Stelios Stalis Studios & Apartments

2 readers found this review helpful

Hi all, recently returned home from these appartments. Myself and three friends stayed in a four bed appartment on a self catering basis. Upon arrival was nicely greeted and pleased with standard of the room. Clean, bright and spacious. However, throughout our stay the towels or sheets were not changed at all!! They were also extremly stingy with the toilet roll only one for our week stay!!The cleaner came into the room once to mop the floor and then never to be seen again! The hotel grounds are nice with sea views, cleanliness of the pool area is adaquate. The communal toilets around the pools and bars were always dirty and never had toilet roll. Hotel staff often very rude particularly at the reception. However, despite the problems with the appartment we had a fantastic holiday stalis has a beautiful beach and has lots of nice places to eat out. My friends and I are in our early twenties so we went into malia almost every night. To get to malia from stalis we got a taxi which is short and relatively cheap. Well worth a visit!!! Overall, i would definately return to stalis but i would not return to these appartments!!

5 readers found this review helpful

ABSOLUTLEY BRILLIANT!!!!
Just returned from Stelios Stalis Apartment....what a great holiday!!Clean,well maintained rooms...freindly and helpful staff.If you had any issues the dealt with them within 20 minutes!The place is not expensive at all,and you can also use the facilities at the Horizon next door as well.This is because they own both sites.The tavernas are about 15 min walk away,alomg with the shops.
The pools may be a bit salty but that does not devalue the place at all.
We hired a vehicle from Euro star car hire and explored the island over 3 days,as Stalis is a great location for a base.
The arranged Creatan night to Anapolis was also better that expected.
Overall a great holiday,from great staff at a great location!!!!

2 readers found this review helpful

Hi all, we;ve just got back from these apartments and after visiting Greece many times I can truthfully say this is the worst accomodation I've ever stayed in. There are 3 pools on site and 1 of them has no water in it and the other two contain saltwater which is not nice to swim in a pool in. All the drinks are really expensiver, for example its 3.30 for a 50cl beer whereas in other bars in Stalis you can get it for 1.50 with 2 euros being the average price. We also paid 6 euros a night extra for the air con but it was only present in one room and it was pretty rubbish and noisy also. They also turned off our air con twice prematurely. The balcony was tiny and the view from our balcony was of no more than a pile of rubbish also. These 'self catering' apartments don't even have a toaster, grill or oven. I also found the staff unhelpful and some of them were unfriendly. We booked these apartments specifically because of the good reviews on this website but they turned out to be very disappointing.

1 reader found this review helpful

Went to stay at stelios as a group of 5 young girls, was very pleased upon arriving when saw our room as rooms in past holidays that we paid the same price for had been yuk!!!!! but was pleasently surprised to find nice, bright clean rooms which were quite spacious and had everything we needed, beds were made up ready 4 us with clean sheets! bathroom fresh n clean with a bath as well as showeer which we didnt expect, kitchen area had everything we needed for a s/c basis.
like i said we didnt expect much as on past holidays as a group of young girls that dont want 2 pay a lot you dont usually get a lot, which wasnt the case here, so if u r a group of youngens that are looking 4 a cheap hol deal this was graet accomadation wise! we ended up paying £270 for 2 weeks s/c end of june which is pretty dam gud!
all the staff were welcoming n pleasent,nice pool, menu is simple but food is cheap and nice and u do get quite a big portion 4 ur £, selection of drinks at the bar is adequate, they do kareoke n theme nites which we didnt do much of as went out of hotel in the eve!
NIGHTLIFE:
its a bit of a walk into stalis but its bearable but if goin out drinking prob better 2 get a taxi back which are cheap!not many music bars in stalis itself if thats what you want,rhythem which gave us loadsa free fishbowls n cocktails, yo yo's which is a cute lil indie bar with a hottie barman, n bliss which has gud music, but malia is a 5 min taxi ride away which is packed and 5 mins in other direction is hersonissos which is wicked with loadsa bars n clubs 2, so go xplore!!
bar staff were nice used 2 let us take wine n glasses in 2 our room while getting ready as long as we eventually brought them back, would come and open the bar 4 us wen we rolled in at 3 o clock 2 get sum water, snacks etc but did get a bit funny 2wards us in the end bcz we didnt want him gettin 2 touchy feely with us if u no wt i mean!!!
the only bad thing bout the hotel is the MOANY OLD PEOPLE well wen i say old they werent even that old like 40's but obviously 2 old to rememba wat its like 2 be young, neway they constantly moaned that they didnt no the hotel was goin 2 b a 18-30's hotel, which it wasnt!!!!!! jst bcoz it had a few groups of young people in it doesnt mean its a 18-30's hotel, we cud of moaned that we didnt no there was going 2 b older people there it was silly as we werent even that noisy, hols are ment 2 b fun!!! i can undastand if we were comin in at 4 in the morn really noisy n waking every1 up for the whole time we were there, but it wasnt like that and they made us feel guilty everytime we saw them at the pool cz we had come in early hours......people shud get a life...think they used 2 wait up 4 us in the end jst 2 have sumfing 2 moan bout
but neway hotel werent 2 harsh with us jst told us 2 keep it down a bit but loved us really!!!
all in all great hol n great stayin at stelios good choice of hotel!!!!!!
heidi n girls xxxxx hertfordshire

1 reader found this review helpful

hi,
Stopped at the stalis apartments for just one week with my friend as a last
minute booking. we received a great welcome and the staff were friendly through out the holiday. The apartments were located about 10 minutes away from the action but it was a nice stroll, from the numerous bars and restaurants. The greek night at he apartments was great fun and give you the chance to meet fellow holiday makers. I have heard from recent reviews 2008 that Andreas no longer works at the apartments, but what a shame..does anyone know were he has gone to work? He must have stayed in the business because he was born to do hotel managing work.

3 readers found this review helpful

Myself, my partner and our 2 teenage girls have just had a wonderful holiday at these apartments.
We had a one bedroomed apartment which was very clean and large enough for the 4 of us. The bedroom had 2 single beds then there was a sofa bed and a camp bed in the living room. All the beds were comfortable and clean. The kitchen consisted of a full size fridge, microwave, two cooking rings and a sink.
The bar and pool areas were not huge but the food was nice and the staff were friendly.
The apartments were a slow 15 minute stroll from the centre of the town and the beach.
Stalis beach was beautiful but watch out for the sea urchins beside the rocks. They are very painful to stand on which my partner found out on our 2nd day. They are not poisonous though - just painful.
Overall I would definitely recommend these apartments.

4 readers found this review helpful

My family have just returned from a fantastic holiday. We were very welcomed when we arrived, The apartment was lovely very clean and spacious, we must of had one of the best rooms on the complex the sea view was beautiful. All the staff were happy and helpfull. Our rep was very helpfull one of the best we have ever had. There was plenty to do for our two daughters there are two pools air hockey pool table. They made many friends, it is definetley a fantastic place for families.

3 readers found this review helpful

These Apartments were very clean and looked after, the staff were nice and helpful and the rep did her job well. We had a lovely holiday as the resort was great in fact it was one of the best apts for space and location we have had. However my one gripe is that before we came out in March I E-mailed and asked if I could keep the room as the flight was a late one and we needed somewhere to rest and wash as this was very important to us . I had a reply and they said no problem I could keep my room for 20 Euros great! until it came to me comfirming my room when I arrived and they told me I could not have the room as they were fully booked, I stressed that this was a previously agreed condition with conformation but to no avail. The rep did her best but said that it was difficult and to keep asking, no joy. So being British we said oh well we will have to make do. We have never flown out so late before and it was dreadful, it was made worse by the fact that we sat around the pool until mid-night and beyond and at least four rooms as I could see were still empty it would have easy for the Management to spare at least one room. It proved very stressful for my 14 year old and when we arrived back home she was very ill with lack of sleep etc and had a three hour stop in hospital, and this is what I was trying to prevent. Why was this allowed to happen I shall never do this again. I do stress again that this is by no means a reflection of the standard of accomodation it was clean, spacious and every thing worked but all this was tainted by this very stressful situation.

3 readers found this review helpful

We have just returned from Stelios Stalis, i cannot fault the accomodation the apartments were big and cleaned daily and all the rooms had sea views. The staff were also all very friendly.
However i would not return to Stalis again the walk from the apartments to the main beach road was about 15 mins which was fine going as it was all down hill, however on the way back it was up a steep incline which when you have 2 tired under 6 children can feel like you are climbing a mountain.
Also Stalis is very busy and congested at all times of the day and night, not to mention watching out for all the quad bikes and mopeds which speed along, although there was quite a heavy police presecne trying to prevent them using the beach road.
I went to Stalis 9 years ago and thought it was lovely, however it is now just turning into a Malia overflow resort. which is a real shame.
On a positive note we spent a couple of days at Star Beach which was great, and we also used the beach through the nanna beach complex next door which was much quiter and cleaner than the main beach.
Lots of lovely restaraunts where the kids were always given free ice cream.
However be warned if you are travelling with olympic be prepared to have a nightmare flight. Going out we were the only people with children on a flight full of drunk teenagers going to Malia and had to endure 4 hours of swearing, singing rude songs and vomitting, which was very scary.

4 readers found this review helpful

We have just enjoyed 2 weeks at the Stelios.The accomodation was great,very spacious,with kettle,microwave and television included.Cleanliness seemed very important as our room was checked nearly every day we were there.Cannot fault the staff,they were all very friendly and helpful,we loved Harrys.Our room was right under the bar so we experienced some noise but not enough to put us off having the same room again(114) as the view from the balcony was second to none.We were about a 20 minute slow leisurely walk away from the Akti Bar in Stalis,which is where we went every day to lounge on the Beach,and have lunch,which was always lovely.Everyone mentions Maria's,and yes it is a smashing place to eat ,but there are so many others,for instance MYTHOS which is further in to Stalis on the left hand side by the Anthoussa Hotel,the staff here were very efficient and our food was wonderful.I could go on and on about the Taverna's and Restaurants but you'd need to try them for yourselves as they are nearly all up to scratch.We had beautiful weather while we were there,but not once did we burn,cos we were sensible and did everything we were told to do.
Back to the apartment,we had never stopped there before even though this was our fifth trip to Stalis,but we would definately go back,No Doubt About It.