Name: Anthoula
Address: Kefalos Area,, Kefalos, Kefalos, Kefalos, 85301, Greece
Rating: 8

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If you are wanting a clean and well maintained place to stay then this hotel is perfect.
If you look at this Hotel as a self catering option with the added bonus of a basic breakfast then you’ll not go far wrong. The family who run this hotel have been there over 40 years and know what they are doing. All the staff are lovely and friendly. We stayed in room 3 which is attached to the right hand side of the hotel and is a self contained apartment style accommodation with its own entrance and terrace, set in a row of four with a second entrance pathway to and from the main entrance road. The pool was clean, with a pool bar and toilets, all clean and well maintained. There is plenty of sunbeds and parasols and areas to eat and drink both in the sun and the shade. The pool bar food and drinks are good and are served 11am-5pm. My particular favourite was an ice cappuccino topped with ice cream. There is a bar to grab a cold drink on an evening in the hotel, but no food. The air conditioning is an extra charge of €7 per day and the safe is €2 per day. We did not find this a problem as we got the hotel at a great price anyway. And this is cheap compared to other hotels charges in the area. 
This is also made sweeter by the fact that the owners of the hotel run a FREE mini bus taxi service up and down the hill, dropping off and collecting residents at various times of the day, everyday of the week. 
If you walk up the hill ( look for the steps half way up) it takes you to the older part of the town and is about a 5-10 minute walk. If you walk down the hill ( look for the steps next to the boat on the road) you are into the beach area part of the town. Both areas have bars, tavernas and eateries. Up the hill you will experience the charm and friendliness of the old locals who welcome your custom with open arms. When having a day at the beach, look for the eateries that offer free sunbeds for customers. We used The Argo taverna, The Corner Cafe and the Kefalos Market. Food at both the Argo and Corner Cafe is delicious, and the staff are lovely. The Kefalos Market shop doubles as a busy bakery where you can buy freshly made sandwiches and pastries and sit either on the free sunbeds or the outdoor eating area.  
Car  hire is €35 euros a day and there are plenty of fabulous beaches and bays to discover.
We had a lovely relaxing holiday. If you cannot make the walk up and down the hill the free hotel mini bus does runs frequent enough to accolade

Lovely Hotel Halfway up the hill

Just returned from 8 nights at the anthoula hotel had a fabulous time there anthoula and her family makes you feel extremely welcome and don’t let the hill location put you off we travelled with an elderly parent and she ran us up to the village in her bus which also operates all day up and down to the beach 
Although the breakfast is slightly basic there is enough to eat for everyone 
The pool is a great size and food and drink at the pool bar was great value and very tasty 
The hotel rooms are very clean with modern wet room bathrooms our rooms was attended to every day by the maids 
Will definitely be back for another visit

A fantastic family run hotel very welcoming!

Love love love this hotel, I will be coming again in September and will be back every year, it's a calm safe space for me.  Anthoula and her daughter are both lovely people, the restaurants are amazing especially Faros, it's handy for everything, 5 mins walk for anything you need.

Mark United Kingdom

Very welcoming, refurbished bedrooms and bathrooms, comfy beds, very clean. Great pool, tasty snacks at the pool bar. With in a 15 mins walk up to the old village and down to the beach. The family run Faros restaurant food was very good. Thank you Anthoula, we hope to visit again soon.

Lovely family run hotel

Stayed here October 2023. Rooms clean and comfy, nice pool area. Didnt enjoy the breakfasts and they didnt have a toaster out for use. You couldnt order toast either unless you had it with eggs or something on it. Hotel is at top of a hill so not good if you have walking issues. However, they do offer transport several times a day. We didnt use this, we hired a car for the week which actually made our holiday. Bar snacks were lovely, staff friendly

Genuine, truthful review

Great location if you like remote and walking. Rooms are great, having recently been refurbished. It's a noisy hotel though, the walls are very thin.
Anthula is lovely. Rooms are 'made' every couple of days, but they're not cleaned. The bins are emptied and sheets folded but nothing else. Cups left, sink, shower and floor not washed.
The breakfast isn't continental, but it's ok. Literally bread, jam, cheese, ham, tomatoes, cucumber and boiled eggs. Cereals. No toast. If you want more than one hot drink, you'll have to pay. There are other breakfast items, such as omelette, but you'll have to pay.
Pool is more than adequate.
Pool bar is OK. Opening times state 11 til 5, but generally later in season, more like 12 til 4.
Free minibus throughout the day down the hill and back, but donations encouraged.

You get what you pay for!

Just had 10 days at this lovely hotel. Fantastic views, our room was at the front so we had a panoramic view of the mountains and beach. Brilliant staff, so friendly and helpful. A real family  feel to it. It’s up a great big hill which we walked mostly but there’s a minibus up and down 5 times a day. The pool area is lovely and clean and they serve meals from 12 till 5 and they’re reasonably priced. We would definitely go back. The family also has a restaurant on the beach called Faro which is where we ate the best meal of the holiday. Highly recommend.

Fantastic holiday

The perfect stay for myself and my husband for 2 weeks, if you are after a quiet location then this is ideal . A small insight into the greek laid back way of life with this  family run hotel .  10 min walk to the uptown where there are a few restaurants or 15 min walk down to the town where there are plenty more restaurants and the sea. A mini bus is laid on for those unable to walk it . A few souvenir shops / supermarkets for all your bits and bobs. The owner of the hotel was so friendly (family run ) and always there to help with a smile. We found the standard of the hotel room very good and everything you need , own private balcony over looking the hills with the sun going down was beautiful , all you need really unless you are wanting a 5 star room to spend all day in !!!
personally we found the room more than adequate and the cleaning was very good too, bed was so comfy , plenty of wardrobe space and the bathroom has had a recent upgrade.
the breakfast in the morning was very nice and also the pool food was very good too. Highly recommend  staying here and we certainly will be going again 

The perfect place

It's a lovely family run hotel. Anthoulla was very helpful and friendly. The pool was lovely and the pizza was more than enough for 2. It's basic breakfast, but we weren't hungry in the morning. Room very clean, shame fridge needed a new rack. You need to be fit to walk to the beach, but there is a bus laid on. When jet2 didn't pick us up she was so helpful. We couldn't get through to jet2, she also tried. In the end she got Ztours to drop us to the airport and no charge. Thank you so much. 

Lovely holiday

We stayed here for nine nights in September. Hotel is located on a hill mid way between the old town (up the hill) and the beach/harbour area (down the hill). There is a free mini bus (donations welcomed) down and back five times a day. We only used it once as we found it was a fairly easy and pleasant walk. We are reasonably fit and I can understand that other people with mobility problems would struggle with the hill. 
The pool area is undoubtedly the best part of the hotel. A nice clean pool with plenty of sun beds (although I imagine it would be much busier in the height of summer). The pool bar serves a good selection of food and drink at reasonable prices. 
Our room had a nice view overlooking the sea. The bathroom I believe has been renovated and the shower was a “wet room” style with no shower tray. This resulted in the entire bathroom floor being wet after showering (remember to move the toilet roll otherwise it becomes unusable!). There is a fridge in the room, a kettle, two mugs, two glasses and a small amount of cutlery. It was all adequate. 
A couple of criticisms…as mentioned by several other reviews, the breakfast is very sparse. If you want anything cooked, or more than one tea or coffee, you have to pay extra. We only went in for breakfast twice and went out every other day. I think Jet2 need to address this because if you have already paid for bed and breakfast you shouldn’t have to pay extra! The other criticism is around the room cleaning. It clearly states in the room that they are serviced daily, but they are not. Our room was only done every 3 days. By then you need clean towels and sheets as well as the bin emptying (when you have to put soiled toilet paper in the bin it’s not really hygienic to leave it there for three days!). The standard of cleaning wasn’t great either, we found the floors still dirty and the bathroom sink looked like it hadn’t seen a cloth for quite a while!
Overall we enjoyed our stay but it could have been better with just a couple of improvements to the criticisms mentioned.

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