Pyli Bay Reviews

Having booked through the internet with an independant tour operator, last minute, we felt we got a very good deal £723 all inclusive for 2 adults and 1 child. The flights were on a Thomas Cook flight, private transfers and a 3* hotel.

The Pyli Bay Hotel is a very nice hotel. There is an older part and this year they have doubled the accommodation by opening a new complex along side the old one. The new complex has its own pool area with sunbeds and the rooms are very clean with air con and a ceiling fan, very useful as the temps were in the 30's.The rooms are cleaned daily with fresh towels and the beds made, even nightclothes left laying, neatly fanned on the bed.The only thing that lets this hotel down is the food.

We were one of only 3 English families in the hotel, which has 210 rooms.Being from a nation that likes is chips, we had them only once the whole week.The food is definately geared towards the Germans and Scandinavians, who made up the majority of guests.The food was awful, breakfast foods hashed in to lunch meals and lunch meals hashed into something for dinner.You can get drinks all day from 10.30am to 11.30pm with the all inclusive, but there is only tea and coffe available mid afternoon with cake,biscuits and icecream 4-5pm,out side of these times you had to pay for ta or coffee, unlike all inclusive deals i have been on before.Mamaris its self is quiet with a few bars and shops,Best to try to get the bus to nearby Tingaki or Kos Town.The beach is sandy and clean, good for swimming and snorkling.

Entertainment at the hotel was one night of live music,one guy and his keyboard!other than this there is no entertainment in the evenings.The fitness centre, as advertised, the machines were all broken, unsupervised and small children trying to lift wights, the pool table has also seen better days!
Having joined with the two other English families we went to eat out most days, after first viewing what food was on offer.We spent a fortune on food.

But all in all the weather was heavenly, the company brill and we arrived home today tanned and relaxed,,,and a few euro's poorer.

marmari is a VERY quiet resort with not much to do!!!

surrounded by dry grassy-ish fields!! although very quiet the people are VERY friendly, especially in one of the two pubs, alexanders!! although the hotel we were staying in was all inclusive, we went there every night, the bar man and bar maid will do anything for you and were always there to offer suggestions of where to go etc, they also have two friends that appear at around 11, two ducks!!! who were there every night guaranteed!! the other pub, memories is good but both pubs definatly try their hardiest for it being such a quiet resort and the cocktails are lovely!!! there is 3 small supermarkets that sell holiday essentials and an alnight paper shop, again the guy in there was very friendly.

marmari beach is lovely the sea is clear and very clean, the sun loungers started at 5 euros for 2 sun loungers but once the guy recognises you and if you mention you had been there already he will give you them for 2.
marmari is only 20 mins drive away from kos town and the busses are pretty regular!! however dont go by the timetable, its not exactly accurate!! and the busses get VERY hot so remember a bottle of water!!
not sure about the other resorts but marmari is FULL of mozzies!!! REMEMBER to bring STRONG insect repelent, i was using it and still got bitten every where!!

pyli bay is a largish hotel, very clean and the staff were friendly enough, didnt go out of their way to be best of friends but were on hand when needed. when i read about it and was told it would be all inclusive i expected it to be, well all inclusive, this isnt the case though and its only selected local drinks and there is only the set meal times, nothing in between apart from cookies an ice cream. food is delicious!!! lots and lots of it and and really well made!

breakfast isnt great as its catering mostly for the germans!!! so we tended to miss that out, my boyfriend did start to get fed up of the meals but you couldnt complain that the food wasnt nice. Not much for young children and what there was, was repeated every day.the hotel pool is very clean and has a small childrens pool seperate from the large one, quite deep at one end and not too cold. we found you had to be up very early to get a sun lounger and even if they were all taken most people never turned up, which could be annoying. the crazy golf is rubbish, but the childrens area is ok.

the rooms were lovely and clean and cleaned every day, lined changed every other day, there isnt a sound system as stated and the tv is mostly german channels. bathroom is clean and has a bath and proper shower which many greek hotels dont have. balcony is space-ish. rooms get VERY hot at night and although there is air-con is doesnt work well and only comes on at selected times.

all in all i enjoyed my stay in kos, surrounding resorts are lovely, marmari is just too quiet although i would visit it for the beach. one thing to note is that it is where a lot of germans go, all the locals speak german and its very much catered for german people, oh and dont be fooled by the volcanoe trip! VERY dissapointing and a waste of money.