St Spyridon, Blue Bay Escape Review

Overall Rating

Food, most staff were friendly, Clean and the rooms were ok for what you needed them for.

Mosquitoes and wasps.

I went on holiday for a week starting the 29th of september. Transfer was only an hour as it was near the end of season for humans but for wasps and mozzies it was the start of season. I would recomend free shuttle busses to the nearest town as we were in the middle of no-where. I booked the Aquapark twice with the travelagents down the road and the cancelled twice. The hotel was a bit more expensive with day trips but are proberbally more reliable.

Good points;

Food;
Breakfast- a bit repetitive after a few days, i stopped going after 4 days of eating as there wasnt much choice of food.
Lunch- Served by the pool so there are a few wasps and mozzies around you but tastes good enough.
Snaks- Ice cream, Hotdogs, Burger and Pizza. Staff are friendly around the snack bar and the snacks are respectable. Served inside (bar) after 6pm we didnt find this out untill our last night.
Dinner- Different theme of foods everyday and theres a kids buffet that serves chips, chicken nuggets or fish fingers same everyday.
overall the food tasted great and service was great waiters were friendly considering the same staff worked every day and night. Before i went i read about a miserable man that walks around the restaurant at breakfast and dinner and the pool at lunch, but when i got there he never stopped smiling.

Staff;
Waiters- friendly enough as i said they were there the crack of dawn so what do you expect?
Reception- No problem with the day staff but when i asked for a wake up call about 12 o'clock at night before the bar shut there was a miserable man that i asked twice.
me-"hello"
Him-":("
Me-"could i have a wake up call please?"
Him-"yes..."
Me- "7:30"
Him- "no"
Me- im confused
Him- Shouts "room number"
Me- 1439
Him-"..." galres at me
Him- "time?"
Me- "7:30"
I then walked off i didn't think he deserved a thank you when i had been shouted at like that. I also asked him a second time and got greeted the same.
Bar staff;
Fine no problem.
Maid;
Same as bar staff, friendly.
Overall staff were ok but a bit dissapointing night staff.

Clean;
Whole place was spottless not a fault.

Rooms;
Asked for a family room, we got 2 single beds and 3 sofas. There were 2 adults and 2 teenage daughters, we managed as we swapped beds everynight.

Bad points;

Mosquitoes;
A total nightmare, it ruined our holiday. We were all fed up by the 3rd day. I advise you not to go the end of September or beginning of October. We read reviews and were told mozzies were not a problem. Spent at least 50 euros on repelant and afterbite and also took 2 bottles with us. My daughter counted them on her legs the fourth day and she had 90 that was only on her legs.

Wasps;

Brought swatters from the shop next door (60 cent) worth every penny- i would advise these. Wasps were a nightmare. We didn't have the balcony doors open much but the maid left them open after cleaning one day and we sprayed repelant around the room just incase there were any unwanted insects in our room, i was woken up to a dozy (huge) wasp and sting on my wrist at 5:30 one morning. As i am allergic to wasps my hand swole and i had to go and see the hotel nurse, i had a needle in my bottom and i had to pay 100 euros for seeing her then extra for the drugs/tablets. I was able to claim this back as i had travel insurance.
Overall these unwanted insects ruined our holiday we would not go back if we won a holiday there. We could not fault the hotal as it was amazing but i wish we were warned about the amount of wasps and mozzies.