Garden Hotel

We booked the hotel based on TUI description and reviews. The hotel is well named with some beautiful gardens with banana, pomegranate, orange and olive trees as well as grape vines. The hotel is immaculately clean and the rooms are comfortable but basic (especially the shower/toilet area). The staff are all very efficient and very friendly. The bar is well stocked and reasonably priced. Breakfast is good and the fried eggs are very fresh and beautifully cooked. Whilst we were booked half board we only had dinner in the hotel on one evening, but that meal was very tasty and well cooked (salad with a mushroom quiche followed by chicken a la creme with rice and then ice cream) . It has a large well maintained pool and a small childrens pool. There are plenty of sunbeds but "the English towel brigade" are out very early in the morning to claim the best positions. Many of the clientele (about 75%) are regular guests and have been coming here for several years ! When we stayed the average age was about 75. The evening entertainment (live groups,karaoke and disco were quite loud but did finish by 11.30). Why then were we disappointed? We had been led to believe this was a small hotel, in tranquil surroundings BUT there is a large main road 250 metres from the hotel with constant traffic noise. The village of Pastida has 3 or 4 good tavernas but Pastida has a lot of traffic and the main square is quite noisy. and certainly not as quaint as the travel companies would have you believe. So our issues were not really with the hotel which , although a bit basic was good and very friendly, but with the description of the hotel and Pastida as tranquil !! If you want a small quiet hotel it is probably not for you but if you don't mind the noise it is pleasant enough and excellent value for money.

Wow gardens great staff especially yotta cleaners very friendly rooms exceptional pool spotless extra costs we weren't told about Aircon extra 40 euros a week WiFi 20 euros a week per person towels a joke had to rent or buy at the shop outside of hotel nothing only a family run taverna amazing food now food at hotel discusting awful need to retrain staff how to cook eggs every meal rice chips no authentic greek desserts microwave constantly going very disappointed 8days of 14 didn't eat the food had to go to supermarket to get butter ham to eat arrived early hours of morning no tea no coffee no milk no water in rooms had to buy all myself large part of guests almost ran this hotel as they had been there for years all had the best rooms ground floor by pool George owner very accommodating but will not be returning very unhappy 😭

It’s out of the way from everything, you need to rent a car if you want to see the island, there is a bus outside the hotel that goes to Rhodes old town , we did ask the hotel to book us a taxi as we wanted to go to the bee museum which is only a 6 minute drive and 6 minutes back but apparently there were no taxis available so George the owner said he would take us and it would be £12 euros he picked us up and charged us a whopping £24 euros for and all round journey that took 12 minutes! And we only found this out when settling up on checkout so beware!. Our room was on the ground floor and a small outdoor area with washing line . The view was side walk for people from the hotel to walk up and down so had no privacy at all,so always had the curtains shut ,also all you could see was the side of a house! Music was loud at night and the road was really noisy with motorbikes racing down the road, breakfast was horrible so after the second day we didn’t go down. This hotel seemed to be catered for the regulars that come year after year probably age range more 60+ I’m 48 and felt like the youngest ones there and they seem to get the best rooms as they book as soon as there holiday ended . No sockets by the bed either so charging phones was difficult and power goes off when you leave the room. On to the positives: Fridge excellent with freezer compartment . Pool was amazing really big , clean. Aircon was great but you have to pay for it. Beds really comfortable but single beds only. People are really friendly Cleaners were fab!! Always cleaning your room. I enjoyed Rhodes but I found that the hotel was out of the way They don’t have hairdryers either The garden’s around the hotel was lovely with lots of fruit trees, they also have chickens which is nice, and some lovely places to eat in pastida with the cake shop being fantastic.