Doreta Beach Hotel

We have been going to the Doreta for the last 8 years and we have booked up for this year as well, and you might be asking why?
Well, forget all the bad comments on the hotel because listen to people who know!! We think the hotel is outstanding, brilliant, and wonderful and everything we would want to enjoy our 2-week holiday.
The food is great (and varied), the staff are friendly, the rooms and just what is needed for sleeping in, the entertainment might not be up to scratch but it is still good (especially the day time entertainment)! The day is filled with fun, games, food and as much beer as you like if you are all inclusive!!! The activities for the day include football, basketball, golf, pool games, quizzes and much more!
Outside the hotel are shops, bars, restaurants, bus stops, and taxi ranks! Rhodes town is a very cheep bus or taxi ride away! Doreta is best for families and a very great place to go to have a great time!

We stayed between July 10th and 18th.
This hotel is for families with children and not for couples as we were told.
On the down side:
Boring food
Noisey kids
Bingo!!! - in Greece!!
Basic rooms
Not the most helpful staff
On the plus side:
Good pool
Nice beach although part shingle.
Rhodes a beutiful island Rhodes town is great- good bars and restaurants very nice people (10kms from Tholos though)
This is Doreta Butlins!!!!

Me Joan and my friend Mary where we been there, we can say that our stay at the hotel was thoroughly enjoyable. The rooms were always clean and there was a wide selection of food to suit everyone’s tastes.
There was a vast range of facilities for the whole us and families. The staff were very friendly especially the bar tenders where there were gorgeous too, and especially Dimitris the manager of then pool bar for night staff. If you go there please give him a kiss from me Joan. Thank you and have nice holidays!!!!

We booked this holiday - last minute through teletext holidays - for a bargain. I went with my husband and two young children (4 and 1). We have had a fabulous family holiday. The hotel is definitely more 3* than 4* - but the rooms are fine and everything is clean (foyer, public areas, poolside etc) and staff really friendly.
The food was a little bit too British for us - we wanted to try some Greek food, and managed to do that by spending a little time in our hire car (75 euros for three days! fab) exploring the island.
The pool is fantastic and the kids had a great time (although the big pool is quite deep with no shallow end for smaller kids) and the endless free (AI) ice creams, colas and beers were great. The snack bar was also handy for the kids as they were able to get toasties and chips throughout the day.
At night the entertainment is a bit mad (not really my cup of tea) but again my 4 year old loved the junior disco and by the end of the hols knew all the moves to all the songs. If evening entertainment (i.e. bingo) is not your thing then you can always escape to the pool bar and enjoy the quiet there - or a game of pool in the games room near the pool bar.
This is most definitely a family hotel and not somewhere I would go for a couples holiday - but as we were having a family holiday it was perfect. There are lots of kids of all ages, nice hotel, friendly staff, nice food and fab pool (with pool bar). If you are adventurous you can go to the beach and swim in the sea - there is also a lovely breeze on this side of the island so you don’t feel like you are baking.
Day trip to Symi is a must - and if you hire a car, Tsampiki beach, Lindos and Rhodes town are must sees too. All in all I’d rate 7 out of 10 for the hotel and 10 out of 10 for a fantastic holiday.

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Great 2 weeks in the sun. Beautiful hotel, rooms were always clean and staff were always very friendly.

Only negative we found was last orders at 10.45 at the bar. Once the bar closes at 11.00pm - there is not much else to do in Tholos. Only nightclub in the resort was full of under 16s.
Great family resort. Good location for a relaxing holiday in the Sun.
Entertainment team were always there to put a smile on our faces - good family games and kiddies disco!

I have been to this hotel and the food is very nice, the rooms are very comfortable and the air conditioning is very nice and refreshing. The hotel is practically on the beach, the Mediterranean Sea and views are beautiful, the whole experience was brilliant. If you choose to go you have to watch the sunset and make sure to capture it on a camera. Also the waiters and bar tenders are very helpful and polite.

The Hotel itself was clean, Food to a reasonable standard, Entertainment well seen a lot better. Pool area nice but deep so you were unable to play or stand in most parts. Plenty of area to sunbath and some nice quiet spots on the grass. The hotel leads straight onto its own beach area. The bad points Situated in a village where if you walk up the road or down the road about 300yds that’s it. there are a few shops and car hire places. The hotel is good for people who spend all their time at the hotel but not the best place to tour from. I found the staff very helpful. All the safe boxes are situated behind reception and that is manned 24hrs a day. Wasps yes that his a problem but we do not help ourselves by putting rubbish in closed bins instead of the small bins they provided. People must beware that a 4 star hotel in Greece is not to the same standard as Spain, Canaries etc.
I must admit other than the entertainment and the isolation of the hotel I would have rated the hotel a lot higher.

Stayed in this hotel last year and found it to be good value for money. It is a bit out of the way but has a few good bars/restaurants close by.
Unfortunately my daughter was taken quite ill while we were there (nothing to do with the hotel) but the staff were really helpful in arranging a doctor every day and 2 hospital visits.
Only two little complaints; there are no shallow parts in the pool so no good for kids I have a 11 year old son who can swim quite well but you could never relax while he was in their and you are on the flight path from the local airport, but you soon get use to this. All in all a good place for a quite holiday.

We have been to the Doreta Beach Hotel 7 times and are booked to go again next July. For a family wanting a peaceful, relaxed and safe holiday without neon lights and all night discos this hotel and resort is the place to go! The Doreta is the largest hotel on the west coast of Rhodes but only 5 storeys high. The hotel is extremely well equipped and maintained and the vast grounds are a delight. Although the beach is described in a lot of brochures as being mainly shingle, it is in fact more sand with large pebbled areas. This doesn't detract from it being a suitable beach for children.
We have stayed on various floors over the years to the front, side and rear of the hotel and never had cause to complain. The rooms are extremely clean with maid service and towels changed every day.
The staff are wonderful and many of them are there year after year and will remember you! They are all very friendly, polite and always immaculately turned out in their various uniforms.
The hotel, fortunately, operates a strict dress code in the restaurant - no bare midriffs or bikini tops for ladies and gentlemen are required to wear long trousers when dining in the evening - keeps everybody looking as presentable as the staff.
We cannot rate this hotel highly enough and the tavernas and restaurants on the main road on which the hotel sits are also well worth a visit, particularly Billy's bar and Mike's restaurant.

Fantastic hotel with very friendly staff only too willing to help where possible. A little noise from the planes taking off and landing at the nearby Rhodes airport but the noise seems to disappear after a very short time of being there.
Great location for both families and couples, the pool is large and has plenty of sun loungers and with the bar being situated between the beach and the pool its ideally situated for getting all the ice cream, water or beer that you could possibly need through the day.
Free use of pedaloes and canoes and a day trip to Rhodes old town on the local bus is definitely worth the experience along with a trip to the water park in Faliraki. We went at the very end of September/early October and the weather was still very warm if a little breezy.
We will definitely return there and its wet our appetite to visit other Islands and locations in and around Rhodes.