Kalithea Horizon Royal

Perfect week long All inclusive holiday in every way. Travelling as a family, the hotel was perfectly placed in a idillic bay on the east coast of Rhodes. The local bus stopped outside the hotel and a 30 min ride took you to Rhodes town, or a 10 minute ride in the other direction for a brilliant water park. The hotel was immaculate with outstanding food, in variety, quality , quantity and availability. As always, the cocktail were too sweet, but cold drink and beer were self service in the pool bars, and ice was always available to go with wine in the bars/restaurants. I was pleasantly surprised to enjoy Ouzo and Metaxa ***** included! The bedroom and bathroom were large and perfectly positioned. The multiple pools were really big and there was never a problem getting a sun lounger at any time of day. The evening entertainment was great, and waiter service exceptional. We were very well looked after and enjoyed every moment. Great time of year to go away just before schools break up. We chose this holiday as a Tui package, as we hope a slightly more expensive AI package may be better quality than the cheaper options. We were not disappointed.

When we first arrived there are some drinks in the fridge like pop and water. Beds uncomfortably rock hard. But the room is very big and lots of space, always kept cleaned by the staff fresh towels everyday. The pool area is okay and you’ll need to get up early for sunbeds they was gone by 9am but some people was leaving towels and not turning up till 3pm!!! They should be taken off. This was at Aphrodite pool by the main restaurant, the bar was good and that lovely lady she was brilliant who is behind bar and makes all the drinks she so warming and welcoming. Sewers smell not all day but you will smell it few times in day by the pool. It can be very unpleasant most of the time. Sometimes you can smell it inside the hotel Drinks are good and food are decent but it’s felt like the same thing all the time nothing new and the mocktails optional is rubbish only three choice. Entertainment is adapted to German. The hotel is that big we was hitting 10k steps or more a day because sometimes you’d had to wait for the buggy carts and they can be awhile so might as well walk it, bring some comfy shoes and be prepared. Spent the last evening in the main bar in the reception and you’ll struggle to get a drink in there, went up to the bar multiple times and got told it was service so go back to table, went back to table and no one would come up. Staff were quite rude in this bar and not very helpful. Reception has been rude some times where it made us feel like we don’t want to go because you get dirty looks like they are better than you

Just back from a great week in Greece. We loved this hotel. It has absolutely stunning views. The kids water park is brilliant, endless amounts of fun. Great drinks selection from the bar and the food was lovely. The staff are so welcoming and the kids entertainment was great. The staff put in so much effort. We stayed in room 608 and it was a great location I.e sunbeds, views etc. the room was lovely and had everything we needed. Fully stocked mini fridge everyday and clean bedding etc. I would 100 per cent return here.

We have just returned from a 2 week stay at Kalithea Horizon Royal and we loved every minute! The setting is gorgeous in the picturesque coast of rhodes, gardens are always well kept around the hotel. It is a lot of walking but there is a regular buggy service, this service also takes you down to the beach too! Taxis were easy to get to and from the local towns, and buses from the bus stop directly outside the hotel were regular but very busy! The rooms are well equipped with mini fridge and minir bar, comfy beds. They are cleaned regularly however on a couple of occasions we didn’t receive fresh towels to shower with, the hand towels were not fresh just folded and our door was left open once. The all inclusive includes a variety of restaurants and snack bars, each have great variety there is always something for everyone even fussy eaters like us. We mainly ate at the pool snack bar because of us being fussy and knowing what we like. I will say that some of the snacks at the pool like chips seemed like left overs from the night before! The pizzas were always made fresh in a stonebaked oven from the acropolis restaurant, this is also the place to get your traditional gyros. The acropolis restaurant is set right over looking the blue sea. There is fresh gelato and ice cream available all day. Continental breakfast is a great touch for the late risers, it was fab for us! The drinks throughout the day and night were fantastic, the cocktails included were a firm favourite of ours. Kleopatra on the aphrodite pool bar is the best bar lady ever! In the safari bar at night the bar staff work tirelessly and always so friendly, Georgina and her colleagues were amazing! The Mini market on site is open 8am-11pm which is great, it was quite small but had everything you would need. There are 3 pools are all large, well kept and clean, we never had trouble getting a sun lounger there is plenty! All the pools are of a large size too. Our favourite was the aphrodite pool. Each have a bar and snack bar available. There is a childrens splash park with slides and fun for the little ones! Life guards at each were amazing and friendly, never not at the poolside. I will say that there is a significant smell of drains around the hotel and at night it was quite strong! Then a special mention to the people who made our holiday so special, the animation team! Tony, Panda, Nico, Regina, Gaia, Filipo, Jordi, Vale, Alyssa, Misa were incredible! The activities throughout the day were regular, there is timetables throughout the whole hotel to keep you up to date with the activities of the day and night! From 10am till 5pm at the pool side there is lots of fun activities like Aqua gym, Zumba and Darts to get involved in. Then in the Safari bar at night, every night a mini disco followed by fab entertainment planned by the A TEAM! Until 11pm where there is a disco for everyone to be involved. The team are so friendly, kind and not pushy. Always there for a good chat, we got t

Okay experience; Man on reception who we first met gave us our keys and told everyone a brief run down but I noticed he was rude to the family before us. Room was lovely cleaners did a good job although there was a huge gap between the door and doorframe so this allowed bugs to get into our room and my partner found a huge cockroach under the towel which we had wedged in the gap between floor and bottom of the door. Swimming pools; fairly dirty mould growing on the rims and the water was freezing cold so abit unbearable at first if I’m honest. I sat on a few sun-beds that were broken also and nearly did a crash landing! Zumba looked pretty good but I didn’t join in and the music was very loud if you didn’t want to be apart of it. Pool bar was very average they didn’t even do a daiquiri which is fairly standard in my opinion but the cocktails tasted okay. Food; this was a real let down as we’re big foodies! The buffet selection at breakfast was quite good although the eggs were greasy and the meat slightly undercooked I would say for most people’s preferences however fresh pancakes and waffles were delightful! Lunch was fairly good but nothing seemed to flow it was very random, didn’t compliment each other also the salad variety was poor and didn’t look appetising. Evening meals were standard there was plenty to choose from but similar to lunch with all random bits. Unfortunately this is where it gets worse… My partner had some Chinese chicken one night, I tried a bit after he had eaten a lot of it and I found raw chicken, sadly it was too late and he was throwing up into the night and early hours of the morning and I also had a bad tummy with repercussions! We then got the a la carte one night where you had to book. Know-one told us of it’s where abouts so I found out at the bar and sat down the waitress then questioned if we had booked and that already made me anxious and abit annoyed! The starter was dreadful it was like beef oxo cube dishwater and the main I ordered was meant to be a fish fillet and a whole fish with head, bones and a tail turned up, I couldn’t eat it as I kept choking on the bones so I went to the buffet and left the main course. Lastly, the iced coffees were dreadful like watered down coffee and loads of cream, I tried to force myself to drink it but couldn’t it was so bad. Also if you were sat at a table and asked for anything other than wine or water they told you to go to the bar they couldn’t bring it to you, i would say more like couldn’t be bothered! So disappointing overall… Entertainment; slightly none existent during the day there wasn’t any apart from two Zumba classes. There were evening performers but you couldn’t get a seat unless you were early and they were more aimed at an older age group so we went to bed at half 9 every night! We did attend one and it was good singing and enjoyed the atmosphere. My overall opinion would be there needs to be a lot of improvements at this hotel or I can see there

Just finished a two week holiday at the hotel. It is a very large hotel. Reception- when we first arrived at night we were greeted with a not very friendly gentlemen behind the desk. All he was bothered about was collecting the £280 euros it cost us for the resort tax which I didn’t know we had to pay ( it may be on the tui website but I didn’t notice it if it is) He gave us the map of the resort, took our money and when I asked about a safe he told us to come back tomorrow. Not a good first impression. The room was really clean, and well equipped for our holiday. We were in the block in-front of the safari bar/ kids pool. There is many pools / bars the resort is huge. The downside is there isn’t a snack bar near the kids pools which I think it’s needed. You have to have a good walk around to find the different snack bars and restaurants as some are a lot better than others, the main restaurant is very busy and hectic. The restaurants and snack bars near the reception are better. Night time entertainment is hit or miss at the safari bar. Some nights good some nights very poor but the staff try hard. The ques for drinks at the safari bar can be 20 - 30 people deep but goes down pretty fast. Every pool we tried and we got sunbeds very easily every day. Tip- find the BBQ snack bar behind the mythos pool for good gyros. Bad points- A lot of walking involved, which isn’t that easy with small children everyday. Not enough main restaurants for amount of people using them, some nights it took us 10mins to find a table. Staff in restaurants and reception not very helpful and friendly. Overall a good hotel but we wouldn’t come back again as it’s too big and spaced out.