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A nice 3 days with a lot of food!!! All the workers are kind and helpful, especially the boys at the pool bar.

Attended 12-26th July 2024. We have just arrived home from a fantastic 2 weeks at Lyda. We booked this holiday for my daughter’s 18th birthday and can honestly say we have loved it. We went as a family of 4, myself, wife, daughter and our son aged 12. We all had a great time. The rooms are basic and the beds are very but had no issues. The drains in the bathroom are connected from toilet, sink and bath so smells do back up a bit. The TV in the rooms only has BBC world news as English Channel and it’s only a 14” screen and is up high on the wall. There is a small kitchen counter in rooms but no kettle. We took a travel kettle etc. A full size fridge was in our room so plenty of room for milk, water or snacks. The food was lovely. Breakfast is basic and limited to local cereal, pastries, bread, chips….yes chips, small selection of cooked items but nice. Mid day snacks varied from chips and hotdog sausage, pizza or popcorn. Variable on different days. Lunch was always nice. Various meats, pasta, salad etc. Afternoon cakes for snacks. Evening meals again, very nice including a chef show grill option. Cakes, moose or jelly and ice cream for dessert. All inclusive drinks limited to wine, local beer, oozo or brandy. Soft drinks, lemon and orange Fanta, sprite, cola and water. Cocktails are amazing at around €7-8 each. Kids cocktails, spirits, milkshakes etc also available as cost. Bar opens at 11am. All inclusive service stops at 10.30pm. Tea and coffee available from machine FOC. I would recommend getting a drinks carrier to take with you, there are no trays to carry drinks and the plastic cups can be a pit flimsy and can be difficult to carry to tables or loungers. The pool bar wasn’t open when we were there as only open in high season. Pools are great and not very busy. Evening entertainment is limited and done by hotel entertainment. Usually lasts about 20min. Pool table, air hockey and grab machines available at a couple of euro each. Little shop on site. Reasonable price, water available in 6x2lt bottles for €1.40. 2 more shops just over the road. Hotel shuttle but to a small beach and only 5 min bus drive. Other beaches available along front. The bus runs at 10/12.30/3/5.30. Returns from beach back at 10.05/12.35/ 3.05/ 5.35. 15-20 min walk along sea front to main shopping street from the bus drop of. Very nice bars etc down the front. Anfield, Dreams, Wembley all very good. As English people we did find there was only a few other Brits in the hotel, mainly French, German and Polish. We did find some of them very rude but didn’t let it spoil anything. We all got mosquito bits and quite a lot so definitely take a good bug spray and after bite. I don’t normally get bit but ended up with about 14 bites. The crickets are constant and loud all day and night but son get used to them. All staff are great and friendly. There are a few cats that hang around the hotel and love a fuss. We had a late night flight back so paid for the room late check out. N

A weeks AI stay in the Aelius Hotel & Spa for myself, my husband and 2 boys aged 15 and 19 and friends was simply not long enough we did not want to leave! From the second we entered the hotel late at night the staff were amazing, so friendly and attentive they simply could not do enough for you. We received bottles of water on arrival and were taken to our room by the staff and then invited for food. The hotel was spotless with an excellent selection of drinks/cocktails (all premium branded spirits), smoothies and snacks. The restaurant was table service for drinks and the food was always lovely, hot with a great selection and again the staff were exceptional. A big shout out to Filia who looked after the 8 of us for the entire week at meal times she always had a table sorted together for us, exceptional friendly service and always had a smile and excellent welcome for us each mealtime. Filia even kindly gave us a giftbag with Greek oil and herbs in on our last day so that we could be reminded of them when cooking at home! Six of us booked treatments at the Spa and again the staff in here were fab! The treatments were so good and relaxing that we all booked second treatments! Every single member of staff in this hotel was amazing and an absolute credit to this hotel. It was clear to see that they were all part of a happy little team who worked extremely hard everyday to make every guests stay so enjoyable. A massive thank you to you all! We can not wait to return.