Virginia Hotel

14 readers found this review helpful

My wife and I have been put off beofer by reviews, only to find out they are usually not accurate at all. If one has a bad flight or whatever then the entire holiday gets labelled as CRAP. The Virginia is a pleasant 30 min drive from the airport (by private taxi) and I was fully expecting a "Back street - 3 star - growling hovel with awful food"
NO NO NO. this is a lovely hotel in a quiet location. three lovely pools (4 if you include kiddies pool). OK there are ants on the terraces but VERY TINY ones, adn copme on, after all it is their home before it is ours. Peolpe complained about the food.. OK Breakfast consists of:- bacon,eggs,sausages,mushrooms,baked beans tomato. (of course there is the usual cereals, breadbuns, butter, jam etc. etc. WHAT MORE COULD ONE POSSIBLY WANT??????. lunch and dinner there was always a good variety of meats, pastas vegetables and traditional Greek food (wonder why that) Not always pipng hot, but hey, let's remember we are in Greec after all, and that is their way. Soup and ice-cream available at every meal also. The rooms are a little sparce, but you get what you pay for, that's my feelings anyway. Staff are very friendly smiling an ALWAYS happy to serve you. NEVER had to queue at bar. Only nagatiove is we were the only English couple there (except one other twosome, which for reasons I won't divulge, were the type of people one tries hard to ignore). Let's just suffice to say that whatever you have done and wherever you havee been, they have bettered it, which makes on wonder what are those poeple doing in 3-star Greek tourist/holiday hotel to begin with. The vast majority of the guests are Swedish and Slavs, very good mannered people plus lads what LOVELY ladies. (I almost got in trouble a few times ha!!!!)
The grounds are clean and immacutaly kept, rooms cleaned daily (except Sundays) towels changed 3 times a week (as was the bed linen)
I suppose the big question at the end of the day is :- "Will go be going back then" - Reply "You beter believe it". Budget price yet quality holiday.

5 readers found this review helpful

Bad reviews worried me, but no need. Good sized room, adequate facilities, regularly cleaned, great air con.
Staff very helpfull and friendly, bar staff great, good humour and work their socks off to keep the free drinks flowing.
Food excellent, I was really concerned about this but it was just great, lots of variation usually 3 to 4 choices of main ingrediants plus numerous vegetables, salads and sides. True the food isn't labelled and some of the greek food difficult to identify, it's no problem though, nobody minds you trying it first, we enjoyed almost everthing we tried and I have teenage girls.
The beach is great and exactly where they said it was, 5 mins away.

5 readers found this review helpful

After reading reviews of the Hotel Virginia, I was a little aprehensive about our upcoming holiday to Rhodes. When we arrived, however, we were greeted by the friendly male receptionist (who there on after made a point of greeting us every morning, and asking how we were) who checked us into our room.
Although the bedroom wasn't perfect, it was cleaned every day except sundays, with towels and linen changes regularly throughout the week. Our bathroom wasn't really up to scratch, but we didn't spend much time in the room so it didn't really matter.
The food was not cold, as other people have said, and the staff were constantly cleaning the tables and bringing more food out. On the other hand, the food wasn't great, very repetitive with the same dishes served every day.
With a number of different pools, it's hard to decide where abouts to sunbathe! We tended to opt for the biggest one which was near the pool bar. Although the barman there can come across as a bit abrupt at first, once he got to know our faces he was chatty and smiley with us. Sunbeds and umberellas are always easy to get, and the pool is kept very clean (although it is a bit cold when you first get in!)
The beach is just a short walk away, down a pretty steep hill. Although we didn't visit the beach during the day, we walked right to the end most evenings, where there are a few rocks where we could sit down and look out to sea, and we found it very picturesque.
I wouldn't say that this is necessarily a 4 star hotel, but for the relatively cheap price, there isn't much that can be complained about! We didn't want to come home.

3 readers found this review helpful

Before I went To Virginia hotel I read bed comments about the hotel and I thought It cant be that bed.
We booked with my wife and what a disaster.Hotel has 2 part 1 part is new building it looks nice and other part is old bungalow style.
First night with the late check in they gave us food very bad.We went to bar and orther white wine I think it use to be wine :) no taste very bad taste of 5th quality wine.
Breakfast everyday same and very untasty.breads are hard u hardly see fresh bread coffe is more water it is like black hot water.
Buffet for the foods are very bad everyday same foods some of tehm chages and very faty foods no salad buffet no cold meals buffet and very little deserts and only bad quality watermelon.
In europe If they call this hotel 4 star and CAT.A they should think twice.The authorties has to check this hotel again.
For the drinks and food Quality and cleaning of pools and rooms this could be max 2 star hotel.
NEVER EVER AGAIN VIRGINA
RHODES IS PERFECT BUT NEVER VIRGINIA

9 readers found this review helpful

When reading all other comments i was very apprehensive to go to this resort. I cannot beleive it is the same resort that i went to. Although the food is average it is not cold, there was plenty to offer and a varied selection. The restuarant staff were on the ball clearing the tables, always had table cloths that were clean and they were smiling. The bar staff where friendly and all tables were well looked after, no glasses lying around.
Speak to them and they will speak to you in the little English they know.
I shared an apartment with two friends and found the facilites good. We had air conditioning, room cleaned every day apart from Sundays. Plenty of sunbeds around the pool with choices of 5 pools in different areas of the complex to suit. The local beach is lovely and only about 2 minutes away with sunbeds there (maybe for Hire).
I loved the holiday and the resort, but felt that last comments were harsh. I would go back again but everyone is entitled to their opinion. its just a shame that people only write the bad ones and not good reports!!!!!!

1 reader found this review helpful

Just returned back from the Virginia Hotel and I have to agree with other reports about the food & accommodation.
The food was cold on most occasions, flies around it and I also found lots of ants around the sugar and also in my coca cola! The ants were also invading the cake that was put out for a snack before dinner.
The food was not labelled (apart from once) and it was basically the same food every day which I have to admit looked like leftovers from the previous day!
Our room was ok apart from ants crawling around the floor at the fridge, there was no free air conditioning, and the TV only had 1 channel that was in English...BBC World News which got pretty boring.
There was no entertainment or much to do at night in the hotel but the staff were very friendly and helpful, especially Kristos the barman and the very nice housekeeping lady who was on in the morning, the female receptionist was also very helpful, the buffet staff I did not find very cheerful.
The outlook from the front of the hotel was very dismal, looked just like a dirt track, buses to the town centre were frequent though and Rhodes town is very nice but we found we had to go out every day because there was nothing else to do in the hotel, there are only so many times you can visit one place and we were able to go around the shops blindfolded!
We arrived at this hotel purely because the hotel we had originally booked was closed for the season! I don’t think we would go back to this hotel as we feel it was situated in the wrong place, in the middle of nowhere and pretty deserted.

2 readers found this review helpful

What a wonderful holiday. Reading some of the previous comments about the hotel we were very apprehensive about going to this resort on holiday.
The staff were all lovely, although English wasn't their first language everyone was able to communicate and they were very helpful.
The food was different but then we came to Greece on holidays to experience their culture and tastes - there was always something suitable for everyone.
The rooms were cleaned daily and I must agree that the hotel didn't quiet have the luxury of other 4-star hotels but it was clean and comfortable.
Just my daughter and I came on this holiday so we were very reliant on public transport and weren't disappointed. There was a regular bus service on the main road, just a short walk from the hotel, going to Faliraki or Rhodes Town which just cost a few euros.

4 readers found this review helpful

Spent a week there in June 2007 all inclusive. Food must have improved since last reviews because we could not fault its quality or quantity.
Room cleaned daily apart from Sundays and were of a good standard. Some tour operators give it a 4 star but I would class it as a good 3 star.
My partner left her driving licence in the room and was found after leaving the hotel they contacted us be phone a few days after getting home and sent it on to us recorded delivery at no cost to us. Would use again.

After reading the reviews we were a bit apprehensive. We arrived at 0400 in the morning, long wait for taxi at the airport.
At the hotel we were booked in by the night porter, who did not speak to us gave us a key and we had to find our own way.
The room its self was ok but location by the children’s playground and on Friday and Saturday nights the children run riot in there till 2300 to around midnight, you get no peace.
The food was awful to say the least it was cold not labelled and warmed up we didn’t enjoy it at all.
The barman was very grumpy and it made you feel you were asking him to do something out of the ordinary by asking for a drink.
The lady in the grocery shop attached to the hotel was more interested in doing her nails and talking to her friends that deal with customers.
The best properties to stay in look like the self catering block by the top pool .the studio blocks look very pokey and look more like a rundown area.
We hired a car for the 2 weeks from in the village kalithea car hire, he is very helpful, would recommend that and then you are not tied. We drove over the whole island.
I would not recommend this property for all inclusive perhaps the self catering option.
But to be honest the staff need to learn some manners.
I personally would not return this is definitely not a 4 star property.
Rhodes itself is nice would return but stay somewhere else.

1 reader found this review helpful

I have been there this September. I agree with all the other opinions, especially for the food. The day after you will have the same food of the day before (cooked again!). It is not cleaned, you have to eat at very dirty tables and the food is for very hard stomachs.
So please, no all inclusive, otherwise you must have money to eat in a very restaurant!
The room was clean and nice but in the bathroom there is no soap, no electricity (only on plug near the entrance) and it happened twice we were without toilet paper!
People working there are not polite. They make you feeling like if you are bothering them! I saw more than one time that they treated guests very badly especially for the lunch and for the dinner. The man at the bar was outside leaving guests waiting even 20 minutes or more for a drink and he was the only one working for the bar! At the pool bar was better.
I will never come back because of the food and because the workers are not polite or nice! The hotel building and the room were OK.