Athos Palace Hotel

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• Sunshine432334

  26 agosto 2019
  Very comfortable place for family rest

  "Athos Palace" is one of the best places for family rest in Halkidiki. It is located not far from sea, and has two water pools - for adults and for children, a playground for children, and very comfortable beach with white soft sand. Good climate, very beautiful landscapes (marine and mountain), well-developed transport infrastructure, extremely tasty cuisine, saturated entertainment program for both children and adults will provide your with unforgettable summer vacation.

  

• bubeilie

  02 septiembre 2019
  The worst All Inclusive Experience EVER!!

  Where to start?! Ok. Let me sum up the positive first, before I hit the negative experience about our stay in the hotel. It has very nice yard and the area around the hotel is well arranged and maintained. Green grass, nice pools, kids pool with some attractions, kids playground. So at first you say WOW! And than you enter your room :( 1. You are welcomed by a "nice" smell of stagnant air. You rush to open the balcony door but the smell just follows you everywhere. 2. The balcony. Oooo scary balcony. The height of the protective fence is so low that even my toddler of 1,5 years was able to climb it. So i had to keep the door closed. Safety last! Someone needs to do safety check up immediately. 3. Bed sheets! They are supposed to be white, but they are not. They have some strange yellowish color that your staff gets after getting so much washing. Obviously the sheets were overused, but the saving hotel didn't want to change them at all. Why i say this? Because there were at least 5 spots that were sewn. 4. Ok. Time to go to the beach. What beach?! The one with rocks?! Pay 9 EUR and go to Pallini beach. Specially if you are with kids. 5. Let's get a drink. We have all inclusive bracelet, but for drink you need to stay in the line and ask for it from the guy working in the bar. In most AI resorts drinks are usually at disposal. Especially water. Who would like to overload its body with drinks that are pure chemistry?! So be prepared to pay for your drinks. 6. Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. I read some review that peaches disappear and it happens to be correct :) You see them on few tables, but never in the fruits corner. What was most strange is that there is no self-service for drinks, coffee and tea, but waiters ask you what you want, they pour glass of tea and disappear. To be honest, this is the first time I see a waiter serving the tea. Not that there are many options (3 actually, black, green and chamomile) but they ask you which one, bring it on and you cannot find them to re-order. They served you and you are done! 7. There are no kids chairs in the restaurant. So bring the stroller with you if you want your kid sited while eating. 8. The chairs are so old I was disgusted to sit on them. Dirty and unnatural leather already cracked from too much use. 9. Be careful what they tell you when you book. I asked a baby cot and got a confirmation that baby cot will be arranged but there was no baby cot in the room. Explanation from the reception was that they have 1000 guest and they cannot follow them, so it is normal that if they write that there will be baby cot you again need to tell them to provide. I wonder how there is no such disconnection in communication when payment is concerned. How come they don't forget to ask you for money of the stay? So instead of sleep I had none in the tiny bad that cannot absorb 2 adults and toddler. 10. Payment is done upfront at check in. We did not pay as we were with crying toddler and they literary chased us (including sending us message under the door) to make the payment, like we will run away. 11. We had AI arrangement, but we were buying our drinks, beach sun beds, lunch, coffee, so it is definitely not worth for the money. 12. And in their effort to save money (once you enter the hotel, room, restaurant it is clear that it is all about cost saving), they have check in at 14h earliest and check out 11.30. The trick is that lunch is served by 14.30, so while you realize this fact you missed it and you check out at 11.30 and again you miss the lunch because it starts at 12.00. Unlike ALL AI resorts, they cut the AI bracelet at check out, so no matter when you leave the hotel you cannot longer use the "services" of the hotel. So far, i have always been able to use the services of the hotel until departure. 13. I also asked for a quite room because of my child and they gave me room next to the 4 elevators. You can imagine how quite is that! Hotel definitely is not worth the money! I would not recommend nor go EVER again. And for all of you thinking on AI option, please don't!

  

• InnaRed

  06 septiembre 2019
  Amazing sea compensates for the rest

  It was the first time for our family in this hotel. It is quite old, this is obvious. If it had some renovation, it would be hard to find many disadvantages to it. In general, as 2 adults and 2 kids (4 and 9) we had a great time in a sea-view 6th floor room, with a large double bed and 2 single separate beds. The room size was enough, bathroom quite large, corridor with a very spaciaous wardrobe. The only bad thing in the room was very old stained and kind of smelly carpet. There is a small empty fridge, balcony screen door, AC (very old system) works even with open balcony, electricity does not need a key. Food at the buffet was just fine, we are not extremely focused on food, kids had enough to choose from, there is a good choice of meat and wonderful fish, theme dinners. Beach area is clean and comfortable enough. Beach at the neighboring Pallini hotel is much better (entrance to the sea has no rocks like Athos' beach, where you need footwear), you won't need special footwear there. We have traveled to quite a few countries with kids and I have to say that this was the best sea experience I have ever had, considering that I am not a fan of beach holidays in general. The water was absolutely clean, transparent, calm, warm and simply amazing all the time, We didn't even want to go to the pool. Not much sealife to see, because the bottom is simple sand. We saw a few fish, a medusa, a crab. Staff were all polite and smily everywhere we went. We were lucky to check in straight upon arrival at 11 am. Reception ladies were helpful with information. The best staff are enterntainment team, especially some girls (i.e. Elena), who jumped, danced, sang, and played literally ALL day long and enterntained the kids at night too. Amazing enthusiasm and endurance! A lot of respect to them. It is worthwhile taking a taxi ride (10 euro) to the ancient Afitos village nearby, very pretty streets, wonderful views, good food, overpriced souvenir shops. Little food shop in Athos palace is good enough, we found that food item prices were the same at the village stores. Overall, we're happy with our vacation. We will try to choose this location in the future, thanks to the sea quality.

  

• predrag0609

  24 septiembre 2019
  Mr

  The hotel is nice but very old which you can see from the lobby, needs huge renovating and investment because it is not cheap. Room was clean and specious but with old furniture,food was good, but in restaurant glasses and plates were dirty all the time even we said that to restaurant manager, staff was not helpfull for anything we asked for most of the time they don't understand english very good and try to avoid you if you want to ask anything (they know russian better then english), they dont have change to give you at the reception and they charge 9 for hotel guests sunbeads on their own beach in front of the hotel (athos palace and pallini beach). I traveled all arround the world but this is not a 4 star hotel specially not 4 star service (i also work in hospitality in 6 star enviorement) it is NOT GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY!!! This is not a hotel chain (G-hotels) where I will stay again for sure! They do not appreciate your stay and your bussines. Thank You but not again!

  

• danbilokha

  10 octubre 2019
  Wellness spa

  Weve visited a spa in the hotel. They have a few interesting options: honey, olive and sambuka flavor something. The stuff is really good and they always try to meet your needs. We paid 50 eur each for 50 minutes of massage and it worths go there. For us it would be great either to have a longer procedure or bigger variety of choice. Nevertheless, overall atmosphere and specialist know their business. It would be great if they grow bigger so service itself can improve. Just one suggestion is not to be that sticky asking for feedback:)