Aeolos Bay Tinos

The hotel is in an excellent location about 10 minute walk from the main town. It is opposite a beach with nice views. We booked a junior suite with a sea view (via a Tour Operator). Not much ‘suite’ about it but it was acceptable. More pool /side sea view than sea view but better than overlooking the street at the back of the hotel. The room had a large double bed, a fridge, chairs, table, TV and full length mirror. There are no enclosed wardrobe spaces, just open hanging areas and shelves. There is a safe, which did not work. The balcony was small by ok with two chairs and small table. The bathroom was very dark, internal with no windows and offered a strange walk in shower that looked like it had been carved from faux rock. Whilst it was was cleaned it didn’t feel it due to the paint colours used an off white grey colour. Small hairdryer in bathroom - again OK if you are not looking to do any great hairstyling. The room needs updating but air con good and room cleaned daily and quite early. Plentiful hot water. There is not much around the property but we found a small mini market a couple of roads behind the hotel which did not show on Google maps. The hotel has two lifts. Again quite dated but were out of use one morning due to ongoing power cuts. The public areas are again tired and ‘messy’ with electric bikes charging by the bar. The bar did snacks and drinks but the as not fully manned and the hotel bar closed at 20:00. Bar food and drinks acceptable, but the menu reduced towards the end of the week. The pool bar was closed for the whole week of our stay. Breakfast is basic and you can sit outside on the terrace. It was exceptionally busy during our stay with a bus tour and lots of pushing and shoving to get the last piece of bread! The pool is again acceptable. Salt water. Ranging from about a metre to 2.5 metres. Relatively quiet during our stay other than the local children who were allowed to fine in and use the pool in the afternoon. The noise was unbearable pure screaming and any chance of reading and enjoying a relaxing afternoon was not possible. The hotel should think carefully about the satisfaction of their guests first. Not that many sun beds but they were comfortable with food fixed parasols. A shower is available and there are toilets. The area again is OK but needs a good clean. Drinks and coffee has been spilt and not cleaned up. Staff were responsive and friendly and assisted if asked for help. The positives are definitely location but the hotel could be excellent with a little attention.

This hotel suited us for a short stay in Tinos and the location was great, really near the main harbour. We stayed in a standard triple room, it was small and quite basic and wouldn't have been suitable for a longer stay (we stayed for 2 nights). The air conditioner was old and would drip water on to one of the beds each night, as well as overflowing on to the small balcony. The breakfast was quite limited but the staff were all really friendly and kind. The pool was nice, plenty of sunbeds and umbrellas, but the area did smell of old water quite a lot. The true highlight was the restaurant which was very reasonable and the food was delicious.