Brown Beach Chalkida Kosher Resort, a Member of Brown Hotels in Chalkida

We stayed here for one week as a family of four with two young children (6 and 3). We booked this due to the kosher food, the location, and the fact that they had a pretty good special offer on at the time. I'm going to leave a *really* detailed review because I would've loved to read something like this before I booked, but there were hardly any reviews (from after it became kosher), so hopefully this will help someone. If you're looking for something brief, best skip this one ;) Food: By far the biggest problem with the hotel right now is the food. It isn't terrible, by any stretch, but it certainly isn't good. Considering the chain of hotels has plenty in Israel, you would expect the food to be similar to kosher hotels there; it isn't. Breakfast is ok, there were pancakes available on two days that we were there, and those were actually pretty good, but nothing else is anything special. The offering was basically various salads, some bread and spreads, a cheese or two (no feta!), some eggs, a yogurt, two basic cereals (honey loops and corn flakes), a couple of other bits. It lacked things like pastries, or even a toaster, and after a few days of the same stuff it became a bit dull. They also ran out of regular cow's milk on more than one day - while I appreciate that there were problems with shipments coming in, it doesn't make a great customer experience. Dinner is where the problem really lies. It's hard to explain because if I showed pictures you would probably think, hey that looks alright... and the truth is, it IS *alright*, but not more than that. There were usually 2 chicken/meat dishes, with another couple of sides, and a fish dish, and a soup each night, along with some salads and humous (tasted homemade but wasn't great). It sort of tasted like you'd gone round to a friend who was a perfectly OK cook but not particularly *into* cooking - so think like pretty plain chicken, potatoes, rice, etc. Apart from the quality of the food, another massive issue is that it really isn't very kid friendly. You would expect for a hotel to have kid staples every meal - maybe chicken nuggets/mini schnitzels, simple tomato pasta, etc. They didn't have it at all. As a result, my very fussy 3 year old basically just had plain bread every night, with a couple of spoons of soup. Now I can't blame the hotel for my son's eating habits, but you would definitely expect a family hotel to try to cater towards children more. Then you have the pool bar, and, to be fair, the best food that the hotel offers by far is the pizza; it is pretty authentic neapolitan pizza (only let down by the cheese they managed to get hold of) and is really very decent (I'm a big neapolitan pizza guy so I appreciated this). The other stuff there was meh - they had a couple of different pastas which were very very basic, and then salads and sandwiches which are a bit of a waste because you can basically just take from breakfast and make your own (which we did most days for lun

We stayed at the Brown Hotel in Evia, Greece, as a family with two small children and a pregnant wife. Unfortunately, the experience was disappointing. The rooms were full of ants, and we didn’t have hot water during our stay. The food options were not suitable for children, which made meals very difficult.

There were no proper evening activities for kids no music, dancing, or entertainment to keep them engaged. Also, the food served at the pool bar was of very poor quality.

We expected a more family-friendly experience and were left disappointed. Definitely not the standard we hoped for.

We visited the hotel on a Saturday. We were never informed that due to religious reasons they are not using the electricity for making coffees on a Saturday etc and there is no obvious statement in the website. It’s very respectable to have such policy however every visitor should be aware of it since it’s not a common thing in Greece. Staff was polite though.