Skiathos Palace Hotel

I gave 4 stars due to being placed in a room with a brick wall for a view! Very disappointing! But, hotel responded to our request for a room change. It is a lovely hotel, friendly staff, good choice of food. It is placed on a hill, but if you aren’t keen on steps, hills they do offer a courtesy bus to/from beach, also to Skiathos town which is a short 15 min journey. No lifts. Next to a most beautiful beach. A very satisfying stay despite hiccup. I will return.

We booked the Palace hotel having stayed in Skiathos many times and also admired the position of the hotel. The reviews looked pretty good and so we went for a standard room with a sea view. First room we were allocated smelt damp in fact you could see damp on the outside of the room door, damaged furniture poorly decorated and not particularly clean either. Asked for a move due the condition took 3 days. Second room slightly better but had a broken fridge for 4 days. Standard of the room still really poor as was the house keeping standard which was just awful. You could here people around the pool discussing the various issues they were having and it seemed to be a pretty common issue in that the rooms were just awful. Top tip if you must book here don’t go for half board the food in the main restaurant buffet is like something from the 1970’s in fact if you took away the odd flat screen TV a time traveller from 1972 would feel right at home Last thing to mention is the service at best it’s hot and miss at worst the staff come across angry and rude.

Just come back from a week at this hotel, to which we have been previously. Nice to read before we travelled that had received the appropriate certifications on Covid measures. The staff were friendly and room was certified as Covid cleaned. albeit starting to look a little bit tired and need of a refresh. Meals were in the open air by the pool because the weather permitted that, so it felt safe eating there also. Sunbeds were appropriately spaced apart both by the pool and on the beach below. Service was very good. Airport experience at Birmingham and flight/transport with Jet2 in resort also felt very safe.