Summer Dream Hotel

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We arrived at 3am and were greeted by Jon who showed us to the location of our apartment. On opening the apartment door I was shocked to see someone asleep in the bed! I hunted Jon down in the reception to inform him and he argued with me that this was "impossible"! He came back to the apartment to check and yes he agreed there was definitely someone in the bed by shouting "Oh Jesus Christ!" (my three children were quite amused, however I was worried in case there was no apartment for us after such a long journey and the fact that it was 3am!). We were however allocated another apartment which was very spacious and clean.
Overall the complex was poor the public areas were dirty and overcrowded. The pool was ok however you needed to keep an eye on the kids as it was very deep. The pool bar was smelly however the bar staff worked very hard - they certainly didn't deserve the grief they had from Jon in the evening when they gave more than two drinks per visit to the bar under the all inclusive rules! (not too good when you are a family of five). We had an enjoyable week, mainly due to the slow pace of Tholos, the fantastic sunshine, and we did meet some nice people. As for the food - I won't even go there!!

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We arrived at the hotel at 12.30 our room was not ready but we was told to go to the pool or have lunch which we did, our room was still not ready at 2.00pm. So went on the long walk to the beach 400 meters they said its a lot further than that.
We had our room at 5.30pm when we returned the room was basic and our cleaner was not a very good cleaner there was hairs in the bath and the drawers, not a problem sorted that with a hair dryer.
The food was not to bad, basic but there was always something to eat if you would try different things which is what you go on holiday for. I found the bar staff in the evening was very polite to you. The drinks was a good selection with a choice of 8 cocktails and the wine in fairness was very good for a local wine.
We would not stay in this hotel again because it was to far from the beach. We enjoyed our weeks stay there but its not a 3 star hotel more like a two and there was a lot of walking to the rooms etc.

On arriving at the hotel we were greeted by a lovely Greek man who showed us to our room. The hotel itself was a complete nightmare.
The room we were given was on the lower floor and was situated behind the swimming pool which was a complete farce. My wife and I were very disappointed we had two single beds pushed together, and had a third bed in the room which was a pain!
The view out of the room was a hedge which anyone could get into the apartment. The shower well you had to hold it up to have one, which my wife was very disappointed with.
The complex is very basic the pool bar was a disgrace and had loads of flies and wasp flying everywhere, due the fact that it was never cleaned at the end of the day.
The pool itself was clean and was irrigated every day.
The food well what a disgrace for an All Inclusive complex the food was appalling mostly over cooked and sometimes not enough if you got there late. There was no air conditioning at lunchtime and with all the windows you were battling with the flies.
There were a lot of cat there and at the end of the day there was a bad smell of cat urine. My wife had to battle with the gnats or I think they were, but due the bites being above the ankle I think these were more like flea bites from the cats.
On a whole this was a very dissatisfied holiday and will be sending a very long letter of complaint to Medhotels who we booked with.
The best part was waiting for the taxi to pick us up for our flight home!

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I think the only reason I’ve given this holiday a three is because the staff, people we met and weather were all superb.
As for the accommodation and food it was appalling.
I have been to several Greek islands were the rooms have been basic but clean and comfortable.
I didn’t find this at the Summer Dream, don’t get me wrong the cleaners worked really hard but our room was old and shabby, the ceiling was all stained, wires were hanging out the wall behind the bed, drawers wouldn’t open.
It looked like it needed a total makeover and I’m really not fussy.
The food was very basic and the dining room at meal times was usually chaotic often running out of cutlery.
By the second week we ate out for our meals.
The whole thing reminded me of an old butlins camp, I won’t be rushing back.

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I would come down somewhere between the previous reviews, and give the summer dream a 6. Rooms were cleaned every day, and we were even left a vase of flowers in our room. The staff were mostly very friendly. Its location is a little out of the way, with quite a long walk to the nearest beach (nice white sand/rough sea).
Food was plentiful and varied in my opinion, although the restaurant had no air conditioning so sometimes we found we didn’t have much appetite as it vas very hot! In there.
No entertainment to speak of, apart from karaoke occasionally in the evening, although there are bars/tavernas down the road into Tholos.
A quiet base for a quiet relaxing holiday.

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We were originally booked into the Marathon Hotel in Kolymbia, but when we arrived we were told they were fully booked, we were told that we were now going to the Summer Dream Hotel on the west coast, a 15 min hell raising taxi ride to the hotel, had to tell the taxi driver to slow down.
When we arrived at reception we were warmly greeted, and shown to our apartment, we just expected a double room, we actually got an apartment which slept 6 people, very nice place lovely food, could not fault it, lots of people putting towels on sunbeds at 6am which I think is really annoying, but on the whole not much to do in Tholos.
A power station just down the road, Rhodes town 40 mins by bus, nice little village just up the road from the hotel, you seem to go back in time, lovely little place, well worth a visit, as for the staff at the hotel I could not fault them at all. Pebbly beach down the road.