Pilot Beach Resort

A life time experience! A wonderful dream everyone has to live! Pilot beach hotel is a unique holiday destination! Thank you so much for your hospitality, Pilot beach hotel!

We had a wonderful two-week holiday at Pilot Beach. Staying in a seafront villa made a huge difference for us, so it was definitely worth paying extra. The location is gorgeous - an absolutely stunning sandy beach with crystal-clear water, a secluded setting surrounded by dunes, mountains and hotel grounds that are green and immaculate. During our two weeks, we had one week of yellow (big waves) and red (no swimming) flags and one week of green flags. When it’s a green flag, it’s absolute heaven. Beware of mosquitoes! We got bitten severely and couldn’t even sit on the balcony in the evenings. I’d strongly recommend bringing insect repellent and something to treat the bites - I can highly recommend Anthisan. The swimming pool offering is really strong. The pool on the beach was lovely as was the largest one near the main building and we could always find a sun lounger. We did wish there was a better menu at the beach bar. They had wraps and desserts but our child lives on chicken nuggets and French fries and we would have loved to see something like a Greek salad on the menu! Also, quite a few drinks aren’t included in the AI package such as smoothies and fresh orange juice. I’ve attached a sample menu. There are lots of tavernas if you walk along the beach in either direction so food was never a problem. I’d highly recommend the smoothies and snacks at Paradise Cafe. There’s also a lovely mini-market at the hotel. We absolutely loved the food and service at the main restaurant, Kronos. Everything was really tasty and we didn’t get tired of it even after two weeks. The set menu at the Asian restaurant was nice but we didn’t find it particularly filling and there was an additional charge of 20euro per person. Beach towels are changed in the room which is very efficient. The toiletries are good quality but bring your own hair conditioner or you can buy some at the mini-market. One thing we found annoying was that the shower pressure went down and the water became cold around 7–8 pm, just when most people (including us!) were getting ready for dinner. I never thought I’d pay much attention to the quality of evening entertainment but on some days when the hotel’s own animation team were reenacting famous musicals it was more like a primary school show. The live music at the beach bar on the other hand was always lovely. We also really liked the hotel app where you could easily find all the information and schedules. Car rental at the hotel is about twice as expensive as in Georgioupolis. As some people have already commented there are a few things that let the hotel’s 5-star status down. The hot water issue mentioned above was one of them. The condition of some facilities was another - my son got stuck in the toilet twice, the departure showers and beach toilets are pretty awful and smell of sewage. The tunnel between the main building and the beach could also do with a bit of TLC. The kid’s bed is only a small folding bed. The further grounds where the football and volleyball fields are located don’t have a proper fence and overlook fields with abandoned buildings and construction machinery, which was spooky after dark. And cherry on the cake, they wouldn’t let us have dinner on our check-out day even though we hadn’t had dinner on our check-in day. After a two-week stay we thought this was rather mean. For all of these reasons I’m taking one star off my rating. Overall, though, we had a really good and much-needed rest and we might consider coming back again in the future.

Location was amazing, right on the beach also near the swimming pool and bar. Very clean hotel never saw rubbish anywhere. Atmosphere was great all staff were happy to help always happy. Rooms were cleaned everyday fresh towels for room and pool daily, new bottled water everyday. Beds made daily too. Everything about the holiday was great my son is very active and there was something for him to do most of everyday. We will definitely go back .