Cook’s Club Ialysos

Incroyable

Lovely hotel peaceful and surrounded by nature. Shame the pool and loungers get very little sun , so badly designed. Lifts are very small. Disappointed in the food as I booked this hotel as I'm a vegetarian as they offer vegan and vegetarian menus. Ordered the pumpkin curry, NO PUMPKIN, offered sweet potato instead. Ordered the curry again one evening, NO SWEET POTATO! Ran out of sparkling rose wine too. Breakfast was not good. Fried eggs cooked in advance so cold and half cooked. Pastries very dry. Tinned fruit! Staff are lovely, Michael, Savvas, Yanis, Augusta and lovely Mina (she worked so hard). Loved all the cats roaming around at breakfast - cat lovers paradise. Personally I feel the hotel is trying to be the new generation of hotels, but too trendy and not much common sense with the design.

The hotel was spotless througout and at all times as were the rooms with sheets changed every couple of days. Rooms had coffee making facilities, fridge, hair dryer, AC and free of charge in room safe. Beds are comfy (had no problem sleeping). Food - breakfast has plenty of choice (hot and cold) self service. Pool bar has a great selection of food and snacks (pizza, pasta, salads, burgers & gyros plates etc). Main restaurant offerings were of good quality and generally reasonably priced for a hotel of this standard. Drinks - on the negative side there was limited draft beers and tonic was in the main on the flat side although you can pay a small surcharge for premium tonics. Prices reflect the standard of the hotel. Location - realistically it is a 20 min walk to either Lalysos or Kremasti bars and taverns, it is a safe walk to either with illuminated pavements. Although we came right at the end of the season and a lot of taverns had closed, there was no shortage of places to eat in either villages, i would certainly recommend Yanis's in Kremasti (see seoarate review). Transport - we used a mix of transport (Taxi, car rental and bus) all were as expected. Car hire from the hotel (free parking) at comparable prices, taxis at around €20 into and from the main terminal area of Rhodes Town. The buses (which run into Rhodes Town every 15mins or so) are clean and easy to use. UNLIKE other previous reviews i have seen, the buses are contactless payment NOT CASH, we couldn't actually work out the prices as the tickets show €3 each but in checking bank account we were only ever charged less than €1 for two of us (not sure if tourists are subsidised). As i said earlier, we came at the end of the season, there was more than ample sunbeds available at any time of day, the sun would dissappear behind trees at just after 3:00pm. Would we come back - Definitely as the quality of hotel outweighs the walk to most bars and taverns.