Sandy Maria Hotel - (Accommodation in Tsilivi)
If you are thinking of staying at the Santy Maria Apartments in Tsilivi... DON'T!!!!!! Unless you would like to stay in dirty, smelly rooms, get short-changed by Spiros the barman and have your privacy invaded on a regular basis.
From the outside, everything looks really nice, however upon closer inspection, it was not. The bed frame in our apartment was falling apart, the mattress was wet, stained and ripped and the supposed 'clean' sheets were blood-stained and had cigarette burns and rips in. During our 2 week stay, the floors and units were never cleaned and the bin was not emptied every day (as the room itinerary states.) There were also faulty electric sockets in both rooms.
Ignore the opening hours for the pool bar as they regularly do not apply, especially after the bar staff had been up late the night before. The choice of food on offer at the pool bar was purely English food, except for the only item of Greek food... a Greek salad. For an excellent breakfast, go to Popeye's (roughly 10 min walk to Tsilivi), not only is it value for money, but there is also friendly service, which is more than can be said for the staff at Santy Maria. We felt that they were only interested in you as long as you were spending money. We also witnessed that as there was no set price for fan hire in the itinerary, the bar staff were charging different rates to different people.
The Santy Maria Apartments could be excellent accommodation if it was given a lot of TLC.
- --Psarapoula Lemon Tree - (Restaurants in Alykanas)
If you love the traditional atmosphere of Greece, then this is the restaurant for you!!!!! After experiencing the 'English' atmosphere of Tsilivi, etc, we happened to find Psarapoula (or The Lemon tree) restaurant whilst driving through Alykanas one day. After our first evening here, we returned another 4 times throughout our 2 week stay.
Our reasons for liking this restaurant were:
