Samian Mare Hotel Suites & Spa

“Solo trip”

Really loved the service, the room and everything they offer. Seems like a nice place to work. Would definitely recommend this!

“Vacanza in Samian resort in Samos”

I stayed in this resort from August 13 to 24, my family and I had a great time, recently renovated and very well-kept environment, friendly staff, especially at the reception, I recommend it.

“Relaxing hotel, modern and clean”

Great hotel in a quiet area. Great helpful staff. Food was good, drinks all inclusive only beer wine and ouzo based cocktails. Would have been good to have some gin. We went next door to sister hotel and sat in rooftop and had some nice drinks and they were a reasonable priced. Cute little cat alw… more

Great hotel in a quiet area. Great helpful staff. Food was good, drinks all inclusive only beer wine and ouzo based cocktails. Would have been good to have some gin. We went next door to sister hotel and sat in rooftop and had some nice drinks and they were a reasonable priced. Cute little cat always outside hotel, very friendly, was well fed and seemed happy. Rooms nice, pool nice but very busy. We went to Potami beach a few days, mile or so walk and sat on beach with a few drinks ( shades and seats free if you get drinks) at Hippie bar. We went to potami waterfalls as well, good but you have to swim to reach so leave bags at start (risky but seemed ok) we also walked to the old town on the hill and had dinner up there as well was great. Hotel we liked overall.

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“Good and bad”

The good; - Modern, clean rooms and communal areas. - Food was always nice enough. - Pool very attractive. - General staff friendly. - Close by to the potami waterfalls which are worth a visit. The bad; - Had to report a leak in our room 3 separate days. - Pool area too small to accommodate 2… more

The good; - Modern, clean rooms and communal areas. - Food was always nice enough. - Pool very attractive. - General staff friendly. - Close by to the potami waterfalls which are worth a visit. The bad; - Had to report a leak in our room 3 separate days. - Pool area too small to accommodate 2 hotels. It opens at 10am which is late. I like to go out and read my book at about 8am not necessarily to swim but you wasn’t allowed to even sit at a table and chairs in the area until 10am. This meant people queuing in 2 different areas from around 9:15/30am. Although food was nice enough, refreshing it was slow. - Drinks were limited and until 11pm. It felt like an old fashioned all inclusive. Only wine, beer and ouzo based cocktails included. The wine was ok but I was fed up of it half way through the week that we stayed. I don’t like ouzo. - Ice cream only offered at lunch and dinner and for an hour in the afternoon. Snacks which looked like sandwiches and cakes for an hour (I never sampled these so can’t comment on the quality). - Entertainment is 3nts a week. - The beach area isn’t particularly nice. - Area is a bit deserted and run down looking but I do understand that this is partly due to an earthquake in 2020. - The south of the island had more going on. For a sandy beach visit Psili Amos beach. For somewhere with a bit more going on, go to pretty Pythagorion. Note for men; on the last day of our holiday men were informed that they could not wear swim shorts in the restaurant at lunchtime. This is something I’ve never encountered at any hotel before and we travel frequently. Obviously you can understand if it’s wet but that was not the case. Men had to go and change their shorts to be able to enter the restaurant which seems very unnecessary. I did query this as all week this hadn’t been an issue. The manager tried to say that my partners swim shorts were wet. This was an untrue. We’d been out to the shops for a good hour before heading into the restaurant. Rather than accept that he was wrong, he as dishonest about the situation. He said that the sign advised no swimwear but it doesn’t, it states ‘guests are requested to be dressed properly’. Covered over dry swimwear had been fine for the first 6 days we’d been there so it made no sense. I’m not sure if because I queried this they became pedantic because that afternoon my 69 year old mother was advised that she wasn’t allowed to eat the hotel ice cream around the pool which comes in a cardboard cup. Despite everyone around us eating ice cream? If you can’t eat ice cream around the pool area where else are you supposed to eat it?! Strange rules.

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