The integrated mini market was expensive, and bringing food from outside of the hotel is not permitted, not that it stopped us, just dont walk past reception ;-)

The receptionists were helpful and friendly if not abrupt sometimes, I was also reminded about the food policy on one occasion. Safety deposit boxes and safes can be purchased at €40 for 2 weeks.

The breakfast is continental, runs from 8 - 10am (they hate you rolling up at the last minute, expect a frosty reception) which means there are no cooked items. Generally cereal, bread, ham, cheese, boiled eggs, yoghurt, tea, coffee and orange squash (yes, watered down juice).

There is no communal room upon checking out of the hotel. Your hotel room can be retained for late checkout at €40, this is non negotiable and I thought quite expensive, depends if you can hack the annoyance of waiting for a late flight or not.

On further annoyance I felt was the groups of teenagers who would mix both during the day and especially in the evening, by parents who cant be bothered to entertain them, so inevitably they resort to alcohol and stupidity. Expect this here, related to the wafer thin walls all noise will be apparent. I'll give the night porter credit though for resolving the distubances, however dont expect any assistance from the TC Holiday rep who sat in reception for a number of hours each day doing absolutely nothing!

Hope this report assists, I was keen to write an unbiased summary which reflected the true position on the hotel. Not to discuss the overall holiday and rank the hotel excellent in all manners when clearly it is not.

Had an excellent holiday though, Tsilivi is a very nice resort, no British louts ;-)

Hotel consisted of 700 rooms, 3 large pools, integrated mini market and 25 metres from the Beach in a prominent position within Tsilivi.

Rooms are of a good size, with bath and shower over, decent water pressure. Rooms have air conditioning facilities, however it is a requirement for all English visitors to leave a €50 deposit for the remote control, so ensure you have sufficient float in your holiday budget for this.

Odd tradition from the Greeks to not have shower head brackets, which caused regular annoyance when trying to shower, in addition ensure you get yours in early during the day as after 7pm expect a cold one. Our room had an excellent sea view, however was positioned right in the centre of a block, on the middle floor. This meant that our room was surrounded by other rooms which resulted in an unbelievable amount of noise, mainly from the room above which was inhabited by an inconsiderate heard of elephants.

The overall cleaniness of the room was below average, a poor effort by the cleaners most days. We also had to leave our towels in the middle of the floor on one occasion to prompt the change of the towels.

The pool was excellent but I felt it could be a lot cleaner, the duration of our stay saw the spa facility not working.

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