Mount Athos Resort

I highly recomend Mount Athos resort. It was really great vacation! Very clean rooms, very friendly staff, especially on breakfast Vasilia and Georgia and on dinner Tolis ( his advices were very helpful for us to choose tasty food). Sea is clean and a little rocky. Definetly return back again!

Visited here at random having found it online. I booked mostly based on the positive reviews rather than any deep research, although I did go on the hotel Instagram page which is a touching homage to the page 3 era, and the hotel website which is quite cryptic and doesn't give a whole lot away. In reality this is a lovely hotel. The buildings and rooms are clean and modern, and the pool and beach were some of the nicest I have ever seen. The pool in fact is maybe the nicest hotel pool I have seen. The real luxury here is the astonishing ratio of communal space to rooms - the hotel was pretty full when we were here, but at any given time there were 10 free sun loungers on the front row of the beach, free beds by the pool, free tables in the restaurant etc. Another luxury is the high number of staff - there are people just kind of standing around in case you want to talk to them, and if you do ask for anything then they are very helpful - the hotel fulfilled a lot of non standard requests for our two toddlers. The clientele here were mostly from Eastern Europe - I am not sure why - perhaps the proximity to mount Athos, but also perhaps the marketing of the hotel does not appeal to the British market. The communication of what is basically a pretty luxurious and family friendly resort via their website is very opaque, and this strange hesitancy in sharing all that the hotel has to offer continues when you arrive - there are no signs anywhere, and I discovered some pretty significant features by pure chance by wandering around. There is a fully functioning and staffed nursery and kids club, free of charge, that is hidden in a corner, and a tennis court that you can't see unless you walk past a sort of maintenance area up a hillside. My only real criticism of the hotel is that there were a lot of mosquitos. Our room had a nice outdoor terrace and garden but we never went out there due to being bitten as soon as we opened the door, which is a bit of a shame. This problem did seem to be quite localised to our room - by the pool and beach and in the restaurant I didn't see one mosquito. Overall I really liked this place - it was very easy to spend time here and very relaxing. Our toddler loved it and staff were very kind to him.