King Minos Retreat Resort & Spa

“Stay at King Minos”

Great stay at the King Minos made even better by a massage from Dina! Highly recommend.

“So nearly perfect!”

Great rooms, food, atmosphere, setting. All the staff are really friendly and accomodating. Its beautifully kept clean. A great variety of food and drinks. The all inclusive drinks have a great choice with most drinks included and only a few exceptions. The pool isnt too busy with loads of comforta… more

Great rooms, food, atmosphere, setting. All the staff are really friendly and accomodating. Its beautifully kept clean. A great variety of food and drinks. The all inclusive drinks have a great choice with most drinks included and only a few exceptions. The pool isnt too busy with loads of comfortable sun beds which are nicely spaced out, and no early morning rush with the towels. You can turn up at 10 and still get one. Chilled music plays all day in the background with occasional live musicians too. Food is served in the restaurant to a very high standard and great choices evey day, you can sit in the lovely air conditioned restaurant or outside terrace with beautiful sea view and evening sunset. Lovely cuttlery and attentive staff attend to all your needs. The rooms are superbly clean modern and spacious with selective lighting modes and the high point of individual private terrace with seating area, sunbeds and private pool. Ok so here's the down sides. Location is not beach front as I selected on my filters with Jet2 who I booked with. Its a short walk to the beach which is downhill and you have to cross the main road or go through a very low tunnel where you have to crouch down. Its only short but maybe not so easy for elderly or less able. Also there are no bars and restaurants in the immediate vicinity of the hotel, its 10 to 20 minute walk to civilisation, but some may view that as a good thing. My main bug bare with the hotel, which may be a deal breaker for some is in this hotel which accommodates 500 guests, there is only one bar which is at the pool. To add to this there is only one member of staff which makes the drinks and only 2 or 3 waiters. For this reason we found in the daytime time, its hard work getting a drink. You can order drinks from the waiters, but it can take ages for your drinks to come, sometimes you only get one drink when you've ordered 3 and sometimes they dont come at all. This has really been disappointing and spoilt things for us a little. This place is premium in every way and is really not cheap, but this just let's the whole thing down. Funny as I read another review before we came that said he same thing, but disregarded it. I can understand they don't want to encourage excessive drinking but we're not big drinkers, but its nice to have a cocktail or two by the pool. There's so much attention to everything here but to make it a perfect 5 please get some more staff in the bar in the daytime.

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“Girls holiday”

Stunning hotel and lovely pool area and rooms, immaculately clean. Also music by the pool at the bar and on occasion live music. The problem I felt was the severe lack of customer service. At dinner we were not offered a drinks menu and when we finally managed to order a drink for the three of us i… more

Stunning hotel and lovely pool area and rooms, immaculately clean. Also music by the pool at the bar and on occasion live music. The problem I felt was the severe lack of customer service. At dinner we were not offered a drinks menu and when we finally managed to order a drink for the three of us it never arrived, same with the guests on table next to us. The staff are clueless when it comes to “serving customers”. This needs to be massively improved. Other than that it was an enjoyable holiday made better by staying at this hotel just hope the management take note and make the appropriate improvements.

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