Electra Palace Rhodes - Premium All Inclusive

The wonderful facilities and excellent staff made the stay an incredible experience. Plenty of activities for my family to remain occupied and an incredible selection of tasty food. The folks at reception were knowledgeable and helped out a lot whenever needed. I would recommend this place to anyone.

We stayed at Electra Palace Rhodes for 6 days and had a truly lovely experience as a family with our 4.5-month-old baby. A part of the hotel has been recently renovated and it shows — the facilities are modern and the pool area is absolutely beautiful. It has the perfect set up, suitable for everybody. A The food was a highlight of our stay. Every restaurant we tried offered exceptional quality, truly impressive! We were pleasantly surprised by the variety and taste every single day. Especially the open buffet restaurant offered very nice things every day. A special mention goes to Eftychios from customer relations, who made us feel welcome from day one. He personally came to our breakfast table to check in, and offered great recommendations for things to do in the city center and places to eat. His kindness and professionalism really stood out. He also helped us with our transfer when we left the hotel. Also, a heartfelt thank you to the lovely ladies Anthoula and Emanuela from the bakery section — they always greeted us with a big smile and warm service. The only minor downside is that the area can be quite windy from June to August, which we were aware of in advance. The sea can get a bit rough because of the wind and in the shade it sometimes felt a little in the morning. But this didn’t take away from our overall enjoyment. All in all, we give this hotel a solid 9/10, highly recommended for families and couples alike!

Our stay in Electra Palace was great…there are many pros but also some improvements that need to be made. Overall a pleasant stay with friendly staff all over the hotel from hotel receptionists to the cleaners. The cleaners do a great job in keeping the hotel clean and tidy and this cannot be faulted at all. Facilities are great and also the toiletries provided are of good quality. Many reviews state the planes that fly over being a problem, we didn’t find this a problem and quite enjoyed watching them fly over. Beds were comfortable and room was of a decent size. Great bathrooms with good water pressure and really nice cosmetic bathing products provided. Positives: - Food in the buffet and Italian passage restaurant was of really good quality. You can dine at the Italian once during your stay for dinner and for lunch as many times as you please. The gelato parlour was really nice with lots of choice with scooped ice cream and also whippy ice cream with sauces, sprinkles etc. The Spritzville bakery was really nice with daily fresh pastries with really nice feta and spinach pies. Staff were friendly in all restaurants. - Cleanliness of the hotel was 10/10, the whole hotel was clean and couldn’t fault the cleaning team once. They came daily and cleaned rooms! - All staff we encountered were very friendly and welcoming and a special shoutout to the young baggage porter/receptionist (George) who always had a smile on his face and said hello… very friendly, please give him my thanks. - Hotel has a great layout and also lots of sunbeds, pool beds, cabanas, sofa style seating and many different seating areas and there was definitely no shortage of beds. People do get to the pool beds and cabanas first but there are lots of other seating options for sun bathing. - Hotel arranges transport through a company (called Prestige Travel) free of charge if you contact them directly, which was a bonus. Areas of improvements: - Food in the buffet is a limited choice but doesn’t seem to change, and for what is offered we saw it as quite limited and repetitive. Seemed to be the same things every night with some variation here and there. There was no choice for children or picky eaters which may make it difficult for families to visit here… we did get bored of the selection and ate out a few nights out of 7. - The cocktail selection is big but we couldn’t bring ourselves to drink many of them due to how sweet they were. All of the cocktails were made with pre mixes and it was busy but not too busy that a classic mojito cannot be made with fresh limes. Also I wish there was more choice of daiquiris that are made using actual blended fruit rather than rum poured into a slushy. - There are no named spirits which for a premium all inclusive I would have presumed there would be. - The rooms are not soundproofed in any way, if located near the pool you will hear the entertainment until it ends at 11pm, a main concern would be that you can hear into every room from th

We visited Electra Palace as a family and we did have a lovely time the hotel is very modern and clean and all the staff were lovely but I personally think the hotel should be adults only it doesnt really have a family atmosphere. The pool area is really nice but the lifeguards are so strict!! They blow their whistle every 2 seconds because a child jumps in (even when a parent is with them) was abit OTT in my opinion ive never been to a family hotel where kids are not even aloud to jump in a pool. Would be nice if one of the childrens pools had a little splash bit and a few slides as theres plenty of room. The food was lovely we enjoyed what we had every night but again there was no childrens section so not good if you have little ones who are fussy. They are my main reasons to why I think it would be a great adults only holiday.

Going to start this review with a huge positive which is that we would look to possibly come back, but I think there are small tweaks the hotel could make to improve on their service & facilities. Positives: -The female manager in the restaurant was lovely, she went the extra mile to engage with our 2 year old boy. -Food in the buffet was amazing, we are foodies and we rate it 5/5. Desserts were insane. -Pool areas are gorgeous, cleanly kept & well maintained. -We enjoyed the music around the pool as it brought a bit of atmosphere. -Greek & Italian Al La Cartes were gorgeous, definitely recommend booking these. Areas of improvement (don’t like the word negatives): - Service at the pool bar was really bad, coming from a hospitality background you notice these things a bit more. There were various occasions the bar had 5+ members of staff on it with only 2 serving, as soon as the manager walked past they quickly started serving but you’d sometimes find them chatting. This doesn’t help when you already have to queue quite a while for drinks. -Cocktails could be improved to add some more traditional cocktails such as Pina Colada, Strawberry Daquiri, Black Russian, just to name a few. -Spirits were on the sweet side, not sure if that’s because they’re local but we very quickly got sick of drinking them. -Kids disco should be outside by the pool bar, it’s much easier for parents to watch their children whilst being able to socialise at the same. Doing it in the kids club is odd, therefore never went. -Wine bar Al La Carte food was poor, skip the salad, do more tapas style food with genuine wine pairings would be a perfect experience and quite unique for an all inclusive. All in all we had a fantastic holiday but if you were to implement the improvements suggested we would definitely come back!! :)