Panselinos Hotel

My friend and I stayed here mid September. Lots of positives and a couple of negatives. First negative, on arrival at about 11pm, our room had a double bed rather than the two singles I had booked. The receptionist seemed quite put out about our request for this to be rectified and said she had waited for our arrival an hour past her shift, despite the fact we were on time. This did see to colour her attitude to us. The bed got converted into two singles the next day by the helpful cleaners after the older lady on reception told the receptionist it could be done. Anyway, had a lovely room which was one of the newly renovated ones. It was very clean and modern whilst the rest of the hotel still had that wonderful authentic Greek style. It is quite isolated though and the nearest decent beach is a 15 walk away (turn right as you leave) opposite a hotel complex and we used their beach sun beds for free and bought lunch and drinks. We used the hotel mini bus to go into Molyvos to use the beach there a few times, not great beaches (take your water shoes for most of the beaches) and we got a taxi to the beach at Anoxos and the little train back. Caught the 10.10 minibus to Molyvos and the 2.30 one back otherwise it’s 7.30 return which just doesn’t work. A taxi is 8 euro. We went into Molyvos for 6/7 evenings and had wonderful meals there at a different taverna every time. Molyvos is just wonderful, unspoilt, uncommercialised, Greece as you want it if you love Greece. We only ate one evening meal at the hotel and it was awful, poor communication about no rice left and then cold roast vegetables which were not actually roasted, was a stew with indistinguishable veggies. On telling the waiter the food was cold he commendably got it heated but it tasted awful. Another waitress asked how our meal was and so I told her, this prompted the chef to come out who said ‘no one died’. I wasn’t sure if this was his idea of humour, don’t think so, but his attitude was poor. Had a great Greek salad there one lunchtime and breakfast was ok, plentiful.

Lovely hotel, with friendly helpful staff. Great pool with wonderful views, lovely view from our room balcony too. Really loved the food, and breakfast included in our package was plentiful and catered for everyone. Quiet place not surrounded by other hotels, great bus service from hotel to Molyvos the local town. Rooms are basic but cleaned daily. Mattresses very comfy. Will definately return.

A tad late with this review, sorry. We decided to sneak an extra week away after being home from our annual visit to Molyvos and thought “why not?’ Soma last minute booking we got the last 2 seats on the plane. Me half way down and the better half at the front! It was interesting to go at a different time than normal and put faces to many names of folk who comment on the Facebook groups. Last drop off by the coach but we were met and shown to our room by a very professional and polite young lady (alas, I can’t recall her name) a quick unpack and straight to the bar where the staff greeted us like old friends. Lovely. Talking of old friends it was hilarious to see people who assumed we’d left not to return until 2024! The pool is massive and we always got sun beds. Breakfast was worth getting up for. A minibus ran to the village each night - once as we were the only passengers the driver went and got his own car “faster and easier” Our room was great. Plenty of space and was cleaned every day. A few times we got back late to the hotel to find the bar still open…win, win! We’d highly recommend the Panselinos and wouldn’t hesitate in going back.

We were originally due to travel to Rhodes but the holiday was cancelled due to the wildfires. We were limited work wise in terms of dates we could travel and Lesvos was one of the only places available. We had a great time overall but probably wouldn’t return here as a family. The views are outstanding- pool looks lovely on an evening and it’s close to a pebbly beach. There are a number of beach options nearby - the beach at Eftalou (15 min walk) is great - free beds/towels if you purchase drinks and snacks from the beach bar! Petra and Anaxos are a bus/taxi away. The hotel offers a lovely breakfast .The rooms are basic! They are clean tho and we had our towels/bed linen changed regularly. The bathroom is a wet room - the shower is right next to the toilet (no shower curtain). The bathroom is treacherous when someone has a shower. Be careful with small children. The hotel offers a free minibus shuttle to Molivos at various points in the day. Without this I think you would feel very isolated if you didn’t have a hire car. You can get a taxi obviously but sometimes the waits for these were long. Molivos is beautiful and we had many lovely evenings here. In summary I would say this is a bit out of the way here for families- it’s definitely more of a couples place. We made it work for us and had a great time but a lot of families were struggling with the location. For info this is not a buggy friendly place. There are no pavements and Molivos has steep cobbled streets! We are past the buggy stage so we were fine but please bear this in mind! The staff are lovely - very friendly and do their best to help!

The bar and pool are lovely. Had our dinner here once food was great. Our room was 539 one of the appertments right at the back. Sadly the cleaning let it down . Cleaning was missed once. Towels were changed every 2 sometimes 3 days. Bedding was not changed at all. When I asked at reception for towel's I was told there were none. Ants in the room. The rooms are dated. But for me the cleaning let it down

Stayed here for a week with my partner and really enjoyed my stay. The hotel has a great location right by the sea and the pool area is large and clean. Rooms are dated but cleaned every day and staff were super friendly always. There was a shuttle bus that took you in and out of Molivos that was an amazing addition as the walk into town is around 30 mins. Thankyou to all the staff for making our stay so great.