Delphin Palace Hotel

The pool was gorgeous, sunny all the time, food fantastic, free drink all day, what can go wrong. The beds were always made, maid service was excellent, people are friendly. Do go off by yourself sometime and get the bus to the market. I can't wait for my return next year, which is in the progress of being booked and confirmed. I honestly have nothing bad to say about this hotel

Stayed at the Delphin Palace Hotel for 2 weeks, would have liked to stay longer. Surprisingly little or no noise from any other rooms. "Credit card" to unlock/lock door, electric independent. Put air con on when we arrived, and on till we left. It didn't go off when leaving the room, and staff left it, 'great' lovely and cool. Hotel was air con, especially lower floors, where restaurant and other facilities were, so was very pleasant. We paid extra for 'sea view' thinking we would be facing sea, but arrived to find room looked out over derelict field and had a side sea view. Make sure with Thomas Cook exactly what you are paying for before you go, as the hotel said booking doesn't specify side or full. It's just luck of the draw. If you get a full sea view room there is arguably a catch, they also overlook the pool and Amphitheatre. There is entertainment every night in Amphitheatre till approx 10.30pm then more in front till midnight most nights. It sounds as if they are on the balcony, 'loud'. The side sea view rooms were much quieter. The other side of the hotel looks over to another hotel, I don't know if you can see the sea on this side, but was told it is also quiet. The front of the hotel looks out over a dual carriageway to some new highrise blocks.

A big indoor pool with water temp about 27c. A very large outdoor main pool, 1.4 m deep with lots of sunbeds with padding, lots of good parasols, maybe 1 to every 2 or 3 beds, 4 poster beds, (clean covers every day) and hammocks. A Relax pool round the corner which was much quieter, both in numbers and music. There was a nice pool for the children, and another next to it for the slides. There were bars and snacks and toilets within easy reach. As you went on the beach there was a self service 'bar' for soft drinks and iced slush, a row of 4 posters along the top of the beach, and rows of beds, all part of the hotel package. A boarded walkway covered in grass coloured material led down to the jetty which had a bar and more beds, showers either side of jetty and at top of beach. Staff came round the sunbeds regularly with drinks and apples, carrots or courgettes which they would peel for you. We used the main restaurant mostly, it was very good and staff were excellent. Once a week the head chef comes round to each table, gives everyone a chocolate and asks if everything is okay. Told him that some food was cold, he said new equipment was on order, and every evening someone went round the main restaurant taking the temps and writing all down. At night often pretty slow getting drinks in the bars. A lot of other nationalities in this hotel, especially Germans, but this didn't present any problems. Most of the staff spoke German, but managed to their credit to get by in English. We saw a vehicle driving up the road one evening followed by dense smoke and thought standards were rather lax, but it was fumigating the area for mosquitos. This happened several times both in resort and in hotel grounds. Payphones opposite shops within hotel. We stayed mostly within the hotel and grounds for chillout. Payphones just out of the hotel to the right. Pavements outside were a bit rough, especially by drains, which really hummed.