Bellos Hotel Apartments

Just returned from a 7 night stay at the Bellos as a family, two adults, an older child and a younger child.  Initial impressions of the room were broadly favourable in terms of overall layout in our one bedroom apartment. Although as I think others have mentioned the bathroom is on the small side. It's very small.  In fact, as I look at other reviews and pictures I'm somewhat disappointed.The shower in particular is rather cramped. If you were of the larger body size, I imagine you might struggle somewhat.  We were in room 102 and as well as cramped, the shower head and wand were in real need of attention. I do wonder if this is because we were hitting at the end of the season and I'd like to think that over the winter there'll be maintenance to clean up or replace these items. As an initial impression, it was a tad disappointing.  However, despite this I'm definitely giving a 5/5 review because overall we loved our stay. The staff are lovely. So friendly and whilst unfortunately I don't know their names, the lady and gentleman who work the main restaurant/ bar during the daytime particularly stand out. This in no means is meant to detract from any of the other staff. Everyone is really really friendly and very helpful.  Drinks prices are reasonable compared to the surrounding areas. Not particularly cheaper but certainly not more expensive. Food was a good standard and in particular whilst at first we weren't going to participate, we did actually attend the Saturday night Greek BBQ and it was excellent. Plenty of excellent food and the entertainment was fun with some audience participation.  The BBQ started at 7 and was wound up by around about a half past 9. If I want to give one tiny bit of feedback it might be that after it's ended, maybe a quiz for later would be a good idea to keep people on site. There are plenty of quizzes etc through the week though, usually starting at 10pm. Location wise, it's about a 20 minute walk at most down to the beach/sea area and maybe 10-15 minutes up a fairly steep hill to the villages. The first village of Piskopiano is great; a lot of nice bars and restaurants and you can turn right to old Hersonissos or left to Koutoulafari (spelling?). Both were excellent and even at this time of year they were still plenty open.  If you didn't want to venture out on a given day, there are two excellent pool areas, the upper area with a lovely grassy area around the pool and then the lower area where the slides for the kids. Both areas are served by a snack bar / restaurant.  There's also a small kids play area which is handy. It really is a lovely hotel with lovely grounds, flowers and trees; lime trees, lemon trees, grapevines on some of the balconies.  I'd definitely visit again. Thanks for a brilliant holiday.