Niriides Hotel

The good bits: Lovely pool, clean and tidy garden area Air hockey/table tennis Spotlessly clean, daily maid service, 5 min walk to shops, bars and restaurants - Island Breeze does the best cocktails. 10 mins walk to gorgeous little beach and super beach bar - fab shrimp salad. Regular buses to Faliraki and Rhodes only 4 euros Not so good bits: Very strict restaurant times Air con control taken out of room as ‘out of season’ Very noisy fridge in room No kettle in room No refreshments for late check in - we arrived at midnight No in between meal snacks offered at all - surprising for ‘all inclusive’ Signs everywhere encouraging you to buy alternative drinks All inclusive drinks were horrible - very weak wine and beer and rubbish cocktails Poor value for money and wouldn’t stay here again

On the surface this hotel looks fine, upon arrival all of the buildings and facilities seem to match up to expectations from pictures, but that's about where it ended for us. Luckily we had booked a superior room, giving us a pool view, however, the standard rooms look to be either basically underground or overlooking wasteland. The location of the hotel is only really good if you plan to stay local or you have a car rented for your stay (be warned there are only about 9 parking spaces so you may have to leave your car on the road) but there is a small ***** nearby with some shops, restaurants and bars, also the beach is only 10 mins walk. The all inclusive food was diabolical(see attached photo of "Lasagne", they served almost the exact same food every day for both lunch and dinner, except on a Sunday where they had "Greek Night" which comprised of adding Gyros & Soulvaki to their normal menu. We opted to just eat out for most meals (breakfast was okay). All inclusive drinks were a complete waste of time if you wanted something alcoholic, I have never experienced such watered down spirits in all my life, it seemed although you could probably drink 100 drinks and still be completely sober. The staff appeared very miserable and unapproachable and not once during the entire week did anyone actually try to interact with us. This also goes from the manager, who seemed to randomly enforce a "1 alcoholic drink at a time" per person rule for us halfway through the holiday, despite others not having to adhere to this. (As mentioned the drinks were that week that there was no chance of anyone becoming drunk and disorderly anyway, we just wanted a couple to take up to our balcony at night due to the absenceof any other entertainment in the evening). Be advised, if you are young and especially British, this is probably not the place for you, everyone else at the Hotel during our stay were either German or Polish and seemed to look down at us all of the time despite us keeping ourselves to ourselves, which created a really tense, awkward atmosphere. The final nail in the coffin came on our second to last day where we discovered that the controls for our air-con had been taken away due to the hotel having a policy of only allowing it between the months of May-October despite it still being 30°c on the day they turned it off. In summary, not a 4-star experience at all, the place is generally clean and the pool is nice but that's about all there is good to say.

The worst possible hotel. It deserves only 2 stars. There were ants in the room from the first day. The food was good, but the selection was small. Practically the same every day. Very unpleasant service, except for Mrs. Magda from the reception. The manager with the beard mentally terrorizes the staff. He probably feels too much in his role. The employees complained about him all the time. You can do practically nothing in the hotel. Everything is forbidden. This is not my first cheaper hotel, but this one deserves someone from the upper management to clean it up.

Top hotel not the newist but sertanly not old they keep the hotel on the latest faschion and keep investing in it. All inclusive was super every day something new and a lot of variation for everybodies tast. Friendly personel Nice place too go site seeing and go around with the public bus

We stayed in August for two weeks. A very successful holiday with the family. Hotel room fulfilling its task, comfortable, spacious, cleaned every day, including the change of sheets. The air conditioning in the room worked flawlessly. The food was varied and tasty, the manager of the room was very nice and liked our son with reciprocity. The swimming pool in the middle of the hotel is clean and well maintained, although we used it only twice, we prefer beaches and the sea. From the hotel close to the beach a few minutes walk. Next to the hotel, there is a bus stop and a taxi stop, also grocery and souvenir shops. We will remember our stay very fondly and I will not say a bad word about this hotel. This is a hotel primarily for people who want to relax, peace and quiet despite being close to the beach and the town center.

Overall, the actual building was great. It was exceptionally clean (new towels every day and the bedding changed regularly changed), the pool was nice and the restaurant layout was good. However, the actual atmosphere of the hotel was very poor. Firstly, There was no atmosphere - there was no entertainment at all apart from one Greek night. There was one member of staff behind the bar in the day and one at night, both obviously ran off their feet which made them unpleasant and grumpy. The day time bar man who worked at the ‘Pool Bar’ told us that we needed to be dry before ordering a drink and told us to bring our cups back. He never smiled. The restaurant staff were lovely, particularly the restaurant manager. He always made effort to talk. But the food was not good. We lived off pizza and wedges. We ate our most nights although we paid for all inclusive because the standard of food was rubbish. There was no snack bar and also ice cream was only available to children and not adults. When we first checked in, the air conditioning was poor and the toilet wouldn’t flush. we had the re-pack and swap rooms. When we had swapped rooms the air conditioning was still poor and we had to hold the shower above our heads as the bracket was loose. Overall, wouldn’t recommend this hotel. In my opinion, it most definitely isn’t a 4 star.