Vivien W
January 12, 2024
My family and I – 9 adults and 1 small child – spent a week at Hotel King Saron in Peloponnese, Greece in August 2023. The holiday was bought via a Danish travel agency. When looking at the agency’s web site it seemed a positive choice. However, a very large percentage of the guests were from a French travel agency specialising in providing a lot of on-site activities for their guests. These activities varied from extremely loud music for the most part of the day at the swimming pool, also many periods during the day of aqua-gymnastics and ball games in and around the pool (all led by their guides in all kinds of cartoon costume outfits only willing to speak French – we did ask for English but this was refused - and only for the French guests) to a music quiz every evening on the hotel terrace bar area leaving no terrace seating for other guests. The music being quizzed about was played very loudly, so that if one was lucky enough to find a restaurant table outside (there were only 4), the noise made conversation impossible until it finished around 19.30. The French guests were given table reservation privileges in the restaurant that were not always available to the rest of us. Being so many, as we were, made it difficult to sit together unless we made sure that we got there before others who were more than 3-4 people. Our room and adjoining bathroom were very nice and our balcony had shade and a lovely view of the sea, but again when we spent time on it during the day and early evening, we had no choice but to listen to the music coming from the French activities. All the activities for children and young people that took place on the hotel grounds (including the play huts) were also only for the French guests. The hotel was clean and well-kept with several indoor sitting areas and a fitness room and there was a limited beach area with room for sun chairs but only a small ***** of sand. It is an all-inclusive hotel which can mean food choices are repeated during the stay, but here at Kong Saron there was an incredible choice of dishes and fruit at each of the 3 meals during the day plus the opportunity to take snacks and drinks from the bar at specified times during the day. The quality of the cooking was top-class, and the personnel were helpful. The cleaning and reception desk staff were friendly and helpful, but the latter were unable to help us when we approached them regarding our irritation of being pushed around by the French guides and guests. Our travel agency was only once represented at the hotel during our stay and that was our first morning before we were aware of the situation. The nearest town is small and very local and offers no alternatives to spending time at the hotel.