Reviews Hotel Astir Palace ****

A good and neat hotel with friendly staff. The location is ideal; at the beach and on the border of Laganas. Breakfast is fine, but nothing special. We can recommend full board, because there is not much to choose from and the food is overcooked. There are plenty of good and affordable restaurants in the area.

Astir Palace is a beautiful hotel. The place is clean and the staff is friendly and cooperative, it is located in the centre and near the nice sand beach, which slowly slopes down to the sea. We had also booked breakfast and it was good and always fresh, but not as elaborate as you'd expect for a 4 star hotel. Also we had to makes sure we were finished by 10am as they would take away the cups and plates when it was time. The bar at the beach had enough choice to select lunch from and it tasted good. We usually had dinner at Garden of Eden which serves delicous food for a reasonable price. The hotel is just far enough from the main street where all the clubbing goes on and is mainly frequented by youngsters who make for a lot of disturbance. The only downside of the hotel is that it is rather thin-walled, you could really hear each other's every move.

The hotel looked very nice and tidy with great spacious rooms etc. We got clean sheets and towels daily. The location as good, but we had to pay 180 euros more, to get a view of the sea, which made me really angry. Furthermore, we had to pay for the fridge (35 euros) which we haggled down to 25 euros. Ridiculous. The evening meals were inedible; not a lot of variation and we can't recommend this place if you are a fussy eater. The staff, we found, was dreadful. This is a beautiful small island, but we won't be returning to this hotel.