Cavos Beach House

We arrived on 13th August, phoned Maria to advise we were ready to check in, she was there within five minutes. She was polite and helpful, giving a discount for a local steakhouse. She showed us to our room, explained that she was contactable on the number provided (written everywhere) and left us too it. Our room was basic but you get what you pay for, it was clean, functional, shower pressure was more than okay, air conditioning (you have to pay) was exactly what was needed, the kitchen area was again, basic but, it did what it needed to do. Sadly we didn’t have our own private balcony as expected but, did have an area to sit a little further down from our room which, was fine for us. The hotel does not have a pool but, there is one attached to the hotel literally a stones throw away which, we enjoyed each day, they ask you to buy a drink there which, was no problem. The neighbouring hotel does play music but as far as we could tell it didn’t go on too late so, wasn’t an issue. Lots of decent places to eat nearby (try Contessa, lovely) the beach is no more than a few mins walk away although, we chose not to visit there daily, the sunrise on the last morning was stunning, well worth getting up early for and we had the beach to ourselves. Look, this is a low star hotel, don’t book if you want 5* luxury because you will be disappointed. What it is, is a completely acceptable budget hotel, somewhere you can get your head down in a comfortable bed, shower and use as a decent base to explore Kavos however that might look for you! We were really concerned after seeing some of the more recent reviews (after booking) about what we would find here and we were really pleasantly surprised. Maria and her husband were perfectly lovely, polite, helpful and approachable. We had no problems at all, we were considerate of them, their staff and other guests as they were of us. I’d happily go back and stay here again.

- Do not go here, the owners are rude and try to scam you. They kicked me and my two friends out on to the streets in the middle of our stay on her birthday. We were very scared being 3 young girls in a foreign country with no where to stay. - From the beginning there were multiple red flags. No one was at reception when we arrived and they just left a big sign with our names and room number and the door was just left open. Then the next day they wanted to charge us 10 euros when we got there and told us we had to pay for ac everyday even though none of this was advertised when booking - On our third day a women, which I believe to be named Maria Pandi, barged in in the morning when I was sleeping and started screaming in my face because I had taken the sheets off the bed to clean and hung them up (because they were dirty since we arrived). This was the first time I had seen this women aswell - Then she tried to blame me for a blood stain on the bottom of the mattress which was not mine and was there when we got there - She then demanded we pay €150 and give her our passports which we refused straight away. She then said we had to pay €60 for a mattress and sheets - A man then showed up who I think was her husband and after we refused to pay them and give our passports they told us to start packing and that we had to leave. We said no because we had paid to be there another 3 days and had no where else to go - Another man showed up and then said we had defecated and urinated in the beds. Which we obviously hadn’t and this was where things started to escalate with them lying and threatening us - The woman then told us she was going to call the police on us and when we asked why she said we had damaged the property. We told her we had videos of the room and evidence that we hadn’t damaged anything. She then told us she can tell the police anything and can pay the police to arrest us. She also said that her cousin was a policeman and he would come and arrest us - The man came up aswell and started shouting at us aswell and threatened to throw our stuff off the balcony. At this point we felt very uncomfortable being there and decided to pack up while they stood outside and kept banging on the door - Also we had an ant infestation when we arrived which the owners refused to deal with and tried to blame us and on the first day when I was not in the room she barged in unannounced and told my friends that we had stained one of the towels. This towel had not been touched since we arrived so the stain was already there. - Also the pools pictured in the advertisement when booking do not belong to the hotel and you are forced to buy a drink there if you want to use the pool or sunbathe there - The wifi advertised does not work and we ended up having to pay to use mobile data