Alkionis Hotel Corfu

Our first holiday on Zakynthos this year was not that good due to bad weather (rain, wind, cloudy). We wanted sun and we did not plan the second holiday early, 3 weeks before we travelled we started we booked a trip and a stay in this hotel, of course more expensive then booking very early. Our main focus in all the reviews is "Hotel is clean". For sure this is true. We did not see dirt, our room and bath was very clean, the whole Hotel was clean. The staff doing this was very nice. This was not ensured in 4 star Hotels. Here you get what you pay for. Room was big enough for us both, bathroom size was ok and it was also ok that some water runs in the bathroom, but not a lot. What we were missing was some kind of holder for our shower accessoires. There is no shampoo etc in the bath room. Only a soap holder but who wants to take a shower with soap..? Staff was in general very friendly. I read somewere that the barkeeper Theo collects beer mats, i brought him two and he was happy. So if anyone reads this, bring him something from your area. There are two employees for the breakfast (maybe more but we only had breakfast), the older one was very nice, he sings and says kalimera. The younger one does not even say hello or recognizes the guests, can be improved. In some reviews here on tripadvisor it was mentioned, that one (of the 3) blonde receiptionists is rude. The other two were very nice, i would not say rude but she was not very friendly to me (at least 3 occasions). To my girlfriend she was, maybe its that my girlfriend is more a nice and friendly person ;) but at least in this industry you should be friendly to all. Hotel collects the tax but does not accept this to be paid via card, questions for reasons resulted in a discussion with.. you know.. lady above. Safe costs 2,50 Euro a day, from my perspective this should be included but i was in Hotels were AC costs. Safe is not with number but with a key you need to store. Pool towels are 20 Euros deposist, cleaning costs 2 Euros, i think thats fair. Coming back to AC, it was preset to 24 which was ok for us. It is possible to start night mode so the AC runs the full night, someone mentioned it stops after 20 minutes, thats not true if you use the correct function. Breakfast was.. hm... for my girlfriend perfect, i missed something compared to other greek Hotels. It had a lot of fruits and nice Joghurt and other greek deserts. Sausage, ham and cheeses was ok. The bread or "Brötchen" were not my type but this might be me. Focus on breakfast style was more Brit oriented with beans and stuff. Not my favorite. Only one day we had boiled or fried eggs in 6 days. I expect eggs to be available every day. Twice we had little sausages which were good, the other days it was bacon. In general it was ok but i was missing alternatives. We did not have dinner, the buffet looked ok but the days we looked there was nothing really greek special at all. But there are several nice restaurants nearby were i