Louis Regency Beach Hotel

I stayed in this hotel for 8 days during 31.07.2010-08.08.2010. It is only the first time in my life being disapointed from a hotel. No hotel is perfect but this has gone too far below for hotel of ~150EUR/night for a double room sea view all-inclusive
+ Sea view rooms have definitely great view (but not during the morning hours because of too much heat)
+ Huge variety of food of acceptable quality, especially during dinner hours
+ Friendly staff
- Overcrowded hotel (more than 200 rooms, most of them all-inclusive stay all day long at the hotel facilities)
- Very small pool for a hotel like this - too much people all day
- Hall and room carpets urgently need replacing - at some parts of the hotel they smell bad
- WC cleaning below than acceptable standards
- 2 existing elevators all too hot, they smell bad, and they are very few for a hotel of 99% capacity all day long. At rush hours (breakfast time etc.) they need a little patience
- Room A/C needs working at full extend being too noisy in order to cool the room
- If you have an expensive car don't come with it. There is a small parking of ~15-20 cars and there is some space on the both sides of the central road for another ~20-25 cars. Parking late at night is sometimes difficult
- Room shower is quite cold at some times (e.g. late at night)
- Checking the iberostar hotels worldwide catalog it is by far the oldest & ugliest iberostar hotel

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5 readers found this review helpful

We just got back, The recency Beach hotel was all that we could have hoped for, we were first off the bus from the airport at 10:30pm and, although we were too late for an evening meal food was availible as was drink. The service and meals were excellent as was the maid service and general customer services.
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner were made up of several choices and there was no restriction on how much you ate. It is self service which offered you the chance to try a little of something you may not have had before.
The only gripe I have is the attitued of the guy who appeared to be incharge of the dining hall, he was a bit of a grumpy so and so and had forgotten how to smile. He gave me the third degree over a packed lunch.
If you are British and like your tea or coffee then you would do aswell to take your favorite brand with you as their tea and coffee was.......not to my taste.
There was plenty to do within the complex and the underground access from the hotel to the beach was a real blessing. The beach is stoney so it's worth getting a pair of Neoprene shoes (here they cost about £5 but in the hotel shop they were 7 Euros, about £8.50) The water was warm so we spent many hours swimming, snorkelling and messing around in the water. The fish seemed to have caught on to the holiday makers feeding them with left over bread from lunch, so there are plenty to see and swim with.
There was talk of dolphins in the bay and sure enough on the Tuesday they swam across the bay (4 in total) the two lead Dolphins obliged the crowed with a cross over jump which was really spectacular.
All in all, the £1200 we spent in total on the holiday was money well spent.

2 readers found this review helpful

Just enjoyed two weeks at this hotel.It is a very good all inclusive with food available
all day long.The staff work really hard but still find time to have a few friendly words with guests.Bar staff serve generous measures and its not just because they are after
tips either.Activities and evening entertainment is well organised by a very hard working
animation team of four young people.The waiters and dining room staff operate under
the watchful eye of Andreas the service manager and he does run a tight ship.
He is very charming to the Ladies and treats the gentlemen like old friends with a smile
and joke.If you stay at the Iberostar Regency Beach you may find the following tips
of some use.1There are safes in the bedrooms but you will be charged 20 euros per
week to use them.
2.Be prepared to rise early if you wish to reserve a sun lounger with a brolly.We had
to get out at 6.45am to get ours each day and that sun is really hot at the moment.
3.If you want to see some of the Island you will need to hire a car or the local bus
stops by the hotel,bus timetables are available at reception.
4.You will need beach/water shoes as shingle beach is rough on the feet.
We had a great time and would use this hotel again.

1 reader found this review helpful

On our arrivel at 5.30 am.we were greeted and made very welcome fome the moment we arrived. Feeling very tired nothing was to much,we were helped with our cases and shown to our rooms. The rooms were very clean and air conditioned. Throughout our stay at this fantastic hotel (7 days) we come to under stand what fine living was all about.The care that was shown to us was second to known,i can not express enough how brillent the staff are myself and my wife and three girls had a dream come true on this holiday. thank you big time REGENCY BEACH HOTEL.

2 readers found this review helpful

we found the hotel very good the food was excellent the rooms were very clean ,and the staff very friendly the entertainment could have been better .Its not for anyone with walking difficulties as theres a lot of steps buses run every quite regular to other towns we enjoyed going to moratika and benitses.I dont think we would go back to hotel as its to far away from other towns but we had a very enjoyable holiday

1 reader found this review helpful

This was simply the best hotel I have ever been to.
The rooms, and indeed the whole hotel was spotlessly clean. So the furniture might not be bang up to date but its functional and anyone moaning about it should look round there own homes. Unless they go to Ikea every year and re modernize they'll have older stuff too!
The staff were all very friendly and accommodating, they couldn't do enough for their guests, whatever time of day or night. No exceptions. (Indeed every evening the restaurant manager mucked in with the rest of his staff, setting tables, waiting on guests, and still found a smile and greeting for other guests).
The location was breathtaking. We’d read on other forums about the wasps but don’t let them bother you they aren’t in the least threatening. They were not aggressive and no one got stung at all the week we were there.
My partner is in pest control and like he pointed out the hotel couldn’t have done anything about them unless they burned all the trees and shrubs that surrounded the hotel which wouldn’t be an option!
All in all 10 out of 10. Would recommend it to everyone.

2 readers found this review helpful

We arrived at the beginning of the season and we were pleasantly impressed with the hotel and surrounding area, the beginning of May is a very quiet period for Corfu but quickly starts to fill up by the end of the first week
The hotel itself is very convenient for families, free food and free alcohol, what more could you ask for, every night there was entertainment for both the adults and kids whereas I found it a perfect opportunity for parents to let off steam with countless amounts of alcohol whilst their kids ran riot, I found the hotel hardly ideal for young couples but more than satisfactory for families
You defiantly need a car otherwise you will go mad, the roads are not ideal to walk on whilst the hotel only offers basic facilities to keep yourself amused, the main attributes of this hotel is the "food", the snacks is very basic with bland sandwiches and sausage rolls with reheated pizza, the diversity of food for the main meals is surprisingly good and I could not fault the service either!
The rooms are not what you would expect from a 4* +, they are very basic with woodchip wallpaper and white paint whilst the furniture looks as if it has been repainted to colour co ordinate, I found the smell of sewage very disconcerting whenever I walked out of the room into the main.
Don’t be fooled by the all inclusive part of the holiday as everybody is all inclusive meaning rat races for the 3 main meals and snacks whilst the alcohol is not branded and you have to pay for the premium beer
It cost us £600 for 2 of us to stay there which is very cheap imo [including flights], I can’t really moan cos we got more than what we paid for but I find the hotel more a 3* than 4*+

1 reader found this review helpful

Newly refurbished for 2005
Great value for food and accommodation If you can eat and drink better, let me know! Slightly remote site but not so much bustle or noise.
Can bus or taxi to other towns. Recommend boat trip to mainland, all day, 20 euros.

1 reader found this review helpful

A perfect setting for a wonderful holiday, rooms very small but the location was perfect our 25th anniversary in the Shirley Valentine hotel was everything we wished for.
The beach was on the doorstep and the salt-water pool was ideal for just floating.
The actual year we were in this hotel was 2002 but we have been back to this wonderful island every year ever since, we are going back again in September staying in the Rochari studios in the same resort so we hope all will be well.