Glavas and Ionios Avra

I would like to start by saying that this is not our first stay at Glavas but it will be our last.  

We were considered to be friends of Yiannis and Denis and we booked this direct with Dennis as they no longer use operators which is a shame as we had no-one we could complain to. The rooms, pool and location are great provided there is some service and the warning signs had been there on our previous stay at Glavas.

The first 5 days were spent staying under the noisiest bunch of inconsiderate people you could get returning at all hours of the morning an making as much noise as they possibly could, though obviosly this is not the fault of Denis or Yiannis.  But this was only the start...

On day 5 the 3 rooms above us all left which was great as we had the whole block to ourselves, in fact we had the whole place to ourselves as they basically shut up shop.

We had no pool as from day 2 it was never cleaned and turned a lovely shade of green/black before Yiannis came during the day in the 2nd week and emptied it.

The room was only cleaned twice in the entire fortnight, fine if you don't mind emptying your own toilet bins, doing the mopping etc.  The balcony was disgusting and never cleaned.  It was a good job I discovered where the linen cupboard key was so we could get clean towels and linen.

Apart from the first day we arrived the bar was never open during the day for drink and food and was never opened in an evening.

The place was a disgrace, dirty, rubbish everywhere, grass overgrowing.

Then to top all this we went for a walk down into Tsilivi and on our return discovered we had no electricity, when we eventually tracked someone down to sort the problem it turned out that the electric company had shut it off for non payment of bills.

This was the final straw and I kicked off, Yiannis was apologetic when I complained about all of these things but Dennis wasn't in any way and simply made excuses up, at the end of the day this wasn't good enough as we had paid a good amount for this accommodation and feel he betrayed our trust and alledged friendship.  Dennis promised that the room would be cleaned every 3rd day but this never happened either and never saw him again after this point (day 10), in fact we only saw him twice during the whole holiday.

Apart from the very few visits by Yiannis during the day for an hour stripping bark off the palm trees and emptying the pool (really useful) we were totally left on our own, which in some ways was good, provided we had the basics which we didn't.

On our previous stay here and when we used the pool during our stay across the road at The Balcony Hotel the service was very hit and miss even then so the warning signs were there, but not to this extent.

If you are thinking of staying here I would suggest thinking again I'm sorry to say!

web site.  WWW.GLAVASSTUDIOS.GR 

dennis and yanny are legends my second time at tsilivi firet time at glavas very basic but clean. great atmosphere and two top men had a good laugh will go back.