Hillside Apartments

What a joke!
My first and last "Girlie" holiday. Nothing to do with the company I was keeping, the place was a dirty, smelly, dive of an "apartment complex".
We got there at 6am and got introduced to our "room". It was literally next door to the big bins. We had two big cockerels that lived outside our door, that’s unless we opened it and then they came in and messed everywhere, and I mean number 2's! Once they were in, there was no getting rid of them either, I didn't need to take my alarm clock after all!
This wasn’t a room fit for them to live in never mind us.
We saw the maid half an hour after we got there the 1st day, for some reason they decided our clean bedding needed changing when we got there. That was the last we so of her! Oh I do apologise, she came again the day after, when we were fast asleep and let herself in, we went mad and told her to go.
The pool area was ok when we were there, but between mama hillside, the little scratty looking dog. Oh and lets not forget the baby chickens, which lived on the counter in the shop "mini-mart" Ha! Ha! If you have ever been there you will know why I am laughing, to put it bluntly it was a rip off, dirty, dingy shop.
The whole place was dirty, the only plus of the whole week was the beautiful weather.
For the last 2 days I was ill, just thinking I must have had a bit of sun stroke, i just slept constantly. We had a 12hr wait till we got our lift to airport and all i did was sleep on our cases in the room they provided for everyone to store there belongings.
You could guarantee "every night" we would have to try and get ready in the dark because the electric went on the whole hillside apartment. We thought it was funny at first but not after a while.
I came home with a virus called "Quincy." I got home to my partner on the Saturday, ended up in hospital by Sunday night on 2 drips for 3 days and 3 nights, couldn’t eat, drink, swallow, nothing.
It was supposed to be the holiday I’ve always dreamed off, I left my partner at home with our children expecting to have the time of my life, relax, not worrying about normal life and let my hair down. All I did was spend way too much money, mostly on taxi's to get from a to b because there was no way 2 females could walk back and forth from there, it was to dark and dangerous, hardly any street lights, no side to walk on, so cars were just flying round corners or should I say taxis.
All I can say is we got ripped off totally, I was gutted and when I ended up having to have another week of work due to being hospitalized it just summed it all up.
Good luck! That’s for any-one who has booked to stay there or is thinking about it, we didn’t book it because it was cheap, (I don't call over £300 each, for 1 week cheap would you?) it was because it was the only holiday available at the time.

I can only describe this place as SHOCKING! When we booked we were told it was a 5 minute walk to the beach & a 10 minute walk to the town centre. We were in fact nowhere near either!. It was at least a 25 minute walk into the town & over 30 minutes to the beach.
The complex itself was an absolute DUMP. The rooms were disgusting, tiny and basic. The door to the apartment was loose & wouldn't shut properly. We reported this on day 1 but it was never fixed. The balcony door lock was also broken & had been replaced with a small latch which could be opened up from the outside- Very secure!!.
There were no safes in the rooms, only a small safety deposit box in the shop, which you could only get to during the shops opening hours!!! When we had our introduction on the first morning we were told that the woman who runs the shop would give us a 'special price'..........I'd have dreaded to see the normal prices!
She charged 1 euro for a bottle of water which was 30 cents at the supermarket at the bottom of the road. We were also told that we had to buy all our food & drink on the complex due to tax laws and we mustn't bring anything back from the outside- Any excuse to get more money out of us!!

On the back of every door there was a price list telling you the cost of replacing broken/lost items in your room. These were so far out it was a beyond a joke. It said that if you lost your key it was 5 euros to replace it. 3 people I knew lost their keys & were told unless they handed over 60 euros they would not get back in their rooms.
Another lad got a bit of blood on the sheet and had to hand over 60 euros even though it was listed as 14 euros for a clean sheet. The maids turned up once in the whole time we were there. They emptied the bins. Threw all my mates wet clothes in my suitcase, changed the sheets & went. They refused to clean anything up (Maids that refuse to clean...new one on me!).
On our neighbours last night they had a food fight and threw spag bol everywhere, including our balcony- the maids wanted us to pay 60 euros to clean it up...even though they knew we didn't make the mess!
The pool was never cleaned in all the time we were there. Towards the end of the week you couldn't actually see the bottom of it! Most people ended up with ear infections which were put down to the dirty pool.
The only good thing about the whole holiday were the people we met. If we hadn't have met them I really don't think we would have lasted the week!
All in the place is a DIRTY, UNHYGENIC DUMP & I would never go back there again. Faliraki is great for young people but the Hillside Apartments are just DISGUSTING.