Evripides Village in Kardamaina

Avoid this hotel – it is nowhere near 4★.

This was one of the worst hotel experiences we’ve ever had. We booked expecting 4-star quality and instead found dirt, rudeness, false advertising, and shocking cost-cutting.

Staff & service
The male owner seemed polite, but we had heard he can be short-tempered with others. The female receptionist (the large woman at the front desk) was incredibly rude, abrupt, and cold. At check-out she didn’t even ask about our stay – zero care for guests. The only good staff member was a young girl working evenings, who was genuinely kind and helpful. The night staff were also awful – at 11 PM on the dot they turn off every light, leaving you in candlelight, even in the toilets where the lights don’t work because they’ve been switched off to save money. If you arrive late, the night porter won’t check you in properly and just tells you to “do it tomorrow” – no politeness or professionalism.

Rooms & basics
Rooms have no basics: no kettle, no cups, no hairdryer unless you rent one, and Wi-Fi only works in the lobby unless you pay extra. Towels weren’t changed daily and bedding wasn’t cleaned every day. For a place charging a €100 tourist tax and calling itself 4-star, this is a joke.

Cleanliness & hygiene
The pool water was a weird light green colour, salty, and looked unsafe to swim in. The smell of sewage around the hotel was horrible. Plates at meals were dirty, and general upkeep was poor.

Food & drink
Food was bland, repetitive, and very limited. We didn’t go hungry, but it was basic. The drinks situation was worse: no Coca-Cola, only “Rola Cola” if you’re lucky, no apple juice, and most days the only option was lemonade. Fruit selection? Watermelon, every single day, and nothing else.

Facilities & false advertising
The biggest scam is the so-called “spa.” It simply doesn’t exist. There is no spa anywhere in the hotel – instead, they’ve put two ragged old massage chairs in a corner and advertise them as a spa. This is outright lying to guests to make the hotel sound better than it is. Entertainment is also pathetic: just one night a week (Thursday), when the owner sings himself. Poolside is lifeless – no music, except sometimes for 10 minutes before it’s switched off again.

Safety issues
The rental bikes are unsafe – brakes barely worked, lights didn’t function, and we were left cycling back in the dark. When we raised it, staff brushed it off and gave no real refund. It was dangerous and irresponsible.

Disturbing details
There were Nazi magazines lying around the hotel. Completely inappropriate and offensive.

Location
The location is awful: a 50-minute walk to the centre or €10 each way by taxi. You’re better off staying closer to town in a hotel that actually offers what it advertises.

Final thoughts
This hotel is dirty, cheap, and dishonest. From turning off lights at 11 PM and leaving guests in the dark, to a disgusting pool, sewage smells, poor food, unsafe bikes, and rude staff (especially the woman at the desk who couldn’t care less about guests), it’s clear this place is a complete money-grab. The “spa” is fake, the entertainment is a joke, and the customer service is non-existent.

Do not book here. It is not 4-star, it’s a scam and a dump. Even if it were free, I would never return.

I wrote a review once already but was shouted at to take it down, so I’ll change it slightly to The male owner, who can be identified by the older male who paces around the place shouting at staff on a morning, was very passive aggressive towards me on several occasions, I took this with homophobic intent, regardless of how he might feel he can justify it as otherwise.

I went out as a young Single male to an all inclusive holiday there. On one night the manager approached me and told me I’m too much. I thought he was referring to me being loud around the bar area with friends I had made at the hotel. I brushed this off, He then Mumbles something referring to me being gay. I got very upset and uncomfortable and left the hotel very upset and spent the rest of the evening away from the hotel in the town centre.
He’s then singled me out on several other occasions when we have all been together as a group referring to noise again, ‘especially you’ being rather rude towards me in a whole group situation. When the other guests made him aware it was them making more noise he refused to listen and told them it was especially me. I left the hotel during the day for most of my stay because of this. Spending money I didn’t need to but was uncomfortable staying there all day. On one of those days, he approached the group I usually sat with and quite astonishingly said to other groups of people “isn’t it quieter now because I went out for the day”

He’s then come back out and said in front of the group ‘you too much, go, goodnight’ on a separate ocassion, when I’ve looked at him he’s said once again ‘goodnight’ directing me to my room like a child.

I stupidly left my review the day before leaving when I got the email to do so about the hotel saying how I felt and that it had an homophobic tone to the nature of my situation. I’m not one to label things and give anyone the benefit of the doubt but it was clear after 3 days of this that I couldn’t label it anything over than what it was.

Hes then approached me rather aggressively the day before I left, around the busy pool area shouting aggressively at me about the my review. Demanding I tell him what my problem is with him, he said he’s not homophobic he had a gay friend and then said I’m homophobic. Again demanding I take down the review. This made me extremely distressed and uncomfortable. After I had left the hotel for the day, to get away from this. He went on to Corner other guests I have been spending time with at the hotel, twice about me in that day telling them to tell me to take my review down, and trying to explain how he wasn’t happy. When they had my back and explained he had been singling me out, he began shouting at them.

On top of this, the food was basic and the same most days, I strongly believe that some food for lunch some days were left over from night before. Not much choice at all, there was never any snacks provided during the day out of these times unless you paid for them at their ‘shop’. Basic things as water was denied to me on an evening when I would go to the shop as they were ‘closed’.

No entertainment was provided on an evening, so even if I did go back to the hotel, it was just down to us to have a laugh together as a group around the bar which then caused me more problems with the manager.

The bar they provided closed at 10:30pm some nights and we were told to be quiet after this time.
Coming to my room, it had ants all over, bugs in the bathroom and on the floor. I found a lizard crawling around eating the bugs one night. I’m very shocked how this hotel is 4 star rated, and charges taxes on this 4 stars when it very clearly isn’t.

My main problem is how uncomfortable, upset, distressed and alarmed this hotel owner made me feel on my first holiday abroad. As a single, young gay man this has ruined my confidence and I’ve spent most of my trip out of the all inclusive hotel because of this one man and his ignorance. AVOID AVOID AVOID - Especially if you’re gay guys.