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Hi all"¦ Rick_tay here"¦
Went to the Ixian Grand Hotel 1st July to the 16th July 06, before I went I read loads of reviews slating the hotel.. Im pleased to inform you that the hotel is very good overall apart from a few issues which I will cover.
- On arrival we were given a Grand from Superior family room, however they was , (paid extra for this type of room prior to arriving) it was a large room with two single beds one sofa/sofa bed, one coffee table and 2 chairs lending onto a ground floor terrace/balcony over looking the garden. Included a decent sized bathroom completed with WC, sink, bath, shower, hairdryer and large mirror, good sized wardrobes with plenty of storage with safe and a half size fridge which was very cold plus a nice large bottle of fresh bottled water!
First impressions of the room at 5am when we arrived was that it seemed dated but was very clears.
The following morning after inspection the room was actually the same is on the hotel website but with different linen on the beds and curtains. (the blue which was in there made it look older)
After looking at this and looking through this the room was ok. (I have included some photos with the duvet cover off and curtains pulled back so you can see!)
After 2 days we found a few ants in the room on the floor and went to reception to advise. Reception instantly moved us to a 1st floor room which was very much brighter and over looked the rear road with balcony, (Identical room type). Hotel staff advised that ants are common in Rhodes and it will be due to previous guess living crumbs on the floor or on the terrace which the cleaners have missed. (I have encounted this in Greece before so can understand)
The hotel is very nice throughout with marble floors, contemporary furnishings all to a very good standard. (photos attached)
Food --- I was not impressed with the food from the main buffet style restaurant , the first few days it was ok ish but the food never seemed to be of a good quality in my opinion.
I spoke to Hotel supervisor on many occasions late on in the bar and advised of suggested improvements. I.e. Names of dishes and what they contain, currently for beef for example it was a picture of a cow.
The supervisor did advise at the end of the season the hotel restaurant was to be increased by 150sq m and have chefs preparing the food in front of you.
The head waiter was ok"¦ however he did like to boss the waitresses around and stress at them for not trying 150% which was a bit wrong"¦"¦
Breakfast was nothing special if you liked a good English fry up but that's always the case aboard, plenty continual style and fruit, also a chief to make waffles and pan cakes)
The effnic restaurant was good in the day for snacks and bits to eat serving a different themed meal each day. (7 days rotating i.e. Chinese, Mexican, Greek gyros, Italian and others. No issues with that.
The animation team put 100% in for 6 days a week 8am till 11pm each day! There no pressure from them to join in (maybe tomorrow) but the French bowls is always good!
You get on meal in the Al a' Carte restaurant which the restaurant is very nice and the deco is to a high standard. Food was ok again but worth a visit for free (normally 30 euros per person!)
Pools - the pools are very nice, front 2 pools are nice and look great, however you have to get down there for 07:30am to get a decent sun bed and get your towel down!! (you know how it is!)
The bars are very good serving Lowenbrau and Stella on draught and all other sprits etc"¦ main in the lobby is good and very good staff, can get busy around 11pm when the pool bar and beach bar close.
Beach bar is good with George who does some good cocktails and the pool bar is also good.
They is a Greek night every 3rd Thursday which is a got to see, very good night, best night out of the full 2 weeks in the hotel.
The beach was ok"¦ shingle, didn't really bother going in the sea but it was perfect and clear!!
While we were at the Hotel we had a walk to the Atlantic princess which is nothing compared to this hotel in my opinion.
Overall the Hotel was very good and had a really good time"¦ I would go back as it was calm and relaxing, not many kids (ones there was supervised )
If you go drop me a PM and let me know what you think.. Also please can some one let me know how the kittens are doing?? Feed them for 2 weeks and rescued a little ginger one from the road which was about 4 weeks old!!)
Thanks for reading!!
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Rick!
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Edited by
Rick_tay
2006-08-03 22:45:30
We spent the night in room 341, a "family" room, with an exta seating area, which was quite nice. After breakfast we moved to room 246, a "standard" room, as per our booking. It was still of a reasonable size (3 of us, remember) with 3 single beds. The hotel apologised for the room mix up with a basket of fruit & a bottle of wine.
