Summer Palace Hotel - (Accommodation in Kardamena)

Aimee M           

A beautiful hotel, with beautiful surroundings – we could see Turkey in the distance from our beds! However, it is most definitely not a family resort – it is very hilly with a large amount of steps – okay for us (a group of 7 girls – there for the bars in Kardamena but wanting decent accommodation and not the flea pits they give you in the town centre) but certainly not for families with young children, disabled people and people with walking difficulties.

If you don’t mind the steep hills (we didn’t) then its lovely! Our only other problem was 6 out of 7 of us came down with chronic sickness and diarrhoea one after the other. We thought it was the food at the hotel so we avoided eating there and ate out in the town (which was nice and not too expensive), on our last day we thought we had just better make them aware of this, only to be told they were aware of it – a lot of people had been ill and they didn’t know why – ensuring us it couldn’t be the food as the staff eat there and they were not ill – we later found out it was Gastric Interitus – the hotel was full of it and worse of all they knew about it and had inspectors in before we even left for our holiday! As you can imagine, we were not too impressed!!

The food was nothing to shout about – all buffet – mainly salad – boring after a couple of days! The drinks were a bit minging as well – that’s if you got a cup that didn’t taste of washing up liquid! Our rep advised us it was okay to have ice in our drinks as they used filtered water but someone else advised us not to, so we didn’t!

Kardamena its self was good – there are lots of bars but only 2 main clubs to go to – which got a bit repetitive and we were only there for 1 week! If you have been to somewhere like Ayia Napa, it just doesn’t compare!

Although it probably sounds really bad and I have probably put you off as long as the bug is cleared up, I think you will be fine and have a great holiday, (did I mention your fridge is re-stocked every day with water, pepsi, beer etc!). The staff are all very friendly, some male waitors maybe a bit too much!! It might be worth checking with your rep about the bug before you go though!

We were at the hotel from 19th July – 26th July

Summer Palace Hotel - (Accommodation in Kardamena)

Aimee M           

Of course I meant we were at the hotel from 19th JUNE– 26th JUNE! (see below)