Kouros Palace Hotel

A lovely place. Good food, Lovely and Helpful Staff who cant do enough to make you happy. There are several excursions that are available to guests. These cost a little but are worth it and much better than just laying around the pool all day. The only downsides to this are place are (i) WIFI is not available in the Hotel's Rooms. Therefore, if you need to do something on your laptop or on your phone and don't have data on your phone. you will need to come and sit in the Hub of the Hotel or the Reception and (ii) There is no cashpoint / ATM on site, so if you did not fly in with cash and need to access cash, you will need to take a taxi into town (which will cost give or take 20 Euros each way) in order to access a Cashpoint / ATM. Therefore, a lovely place, but with these drawbacks, it cannot yet justify calling itself 5 Star.

Gut: see my summary above

Nicht so gut: see my summary above

Lage: see my summary above

Good hotel for families. Amazing beach. a quiet place.

A wonderful calm environment with very young families and older families combined - the two pools were perfect with little ones using the top pool and couples and older teens using the lower pool. The hotel is not walking distance to anywhere, which made it difficult for us to grab some lunch or dinner elsewhere - we were a 10 euro taxi ride away from the local village, and not on an all inclusive package. We had to opt in to dine fully for lunch or dinner (which we weren't keen to do as food & alcohol were a very bog standard buffet) and the hotel had nothing for sale which was cafe style - paninis, pizza etc. The market shop over the road had packet cheese and nothing else, and didn't sell bread! It did feel like we couldn't just snack after a late brekki and then eat out later - 2 taxi rides to town seemed like an effort when we were set up round the pool for the day. Towards the end of the week we discovered Dolphin Bay, which was a shack of a restaurant 10 mins walk away, but a real find! Food and hospitality were wonderfully Greek, with amazing views! All in all, everything was fine - not perfect, but good.

Gut: Modern and fresh ... clean everywhere, friendly, helpful staff. Nice calm vibe, stunning views.

Nicht so gut: The catering facilities. A cafe selling "off inclusive" food and alcohol ....no decent fizz! No quality spirits. The all inclusive was NOT 5 star!

Lage: Not much to do locally. We hired a car for a day twice, as only 40 euros each time, to travel around the island and visit Kos town, which was lovely.