Continental Palace

“Pleasant Hotel”

A late review as we stayed in September 24. Reasonably good value for the price paid (via TUI). Friendly, helpful staff. Clean room with a fridge; quiet, efficient aircon unit was included in price (and essential with early September daytime temperatures 30s and evening 20s C); reasonable side sea … more

A late review as we stayed in September 24. Reasonably good value for the price paid (via TUI). Friendly, helpful staff. Clean room with a fridge; quiet, efficient aircon unit was included in price (and essential with early September daytime temperatures 30s and evening 20s C); reasonable side sea view; beds very firm. Food generally good with reasonable choice; plenty of sunbeds by the pool and on lawns. Relaxed, quiet pool area; reasonable size pool with lifeguard. This hotel is more suitable for older couples than families with children (as meagre playground, no apparent children’s entertainment or daytime activities in September; charges for use of table tennis and pool table; no shallow end in the pool for small children although separate paddling pool). Beach close to the hotel is a small stretch of sand with pebbles at water edge; sheltered and fine for swimming but no beach sunbeds (nearby bar/restaurant overlooking the sea offers sunbeds for their patrons).10 minute stroll on the level into charming Kos Town with its boat trips and day trip by ferry (30 mins) to Bodrum, Turkey (remember your passport!) with its Tuesday clothing market (if you’re interested, always ask Euro price first, then offer very low, haggle hard and be ready to walk away! No problem paying with UK Pounds or Euros if spending cash there). Bodrum Castle is adjacent to the ferry terminal and the market a 10 mins walk away. A few hotel downsides. No hot water for half of the hotel including our room for 2 days awaiting system repair. One of the restaurant staff was curt (the others were always very friendly and helpful); gluten free meal options were very limited and accurate gluten free labelling would be advisable; inadequate aircon in the dining room - would be better if breakfast and dinner had the option of tables outside. The evening ‘meal’ for late flight arrivals was an abysmal snack. Evening entertainment was only 4 nights each week, (one was Karaoke, one a Greek music/dancing night, but two nights featured good singers including an exceptional guitarist). Furnishings in Bar lounge are tired/dated. Overall an enjoyable hotel. Thank you Irene on Reception desk for all your assistance.

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“Lovely stay”

Hotel is in a great location just over the road from a small beach, and around a 20 min walk to Kos centre with plenty of little bars & supermarkets right next to the hotel. Pool area & grounds lovely & very well kept. Hotel itself is a bit dated but our room was lovely & spacious & had a partial … more

Hotel is in a great location just over the road from a small beach, and around a 20 min walk to Kos centre with plenty of little bars & supermarkets right next to the hotel. Pool area & grounds lovely & very well kept. Hotel itself is a bit dated but our room was lovely & spacious & had a partial sea view & everything looked & worked well & room was cleaned very well every day. Great size balcony. Staff really friendly & helpful, especially 2 of the men in the restaurant (older man & tall man) they were always so happy & always spoke to our 1 year old every time they passed him. We noticed a few of them doing multiple roles around the hotel they work so hard. Food was nice enough and a good enough choice for a 2 week stay, it wasn’t amazing but it’s not a high end hotel so we didn’t expect that. We stayed on a half board basis and didn’t realise the evening meals started from 7pm which we thought was a bit late for young children but we adapted. We had a lovely stay. The only thing we were disappointed with is upon check out (we had also paid extra to leave at 6pm instead of normal time 10am) we asked if we were ok to have our evening meal still but they said we couldn’t do that after checkout which we thought was unfair as we also didn’t get an evening meal upon checkin as we arrived late (they did leave a few sandwiches, fruit and cake slices in the room but it was quite stale in the warm room with no air con on and we didn’t think was a fair substitute for an evening meal especially when you don’t get a choice) Had we have known we would have planned to go out but we didn’t have much time with a 1 year old between checking out and having to be on the bus so take this into account as you will also need to keep some money aside for this.

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