Kostas Studios & Apartment

We stayed at this "hotel" for a week. Kostas and Sofie needs to go on a smile lesson! They can learn how to treat customers from George at the Ola Kala restaurant next door. He is a good man, delicious food.

Kostas and Sofie does not like kids, and they do not like to serve you in the bar. That's too much work, it seems... They could have earned a lot of money if they had changed their attitude.

Other from that we had at good vacation. The pool is good. and the room were as cleans as we can expect from at 2 star hotel.

The accommodation was clean and spacious with all cooking equipment available, the pool and bar area was good and an ideal place to spend a lazy day. The family who owned it are friendly and were always there to help and we enjoyed a late drink with them, especially Kostas who makes a mean cocktail!

The apartments are only 50 metres from the main street but there was no noise or rowdiness, it was quiet if anything and they are less than five minutes from the beach.

We went on a cruise organised by Kosmar which was very good value especially the beach barbecue and swimming in the Meganisi cave.

The bars are friendly and the restaurants excellent and we recommend Kostas in Nidri for a great holiday.

Nidri is largely uncommercialised and it was a relief to get away from resorts with English bars, English beer and a club 18 - 30 agenda, although Nidri Watersports cater for Paragliding, Flying Fish and pedalos at good prices.

spent a week in the kostas, rooms were very basic, but i didnt go to rhodes to spend time in the room! it was clean had your basic cooking facilitys. the italian restaurant under the apartments was brilliant, and boomerang auzzie bar round the corner is great fun! kostas is in the ideal location, with many bars and restaurants on your doorstep. the apartments are also only 2 blocks (2min walk) away from the beach! had a wounderful time and am sure wil be returning next year!

We stayed at the Kostas apartments, they are borderline clean the toilet bin was emptied nearly every other day and the linen was changed mid week. The shower curtain was black with mould how disgusting. The room itself basically is a fire hazard with the cooker inches from the bed not that we do any cooking but if we had wanted to? It could be noisy when other guests returned during the night after their revelling. A couple of good points were the air conditioning and safety deposit box at reasonable prices. Nidri itself is a bit busy for our taste but there are some very good restaurants and bars try Cafe di Paris good service good people and it is beautiful at night. We have holidayed in Greece for many many years and these were the worst we have stayed in. We have holidayed with Kosmar before this and had great apartments so this will not put us off.

Smelly. Dirty. No cooking equipment. Luckily we only intended to spend 1 night in these apartments. I can't imagine holidaying there. Kosmar reps were very helpful.

I stayed in Kostas for a week and was pleasantly surprised - after reading some of the reviews on this page I was expecting much worse. Kostas is your typical Greek apartment block, a good basic level of cleanliness, basic facilites but who needs more than that? After all you spend your holiday in and around the resort not in your hotel room! All rooms have shower, toilet, kettle, TV and balcony. Not a bad place to base your holiday in Nidri from at all.

Nidri itself is a beautiful small marina town, with long narrow shingle beaches, numerous sea front bars and restaurants and water sports aplenty. I particularly recommend The Barrel restaurant on the seafront, and Cafe Mimikos on the main road.

Just returned from Lefkas after staying in Nidri at the Kostas Studios. The accommodation was basic but better than a lot of Greek accommodation. We had a 2 bed apartment which was quite spacious and had 3 balconies which was nice.

The cooking facilities were useless, however, we had no intention of cooking and the resort has numerous good value eating establishments. The location was ideal, only minutes from the beach and shops and restaurants but quiet enough to feel you were away from it all. The apartment was only cleaned once, mid-week, with a towel change and clean top sheets on the beds. I'd advise anyone to take their own towels as the ones provided although quite plentiful are hand towels. We had a slight problem with a bad smell in one of the en-suites but this was sorted out promptly when we mentioned it to the Kosmar Rep.

Lefkas and Nidri were lovely and we had a fantastic holiday. We hope to return next year but will be looking for slightly better accommodation. This said if you are going to stay at Kostas or Sofies Studios you will still have a great holiday as with a few improvements these could be very good apartments.

Stopped in Kostas apartments on top floor in June 2007. The apartments are part of a complex that includes Sofies Studios and another block that is occupied by Swedish people. There is a pool available to all of the blocks.

The apartment in Kostas can only be described as basic. Although there are cooking facilities they are next to useless and are located at the end of the bed with wires protruding from the wall. However there is a kettle that works and the room we stopped in was clean (on arrival). Sheets and towels were changed once in the week we were there. The en suite had a shower toilet and sink. It was very hard to use the toilet because it was cramped next to the shower.

Although it would be possible to be quite critical of the room facilities it was actually a lot better than many I have stopped in Greece (although that was some years ago). If you want luxury then don’t stop here (well in fact don’t visit most of the less developed part of the country). I think you need to just accept that this is the standard and in some ways it is part of the quaintness and charm of the place.

Safety deposit boxes were available in the room at a cost of about 7 euros per week which is not bad compared to many other places. Air conditioning is in each room but prohibitive at 5 euros per day.

The pool is quite good for Greece and wasn’t regularly busy.

Location wise these were ideal. They were a short walk to the heart of Nidri, no more than a couple of minutes on the flat. The beach in the place is not good but we spent a lot of time on boat trips, bikes and hire cars, all of which were reasonably priced.

The resort itself has plenty of tavernas and some of the food was delicious. Drinks were not very cheap nor expensive. A bottle of 50ml Amstel beer between 2 to 3.5 euros and retsina in some places was 6 euros for a litre.

Nidri is one of the busiest places on Lefkas and we were glad we stopped there rather than other much quieter places.

Do get around the island; it is spectacularly beautiful with stunning scenery from the sea and on the mountains. We really liked the place and if you are into being on the water the area around Nidri is safe and protected.

In summary the apartments are not great but they are functional and basic. If used just as a base and you get into Greek mode then chill and enjoy the experience.

Having stopped at Sofies in May 2005 (and not being very impressed) we decided to give Kosmar another chance (and our cheque book a break) and booked to stay at Kostas.

I have now decided that I will probably never holiday with Kosmar again. I agree with some of the reviews - I doubt that the sorry state of the apartments is really to do with the friendly family that own them.

Our apartment was "cleaned" once all week. By this I mean we had our towels changed and our bin emptied. It was only the first week of season and there were only 3 rooms in occupation in the building so it wouldn’t have been hard to actually sweep up or change the bedding.

The toilet leaked and there were bare wires all over our tiny apartment. I don’t mind budget accommodation but I felt that this was a bit too much.

We also had the family from hell staying in the apartments. Admittedly this wasn’t even Kosmar fault but I would be wary of going somewhere so cheap again. I now realise you do get what you pay for.

Having said that, Kostas is in a handy location and does share a lovely pool with Sofies.

The family that run it are all friendly too. Kosmar rep was also surprisingly good. But I think from now on I will take my business elsewhere rather than go somewhere that is so hit and miss.

My family and I have been back to Nidri each year for the last 4 years and we loved our stay at the Kostas apartments, our rooms were very spacious and clean, we were very happy with the rooms compared to other apartments we had stayed in before.

The family who run the apartments are very friendly and the pool bar very handy to have a few drinks. Also only a short walk to the harbour and main centre.

We would definitely recommend staying in these apartments and visiting Nidri - have a walk down the main street towards the church where you will find TJ's, you will find a great breakfast!