Aeolian Village Beach Resort

Excellent location great breakfast and dinner beautiful beach and excellent beach bar facilities including very clean toilets (not easy to find on beaches in Lesvos!) very close to the center of skala eressos. the rooms are large but in urgent need of renovation especially the bathrooms!… the showers are leaking and they do not even try to fix them!

We were extremely disappointed with our trip to Aeolian Village this summer (with Mark Warner). The resort is incredibly basic and not up to scratch. My thoughts are below - The resort is basic and not more than 2*s. We don’t seek luxury resorts on our holidays, but this was disappointing. - As a MW guest, you’re expected to share the resort with Jet2 holidaymakers. Not only do they get an all-inclusive package at the resort, but they pay far less and get to use most of the sports facilities / classes. - There is a large campsite next to the resort and we saw people come in daily and use resort showers with their dogs etc. There is no resort security. The grey thing about MW holidays is the freedom / independence that the kids can experience and as a result, we couldn’t let our kids go off like at other MW resorts (ie Phokaia). - There is a car park / road between the resort and beach. - The rooms were similar to university accommodation - not well decorated or inviting. - Our balcony door was broken (clearly forced open) and we sought to get this fixed (twice) with Ali the Manager. When we raised this he never followed up with us - it was broken all week. This was dangerous from an intruder perspective (there is no security at the resort) and also from our kids being able to access the balcony easily. - The pool and furniture and the bar was basic - plastic chairs etc and very dated. As a result we didn’t spend time there at all. - The towel system was weird. You needed to hold onto beach towels for half the week or pay 15 euros. Felt very naff and the towel man was never there. - Whilst I don’t care about this as much, the coffee was awful. Best coffee at beach bar which didn’t open until 11 on most days. The MW staff here (not including the manager who didn’t sort out broken door) were incredible. They were brilliant. The rooms were cleaned well and the restaurant staff were also nice. The local village was also lovely. Those are the benefits. I can honestly say we don’t usually complain, but we are really disappointed with this stay which felt like a huge rip off for such basic amenities. We have raised this with MW Customer Services who seem incredibly unhelpful and indifferent which has put us off using MW again. After being a MW customer, we will not be using them again. Neilsons next year! I really wouldn’t book at this resort if you have the option.