Wonderful Experience – Highly Recommended! 🌟 We had a fantastic stay at the hotel and enjoyed every moment. The staff was exceptional – attentive, kind, and truly dedicated to guest satisfaction. Every request was met with a positive and helpful attitude. The room was luxurious, beautifully designed, and of high quality. Facilities are well-maintained, and the swimming pool was simply perfect – clean, relaxing, and ideal for a vacation. We keep kosher and ate only fresh fruits and vegetables at breakfast, yet the care and hospitality of the staff were clearly felt. An excellent experience – we would gladly return!

The Athena is a large beech front hotel , a number of Pools and some adult only restaurants and activities. Guests are either ordinary, elite or super elite, based on their room booking , this entitles them to perks, such as elite class breakfast and roof top bars. The food is good, although some of the hot buffet items, were less than hot. The hot cook to order eggs were very popular. I would say that the food was of a good quality. The room we had was exceptional , we had a sea view and large balcony with an 1800 check out as a perk of our booking - we did have to give up our room the. Owning of departure but we’re rewarded with a fantastic room with a swim up pool. The staff are all utterly charming and multicultural, but all strive to make your stay and wonderful and fabulous as possible, from reception, the elite check in staff, to the waiters and cleaners, all were lovely . This is an expensive hotel, however, you do get what you pay for in this instance and I would highly recommend it

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Amazing Staff, great good, value for money OK, location amazing

the competition for the sun beds. Every morning at 5AM all the sunbeds at the pool were taken already by people who did not necessarily have kids. This was quite inconvenient especially since I am a single mom of a 6 years daughter so could not wake up each morning and leave her in the room, to go and occupy the sunbeds. Talked to he hotel, unfortunately there was nothing they could challenge in terms of culture of the people who were doing this.

the food was excellent - both breakfast, lunch and dinner. The room was comfortable and always well cleaned. Even though it was a busy period, it did not feel overcorwded.

swimming in the sea was a bit tricky and there wasnt much sand in the area of this hotel. no other complaints really

We spent 10 days at the hotel and had a great time. The staff was fantastic (very friendly and helpful), the food choice (breakfast, dinner) was excellent. The entertainment was nice, even though it was a bit repetitive after some time. Good indoor pool (not busy in the morning and evening) and nice outdoor pool area. We were in December, enjoyed the sunny weather and there was no problem to get the sunbed, even though the hotel was full.

The cleaning could be improved (floors, balcony, indoor pool area, corridor carpets) and it's time to renovate the gym equipment. The noise from the bar made us change the rooms - it would be manageable if it closed at 11 pm (during xmas season it was open 11:30 pm EVERY DAY). Water for dinner should be included in the price, it's hilarious that it's free for breakfast and it's available 24/7 at the lobby but then at the dinner you suddenly need to pay 2€ per bottle. And finally, as many have mentioned, the sandy beach picture is definitely not from this hotel, so it's clearly misleading.

Hotel staff was very polite and helpful in all areas, always willing to provide the best possible customer service. Plentiful entertainment for adults as well as for children, the variety of breakfast was very good, lovely decorated outdoor area. Our family felt welcome and will visit the hotel again.

Pool maintenance was not always great, sometimes the water was dull A lot of kids at the jacuzzi area of both indoor and outdoor pools were screaming and spiling water on other customers and out of the pool and as a result two people slipped off while walking around the pool. Lifeguards must be more attentive.

The rooms' seaview was very nice. Staff was very friendly and professional. Breakfast had a wide variety of dishes and everything was fresh and tasty. I enjoyed the easy access to the boardwalk for running, gym and inside pool (the outdoor pools were too cold for me in March). Good public transport connections to nearby attractions as well as the airport. Good wi-fi!

The interior was a little bit too 80s. The hotel would benefit from a design facelift.

When I went to check in to the resort, I learned that apparently I had booked the "upgrade", so I got taken to a different check in area where I was served a glass of sparkling wine, which was an amazing way to be greeted. The room was extremely nice and had a bottle of wine and some fruit waiting for me. The breakfast buffet was absolutely divine; it had EVERYTHING you could think of for breakfast. The swimming pools were really nice; it was still a bit too cool to truly enjoy it, but I got in a couple times but mainly at the indoor pool. The location wasn't SO bad; I do wish that it was closer to the main part of town, but it was only about a 30 minute walk along the water so it kind of made up for it. But that was only if you wanted to go there; there were PLENTY of restaurants and bars just minutes from the resort so I really liked that as well. It was also very safe. The personnel working were always extremely kind and made you feel welcome. They also made sure that you were aware of the events that they were holding either that day or night so you could join in if you wanted to.

I think the only thing I didn't like was the construction of the building: my room was towards the far end of the wing and if you wanted to go back to the main lobby, it was a LONG walk (like a good few minutes) just to get to the main lobby to leave the resort. I can only imagine those with families having to go back and forth to their rooms for something; I got annoyed sometimes so I know they probably did.

Very nice setting with lots of loungers round the pool and in the gardens, and an excellent walkway along the coast into the port 20 mins away and a good bus service right outside. A jetty enables you to swim in the sea. Excellent gym and spa facility. Superb spread and choice at breakfast.

On arrival we decided to take the half-board option that was offered but found that it was mis-represented and offered poor choice and poor value for money so no real advantage. Also you had to book the 'specialist' restaurants in advance even though thy looked pretty empty. in fairness, the hotel listened to our complaint and swiftly refunded. Fortunately we found several good restaurants very close by.

The service was really nice and the room was also spacious, the food was very tasty, but only through one of the people who pass by the entrance should keep their opinions to themselves because your employee says to me "Here the stingy Jews have come again" is not so pleasant.