Grand Blue Beach Hotel

If you're looking for a 5-star establishment, look elsewhere. My family and I had never been accommodated in such a mediocre hotel.
- Environment: while the scenery is fabulous, the slopes (up to 30%) of this hotel will quickly make you forget it.
- Rooms: it's a disaster. We had room 94, located as far from the pools as from the restaurants. The room was not very clean, totally in need of a refresh. The shower curtain was unhygienic for a damaged bathtub with dirty seals. Very uncomfortable beds causing back pain after 9 nights. To top it all off, a colony of ants had taken over the room. We alerted the maids and reception by showing a video of the cohabitants but no one intervened despite beautiful promises. Towels were old, torn and irritating. Even a roadside hotel wouldn't offer such discomfort to its clients.
- Restaurants: you have to book for the à la carte restaurant but you must also notify what you want to eat if you don't want the imposed (Greek) menu. Impossible to order the à la carte steak (+ €20 supplement) as we had not notified beforehand. How to do so when no one has explained the principle before? Quality of the à la carte restaurant menu: really mediocre. The chicken soup made me sick. Main restaurant: a school canteen. Always the same meals with no variety and of poor quality. Don't even think about eating international, it's a utopia. The upstairs does offer a different country's menu each evening, but it remains minimalist and not very tasty. Fish and meat overcooked and therefore dry.
For my part, my meals for our first 5 days of vacation were:
* morning: mini plain pancakes
* noon: tomato sauce pasta and watermelon
* evening: tomato sauce pasta and watermelon
From the 6th to the 10th day, we dined at Thomas Grill & Mezze in Kardamena
- Pools: the only positive point even though the surroundings and the very dirty deck chairs were never cleaned during our stay at the pool exit towards Kardamena. The trace of a spilled Pepsi on a table and on the ground remained all stay.
- Entertainment: almost non-existent.
Really very very disappointed with our family stay at the Grand Blue in Kos. But we will come back for Kos and its really nice inhabitants in another hotel.