I often peruse the reviews from other travellers on hotel websites, it helps my decision making, so this is going to be honest and may not be popular! The staff make this hotel. From the owner George to the cleaners we met in the mornings, always everyone had a smile and a greeting. Blue Nest is situated around 1.5miles from the ***** in Tigaki, a good 30/40 min walk into town, or a very good bus service only 7min walk away. 1.80 euro into the square, and 2.10 euro into Kos town. Taxi was 9 euro in evenings back from the *****. From the outset we knew this hotel was only a 3 star, so, although away a bit from central area, it was quiet and peaceful. The rooms.....we booked 2 bungalows, obviously we did not know how the set up was for these, in a group of 3 ladies, 2 had an upper floor, and I was placed on ground floor. As a single lady I wasn't happy, I couldn't leave door open at night for air, for security purposes, but that was not my only concern. The original room was very dark, had huge step down from bathroom into bedroom, the loo seat was wobbly, in bathroom, every time I took the towel from plastic hanger on wall the whole thing fell to the floor. But my biggest annoyance was when I found ants crawling over my toilet bag, and my toothbrush!. I also will say that after 2 nights in this room and speaking with george, I was moved to an upper floor, which was much more serviceable. My friends had an issue with their toilet pipe leaking onto the floor, which was a bit of a health hazard, after chasing a few times, within a few days, this was fixed eventually. I do think when the season is over, there needs to be some maintenance work within the rooms, the outside of rooms look fine, but some better management inside rooms where guests stay is very important. Breakfast options are very basic, diff cereals, watermelon for fruit, fresh baguettes cut into rounds, some fresh baked cakes, cheese/meat and few other bits. It was fine and kept us going. We prefer the beach to a pool and I knew before going we could use the facilities at Irina Beach hotel, just before the bus stop. There is a huge pool also, but also a great beach and we tended to decamp there for the day. Loungers free to use, (we paid 12 euro for 2 loungers/parasol on beach 1st day) and there is a lovely poolside place to get food and drinks. For us we preferred this outlook. To summarise, this is a basic greek hotel, run by delightful people who clearly want to make your stay enjoyable. We had a lovely holiday overall.
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