Alkionis Hotel Corfu

“We got what we expected”

Our first holiday on Zakynthos this year was not that good due to bad weather (rain, wind, cloudy). We wanted sun and we did not plan the second holiday early, 3 weeks before we travelled we started we booked a trip and a stay in this hotel, of course more expensive then booking very early. Our ma… more

Our first holiday on Zakynthos this year was not that good due to bad weather (rain, wind, cloudy). We wanted sun and we did not plan the second holiday early, 3 weeks before we travelled we started we booked a trip and a stay in this hotel, of course more expensive then booking very early. Our main focus in all the reviews is "Hotel is clean". For sure this is true. We did not see dirt, our room and bath was very clean, the whole Hotel was clean. The staff doing this was very nice. This was not ensured in 4 star Hotels. Here you get what you pay for. Room was big enough for us both, bathroom size was ok and it was also ok that some water runs in the bathroom, but not a lot. What we were missing was some kind of holder for our shower accessoires. There is no shampoo etc in the bath room. Only a soap holder but who wants to take a shower with soap..? Staff was in general very friendly. I read somewere that the barkeeper Theo collects beer mats, i brought him two and he was happy. So if anyone reads this, bring him something from your area. There are two employees for the breakfast (maybe more but we only had breakfast), the older one was very nice, he sings and says kalimera. The younger one does not even say hello or recognizes the guests, can be improved. In some reviews here on tripadvisor it was mentioned, that one (of the 3) blonde receiptionists is rude. The other two were very nice, i would not say rude but she was not very friendly to me (at least 3 occasions). To my girlfriend she was, maybe its that my girlfriend is more a nice and friendly person ;) but at least in this industry you should be friendly to all. Hotel collects the tax but does not accept this to be paid via card, questions for reasons resulted in a discussion with.. you know.. lady above. Safe costs 2,50 Euro a day, from my perspective this should be included but i was in Hotels were AC costs. Safe is not with number but with a key you need to store. Pool towels are 20 Euros deposist, cleaning costs 2 Euros, i think thats fair. Coming back to AC, it was preset to 24 which was ok for us. It is possible to start night mode so the AC runs the full night, someone mentioned it stops after 20 minutes, thats not true if you use the correct function. Breakfast was.. hm... for my girlfriend perfect, i missed something compared to other greek Hotels. It had a lot of fruits and nice Joghurt and other greek deserts. Sausage, ham and cheeses was ok. The bread or "Brötchen" were not my type but this might be me. Focus on breakfast style was more Brit oriented with beans and stuff. Not my favorite. Only one day we had boiled or fried eggs in 6 days. I expect eggs to be available every day. Twice we had little sausages which were good, the other days it was bacon. In general it was ok but i was missing alternatives. We did not have dinner, the buffet looked ok but the days we looked there was nothing really greek special at all. But there are several nice restaurants nearby were i will write reviews the next days. Like LAVA, Doner House, Edesma (vegan greek food is available as well) or Dionysos in Mesongi. Some people complained about the noise, we had the door to the main road. Yes there were a lot of cars and bikes in the late afternoon and also sometimes during the night, this was ok for us. What really bugged me were the caraoke shows at Buddies Bar on the opposite site of your room / the Hotel. That was twice (Wednesday, Saturday) during our stay till 1:30 AM, horrible. And after that the drunk guests coming home to the hotel and make a lot of noice. I would suggest to have rooms in the 2nd building more in direction to the beach. Long story short, we can suggest coming here, but don´t expect 4* class. PS: if you have a rental care, it is very very hard to get a parking spot. We only had luck during the day in front of the Hotel. The days we came later we had to drive in direction to Albatros Hotel on the beach. First day parking no problem, second day i had wine bottles and cans on my care and a "no parking" sign sticked. Expect longer walkings if you come later.

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“Not what we thought.”

Hotel was clean and staff great. Swimming pool is not the one on photos. The pool is clean but surrounded with old buildings some of which look derelict. Nowhere was it mentioned at booking that we had to go to another hotel for lunch. Food was very limited. Paid all inclusive but only ate breakfas… more

Hotel was clean and staff great. Swimming pool is not the one on photos. The pool is clean but surrounded with old buildings some of which look derelict. Nowhere was it mentioned at booking that we had to go to another hotel for lunch. Food was very limited. Paid all inclusive but only ate breakfast there.

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