Blue Bay Deluxe Complex, Ialyssos, Rhodes
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It is highly recommended for all leisure travellers, as well as for families and couples looking for exciting holidays that combine both fun and relaxation. Situated 10km from the city of Rhodes and 2km from Ialyssos on the island's west coast, Due to the location of this property, 4km from the airport, aircraft noise will be heard. loading...
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Blue Bay Deluxe Complex Reviews
" exellent "
Submitted By: blakeboy
I had a great time in the blue bay hotel,lots to do around the complex plenty of activities and the waterpark and beach right on your doorstep.
food was good,and the people were very freindly.
The entertainment at night was more based around the children,but it was fun.
the weather was exellent,we also had a great family room with a great veiw.
We would deffeinitly be back there in the future.
food was good,and the people were very freindly.
The entertainment at night was more based around the children,but it was fun.
the weather was exellent,we also had a great family room with a great veiw.
We would deffeinitly be back there in the future.
Advice: quiet very nice will be back
Activities: Loved the airplane spotting
Good for: Beach
- Date of Holiday:Sep 2009
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:Booked Independently
" Horrible hotel and food. Avoid at all cost. "
Submitted By: orb
We, 2 adults and 2 children, stayed at this hotel booked thru www.youtravel.com for two weeks. Hotel is rated as 5 star and we went for all inclusive. I support all other negative feedback on this site. I would classify the hotel as most as 3 stars.
The food is disgusting, boring, bad quality and little variation. Breakfast and dinner was worst. Breakfast had verry little variation with more or less exactly the same every day; bread, eggs in different forms (scrambled, boiled and what looks like deep fried), tomato beans, pukable sasauges and almost boiled bacon, cheese and bad ham plus cereals. Not once we ate a dinner at the buffet that was really good. I would classify the food as far below Norwegian Cafeteria standard...and that is bad. We talked a lot to numerous other customers from Britain, Belgium, Scandinavia, France, Netherlands and Germanu at the hotel and all had the same oppinion as us: disgusting, boring and very little inviting food.
We tried to get in contact with the manager many times but he or her was never available.
The rooms were really small even we got a "Familiy room". Rooms were dirty and we never got refill of soaps etc.
Overall this hotel stay made our holiday a failure and we feel fooled paying for this hotel. Don't stay at this hotel at no cost. We should have been payed wanting to stay at the hotel. It should be a free hotel because it is crap.
The food is disgusting, boring, bad quality and little variation. Breakfast and dinner was worst. Breakfast had verry little variation with more or less exactly the same every day; bread, eggs in different forms (scrambled, boiled and what looks like deep fried), tomato beans, pukable sasauges and almost boiled bacon, cheese and bad ham plus cereals. Not once we ate a dinner at the buffet that was really good. I would classify the food as far below Norwegian Cafeteria standard...and that is bad. We talked a lot to numerous other customers from Britain, Belgium, Scandinavia, France, Netherlands and Germanu at the hotel and all had the same oppinion as us: disgusting, boring and very little inviting food.
We tried to get in contact with the manager many times but he or her was never available.
The rooms were really small even we got a "Familiy room". Rooms were dirty and we never got refill of soaps etc.
Overall this hotel stay made our holiday a failure and we feel fooled paying for this hotel. Don't stay at this hotel at no cost. We should have been payed wanting to stay at the hotel. It should be a free hotel because it is crap.
Advice: Boring place nothing to see or do
Activities: Rhodos city
- Date of Holiday:Jun 2009
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:www.youtravel.com
" Mixed views "
Submitted By: puddle10
We arrived to a very small family room with the main room sandwiched between the bathroom and second room with no fresh air and no air conditioning working. We tried to speak to the night man about it but he didn't want to know - so we left it and dealt with it in the morning.
The reception staff were really helpful and friendly soon moving us to another more comfortable room.
At the end of the day with this hotel you 'gets what you pays for'. It clearly isn't a 5* for UK standards - but it probably is for Greek standards.
The food left a little to be desired - very rubbery pasta and tastless. And as others have said it's like school canteens to have to queue up for the food. I notice that a lot of people were complaining that the food was luke warm - we read in our little Rhodes Guide that the Greeks tend to eat their food at a tepid tempreture as they think that it digests better.
We booked through a company called Qwerty and they booked the hotel through youtravel.com. We didn't have to pay for the sunbeds on the beach right outside the hotel - but we did pay 3 Euro a day for the sun beds just up from the hotel - they were much more comfortable and totally worth the money. Plus they were slightly away from the hotel so there wasn't much noise.
If you stayed around the pool then there was music constantly played - I personally didn't want that so chose to find another location to read my book and bask in the sun.
At no point do any of the tour operators tell you that the hotel is right in the flight path. I found it hard with the noise at first....but after a couple of days failed to notice it too much. I even slept with the balcony door open and the noise didn't wake me....and I'm a light sleeper!
Although it was an AI resort we didn't like the food much so spent a couple of nights out in Rhodes Old Town dining at a fantastic Indian and Chinese restaurant and would definitely recommend the floating restaurant at the harbour (but be careful as it is fairly pricey - but the food is exquisit!).
All in all an enjoyable holiday - wouldn't return to that hotel again but we made the most of what we had available to us.
The reception staff were really helpful and friendly soon moving us to another more comfortable room.
At the end of the day with this hotel you 'gets what you pays for'. It clearly isn't a 5* for UK standards - but it probably is for Greek standards.
The food left a little to be desired - very rubbery pasta and tastless. And as others have said it's like school canteens to have to queue up for the food. I notice that a lot of people were complaining that the food was luke warm - we read in our little Rhodes Guide that the Greeks tend to eat their food at a tepid tempreture as they think that it digests better.
We booked through a company called Qwerty and they booked the hotel through youtravel.com. We didn't have to pay for the sunbeds on the beach right outside the hotel - but we did pay 3 Euro a day for the sun beds just up from the hotel - they were much more comfortable and totally worth the money. Plus they were slightly away from the hotel so there wasn't much noise.
If you stayed around the pool then there was music constantly played - I personally didn't want that so chose to find another location to read my book and bask in the sun.
At no point do any of the tour operators tell you that the hotel is right in the flight path. I found it hard with the noise at first....but after a couple of days failed to notice it too much. I even slept with the balcony door open and the noise didn't wake me....and I'm a light sleeper!
Although it was an AI resort we didn't like the food much so spent a couple of nights out in Rhodes Old Town dining at a fantastic Indian and Chinese restaurant and would definitely recommend the floating restaurant at the harbour (but be careful as it is fairly pricey - but the food is exquisit!).
All in all an enjoyable holiday - wouldn't return to that hotel again but we made the most of what we had available to us.
- Date of Holiday:Oct 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:Other - Please Specify
" The hotel was very modern and a... "
Submitted By: Miss F Wilson
The hotel was very modern and a perfect location to the beach and nightlife of Marmaris. Also being close, late at night it was a quick and well lit walk to the hotel so we never felt unsafe.
The rooms were decorated purple to cordinate with the rest of the hotel and there was air con and a balcony. The bathroom was also modern with shampoos, etc , a hair dryer and a good powerful shower over bath. The hotel had a hairdressers and jewellers within it. It also had a beauty and spa centre with reasonable prices for treatments. The hotel also had a sauna, steam room, indoor pool, jaquzi and turkish bath. We decided to use the turkish bath there rather than going outside of the hotel. The turkish bath was 45 lira for two people so about £11 each. I would recommend this.
The pool was big and because there is a sister hotel, blue bay apartments/hotel, this hotel seemed to be the child free one. The two pools were separated by a door way from the pool bar into the other pool area and we noticed that the other hotel had more groups of young people and kids splashing around in the pool whereas the Blue Bays deluxe is much more relaxed and has an adult atmosphere.
We went all inclusive at the hotel, we also could use the sauna, steam room, indoor pool, gym at no extra cost. The money we would have spent on drinks if we had not been all inclusive would have been more than what we paid extra to go HB to AI.
The food and restuarant was the hotels biggests let down. The food was catered more towards contiental than English and the food was never hot. The table clothes were always stained and quite often had holes in. Although the food was bad, it wasn't so bad that we had to eat out so it did the job and saved us alot of money to do other things on our holiday. Going all inclusive is always a risk and although I was dissapointed with the cleaniness it wouldn't stop me going back there Ai as it was only about £50 extra for 1 week.
One tip I would give is to take the very least Lira you can, the exhange rate was 2.06 against 1.97 at home and there were so many places taking the pound that you could probably get away with no forgein currency at all! Even Icmeler and Marmaris market stalls took GBP, we found they would price up when they worked out the exchange rate, so you could pay £10 or 25 Lira but it was actually costing us £12.50 = 25 Lira. so you could get things cheaper paying in GBP.
Marmaris as an area is very lively but not too roundy, there was plenty of different types of entertainment on a night time to suit different ages. It also has taxi boats leaving from the beach to take you to Icmeler, turunc and even boat trips to Rhodes!
I would recommend the mud baths at Dalyan ( we booked through Thomas cook for about £40 including dinner, tea, river cruise and a Dalayan hotel until our airport pick up arrived) Dalyan is only 20 minutes from the airport wheres Marmaris is 1 hour 30m. so the departure trip is recommended.
The rooms were decorated purple to cordinate with the rest of the hotel and there was air con and a balcony. The bathroom was also modern with shampoos, etc , a hair dryer and a good powerful shower over bath. The hotel had a hairdressers and jewellers within it. It also had a beauty and spa centre with reasonable prices for treatments. The hotel also had a sauna, steam room, indoor pool, jaquzi and turkish bath. We decided to use the turkish bath there rather than going outside of the hotel. The turkish bath was 45 lira for two people so about £11 each. I would recommend this.
The pool was big and because there is a sister hotel, blue bay apartments/hotel, this hotel seemed to be the child free one. The two pools were separated by a door way from the pool bar into the other pool area and we noticed that the other hotel had more groups of young people and kids splashing around in the pool whereas the Blue Bays deluxe is much more relaxed and has an adult atmosphere.
We went all inclusive at the hotel, we also could use the sauna, steam room, indoor pool, gym at no extra cost. The money we would have spent on drinks if we had not been all inclusive would have been more than what we paid extra to go HB to AI.
The food and restuarant was the hotels biggests let down. The food was catered more towards contiental than English and the food was never hot. The table clothes were always stained and quite often had holes in. Although the food was bad, it wasn't so bad that we had to eat out so it did the job and saved us alot of money to do other things on our holiday. Going all inclusive is always a risk and although I was dissapointed with the cleaniness it wouldn't stop me going back there Ai as it was only about £50 extra for 1 week.
One tip I would give is to take the very least Lira you can, the exhange rate was 2.06 against 1.97 at home and there were so many places taking the pound that you could probably get away with no forgein currency at all! Even Icmeler and Marmaris market stalls took GBP, we found they would price up when they worked out the exchange rate, so you could pay £10 or 25 Lira but it was actually costing us £12.50 = 25 Lira. so you could get things cheaper paying in GBP.
Marmaris as an area is very lively but not too roundy, there was plenty of different types of entertainment on a night time to suit different ages. It also has taxi boats leaving from the beach to take you to Icmeler, turunc and even boat trips to Rhodes!
I would recommend the mud baths at Dalyan ( we booked through Thomas cook for about £40 including dinner, tea, river cruise and a Dalayan hotel until our airport pick up arrived) Dalyan is only 20 minutes from the airport wheres Marmaris is 1 hour 30m. so the departure trip is recommended.
- Date of Holiday:Sep 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:Thomas Cook
" we were a honeymoon party of 13. we... "
Submitted By: Mrs A Schmid
we were a honeymoon party of 13. we were in the flight path which was noisey.the free bar was disgusting, i think it was the dregs that couldnt be used any where else. so if you wanted adrink you had to use the hotel bar (michael & katerina) looked after us very well.apartments were basic but good, maid services was very good. the pool needed alifeguard, too many small children (health & saftey) overgrown kidsdidnt know how to behave in the pool. the resturant ,the food was good plenty of choice (not always to my liking) the only complaint , it was afree for all and reminded me of the school canteen. the surrounding grounds were kept tidy. the issue about the sun beds, ifit all inclusive it means every thing including the sunbeds and it didnt , it was 3 euros a dayx13 a lot of money. one of our party was taken ill and was admitted to hospitel, i can not speak highly enough of the treatment she recieved.
- Date of Holiday:Aug 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:MyTravelfreedom direct
" Stayed here for 1 week with mrs and... "
Submitted By: takeofftim
Stayed here for 1 week with mrs and grandaughter.Never again,hotel was clean enough and staff friendly,especially animation team who never stopped.
But food was diabolical,all food was prepared in the main hotel but cooking for 4 hotels so food was never hot enough or indeed cold enough for the chilled sweets.My grandaughter was taken ill for last 3 days and on return to uk was hospitalised with salmonnela poisoning
However if you want an action packed holiday i would reccomend but stay room only and eat out
But food was diabolical,all food was prepared in the main hotel but cooking for 4 hotels so food was never hot enough or indeed cold enough for the chilled sweets.My grandaughter was taken ill for last 3 days and on return to uk was hospitalised with salmonnela poisoning
However if you want an action packed holiday i would reccomend but stay room only and eat out
- Date of Holiday:Jun 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:Booked Independently
" You travel in my opinion were very... "
Submitted By: Miss H Howes
You travel in my opinion were very helpful! around the main pool you do have to pay for beds, but there are other areas (nice ones) away from the noise etc that you travel tell you about! also you get to sunbath free in the waterpark which is fab for the kids, & the food and drinks is free in the waterpark also but i wouldn't bother with the sandwiches, go back to the hotel for snacks and lunch! this hotel is definately for families, not really couples - but is still great! the cocktail bar inside is really plush therefore you pay for cocktails which is fair enough! the staff are really friendly the the hotel is fab, we were on the top floor facing the sea so if you can specify please do as it's spectacular from up there! the food was great for everyone - there's something for everyone! the staff are so so freindly, the german tourists were the only rude ones! the mini disco and shows are great for the kids and sitting by the sea with the breeze was fantastic, i just wish i'd booked 2 weeks but i'm sure by the summer time it will be heaving with kids ha ha so good luck! the beds arent great but i just lay all the blankets on the mattress - local beer is really good & i found if you put a dash of lemonade in the white wine it tasted lovely! anyway, dont let anyone put you off! if you have kids they will have a blast & so will you! it's not 5* but it's greek 5* the weather is Guarenteed there!
- Date of Holiday:Jun 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:You Travel
" Please Note If you book with... "
Submitted By: Mr S Hayes
Please Note If you book with youtravel.com or any other online company you wont be able to sit round the pool, unless you pay £3 Euro per sun lounger per person. So if you’re a family of 4 be expected to pay £84 Euro for the week! Ive just came back from the Blue Bay deluxe hotel in Rhodes and I certainly wont be staying again. They actually expect ALL-INCLUSIVE to pay to sit round the pool. It’s disgusting! They dont tell you this when you book, so be careful. DONT FALL FOR IT.
The staff is horrible to you. The Manager is an arrogant man. Trust me! He dont want to know when you need help. Our room was small and had bins outside the balcony which attracted cockroaches, which were massive! The rep was only there for 15 mins 2/7 days we stayed there. And she didn’t have a clue. And the food wasn’t great, it tasted like school dinners and gave me, my girlfriend and 7 others a stomach bug! Which made us all ill for 3 days. Also the bar in the hotel doesn’t cater for ALL-INCLUSIVE. You have to pay for the drinks there. All you get is a tiny outside hut, which you have to walk around the pool to get too. There’s 1 beer pump, which you have to cue for. And you get your drinks served in a plastic cup with a cut rim which kids have chewed on, Not a pint glass. A plastic cup! Anyway if any1 has any questions for me about this complex then feel free to email me stevehayes691@hotmail.com. You have been warned about this place, Highlight of the holiday, The weather was great lol and that’s it!
The staff is horrible to you. The Manager is an arrogant man. Trust me! He dont want to know when you need help. Our room was small and had bins outside the balcony which attracted cockroaches, which were massive! The rep was only there for 15 mins 2/7 days we stayed there. And she didn’t have a clue. And the food wasn’t great, it tasted like school dinners and gave me, my girlfriend and 7 others a stomach bug! Which made us all ill for 3 days. Also the bar in the hotel doesn’t cater for ALL-INCLUSIVE. You have to pay for the drinks there. All you get is a tiny outside hut, which you have to walk around the pool to get too. There’s 1 beer pump, which you have to cue for. And you get your drinks served in a plastic cup with a cut rim which kids have chewed on, Not a pint glass. A plastic cup! Anyway if any1 has any questions for me about this complex then feel free to email me stevehayes691@hotmail.com. You have been warned about this place, Highlight of the holiday, The weather was great lol and that’s it!
- Date of Holiday:Jun 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:MyTravel
" Well what a great family holiday... "
Submitted By: Mr J Stainer
Well what a great family holiday perfect for location next to Beach and Waterpark 10 mins from Rhodes town and 15 mins from Airport! My kids are 15,8,5 and the hotel really catered for all ages you get free entey to the Waterpak if you stay Ai at the hotel aswell!
Food was fresh and rooms were basic but clean i could full recomend this to anyone!
Bars, shops and center of resort is short stroll away.
Food was fresh and rooms were basic but clean i could full recomend this to anyone!
Bars, shops and center of resort is short stroll away.
- Date of Holiday:May 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:Yourholidays.com
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The hotel was clean and bright. The maids was always cleaning rooms and changing towels everyday no matter what time you came out of your room in the morning. The food was quite good though I’m a fussy eater there was always something for me. My partner enjoyed it all. There was food available from 7 in the morning to midnight. There was always something to eat even if it was snacks, like cobs and pizza. The only downside, most of the food wasn’t labelled up so you ended up asking the staff what it was and we also found it wasn't hot enough or sometimes not quite cooked. The drinks were plentiful!!!
The staff where pleasant and helpful.
Entertainment for the hotel was brilliant for both adults and children; we hadn’t laughed so much in ages. Everybody was friendly and not pushy.
My partner and I decided to hire a scooter for three days which was also brilliant. It cost 45 Euros for 3days including insurance and was great as we explored the west cost. This we would recommend. We didn’t have to pay for sun beds by the pool or air conditioning as some people mentioned in the reviews. We never got round to the water park.
Overall opinion brilliant and would go back again.
Liz & John
Advice: Lovely place, entertainment brilliant, would recommend to anyone and go back again.
Activities: Exploring the west cost was fabulous and the donkey ride up to the Acropolis in Lindos
Good for: Beach