All staff throughout our stay were pleasant and helpful.
Room was basic but clean.One double bed, a single bed set into concrete and another bed.Satellite TV only had two English channels(EuroSports and BBC News)-for

I travelled with my family to this Hotel in August 2005. We had booked two rooms but due to overbooking we were placed in one small room for two of the seven days. The tiny room had no TV, faulty Air Conditioning and we had extra guests in the form of hundreds of ants in our beds!!

Facilities in the Hotel were OK, but service for drinks and food was very poor. The queues would often be served by one person and could easily extend to twenty plus people with a long wait as a result. Food was OK but the eating area was poorly air conditioned. It is definitely not 4 Star. The pool area etc was quite good - the entertainment and recreational facilities were minimal.

I travelled with Sunstar Leisure Ltd which was a huge mistake. I phoned them whilst on holiday to complain about the room we were given and despite their promises to help I heard nothing back from them. I failed to find their Rep and the information flow from them was very poor.

On my return to the UK I wrote to Sunstar Leisure

We're a couple in our early 30's on our first holiday.

When we first arrived at the Akti which was in the early hours, we seemed quite impressed, the reception quite nice, the staff very helpful, the only thing that we were dying for was a drink!!

The bar shuts at 11.30 and we were unable to even have a drink, I was pretty disgusted with this and to be honest not being able to have late night drinks did bother me at all holiday as we were forced to go elsewhere, which cost money.

This was'nt what I was expecting on an all inclusive holiday, I was told on all inc's the food and drinks are on tap all day.

Our room was basic, but very nice, overlooking the pool with a balcony, we had two concrete single beds with a concrete table inbetween, so we were unable to push the beds together! Not ideal for a newly engaged couple on our first holiday together!

The food was I thought 10/10 very well presented, nice and warm, with an excellent variety of all meats and fish. Everything was labelled so you knew what you were having. My fiance is a very very fussy eater and he had no problems we both put on about a stone!

The entaintainment has to be one of the biggest slumps, excellent if you have got kids, not relaxing at all if you are a couple, and not once did they do anything for the adults, it was definately butlins in Greece.

The beach was awful, very dangerous and you must wear shoes, a guy cut his toe open whilst we were there. Kardamena was excellent, the beach was great, bars and resturants superb.

Kardamena was above all the most liveliest area, mainly for 16 year olds on 18-30's, but it is very easy to get away from the main strip if you don't like that kind of thing. We found an excellent cocktail bar on the beach which we went to most nights.

Kardamena is about a 50 min walk from the hotel and best to walk along the beach road. There is a free bus which runs regularly from the hotel to Kardamena, it's jamm packed and so hot though but worth it.

We went on a coach trip to Bubble Beach, well worth going to, don't book your trip through the hotel we only paid 5 euro each to go to bubble beach, the hotel were charging 45 euro! There is a little agent in Kardamena called Harriet Travel go there. We also went to Turkey on a day trip which was also cheaper through Harriet, but definately would not go there again, you get haggled.

It's about 10 degrees hotter than Greece and not what you think it would be, the market was rubbish.

We hired a quad on the last two days and this was excellent, we toured the island and it was beautiful, definatley worth doing and such a good experience.

Kos Town is lovely and so is the mountain Zia, Zia is lovely at sunset.

All in all we had a very good holiday, very expensive as we had to venture out, drink out etc. we would'nt go back there again unless we had children. But food is superb! Hotel great!

Hotel rooms cleaned to a good standard.

Didn't like the shower. The shower curtain only went half way down so when you had a shower the water went all over the bathroom, had to put loads of towels down to mop up the water.(no bath in the rooms).

The hotel was kept very clean.

We went all inclusive but wasn

The hotel was very clean and tidy at first but our week ended in the school holidays and the busier it got, the untidier the pool area became.

The food in the restaurant was very nice but not much in the way of desserts. Only ice cream for the children.

The food around the pool consisted of chips, pizza, toasties and ice cream and there was often a queue.

I would recommend this hotel for families as there is a large pool with plenty of sun beds and umbrellas and also a two children's pools.

There are plenty of activities all day and night for all of the family but the nightly entertainment starts late so can be tiring for the children.

There is a short walk across a road to the beach which is lovely. You must wear shoes in the sea as there are rocks and it is very slippery.

Visited Akti Club in July '05

Rooms were very well maintained with friendly maids. However plastic cups served during day spill regularly next to pool and attract all sorts of beasties. Saw a hornet the size of a cow.

Entertainment. Bring cards. Bunch of daft Germans pulling hankies out of a top hat was alright for the kids but not for anyone with a mental age over five.

Beach was pretty bad. Lots of shingles mean you have to wear sandals at all times.

Staff were typical Greek who constantly eyed up my girlfriend. Very helpful though.

Don't hire quads from the complex. Mine was defective and steering / brakes locked whilst going 25mph. Spent over

We found our stay very pleasant.

FOOD: very good and plenty of choice.

ENTERTAINMENT: ok for a family holiday

CLEANLINESS: our room was spotless and cleaned every day.( and surprisingly spacious)

LOCATION: fine for us, as we had no intention in going out and about. 5 yards from the beach, Kardemena 30 min walk along to beach road.

REPS: very helpful.

My only complaint about this hotel is that because we went early in the year the outside theatre(for entertainment) wasnt yet open so everyone was in the bar area which became very cramped.(Invaded by mosquitos, but I think that was a one off)

Recommend a trip into Kos town, we had a great day.