Asterias Beach Resort in Afantou

The room - spacious and overall ok. For the hotter months you need to request additional room keys so that the air-conditioning stays on. The third bed in the room for our daughter was tiny, ideally should be larger. Drinks - all the traditional cocktails were terrible, we couldn't drink them. Stick to the beer, easy mixers, and if you like coffee ask for a cafe frappe with Irish cream. Food - was ok. Nothing to phone home about it suppose but all edible and nice enough. Pool - pools were good, large with a kids pool which my daughter had great fun in.

Well..where to start, first off, this resort is not a 5*. It may be on paper but for service and variety it is not. On arrival you only get one bottle of water in the fridge for a Junior suite with a private pool room. That can be refilled at a cost. No soft drinks or anything else in the fridge which you get in other actual 5* resorts. Also drinks a lot of the alcoholic drinks are held behind a pay wall for simple things like daiquiri drinks costing 7.50 in euros for one. This again is an additional charge for something that's included as all inclusive in actual 5* resorts. The resort itself is beautiful. The grounds are well kept and the rooms are clean and spacious, the cleaners are the star of the show and work wonders. Onto the food.. The food whilst nice enough gets very repetitive very quickly. Breakfast is the same offering each and every day, mostly catering to the Germans on site, so get German sausage and omelette of the day eggs and two trays of bacon. The space used for the hot food is massively under used and the same 4 items are mostly put on both sides of the hot food counter so no variation on foods. This is also the same in the evening for the main restaurant food and the same hot food is put on both sides. It seems pointless and was the main reason we ate out 5 nights of the 10 night stay. The Ala carte restaurant was lovely but you only get one visit per stay and it's a strict set menu. The lunch pool bar for food was honestly the best in the place the Gyros were amazing and the staff helpful and friendly. There is no pool side service or beach service or even room service for the beach front private pool rooms. Unlike actual 5* resorts you usually get a scan to order a QR code for drinks. Service in the main restaurant was for the most part fine. But on some occasions when we brought back a plate we had nobody to come take our old plate away. We also felt at times the service was the same compared to those who spoke German. Entertainment in the evening was basically non-existent with bingo and a karaoke night here and there. There is really only one main bar for the whole resort which is across from the main restaurant/buffet restaurant. It gets full quickly and noisy full of smoke most times. The resort could be doing with opening another bar for a quiet experience. Near the pool or on the beach etc. The beach was fine, I would say the beds on the beach seem old and one broke when I sat on it. They also would be good to have the wood walk way cover the length of the beds and beach so your able to use that to walk to a bed. The beach bar is fine also but again very under whelming. It could do with a massive upgrade, put some woods flooring down around the area and tables and chairs and lights, could be used for a beach vibes area more chilled. The walkways on the resort badly flood when heavy rain comes down, resulting in having to walk on grass which is also soaked or get your feet submerged in water. The wo