Grand Blue Beach Hotel

Front desk amazing people!,Full of suggestions and always with smile! Easy check in and out! We stayed at the main building, top of the hill, with an amazing view. They have golf cart to go up and down to the beach. Due to the busy week we walked, very hard!

We enjoyed our stay here. Ill list as pros and cons: PROS - the location is great. Less than 10 mins drive from airport, in Kardamena which is quieter than Kos town and the hotel itself is not in the town but a 10 min walk along the coast away which for us was even more perfect as we were looking for a relaxing break but close enough to places to go out and eat. - 3x swimming pools on site, no problem getting sun loungers though we came in October so might be an issue peak season - love that the rooms are in blocks over the hill. We got a great sea view and it was nice to walk out into sunshine and not hotel corridors. - everything was clean. From rooms bathrooms hotel lobbys and pool sides - hotel is on steep hills but there are lovely gentlemen happy to take people up and down in golf buggies. (We were happy to walk most the time). - everyone is really friendly - our room (twin room) was really spacious inc. the bathroom. Beds were comfortable. Air con worked great. Good balcony with drying rack. Patio door had a mosquito screen so we could open the door and close the screen. Smart tv also so could access netflix! Tea coffee facilities in room. - really comfortable sun loungers. CONS - would have liked to have massage -but was fully booked as theres only one therapist. Book in advance. - asked for an iron and was told “they can’t guarantee theyll find one but they will look”. It didnt turn up and i spent the holiday wearing creased clothes. A 5* hotel should have an iron!!! - breakfast was underwhelming. It was fine and you wont leave hungry but as a frequent traveller, it certainly wasnt a 5* spread, particularly hot food (or lack of it). - outside of meal times you wont get much food. We were booked for breakfast only (not all inclusive) and our flight landed early afternoon. We got to the hotel around 3ish starving and just wanted a sandwich or similar and was told lunch service was over and the a la carte dinner started at 6 (which we needed a reservation for). Poolside has a few snacks which the bar guy was lovely enough to offer me and i was grateful for, but would have been livid if i had to pay for it as it was nothing more than a dry breadroll with a slice of cheese and also pretty rubbish if thats all on offer outside of set mealtimes. We had just landed and didnt want to go hunting for food in the town so just bear this is mind. - room was only cleaned once during our 3 night stay. I dont mind reusing towels but floor and bathrooms should be cleaned. I guess we could have requested a clean which we didn’t. - “beach” in front of hotel is not a beach but a ***** of mud with some sunloungers. Not the hotels fault I suppose but can’t really advertise it as such. Nicer beach few minutes away for public that we used. Overall we were happy with our stay and would come again, but some areas of improvement needed which made me feel this is more a 4* and not a 5*.

If you're looking for a 5-star establishment, look elsewhere. My family and I had never been accommodated in such a mediocre hotel. - Environment: while the scenery is fabulous, the slopes (up to 30%) of this hotel will quickly make you forget it. - Rooms: it's a disaster. We had room 94, located as far from the pools as from the restaurants. The room was not very clean, totally in need of a refresh. The shower curtain was unhygienic for a damaged bathtub with dirty seals. Very uncomfortable beds causing back pain after 9 nights. To top it all off, a colony of ants had taken over the room. We alerted the maids and reception by showing a video of the cohabitants but no one intervened despite beautiful promises. Towels were old, torn and irritating. Even a roadside hotel wouldn't offer such discomfort to its clients. - Restaurants: you have to book for the à la carte restaurant but you must also notify what you want to eat if you don't want the imposed (Greek) menu. Impossible to order the à la carte steak (+ €20 supplement) as we had not notified beforehand. How to do so when no one has explained the principle before? Quality of the à la carte restaurant menu: really mediocre. The chicken soup made me sick. Main restaurant: a school canteen. Always the same meals with no variety and of poor quality. Don't even think about eating international, it's a utopia. The upstairs does offer a different country's menu each evening, but it remains minimalist and not very tasty. Fish and meat overcooked and therefore dry. For my part, my meals for our first 5 days of vacation were: * morning: mini plain pancakes * noon: tomato sauce pasta and watermelon * evening: tomato sauce pasta and watermelon From the 6th to the 10th day, we dined at Thomas Grill & Mezze in Kardamena - Pools: the only positive point even though the surroundings and the very dirty deck chairs were never cleaned during our stay at the pool exit towards Kardamena. The trace of a spilled Pepsi on a table and on the ground remained all stay. - Entertainment: almost non-existent. Really very very disappointed with our family stay at the Grand Blue in Kos. But we will come back for Kos and its really nice inhabitants in another hotel. Alain, Veronica and Alejandro

This Hotel deserves a 5* category. I came with my son from the 22nd until the 27th. Almost just before the season gets close. The impressive service, the quality of food (all day long) and the rooms setup, makes us consider to come back and tell our friends about our experience. We stayed in room 66 and 67. Great view, great housekeeping. Thank you on all of you again

We stayed here. There is 3 lovely pools. One is quiet and the other pool had nice fun music playing. Bar staff at pool friendly. One waitress was really bossy and complaining in her own language to the other Waitresses. Food was lovely good choice. The beach is tiny outside hotel. There is a beach future down the road but prepare to sink in the stones as it gets deep quickly. Lovely restaurants nearby hotel 10min walk and lots of cute shops with clothes and gorgeous paintings. Room in hotel lovely best sleep ever could not hear a sound. Beds great and comfortable. Room cleaned every day. Nice that we had tea/coffee available in room. Entertainment provided by the lead entertainer guy was very great. Really enjoyed the singers, the belly dancing. Music after was really good too pity the guests staying at poolside didn't make more of effort to have fun instead of glued to their own board games . Couple from Ireland.

I've been to several 4-star and 5-star hotels, this is definitely the worst 5-star I've been to. For the first time I was hungry, yes I was hungry in a hotel expectations. It is clear that they are having financial problems and they save as much as possible on everything. I had to ask for my room towels to be changed 3 days later they were still the same! I would have preferred to have paid double and chosen another hotel if I had known it would be like this…

We had a wonderful stay at the Grand Blue Beach Hotel. We woke up to the most beautiful sea view each morning. We were 2 adults and 2 kids, we had a family room which was a great size with a balcony, mini fridge and safe. We found the beds very comfortable and slept very well each night. The food was lovely, it can get a bit repetitive but that's to be expected when you are getting 21 meals. It was nice to be able to go up or downstairs to try different foods and the a la carte on our last night was a nice treat. The staff of course were fabulous, so hospitable, attentive and friendly. The pools were all fab, the boys spent most of their days at the sea breeze pool, the animation duo were awesome, wonderful energy. We would happily return to this hotel in the future.

A gorgeous hotel. Accommodation is really comfortable, staff are friendly and helpful. Breakfast is really good. Fabulous selection. But what's with the inane music relayed over speaker in the lobby and at the three pools!! Had to request a room change on the first day because our room was beside one of the pools and music was still pounding out at 11pm! It's in such a beautiful setting, the ocean on your doorstep, perfect for peace and quiet. Why, just why pollute it With this constant noise pollution! I just don't understand it.