Karavados Beach Hotel

We booked the Karavados Beach one week before we went, and got a complete bargain!! We stayed bed and breakfast and took two children aged 14 and 16. When we arrived it was extremely quiet, and we thought we were the only people in the hotel. As we had booked B&B we had our first meal at the beach taverna which was ok, but the hotel food was much better. We hired a car for 3 days and explored the island, which is breathtaking. At night we either ate at the hotel and stayed there for a drink or drove into Argostoli. The days we did stay round the pool were great as we was the only family there most of the time, Brilliant!! If you like good food peaceful location gorgeous views, then this hotel is for you. It is the perfect base to explore all kefalonia has to offer.

kefalonia is a quiet island and the karavados is a quiet hotel.
if you want solitued and relaxation it is great. if you want discos and parties etc avoid it. there is no nightly entertainment at all but lets be honest if you want the euro crap min-disco [--] go to spain.
we had the pool to ourselves and thouroughly enjoyed our stay as it suited our needs,
i read previous comments from other holiday makers in this forum and their complaints are pretty pathetic. Directions to the room were given so why

I have just got back from a weeks holiday at the Karavados Beach hotel and I am definitely relieved.
When we got there we were told where our room was and had to make our own way there with no guidance. I found the staff to be very laid back - in fact if they had been any more so, they would have been asleep!
Having read about the Karavados Beach hotel before I came on this holiday I was surprised to find it was very different to how it was described. It stated that the hotel was newly refurbished, what I now understand by this is that the main hotel had been newly refurbished but the block we were staying in did not appear to have been newly renovated.
The television and sky that was stated in the brochure was one channel and an aerial that have you an electric shock dare you be brave enough to touch it. The room was very very basic with a bed that stood about 1 floor off the floor and bedside tables that were much the same.
The shower was powerful but had to be held as the power was too forceful for it to stay in t he actual holder on the wall - however I could deal with this as the shower was so refreshing, shame there was no hot water from about 8.30 pm onwards.
When we got to the hotel we thought it might be nice to get something to eat as it was about 3 o'clock and hadn't had a meal on the flight so as you can imagine we were quite hungry. We were told no food was going to be available until 7pm. We thought this was unusual for a hotel. We thought it best to go to a supermarket get some food as if this was going to be the case every day, imagine out shock when we were told that to get to the nearest shops we would be charges 30 euros all round - this we thought was very steep considering it was a 10 minute ride in the car.
After much consideration we decided to hire a car, we found that it worked out at 160 euros for 3 days and this was without insurance - we spoke to out holiday rep who strongly advised if we were going to hire a car we should do so off our own backs and not through the hotel as we would almost certainly not have insurance. However because we were so secluded we found it impossible to hire a car any other way - so we didnt. If we had a car we would have been able to explore the island more and definitely would have contributed to a far more enjoyable holiday. We would advise anyone to sort out car hire before you go!!!
We had dinner on the first night and we were shocked that we had no choice and simply got served some green slush and old moussaka...I think? We decided we were not going to risk eating it and it tasted fowl anyway - we spent a lot of money on hotel food which was a shame as we had paid for half board hoping to save some pennies. All in all we spent far more than we wanted to on food on this holiday and the only activity was the swimming pool. We felt that we had to be as quiet as possible as there wasnt a sound!No music or entertainment of any shape or form! Very sad really as the view of the mountains and the sea is incredible.
Having moaned about the holiday itself, I must add the rooms were cleaned every day and the sunshine was truly delightful! We certainly had time to relax on this holiday - if a little bored and very poor after the hotel and taxi expenditure!!
I shall not be going back to The Karavados Beach Hotel again!