Hotel Plaka Reviews

Allocation on arrivals are always a risk but never had one as bad as this!!!

Very frosty reception on arrival,but did ask us to join them for a wellcome drink,when we had got settled.
One small can of Heinikan later and with no bottled beers or draught beers served here we were starting to worry.
Yes rooms are basic,shower brill in our room ,but no hot water after 6pm .
Views very pretty at night over bay all lite up, but we were very disappointed in Samos Town night life,no really nice cosy bars,or restarants by the sea,unless you get a taxi out of the town.
Breakfast is a set menu with no room for diversefaction,not good for us veggies,
so after 2 days of bread and butter we stop going,shame cos we missed some one requesting more butter and things turned nasty.

Don't ever ever take food round the pool even if you are a guest and have paid for the privelage and paid for drinks from the bar ,we wittnessed one couple being treated like naughty school children for eating 1 apple yes apple !!!

The workmen moved in ater two days to dig up the road and you had to negotiate a plank to gain access to the hotel for the rest of the week ,this was something to do with the drains which could account for my altercation with a rather large Rat on my balcony one sunny evening whilst enjoying the sunset(not after that I didn't.
It wasn't so much the resort but the family that run the Hotel its self (not Greek by the way) one was particulary rude when i asked for a sandwich but not toasted and her reply was what the hell was that going to taste like because the bread was frozen ,we never ate there or stayed roung the pool again,(I think they got he message)

My advise as I could go on and on is dont bother with this Hotel ,Samos Town worth a visit ,Koukkari the place to go for beach and bar life and cannot wait to stay there we are looking to book as I speak.

Our first time to a Greek island and believe we chose well. Bumpy landing - rather windy day. Warm welcome at hotel which appeared to cool as the week progressed.

Room basic but clean - what you'd expect for a 2** - but a radio would have been nice. View from balcony fabulous though. We were right opposite Hotel Samos and where the big boats came in so always something to look at.

Moussaka first night at hotel very nice. Walked down to town afterwards and hired a scooter - great fun - but perhaps should have walked a bit further on and hired one with a bigger engine. Dave has a full motorbike license so could have hired more than a 50cc which would have got us up the hills a bit quicker!

First day was to Kokkari - lovely. Most of the beaches we visited were pebbly but fine by us cos didn't have any sand to remove from places you didn't want it. Taverna great value - 5 euro for 2 chairs and brolly also included a beer or a coffee. Windy first day - of course we weren't getting burnt cos it was windy!!??
Make sure you walk up the hill at the end of the harbour else you might miss that pretty bit that goes on the postcards!

Pythagoria - so cosmopolitan. Would chose to stay here next time cos so lovely to walk round at night. Samos town was really nice to but I do like to be beside the water and sitting just feet away from a lovely harbour here and at Kokkari at night was fabulous.

Samos town - To begin with didn't think we find many restaurants cos on the front and Lion Square are mainly cafes who sell chip meals and snacks but a walk round the back streets and you'll find quite a few.

Meal at Alvi first night was my best of the week. Garden Restautant lovely too - in fact all food was just great. Christos (or something like that)in an alleyway worth a visit. The owner (Yanni) took us in to the kitchen to show us the food - not something we see much of here. Well worth the walk up the steps to Steps Taverna - beautiful view over the bay and food pretty good too.
All were such good value.

Visited Pythagoras' Cave. Make sure you have plenty of water and stamina - we never made it to the cave just the chapel!

Booked out own trip to Kusadasi for the day. Good experience. Didn't go to Ephesus and should have. Was so hot just wanted to stay out of the heat but someone on the boat home said there was a breeze there so wished we had. Bazaars are a nightmare and really turned us off Turkey. Kebab was nice that we had tho' so was the icecream and milk pudding shop we experienced - lovely puddings.


Feel we have only touched the surface of Samos and will definitely return (altho not the The Plaka). Thomson Small and Friendly was good and met some great people.

Our experience although just a week has got us truly hooked on Greece.