Samaina Inn in Karlovasi

Pleasant hotel but quite out the way. Easily an hour & half transfer with Tui after drop offs. A few bars by dock area with nice meals & drinks. A couple of restaurants with great food in the other direction although didn’t walk far so may have been more but unlikely. Hotel staff are lovely, so helpful & friendly. A real credit to the hotel. Very comfortable beds. Room nice but you could do with more storage for clothes & shelves/cupboards in bathroom for your toiletries. There is room for them so not sure why there isn’t more. Food in buffet restaurant is very nice & enjoyable. Limited snacks though served at pool bar between 4-4.30. Comfortable sun loungers around pool. Not so good points - only bar for all inclusive drinks is the pool bar. Drinks are served in small glasses, even beer, which was sadly flat, & cocktails, which were small & syrupy. Vodka was quite nice & wine ok. Didn’t try other drinks. There is a large nice looking bar near foyer but you have to pay for all drinks, no all inclusive served. This meant that bar was quiet & pool bar very busy with poor bar women working non stop. She was amazingly still very happy & friendly though. Bar serves 11-11 with lobby bar open until midnight. WiFi was poor. We struggled to get signal continuously anywhere. No signal on beach, which you had to walk over the road to. Road wasn’t particularly busy but some people could find it an issue listening to traffic noise. Beach was small with grass area that lead onto a narrow sand & stony beach with free sun loungers. You needed beach shoes to get into the sea comfortably but was sand a few steps in. Limited entertainment only on certain nights. Overall this is a lovely friendly hotel but a few changes could make it a better.

Went there for a week with my girlfriend and overall had a good experience with some decays. Wifi was very bad in the hotel room to a point where we couldnt even connect to it. This was very frustrating and despite the hotels efforts to make it look like they tried to fix it it never got better. I also find it disturbing when a hotel allows the sunbed race to happen daily. This got better through the week though with better signing and the staff paying more attention. The hotel had a small gym with dumbbells from 5-17,5kg, and 3 cardio machines. The state of the machines were quite bad and the cable machine in the gym was literally dangerous to use. This should definitely be looked at. Food was overall decent with sunday, tuesday and thursday being different themes of cuisine.