Guest User
August 20, 2024
Hotel rooms are comfortable and staff friendly and helpful. Rooms are ok, we had a top floor room so had a seaview, not sure every room gets a seaview. Housekeeping is excellent. We had breakfast, served at the hotel across the road and it was very nice. There's a local bus that stops nearby (at the Spongia hotel) and its only EUR2 into town. Unfortunately the pool setup was not ideal. We travelled with Jet2 and they don't advertise on their website that the pool at the Kalypso Hotel is open to use to guests from neighbouring hotels (none of which have their own pools) and also the general public. There are only 10 sunbeds (which are rock hard!) and at some points it was impossible to get a seat. Weekends are even worse when non-hotel guests use the pool area all day with hordes of screaming children jumping in the pool all day. On one day a family pulled up outside in a car, simply walked into the hotel and jumped into the jacuzzi. They they spotted that there was a EUR5 pp charge and promptly ran out! Most days we gave up and went out to the beach. Its one of least relaxing holidays I've ever been on and a real shame as the hotel is lovely and location great. For guests travelling with Jet2 on a late flight to Kos, be warned, if you miss the last ferry you'll be put into accommodation on Kos (which we knew about in advance). In our case it was no where near Mastichari port (we were put up in the sunshine hotel in Tingaki) and we then had to wait for a coach transfer with other guests staying on Kos and spent over an hour dropping off guests at 1am. We managed 4 hours sleep max before being picked up again at 8am to make the 9am ferry (fortunately this transfer was by taxi). Please Jet2 put guests travelling to Kalymnos in accommodation at Mastichari and don't make them travel around Kos doing late night drop offs! On the way back to Kalymnos port for our return journey, the minibus was so overloaded with people and baggage in the aisles and on chairs it was dangerous. We also had a two hour wait in Mastichari port before a coach picked up up to go to the airport.