Protessilaos

Well located, large comfortable lounges, well-equipped rooms on the seafront on a beach. Satisfactory equipment and very moderate price. Easy parking. The boss Vassili speaks French and is in a good mood. Good advice for visiting the region, particularly Pelion.

The Hotel is over 30 Yrs. old (temporarily 2+*), the most of the (Bath)Rooms are recently renovated. Anyway no too big Expectations to be held, main Point the Location is perfect (1st Line to Beach). 25 deck Chairs provided by the Hotel for free. Well, the breakfast offered is modest and the Table Clothes could be cleaner, but the Staff is really friendly. For the Price is reasonable. The Village is not a typical touristic Location, so the Prices are relative cheaper than in other similar Villages. The beach is big grained, brown/cream/grey and the Water is clean and clear. I would visit it again.

Hotel is at the town center, 50 meters from the sea but this is the only positive thing about it. Built in 1975, most probbaly has not been upgraded in decades, it is totally shabby. Hygiene and cleaning standards are very low, no staff enough so the ones hired have to do almost everything, all day lond, which results in bad quality. Breakfast is very low quality and limited choice of artificial products. Dinner is served in another hotel, its not self service but the food is provided by the staff. There are not enough places if all tourists from both hotels to sit at one and the same time and one can never find a properly served table with clean tablecloth, cutleries, napkins and clean glasses. This so called 'restaurant' is also understuffed, and the boys serving are very impolite. The food is stingily provided and almost all the time you have to ask for everything, bread, water, dessert, which is normally watermelon of savoury, extremely small pieces if you are lucky to get it at all. In my opinion, the hotel owners think that mainly Eastern European clientelle does not deserve the quality of service as expected, they should be grateful that they have roof under their heads and that is more than enough. The town gets extremely noisy at night and all is easily heard in all the rooms. Also the beach is a disappointment, small pebbles, dirty and windy with bigger waves in the afternoon. In addition prices at the nearby tavernas are not reasonable for a small village like this, they even charge you for the water and bread, which they bring you as if a present. Nea Anhialos and Protessilaos hotel were a big disappointment this summer.