Grecotel La Riviera at Riviera Olympia & Aqua Park

Excellent location, facilities (water park, swimming pools, kids club...). It was the high season and the hotel felt not crowded at all. No lines in the water park. Great experience!

Amazing place! All you need and great program for the kids as well - my 5 year old son had a blast! Lots of pools, beautiful beach and The aqua park is an added bonus. Staff is very welcoming and accommodating. Food is excellent! Very clean and well organized. You instantly feel at home! We’ll be back for sure!

Grecotel tops the lot. It’s a chain but somehow has that cosy, familiar feel to it. Accommodation: great quality, clean, fresh and with everything you need. Food and drink: We did the comfort package and it had all we needed and more. Traditional Greek dishes like Gemista, Stiffada, Briam all made for a great menu. Staff: the people at Grecotel are what elevate it to exceptional. There are so many genuinely lovely people working here. Extra special shout out to Anthi and Maria in the restaurant - both amazing and make you feel special. Guest services: Just brilliant. They arranged excursions, transfers, lunches and sightseeing opportunities for us. We had no worries because they took care of it all.

As I said best vocation ever. Best food, good coffee, a lot of free space (not as It was in Turkish where all are sitting on other heads) A lot of respect to personal borders. Good stuff, helping you any time you need

The location and the beach are truly excellent. We stayed at La Riviera Resort in a Superior Bungalow Sea View, 30m². While the view of the sea was rather limited, the bungalow featured its own garden and a fully equipped veranda. The bathroom was spacious and comfortable. The only inconvenience was the distance from the reception and the beach; however, this was easily resolved with the prompt assistance of an electric cart service, operated by a very courteous driver. The hotel staff were exceptionally well-trained, professional, and consistently went above and beyond to accommodate our needs with efficiency and genuine friendliness. Breakfast, served in a pleasant outdoor area fully sheltered from the sun, was excellent. The same applies to the La Riviera – Hot Stone restaurant, where we enjoyed dinner one evening — the service was outstanding and the dishes were both interesting and of high quality. I would be very happy to return, ideally with prior arrangement for a bungalow located closer to the main facilities and with a truly unobstructed sea view.

I write this view critically as I know I appreciate everything there is to know about a hotel before I spend ridiculous money on booking our family holiday. First thing - this hotel is fantastic for families with kids (not perfect but really good). We always stay at all inclusive places and this is the best one we have stayed at. What’s great: - Water park is amazing, never overly busy and in the uk you would pay a fortune for it and at the hotel its 2 min walk and you can go there as much as you want - The Beach is private to the hotel and again a 2 min walk down from the hotel, never overly mobbed, clean and and shallow waters - A few pools, all nice, the kids will need something to play with as not much to do for them - Kids club :) Maria and her team were really good, they were excellent with the kids and they always came back with some artistic creation. Also a kids disco, our kids are 6-7 and this was perfect but older ones may get bored - Food (for all inclusive) always tasted good and felt like well cooked with reasonable variety, for 2 weeks stay you also get 2 vouchers for their bookable restaurants. You never queue and the hotel never had a feel of being overly full Not great things: - WiFi is non excellent. -This is doubly annoying as the hotel info works off an app and it’s a large complex with a map only on the app! -The location is the middle of nowhere, it’s about 2.5/3hr drive from Kalamata Airport which feels an ordeal. It also makes car hire a no/no as they put a 150km cap on the cars which means you can’t really drive anywhere! -Grecotel’s take on all inclusive is not all inclusive, the ‘other’ restaurants you have to pay for and a number of things on the menu have to be paid for eg. Milkshakes Middle of the road things: - I think the hotel is a little dated but we had a superior family room which was a good size for our age family and we barely noticed but would slightly agree with other reviews I read - the hotel is on a complex of an apartment block and also their Oasis hotel, on a Thursday our kids cub was closed and we had to go to oasis, golf buggies shuttle you around like a mini bus service - Didn’t make much difference to us but not many Brits here I’d say I’m always very critical about our holiday hotels - mainly due to the money they cost! And this is the first one we agree we’d go back to, the only watch out for a second trip would be the ‘not great things’ I mentioned above BUT it was a great holiday and thank you to the hotel mgt and Grecoland team (kids Club)! We have one day to go and readying ourselves for the long trek back to the airport!