Hydra Hotel

I thought the value wasn’t worth what you got. The stairs are horrific and once you get up there you don’t want to come back down to even eat. It rained and the porter that was supposed to bring our bag cancelled. I wound up finding my own porter which the hotel should have looked for instead. I would not stay there again, the breakfast was ok. We moved hotels after 1 night and had a better experience at Orloff the room was nicer and so was breakfast. Again I caution anyone that the stairs are terrible .

We were very disappointed by our six night stay in this place which in our opinion is more like an overpriced guesthouse than a proper hotel. It has none of the usual facilities that one might expect from such an expensive establishment - no restaurant, no bar, no public relaxation area, no gym/pool/fitness facilities, no external grounds and no lift for example. Our room was comfortable enough, house keeping was done to a high standard and the air con worked well after an initial glitch was fixed. But there is a serious mismatch between the price charged (around 400 euros a night during our stay) and the services offered. Nowhere was this more evident than in the paltry breakfast offer which was frankly a disgrace for such an expensive establishment. The server at breakfast (in a tiny inner courtyard) was charming but the food offer itself was extremely limited with no 'cook to order' provision, the modest buffet was virtually a meat free zone, there were no cereals or bowls of uncut fresh fruit and the bread and pastry offer was dull and unimaginative. We stayed in cheaper hotels in Athens and Nafplio before and after our visit to Hydra and their breakfast service was infinitely better. This penny-pinching approach gave us the impression that the hotel owners wanted to charge premium prices but without providing premium services and this left us with a very strong sense of having been short-changed. We think there are better hotels in Hydra and we will certainly stay elsewhere on our next visit to this beautiful island.

Wonderful hotel, clean, well decorated, comfortable, great breakfast, up from the harbour made it quiet with nice view. Best, Mara, running the hotel and her staff, friendly, creative, helped out in any way needed