The rooms are immaculately presented, the pool is exceptionally clean, good fast food at the pool bar and there is no "yob culture" spilling out of the town - probably due to the 2am curfew.  Don't bother taking lilo's and balls with you - there is a selection available for use at the pool.

 

Spiros, Anasatcia and Maria are very friendly and welcoming, and it seems that nothing is too much trouble - e.g., on leaving the hotel on the first night, I mentioned to Spiros that I would like to hire a fan - and got the usual "no problem, we'll see to it" that never gets attended to in other hotels.  When we got back that evening, it was already in our room ready to go.

 

There are rules - not stupid rules, but ensuring some common decency.  Beware - if you want to bend the rules of the establishment, like having somewhat explicit actions around the pool where families congregate, or trying to smuggle someone into your room, don't even think about staying there.  You will be thrown out immediately - as the people in the room next door were.  Shame, pretty girls too, but Spiros has his standards to maintain for the comfort of the other guests!

 

I have to echo the comments earlier on the Red Poppy cocktail bar.  This is a truly fantastic place, recently opened, well presented and deserves to be hugely successful.  For us, the chilled atmos and friendliness of the team combined with good cocktails and great varied music was refreshingly different when compared to the other parts of Laganas.  It was an "every nighter" on the way home, no matter where we had been.  If you leave the bar at 7 minutes to 2, you still make the curfew at the Castelli....

 

Also, go down the little track (by Costas 20 hour market) to the Patio restaurant.  The menu is extensive, and the food is excellent as you take in the view of the bay.

 

I'd go back tomorrow.