Hotel Maria Rousse

Can't fault it!! would recommend this to anyone - group of 4 girls, had the best week, felt safe, clean accomodation, friendly staff, perfect location - do it!

I stayed at the Maria Rousse Sept 2010 with my boyfriend, the apartments are in a good location only few minutes walk to the top of the strip but still out of the way if you wanted a quiet night. The rooms were basic but clean, only downfall was you had to pay for air conditioning and they only provided you with one toilet roll! The pool and bar area were nice and the staff were all very friendly, the food at the pool bar was lovely, drinks were abit pricey though. It is quite a walk to the beach so only went there a couple of days, overall was a fab holiday :-)

Maria Rousse, quite a small complex but very clean, The pool isnt very big and can get quite crowded, but you can still sunbathe on a lilo quite easily. The rooms were plain and clean, I was very impressed with the cleaners, they were very good and came every other day. There are computers, for internet access which i found to be very helpful to use up our time whilst waiting to go to the airport on our last night. The food wasnt brilliant, but it wasnt expensive. The drinks are reasonably priced also. All in all i had a great holiday with my 2 girl mates, and the hotel was worth the money we paid, However, considering we were in Malia, the hotel owner and security moaned at us every night!!! we were given a warning on our 3rd night and threatened with eviction if we made any more noise, I found this put a real dampener and a worry on my holiday, I wouldnt mind but we werent even loud!!! We were told off for just sitting chatting in our room. The owner was a complete moaner and to think he has a hotel in Malia (one of the rowdiest and loudest places in greece) is ridiculous. He was far to strict and moaned all the time, he expected silence at night, the complex is for 18 to 30's and he runs it like it should be for pensioners, I would stay at maria rousse again only if they lightened up a bit, as everything else about the place was fine.

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Stayed at this hotel with 11 other lads aged 20/21 in July 2010 for 1 week. Such a nice hotel! George the owner is a legend!! The pool is wicked, the rooms are nice and seemed to cleaned almost every day! The food in the hotel is tasty and reasonably priced. This hotel is located at the top of the strip, literally 4 minute walk away from the start of the bars! There is a shop selling all the essentials for the room; toilet paper, cigarettes, bottles of water, and of course alcohol! Would 100% recommend this hotel to anybody looking to stay in Malia for a lads holiday. We were able to drink on the balcony on our rooms until midnight, and at that point we would head to the strip where the bars would be filling up nicely. So worked out perfectly. Overall, this hotel made our holiday all that more enjoyable. Thanks to all the staff!

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Me and my sister arranged a holiday june this year. due to being messed around with our original hotel we ended up sourcing out self catering accomidation and found maria studios...
this place is clean, welcoming, so close to the stip of malia but slightley out of the way so if you decide you want an early night you can. 2 min walk in fact...
the owners are lovely and the rooms are bright and cleaned every other day. you have a little shop just opposite the complex but plenty more on the strip.
food/drink prices avarage, but very nice.
you have to buy bottled water from their bar and only drink/eat their stuff around the pool, but this wasn;t so much of a problem as we just went back to the room.
they have a security guard, he is very friendly and is on the look out on you way back after a night out for trouble. this made us feel safe.
the aircon was rather expensive but we didn't bother getting it....
bugs weren't too much of a problem
they have internet, tv, pool table
but all in all, i would defaintly go back here and recomend this place to anyone. after looking and other places on the strip this was luxary, and probably had the biggest pool.
the other hotels were off the back of pubs and had tiny pool, toilets, and looked very run down.
so i vote here!!!! you won't be disapointed

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I saw brilliant reviews before leaving for The Maria Rousse, and right they where! The hotel owners are lovely! Security guard Michael was amazing! The place was soo clean and well maintained. If u think u will need more toilet paper than one roll, take another, as thats all they will issue you with. It was a ten or fifteen min walk from the beach which cudav been closer but all the hotels near the beach are no where near as nice! My friends stayed at the Vagelis which is on the Malia strip and it was pants compared to where me and two other gf's stayed! All three of us stayed in room 411 which was very spacious considering 3 ppl stayed ther! All the ppl we met ther where great! I will be going back next year. The club rep was a bit wierd thou and will try to entice you on to excursions bu the only one worth doing is the booze cruise. Although i did not enjoy the booze cruise.. as i was prity sober, everyone else on the catermeran did! So if u go on one take your own drink its much cheaper. The location of the Hotel is a two minute walk off of the strip so very close, bu not so close that u have drunks surrounding the hotel the entire night which cudnt have been more perfect. Pool was ALWAYS very clean, no bugs or anything! We spilt a drink on our balcony which attracted ants, the cleaners got straight onto it and we didnt see another bug! Pool bar served lovely food! Fry up for 3euro's 50, so its not even worth staying in and cooking. I WOULD HIGHLY RECOMEND THIS HOTEL.

class hotel and the owner is a top bloke and the staff if you go to the bar ask for a chrissy drink they will no what you are on about they named it after me cos i drank more than 30 in two days!! get 1 they are nice and refreshing and they dont go cold like the mythos

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wellll...what a week, 7 dayssss. 10 days would have been PERFECT!! not a bad word to say about the maria rousse. the owners are such a great family and work hard on keepin the place and as safe clean and satisfying as possible whilst being soo so freindly. lads dont seem to get on oooo well with the secuity guard ... thats onli cus hes a little strict when birngin other people back..but the man is always on a mission..so BEWARE, he knows. jus be shnidey ;) us 8 girls (17) got there at ridiculus o clok say about 4ish...onli to find a room which was ment to be for 3,..for 2...but tht was soon sorted when sum laggin boy (dave the rave) stole us a sunbed, which my friend happily slept on the wohle holiday wih no fuss cus movin would mean mine an our mates rooms wouldnt be next to each other. we were at the back section with just our 2 rooms up a set of stairs and our balconys where asically next to each other, although we had 2 =] couldnt of been more perfect. the reception was not open when we got their to sort our room, it was onli the security guard to try to help but you get what you pay for ayyy..deal with it. the security their was top notch =](such as the safe and the owners looked after passports)..the air con was goooodd!RECOMENDED the food, FAB, the drinks, cant fault. durin the day the maria rouse was imence. such banter...music and w.e around the pool. alot of room to put your sunbed whereever, or play pool or chill on the net. its all good. its in such a perfect place...it ent a far walk at all to the TOP of the strip but its still compltly away from anione else such as being woke up and ranoms strollin in during the day. theirs a shop like a 10 second walk...which do phone cards. as we went with olypic holiday, we got the chance to chose from 5 things such as, Beach party, Water park, booze cruise, school disco and bar cruel. Highly! recomend the booze cruise, beach party and water park. it gives you the chance to see more of the island and even tho they want u to get as ****** as a fart...the laugh is great. we paid 99 euros for all 3 but you can do just one or all 5 an their on certain days but it fit in perfect, transport i arranged an your well looked after, the coach trips are funi as hell with all the chants goin on. only word of warning on a night on the strip, is the 'cute' children...they ent that cute!, they may be tryin to sell, but thy got other triks up their sleeve. an girls as it is everiwhere, watch ur drinks, you dont want to have to suffer by stayin in a nite lyk a bore-off...but but keep ur senisible head on whilst still knockin back the mixers. the sambuka over their tastes and smells lyk petrol :| the pr's are onli duin their job..bein ANNOYIN, but just stil be polite its their job...jus split up wen you go past the first few bars cus u need to head to the main area like (apollo, bannanas, 69, zig zag. cus they onli go for the big groups, 2z an 3z thy dnt bother. recomend a nite in the factory, its hilarious with the stripin comps and the other games goin on. just let loose an get on stage! the journey home was depresing....the airport was a rite mess and cock up, manchester and bham in the same que to put luggage on :S, and you had to que outside to get in a que inside. next thing we new our names where being called out over the telecom askin where we was so we jus had to go to the front of the que of manchester. it was such a mess and rush it didnt feel rite at all. no time to sit down. i do recommend to pay the extra to get their in the day and fly back at a decent time, we left our rooms at 11 am and jus had to hang around unil 2 am in the morning, thts the onli main regret. but yea overall i would onli go back to malia to the maria rouse...no where else!!! seriously is the place to be!!! deffo will return!!! and can not wait!!!! its been nearly a year and still miss it imensly. will go for 2 weeks next tym!!

Hotel was clean with good size rooms. shame about having to pay 4 air con. cleaners didnt mind what you was doing in the room and would continue cleaning - good / bad points to that. Sausage bagget from the bar is a must.
Dont jump or be pushed in the swimming pool after close as ul be banded and probally burn abit. also dont loose a towel or leave it in someone elses room as they are bit pricey.
Eliot the secruity guard was a ledgend, began the holiday being strict but after a very long night with phil he changed to aid us in finding malts late at night. A backbone in us conkering malia! if you want to find him late at night just shout "elliot" or "baton" and he will promptly arrive at your door!

A Relaxed and friendly hotel, well maintained and excetptionally clean. nice distance from the main strip, near witout being subject to any of the noise when sleeping!!
Comfortable and definately afordable with lovely poolside meals. i would love to go back!