Gaia Royal Hotel

“The best holiday at Gaia Royal Hotel”

What an absolutely fantastic place to go to for a relaxing holiday! True review as follows: Good points: Very clean - maids clean your room everyday and the hotel itself is always spotless. Amazing hot and fresh food with a wide range of different selections everyday. 10/10! Beach is like somet… lisää

What an absolutely fantastic place to go to for a relaxing holiday! True review as follows: Good points: Very clean - maids clean your room everyday and the hotel itself is always spotless. Amazing hot and fresh food with a wide range of different selections everyday. 10/10! Beach is like something from the Bahamas! White sand and crystal waters. Yes you have to pay for the beds, but it is worth the small charge of 8e for 3 with a parasol. (all day use, even if you leave and come back that day) Don't want to pay? Sit on the sand with your towels. Drinks on the bar are chargeable but again very low in cost and worth it. (no wine at this bar but has everything else) Card machine also available. Kos Town a bus ride away at 3.50e each and very clear instruction as to pick ups. Loved Kos it was worth the short drive. We stayed in the 2 bedroom side sea views and just WOW ! The all inclusive drinks are definitely worth it! High enough in strength and on tap in the main restaurant. (beer and wine on tap) Everything else in the bars. Clean well looked after cats can be seen around the hotel and don't bother you at all. All the staff are friendly and accommodating. Mini Market is by the castle pool and offers a wide range of drinks and gifts. Great entertainment outside the main lounge area from 9pm (ranging from singers, quizzes, Karaoke, Greek night every Monday) Then there is a kids club at the castle pool at 8.30pm, or a beach party once a week. Mini Kids Zoo (basic and a little smelly - but what do you expect?) If you fancy a change from the one restaurant on site, there is a restaurant 2 minutes walk on the beach called Namaste Restaurant, which was fantastic and low in price (the 3 of use ate out, got starter & main and carafe of wine/ 3 beers and it came to around £55) together with lovely staff who offered us free Oozo. They provide mosquito repellents and fans to keep the mozzies away and I must admit, it helped. Was nice to be waited on for a change and witness the sun set from your table. Heaven!! Air con in the rooms a god send and you can keep your fob in attached in your room all day if you disconnect your key. Fridge in every room and free safe. Some made sandwiches on arrival if you check in late which was a lovely touch. Beach bar all lit up at night and wonderful sunsets. Only bad points : Mosquitos! Don't buy the cheap deet-free repellents/AVON skin so soft or wrist bands, they don't work. Purchase full Deet ones and patches for sticking under your clothes - I never get bitten usually but did this time with Avon and a brand called Xpell. After speaking to a lot who used the Avon, they said that was the first time they had been bitten. Pools are too warm in peak summer. Like swimming in a bath and not enough beds, so get there early to reserve if you like a pool. This didn't bother us as we went to the beach. In conclusion, can honestly say this was one of the best places we have stayed at and had a nice relaxing sunny holiday. Will be booking again next year x

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“Tropical rellaxing break”

Very clean, rooms and site. All inclusive good enough don’t pay the £25 per day extra for upgrade you just get cocktails and basic drinks on beach bar. Cocktail specials on bar only 3euro anyway. Pools are great with bars, kids pool shallow and looks good. Big pool by kids pool more lively with mus… lisää

Very clean, rooms and site. All inclusive good enough don’t pay the £25 per day extra for upgrade you just get cocktails and basic drinks on beach bar. Cocktail specials on bar only 3euro anyway. Pools are great with bars, kids pool shallow and looks good. Big pool by kids pool more lively with music and pool fitness groups. Other side there is a quiter pool all great anyway. Beach is lovelly. It does smell a bit around the zoo with the heat only like a farm. Restaurant has a good and large choice daily really good. A bus leaves daily from outside the hotel to Kos Town 3euros it leaves at 10am gets to Kos about 10.25 and leaves Kos at 1pm so you have about 2 1/2hrs there to shop. If you want more time there is the local bus stop 8min walk from the hotel that leaves regular through the day, all timetables are on reception. Staff are friendly and there are cats wandering around the outside and inside the hotel there part of the staff 😄 really well behaved. Greek night is Monday with small but good choice of Greek food also the normal choice is also on. Entertainment is Greek dancing for about one and a half hours worth going. General entertainment is low key but you couldn’t pick anywhere better for a rellaxing holiday. Pack your mosquito spray but that’s Greece. Would go again and check the island out, this hotel is 4 to 5 star.

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“Brilliant”

Personally, I really enjoyed my stay at this hotel. I’m went with my family of 6 and we had two rooms in the same building. My room was a balcony room and it was cleaned thoroughly everyday by the lovely cleaning staff. We didn’t have an issue with bugs in our room but other members of my family ha… lisää

Personally, I really enjoyed my stay at this hotel. I’m went with my family of 6 and we had two rooms in the same building. My room was a balcony room and it was cleaned thoroughly everyday by the lovely cleaning staff. We didn’t have an issue with bugs in our room but other members of my family had a terrace room and did have trouble with mosquitoes. The air-con was a lifesaver and so was the mini fridge. The kettle didn’t work however in our room and the shower struggled to get warm even though we eventually managed to figure it out. The buffet was brilliant ( especially the pancakes in the morning ), as I am a fussy eater it did get quite repetitive but there was a lot of variety there. The pools were amazing although finding a lounger proved difficult and our towels got stolen.. we did report this but the staff at reception basically said that there was nothing they could do. The staff at the hotel were polite, especially those who worked near the buffet. My family are not huge drinkers so we weren’t too bothered but I can appreciate that some of the soft drinks did taste syrupy and we weren’t huge fans of the alcoholic drinks. The beach was beautiful and we only had to pay 7 euros for two loungers and an umbrella which honestly isn’t bad at all. The hotel is quite isolated but we booked trips through Tui and there were lots of buses into Kos Town, and this may be troubling for some but we personally weren’t too bothered. Half of my family got very lucky and didn’t get any mosquito bites but the other half did not, so definitely bring bug spray and lots of sunscreen if you’re in a larger party. There was a mini mart onsite which I found most things were reasonably priced, the pool bars were great and there was a petting zoo ( that I didn’t personally visit ). The wifi wasn’t always brilliant but I always had service ( even in the middle of the sea ). The entertainment wasn’t great and there wasn’t always stuff on but they had a music quiz which was great fun and a wonderful singer at some point. Overall, I hugely enjoyed my stay and a holiday is what you make it at the end of the day so if you go into this with a bad mindset, you probably won’t enjoy your stay. I definitely recommend this hotel and believe that some of the reviews are very extreme. I appreciate that everybody’s stay is different but still, my family and I had a fantastic holiday and would love to return one day!

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“Honest review”

We returned from our stay at the Gaia Royal a couple of weeks back now, I'm not one for negativity but feel I needed to write an honest review from our experience. The all inclusive drinks were a bit of a disappointment, the beer was usually always flat, aswell as the mixers to go with our alcohol… lisää

We returned from our stay at the Gaia Royal a couple of weeks back now, I'm not one for negativity but feel I needed to write an honest review from our experience. The all inclusive drinks were a bit of a disappointment, the beer was usually always flat, aswell as the mixers to go with our alcohol. The coke was like drinking syrup. We always go all inc and have never stayed anywhere where we've had to pay for cocktails, luckily they weren't expensive to buy. Our air con in our room wasn't great at all which resulted in some unsettled nights, we did ask for it to be looked at but had no feedback whether it had or not. The mosquitoes had a good go at us, which resulted in mine becoming infected. (Not the hotels fault though) so I recommend lots of repellent! It's such a shame that the two main things listed above were a disappointment as the hotel is such a lovely, well kept, very clean hotel. The rooms were cleaned everyday, the food was lovely and always a variety to choose from. The beach was stunning with a beautiful sunset to watch on an evening. The entertainment could've been a bit better at times but we enjoyed the beach party. We knew the hotel was out of the way, which wasn't a problem as there were buses to use if need be, however we did hire a car one day. Very reasonably priced and was nice exploring round the island. It's a stunning island but sadly due to how bad and how many mosquitoe bites I had I won't be returning.

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