Filoxenia Hotel Tsilivi

My husband and I spent the last week of August here, and I'm writing this review whilst awaiting our airport transfer. The hotel has the most pleasant staff and all work tirelessly to please their guests. I booked the deluxe room, in my opinion a must. The room cost £50 more on booking.com but included taxes, air con, safe, daily bottled water and a tv which had YouTube, Amazon prime and Netflix. We also had a welcome fruit bowl and lovely bottle of red. Take a look at the photos, the room is stunning. The food although not a vast amount to choose from was warm and tasty. The only complaint I would have is the drinks are poor so we bought a couple of bottles of wine and drank in the room, before venturing out in to town. As mentioned the town is a little bit of a trek mostly due to the high temperatures and for this reason we would in June or mid September. All in all a fantastic stay we really didn't want to come home.

This hotel is beautifully run, all the staff are lovely, to reception, the bar staff, the waitress and waitresses nothing was too much trouble. The cleaners there are so sweet, I stayed in room 104 and the little blonde cleaner was the sweetest lady ever, so happy, and let our room lovely. The food was really nice, I’m a vegetarian and there is plenty options to choose from, the chef would continually be filling up should the plates become low. Some of the nicest sweet stuff I’ve tasted in a while. Oh the Tzatziki they have there is 👌 please don’t be put off by any negative reviews about the food. There is two pools, two bars, you can be served from 10.00am till 6.00am on one bar and 10.00am till 11.00am, well that’s where the all inclusive ends but they keep the bar open till after midnight should you wish to pay and to be honest, I think that’s fair enough. The walk to the main strip is 15 minutes, not long at all, the bars are really good and there’s loads of themed nights eg abba, Taylor Swift etc etc. The beach is a good walk but the hotel offers you a free of charge transport to get you there and pick you up, the only negative is that the beds at the beach are expensive. €20 per bed some areas, although we managed to get a set abit further down at a cost of € 25 but there was 5 of us so it cost us €50 as two shared. Overall it was a very pleasant stay and I would highly recommend this hotel

Was a little worried about this hotel before coming but have to say we had a lovely time. Vicky on reception is great and really made our holiday, she’s a credit to Diana group. Yes this hotel is a bit of a way out but after a few times the walk was actually lovely. If you don’t want to walk there’s a shuttle 4 times a day. The van is a bit battered and not luxurious on the inside but the driver is great and works so hard for the hotel-he deserved a tip. We had a 2 bedroom apartment and it did us well. Very spacious. Food was good, got a bit bored of breakfast but in all honesty even if we had eaten out what would be the options??? Not much different. The bar staff were friendly and would make basically anything you wanted. No sunbed wars here, yes some would put their towel out at 8am but that was just because they’d gone for breakfast. We came back from popping out at midday and was able to get a bed around the pool. The only negatives I’d give to this hotel is how far out it is. Although it only takes 15 minutes to get to the start of town it’s the returning but we got a cab most times that cost 10 euros. Also the entertainment, Wednesdays are the best, Greek night! The singers on Sundays and Mondays were ok but not fab. Overall we would definitely stay here again though.

Family of 4, children age 16 & 14. We all had an AMAZING 2 weeks here! The hotel is a perfect size so not too busy. 2 main pools and 2 bar areas. Plenty of sunbeds and seating areas on both sides. We spent our daytimes around the pool by the animation bar, run by the wonderful Alexandra! We were introduced by friends we met to iced coffee with cream liqueur - absolutely beautiful! Ask Alexandra for a “Dirty Milkshake” as I named it 😂. It’s also beautiful with iced chocolate too. She also serves a lovely G&T, which was our daily drink. Entertainment at the Animation bar is fun with something on a Friday, Sunday, Monday & Tuesday. There is a Greek night once a week at the other bar with great music and Greek dancing - so much fun! This was our first time doing All Inclusive and we were very impressed. The food is lovely and varied, but to be honest there isn’t much for really fussy eaters. Chips most days….. fish fingers occasionally….. pizza occasionally. All is cooked perfectly and stocked up as soon as becomes low. I thoroughly enjoyed the beef stifado, anything pork and the chicken was delicious. The turkey wasn’t my thing. The oven potatoes were gorgeous. Breakfast was great also with a good selection of Greek bacon, mini sausages, baked beans, scrambled eggs, fried eggs etc. plenty of salad at all times, plus fresh melon/watermelon/apple etc. Desserts at lunch and dinner were amazingly good. Snacks are served mid-PM and afternoon tea 5-6. Everywhere was kept clean at all times. All the staff work so hard! We would 100% return.

We just got back from 8 days here, and having read some of the worst and best reviews can give my thoughts. The staff are delightful, it has a family feeling to the place, when we arrived the receptionist went out of her way to be friendly and welcoming. Alexandra working on the second pool bar during the day was perfect charming and helped us with beach recommendations and taxi numbers. The day barmen in the main bar were friendly and chatty and taught people greek and Albanian words if you were nice to them. The cleaners were happy and made no fuss when my son wet the bed twice! For what it's worth, I was aware the air con cost money to have it on 24/7 when I booked, I was aware that Greece has tourist taxes and they'd need to be paid. Yes the beds are firm. We slept ok, I suffer from sciatica, this didn't aggravate it at all but if firm beds bother you, maybe not your ideal. This is a small hotel, so you don't get a massive array of food like I've had in massive complexes before but you also get no queue at the bar, no distance from your room to the pool or bar and the staff know you. Back to the food: Breakfast: fruit, beans, sausages (mini ones), eggs (various) and some pastries. The fried and boiled eggs were the best, omelette and scrambled eggs weren't to my pallette. cold cheeses and meat (all good), toast, jam, honey, fresh bread, cereal. I could always find something to eat as could my 7+9 year olds. sometimes American pancakes, sometimes bread and butter pudding!!! Lunch: salads, pasta, stewed tomatoes, fruit, desserts Afternoon snack: pasta, salads, pizza Afternoon Cake: various, some delicious, some ok Dinner: various, from pastas to cooked meats in gravy to chicken thighs, sometimes fish fingers, just lots of varied foods. And some salads and lots of dessert. Food Summary: I could have given some tips on some of the food from an English pallet, an omelette station would have been amazing. It was 37 degrees while we were there and each day people did reserve beds earlier and earlier especially after the shade... the beds never ran out, but the shades did. Not an easy one to enforce but I was getting beds and shade still at 9:20 each day which didn't feel early. 11 o'clock cut off for all inclusive is annoying, but again it's a small hotel, there aren't many people up at that time drinking, they could just close the bar! On the comments about watered down beer, they have two beers: one is less strong called zorbas, they tend to lean towards that if you're steaming, or they think you might not want to drink too strong all day. or there's another high strength one. my experience was the g+t were generous. Overall we loved our stay here. i'd definitely go smaller more intimate hotels than massive soulless hotels. there's also free table tennis. and the pools are a decent size. Some rooms are more modernly furnished than others we found. oh I also took my own travel router to bounce the free WiFi into our bedroom as it doesn't really work in the bedrooms otherwise. it's fast enough though!