Silver Beach Hotel, Roda, Corfu
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Hotel Description:
The Silver Beach Hotel is set in its own gardens in the resort of Roda. This friendly, family run hotel has a relaxed atmosphere and is only 5 minutes walk from the beach and Roda’s village centre. Facilities at the Silver Beach include 24 hr reception, swimming, children’s pool, sun terraces, safety deposit boxes-local charge and foreign exchange. loading...
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Silver Beach Hotel Reviews
" Condition of bathroom "
Submitted By: swampy64
we have just returned from a weeks stay at The Silver Beach Hotel and found as have some of the reviewers that the pool surround and cleanliness of the bedrooms was very good the state of the bathroom was, even by Greek standards, very poor the shower head had nowhere to hang it and the general state of the bathroom was dirty with cracks in the tiles and also the shower base. On the first day we arrived we found that in the main room the main light did not work, we finally had it repaired on the evening before we left. The breakfast was really one of the worst breakfasts that I have seen---warm orange juice, cold coffee, cold scrambled eggs and cheese slices everyday--needless to say we went out for breakfast there are plenty places to choose from but we would highly recommend The Big Ben fun pub on the beach road.
Advice: Avoid this place
Activities: amust is the Greek dancing night in The Big Ben fun pub and a meal at Roxannes
Good for: Beach
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- Date of Holiday:Sep 2009
- Board Basis:Bed & Breakfast
- Tour Operator:Airtours
" Nice and clean hotel "
Submitted By: Olinka
I have to say that we had a really nice holiday in this hotel with my boyfriend. The hotel was very clean, the stuff helpful and when we found something damaged, it was repaired the other day. Swimming pool was all right and half board tasty, although breakfast was all the same, but it is quite understandable in 2star hotel. I can recommend it.
Advice: Roda is nice but small city for relaxing holidays. Beaches are nicer in other cities.
Activities:
Good for: Beach
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- Date of Holiday:Jul 2009
- Board Basis:Half Board
- Tour Operator:Cedok
" dont stay here! "
Submitted By: dont stay
We arrived at this place three hours after our booking in time and were told our room wasn't ready and to wait until called. We waited for a hour still no one came to speak to us so we went and asked ourselves only to be told that the hotel was fully booked and we had to stay down the road in their other accommodation, it was a horrible dark small room with two single beds, a toilet and shower that didnt work properly and a belcony that looked over a stairwell-nice!! we tryed to get moved but the staff were rude and wouldnt help, as we are a young couple I think they took advantage. To everyone that wrote good reports you must have been lucky we wish we had been. Seriously dont stay here there are plenty of other good places to stay.
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- Date of Holiday:Jul 2009
- Board Basis:Bed & Breakfast
- Tour Operator:Booked Independently
" An up to date review "
Submitted By: BBarb
I stayed there last month - everything was brilliant. After reading all those damaging posts I can only say that now its obviously pulled itself up by the stocking tops and is running really well.
This is Greece remember, you don't put paper down the loo in Greece. You don't get a full English breakfast in Greece - you get eggs and yohurt and cake, which does get a little repetative (but whats more repetative than a full English?)
The place was spotless, the rooms were cleaned every day except Sunday; the towels and sheets were changed twice in a week (do you do that at home?) The staff were friendly and polite and spoke excellent English as well as French and German (can you do that?)
The only negative (for me) was the everlasting background music. One one occasion I returned to an empty hotel mid afternoon, and the girl behind the bar (always open) turned the music on. When I asked her if she would mind if we didn't have it she was surprised, but thankfully she stopped playing it (until other guests came back).
I can fully reccommend this hotel but I wouldn't travel Thomas Cook again as their excursions were a rip-off.
This is Greece remember, you don't put paper down the loo in Greece. You don't get a full English breakfast in Greece - you get eggs and yohurt and cake, which does get a little repetative (but whats more repetative than a full English?)
The place was spotless, the rooms were cleaned every day except Sunday; the towels and sheets were changed twice in a week (do you do that at home?) The staff were friendly and polite and spoke excellent English as well as French and German (can you do that?)
The only negative (for me) was the everlasting background music. One one occasion I returned to an empty hotel mid afternoon, and the girl behind the bar (always open) turned the music on. When I asked her if she would mind if we didn't have it she was surprised, but thankfully she stopped playing it (until other guests came back).
I can fully reccommend this hotel but I wouldn't travel Thomas Cook again as their excursions were a rip-off.
Advice: Don'e expect a night-life, its a family resort.
Activities:
Good for: Beach
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- Date of Holiday:May 2009
- Board Basis:Bed & Breakfast
- Tour Operator:Thomas Cook
" SHOCKING! "
Submitted By: domster
the hotel was very poor indeed!! to say the least!! the room sheets where dirty when we got to the hotel at 4.30 am and that was the last thing we needed at that time of the morning! the lights did not work in the hall way, where a lady guest fell down the stairs and broke her leg!! the breckfast was i disgerace! the tom keptup was 6 monts out of date!! the room tolite was blocked and the smell of human s*it was unreal i had to hose down the bathroom with shower and 1 bottle of shower gel as that is all we had! the pool was dirty and not once cleaned till the last day we where there!! did not even go into the pool!! so we got moved after the 3 day, as you dont need this on a 1 week holiday!! I WOULD SAY STAY AWAY FROM THIS HOTEL!!!
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- Date of Holiday:Oct 2008
- Board Basis:Bed & Breakfast
- Tour Operator:Thomson
" stayed here for two weeks and never... "
Submitted By: Ms A Mackay
stayed here for two weeks and never again the room was okay beds were changed once in the 2wks the breakfast was SHOCKING paid twelve euros a day for it only went 1 day and that was enough the coffee was green it was revolting.There was hardly any hot water for a shower.When you go out you have to leave your key on a board on reception desk where anyone could lift it .been to roda many times hotel looks lovely but i wouldnt recommend it to anyone
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- Date of Holiday:Sep 2008
- Board Basis:Bed & Breakfast
- Tour Operator:Thomas Cook
" I stayed there and it is one of the... "
Submitted By: Mr Hugh Brown
I stayed there and it is one of the best places I have ever been ignore bad rating from stuck up customers.It was very clean and tidy,pool area great,the food was very good.
Thanks for making 2008 a great year
we'll be back next year
Thanks for making 2008 a great year
we'll be back next year
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- Date of Holiday:Sep 2008
- Board Basis:Bed & Breakfast
- Tour Operator:Manos
" Me an my boyfriend stayed at the... "
Submitted By: Miss L King
Me an my boyfriend stayed at the silver beach for two weeks and not once did we have a problem! the staff were lovely and always ready to help! the food isnt really that nice BUT there are plenty of other lovely restaurants at hand and arnt to expensive! we strongly recomemend "SMILIES" :) ask for lisa shes great! are rooms were cleaned on a daily basis and if we wanted clean towels or sheets we only had to ask and they would do it for us.
We were very woried about coming here because of all the awful reviews we had read, but we were very pleased when we got there. We always had running water and it was always hot!!!
i dont feel people are being very fair with their reviews at the end of the day it isnt a five star hotel, you get what you pay for!!
Well i promise that you shouldnt worry about it you will be pleased with what you see when you arive, every1 to their own. You make your own fun.
P.S we are a young couple and we had one of the best holidays ever, hunt down the crown pub run by scousers so great! happy hour everyday all drinks half price crazy bingo woo hoo!!
We were very woried about coming here because of all the awful reviews we had read, but we were very pleased when we got there. We always had running water and it was always hot!!!
i dont feel people are being very fair with their reviews at the end of the day it isnt a five star hotel, you get what you pay for!!
Well i promise that you shouldnt worry about it you will be pleased with what you see when you arive, every1 to their own. You make your own fun.
P.S we are a young couple and we had one of the best holidays ever, hunt down the crown pub run by scousers so great! happy hour everyday all drinks half price crazy bingo woo hoo!!
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- Date of Holiday:Jul 2008
- Board Basis:Bed & Breakfast
- Tour Operator:Thomas Cook
" Hotel was clean, room adequate, food... "
Submitted By: Mr J Clarke
Hotel was clean, room adequate, food not bad. However when we booked this holiday we were told it was air conditioned. It was but at an extra 35 Euros aweek. Also the fridge was an extra 42 Euros a week. not good if you are diabetic and need to refridgerate your Insulin. However, close to some great restaurants and the sea. One of the only SANDY beaches on the island !
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- Date of Holiday:Sep 2008
- Board Basis:Bed & Breakfast
- Tour Operator:Thomas Cook
" staff were friendly apart from the... "
Submitted By: Mrs J Woollacott
staff were friendly apart from the owners! Food was very disappointing, the only dessert on offer apart from 4 of the 14 we stayed was water melon.The choice of evening meal was very limited, if you liked pork or fish you were fine. The drain in our bathroom smelt the whole holiday.and our friends had to put up with flies coming out of theirs!!!. Overall we were very disappointed as this is our twelth holiday in the Greek islands and this was the worst hotel we have stayed in. Thank goodness there were some excellent restaurants nearby especially the Roda Park. The air conditioning was not put on in the dining room but the doors left open so every night there were flies and mosquitos we got bit every time.
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- Date of Holiday:Sep 2008
- Board Basis:Half Board
- Tour Operator:Thomas Cook
" what can i say? i am trying to think... "
Submitted By: Mrs J Weston
what can i say? i am trying to think of something positive?. the reception was nice and the receptionist very helpfull. but after arriving at 5.00am on tuesday with our room booked from the 1st of sept we were finally given a room at 3.00pm on the 2nd. we spent the next 11 days in this hotel and we had the same sheets for the next 11 days..... mind you they did repair our shower and get it working after just 4 days...the pool was dirty, the bar staff unhelpfull, no entertainment- unless you paid for it. the breakfast unedible. the place was a nightmare i would dearly love to know where the photos came from on the cosmos site because it certainly wasent the room i was in... would i go back to roda? definately some lovely people and restaurants- just not the silver beach. i was lucky i only paid 520.00 for my stay others had paid over 1,200.. i would have cried. anyway good luck to those who decide to go just remember what you nsee is not what you get.
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- Date of Holiday:Sep 2008
- Board Basis:Bed & Breakfast
- Tour Operator:Cosmos
" Having just returned from the Silver... "
Submitted By: Mrs J MILLER
Having just returned from the Silver Beach in Roda I cannot reccomend the hotel enough. My family had a wonderfull holiday in a hotel that is very well placed in an excellent resort. Like all of Greece the hotel is quite basic but very clean and has excellent and friendly staff. The breakfast was more than the continental we expected and the Greek night at only 10 euros each is a must. If you are not happy with this hotel or resort you really should not be holidaying in Greece.
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- Date of Holiday:Aug 2008
- Board Basis:Bed & Breakfast
- Tour Operator:Thomson
" This was my first holiday to Greece... "
Submitted By: Miss A Lewis
This was my first holiday to Greece and had no idea what to expect, and i have to say i was very pleased with the resort and the hotel. we stayed at the silver beach hotel for 2 weeks from 1st August 08 until the 15th.
As you would expect, the hotel was very basic, but the rooms were cleaned daily, except on sundays, with clean bedding once a week and towels every other day. There was however, sometimes a problem with the water in the taps and shower- sometimes there was lots, enough to have a nice shower and brush your teeth, other times (when everybody was comming back from the beach and pool) there was very little, only just enough to have a shower with, and it was (sometimes) cold. And occasionally, there was no water at all comming through the taps or shower. We were told that this was because they turn the water off at a certain time, and put it back on again in the morning, well, thats ok if you are not going anywhere, but if like us, you book a trip that picks you up from outside the hotel at 7:55 am, you really need a shower. We mentioned it to the staff (who were all very lovely and firendly) and the problem was sorted, but we still suffered with very little water at certain points of the day.
Air-con, a fridge and saftey deposit box are all extra, and are not included in the price you pay, but we were on the top floor and found that like most people on that floor, it was cool enough in the evenings and at night to do without air-con. We slept with the balcony doors open instead.
We went B&B, and i have to say, the breakfast was not really very appealing. we tried and stuck with it for a few most of the holiday, but did give in a go to "Maggies" for breakfast- lovely food and nice people. "Roxannes" was also nice, but maggies was best for breakfast.
The Hotel holds a Greek Night once every two weeks. It costs 10 euros each if you are B&B, and 5 euro each if you are half-board. It was very good, the food was lovely and the dancing was brilliant.
The hotel its self did not provide any form of entertainment other than the Greek night, and families with younger children found it a bit harder to fill their evenings. child-less people and young adults could take their pick of the many bars that Roda offers, "the Drunken Sailor" was very popular and like most bars, charged 3 euros per cocktail from 7pm till late. Most of the bars also have an Elvis impersonator once a week. Several of them also have internet connection and charge on average 1 euro for 15 mins. There is a tv with Sky in the Hotel lobby.
The pool at the hotel is open from 8am until 8pm and due to its position, catches the sun all day long. Sunbeds and umbrellas at the poolside arew free for guests, and like most of the pools in Roda, it is open to the public.
Over the two weeks, we ate in many of the restaurants, but the "Roda Park" was deffinatley our fav. "Nikos" next door was also very good, but in all the restaurants, they took their time when serving your food, which some people found very annoying. Also, some people "forgot" that each restaurant prepares each dish in a slightly different way.
The beach was lovely to walk along or sit on all day with a choice of places to hire sunbeds and umbrellas. The sea was lovely and so clear! there were lots of little fish and the water was quite shallow, perfect for younger children to have a paddle in. You could also take a ride on a banana boat at 12 euro per person(!!!), hire a pedalo with a slide for 12 euro, hire a boat, or buy a snorkle set from one of the many shops and have a swim. The water starts to heat up around 5 pm and is lovely for an evening paddle.
There are many trips avaliable through holiday reps, but we found it cheaper to book through one of the tour place in Roda- Travelspot Roda, where we got 3 day trips to Corfu Town (not that great), Paxos, Anti-paxos and the blue caves (very good) and The Yellow Submarine trip from Paleokastritsa (excellent) for 151 euros for 2 adults and 2 children (children 12 and under are half price on most trips) The yellow submarine trip is absolutley amazing and everyone, young or old will enjoy it. However, the trip to corfu town was not as good as we thought it would be. it was about 3 times hotter than Roda, and by the time we got back to the hotel, our legs and feet were black with dirt and grime, not a very enjoyable day.
Overall, the hotel and resort of Roda was excellent and well worth a visit, but would maybe be more suited to young people or people without children as there is not much entertainment for youngsters.
As you would expect, the hotel was very basic, but the rooms were cleaned daily, except on sundays, with clean bedding once a week and towels every other day. There was however, sometimes a problem with the water in the taps and shower- sometimes there was lots, enough to have a nice shower and brush your teeth, other times (when everybody was comming back from the beach and pool) there was very little, only just enough to have a shower with, and it was (sometimes) cold. And occasionally, there was no water at all comming through the taps or shower. We were told that this was because they turn the water off at a certain time, and put it back on again in the morning, well, thats ok if you are not going anywhere, but if like us, you book a trip that picks you up from outside the hotel at 7:55 am, you really need a shower. We mentioned it to the staff (who were all very lovely and firendly) and the problem was sorted, but we still suffered with very little water at certain points of the day.
Air-con, a fridge and saftey deposit box are all extra, and are not included in the price you pay, but we were on the top floor and found that like most people on that floor, it was cool enough in the evenings and at night to do without air-con. We slept with the balcony doors open instead.
We went B&B, and i have to say, the breakfast was not really very appealing. we tried and stuck with it for a few most of the holiday, but did give in a go to "Maggies" for breakfast- lovely food and nice people. "Roxannes" was also nice, but maggies was best for breakfast.
The Hotel holds a Greek Night once every two weeks. It costs 10 euros each if you are B&B, and 5 euro each if you are half-board. It was very good, the food was lovely and the dancing was brilliant.
The hotel its self did not provide any form of entertainment other than the Greek night, and families with younger children found it a bit harder to fill their evenings. child-less people and young adults could take their pick of the many bars that Roda offers, "the Drunken Sailor" was very popular and like most bars, charged 3 euros per cocktail from 7pm till late. Most of the bars also have an Elvis impersonator once a week. Several of them also have internet connection and charge on average 1 euro for 15 mins. There is a tv with Sky in the Hotel lobby.
The pool at the hotel is open from 8am until 8pm and due to its position, catches the sun all day long. Sunbeds and umbrellas at the poolside arew free for guests, and like most of the pools in Roda, it is open to the public.
Over the two weeks, we ate in many of the restaurants, but the "Roda Park" was deffinatley our fav. "Nikos" next door was also very good, but in all the restaurants, they took their time when serving your food, which some people found very annoying. Also, some people "forgot" that each restaurant prepares each dish in a slightly different way.
The beach was lovely to walk along or sit on all day with a choice of places to hire sunbeds and umbrellas. The sea was lovely and so clear! there were lots of little fish and the water was quite shallow, perfect for younger children to have a paddle in. You could also take a ride on a banana boat at 12 euro per person(!!!), hire a pedalo with a slide for 12 euro, hire a boat, or buy a snorkle set from one of the many shops and have a swim. The water starts to heat up around 5 pm and is lovely for an evening paddle.
There are many trips avaliable through holiday reps, but we found it cheaper to book through one of the tour place in Roda- Travelspot Roda, where we got 3 day trips to Corfu Town (not that great), Paxos, Anti-paxos and the blue caves (very good) and The Yellow Submarine trip from Paleokastritsa (excellent) for 151 euros for 2 adults and 2 children (children 12 and under are half price on most trips) The yellow submarine trip is absolutley amazing and everyone, young or old will enjoy it. However, the trip to corfu town was not as good as we thought it would be. it was about 3 times hotter than Roda, and by the time we got back to the hotel, our legs and feet were black with dirt and grime, not a very enjoyable day.
Overall, the hotel and resort of Roda was excellent and well worth a visit, but would maybe be more suited to young people or people without children as there is not much entertainment for youngsters.
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- Date of Holiday:Aug 2008
- Board Basis:Bed & Breakfast
- Tour Operator:Thomas Cook
" Silver Beach Hotel was an OK... "
Submitted By: Mrs S Mahoney
Silver Beach Hotel was an OK hotel,but with money spent on it,it could be brilliant! It has prime location and covers a vast area. The breakfast is poor,limited choice with the coffee pot being kept hot on top of the toaster! The maid service are very friendly,always smiling,the towels and sheets changed regularly, I always bring my own towels, so that didn't matter so much. The rooms are basic but plenty of shelves/hanging space.The fridge is a very good idea,3 euros a day, great for drinks, meat/cheese for lunchtime sandwiches.The shower is small, but it does what its there for,cold water during the day- yes but with the heat outside,it cools you down.I was glad I choose h/b,you are spoilt for choice for eating places in Roda.Try the Greek food, its a bit dearer,but its lovely. Enjoy the quiz nights especially Mistrals opposite,its great fun.Also a must is the bakery opposite the hotel,just forget calorie counting! The staff on the Hotel desk are also friendly and especially the gentleman who helped me when I couldn't get hold of -after 12 hours of trying-the transfer co.to collect us for our return flight.I left it with him and he got it sorted by 11.30pm for a 2am collection the next morning! Thank You!
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- Date of Holiday:Jul 2008
- Board Basis:Bed & Breakfast
- Tour Operator:on the beach
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Advice: Very friendly, small, very flat suitable for small children and people with disabilities.
Activities: Nikkis Taverna, boat trip to Paxos
Good for: Beach