Avlida Hotel Review

Overall Rating

The staff were friendly.

All listed below.

Mmmm the Avlida Hotel! This was the hotel we chose as a honeymoon destination for two weeks.

On first entering the hotel, it definitely had the WOW factor with its marble flooring and lovely reception area.

My husband had already emailed ahead to say we were a honeymoon couple and asked if they could do anything, I.e. upgrade or maybe flowers or champagne. They emailed back to say that we would have something. But there was nothing. He had to make a complaint, then someone came to our room with Champagne and fruit!

So, they upgraded us, but we couldn't see how as we had already booked a double room. On walking into the room, it seemed apparent to us that this was not 4*. We couldn't even class it really as 3* as we had stayed in better 2* accommodation. The room was very basic, en-suite bathroom, bath, shower, etc. Towels was not very white/big and very old. The shower curtain was ripped, stained and had mould on it. The floor was filthy, until my husband complained, then it was mopped.

The air con wasn't even working properly, so first stop was reception to get maintenance to look at it. By the time it was working it sounded like a jack hammer going off all the time and was so bad that we had to ask for a fan.

Looking around the hotel it was apparent that all was not well. The cleanliness and the hygiene was not what you could call 4* at all. In fact it wasn't very good at all.

Bed Linen was not changed frequently and in fact when we did complain, we had sheets put on our bed that had blood stains on!

The food hall was nice but not airy enough for me. I could not open the window and there was as far as I could see only one fan blowing through a filter in the wall. It appeared that the air con had been turned down/off maybe to encourage people to drink more.

The food was OK. Breakfast and Lunch being by far the best in my opinion. If you want English food still then this is the place. For most of the chef's are from England!

Dinner time was like feeding time at the Zoo. Some of the food was lovely, but we found the most popular dishes was stopped after a couple of days to make room for more less savoury dishes. Plenty of Chips and Burgers on though!

The main bar! What a joke, there are more chiefs than Indians and the beer and coke was flat. One guy we became friendly with made the bar manager pull 8 pints of larger out and not one of them had a bit of fizz in it. If you have to pay for this, it's total waste of money and the drinks are not cheap.

The Pool area was nice, but again, not very hygienic. In our second week there, people was starting to come down with ear infections (including my husband) and tummy bugs, myself included. The Pool Side is the place where Lunch is served. Its all very well, but the floor gets very slippery and can be dangerous, especially when you have kids running in and out soaking wet!

There is an indoor pool, I thought it was again filthy dirty, and a gym, which was pretty basic and sauna, steam room and alternative therapies offered at a price.

Entertainment, was by far the oddest thing going. It ranged from bingo (which is another story) to a nightly quiz, karaoke, some lady singing very old songs and playing a keyboard and a 'Greek 'evening! Which wasn't worth a pee in a pot in my opinion! Very boring.

The BOSS MAN, to whom we called the Don, just walked around shouting at the staff all the time, to which was all working their socks off and never had a moments rest, although there was a couple of members of staff which were completely lazy. The staffs morale appeared to be very low. This was very apparent to everyone and on one occasion I saw two members of staff in tears. They was all very pleasant and very polite.

Bingo - I'd stay clear if I were you. It isn't all it is cracked up to be. Some friends from Belfast counted 66 tickets being sold at ' 5 each, this added up to ' 330 and yet the top prize was ' 70 - so where was the rest being pocketed to? And if you won you had to pull some kind of stunt, like jumping in the pool. Might be fun if you're stunned!

The quiz was the same in the second week as it was in the first and the only prize was a cocktail, which came if you was all inclusive! So as you can see the management never gave much away. We paid for all inclusive 2 weeks stay, and was told that everything was all inclusive, but don't be fooled by this, because we had to pay for some drinks and even bottled water.

We heard so many people complaining, it was ridiculous.

On a positive note, we made some very good friends out there and the people were very friendly and our flying trip to Egypt made it worthwhile!

Caution is to be taken when people outside the hotel stop you with scratch cards and tell you that you have won £600 in holiday vouchers, I'd advise not to get sucked in.

Asking if we would go back, definitely not. To Paphos, maybe, but definitely not this hotel! In both of our natures, we don't usually moan, but this time, we feel we had to say something.

Members' Comments onfeebilyweebily's Review

• sarahT48 on 20th May 2009

  sorry to say nothing has changed much