 3. My partner had a nose bleed the last but one night in bed. He mopped the blood off the sheet as best he could but we were horrified that night when we returned late and the bedding had not been changed! The maid had just re-made the bed - she must have seen the stains!

Just arrived back after spending week at the Galaxy. The hotel is lovely and the rooms are excellent. Great nights sleep and the rooms have air con, safe TV and fridge all included in the price. Breakfasts were excellent. We had to tell Poppy to stop cooking for us as there was far too much. Excellent greek breakfast with the usual greek fare consisting of eggs, sausage, Toasties, bread/toast, yoghurt, jams honey and cake. Rooms were clean and comfortable and the hotel and grounds were well kept. Poppy was an excellent host and Yannis always said hello when we saw him. Not the cheapest but a really good standard for Greece. Hot water plentiful but the shower has no enclosure so takes a little getting used to but good drainage for what is more like a wet room. We were pleased with our hotel and find it to be the best Greek hotel we have stayed in. The hotel is a stroll out of town in a residential area, We found it to be quiet and it had lovely views of the hills. Thank you Poppy for looking after us.

First time to Thassos. 1 flight a week from TUI, so you're there for either 7 nights or 14 nights. Probably the best Greek holiday hotel we've ever stayed in over the last 20 years, and very good VFM. It's not bargain basement prices, but it's worth it. We asked for a high room at the back, with a balcony - and got a ground floor (well, slightly lower than ground floor, but only by half a metre) room at the front, with a patio (obvs). Great room, just like in the pix. Really great breakfasts - I like fresh bread, butter and cheese - but lots of healthier fruit, yoghurt, juice, scrambled eggs, toast, and more, too. Great pool, but take your sunhat and sunspecs. (And suncream.) Hummingbird moths coming and going around the plants near the pool (in August) - fascinating! We tried to spend a bit of money at the bar, it being a family hotel, and this probably helped 'everyone being happy' - the family owners and the visitors.So we had a few Mythoses (Mythi? Mythae?), wine, and a few omelette/fries/toasties snacks. Reasonable prices, no more than in town, which is 12 -15 minutes slow walk away, very slighty downhill. Really nice and friendly familty - dad, mum, daughters. Super-cool decor, the pix don't lie, and I'm lovin' that 'ruined chateau staircase' mural in the lounge (which wasn't really used by anyone for more than a few minutes). We asked to move to a high back room, as requested, and were able to do this after a week. Unfortunately, this messed up other follow-on bookings, but the people moving in were so confrontational (we were by the pool when they arrived), we left it to the owner (so apologies to the owner, who really did his best to please everyone) to sort out. If the newbies had been less vocal, demanding and terrifying, we might have fessed up and moved back into the ground floor, so that they could have 'their' room. Anyway, we did our best to not let the guilt stop us enjoying our holiday! In retrospect, we loved the balcony at the back (less so if we'd been on ground level wth a patio), but the front, pool-facing ground floor room was much better than we expected, and we 'got used to it' and actually liked it. (We ARE big 'balcony people', though, more so than most. Rear balconies at the Galaxy get good sunsets, sometimes, distant mountain views, with nearby fields, hens and a couple of large and noisy cocks strutting around.) Nearest neighbors /locals are at the far side of the large field. Ground floor REAR rooms may just see a lawn and wall, possibly distant mountains. All in all, a great holiday - not as good as Skiathos, for us, and restaurants not quite as good, but everything much, much cheaper than Skiathos, including the overall holiday cost. Read on for free sunbeds! Seamless transfer from TUI - the coach and cases come across on the 30-minute ferry with you - but take a sunhat, water, and sunspecs, once again. _____ Tip - town beach is not that great. It's OK, though. The beach on the FAR LEFT as you look out to sea is very small, but with 2 or 3 great new upmarket bars/restaurants at reasonable prices, but a 20-minute walk away in blistering heat. Best not to try shortcuts, you'll get lost, even with your mobile phone maps - just walk from Galaxy to the sea and follow it to the left, past shops/restaurants on your left, then a small side road on the right leads past a mini-chapel to the beach. FREE sunbeds if you spend a tenner on drinks and snacks. Not like Skiathos! What a great Thassos tradition! Go to Google Maps and type in 'Saint Vassilios Chapel, Thasos' for that small beach, then 'StreetView' it. Unfortunately, you won't be able to 'walk' far enough down the track to see the beach bars I'm talking about. there IS sand eventually, not visible on the map.