Anamar Santorini

I was so excited to be in Santorini, 1st time…but this hotel although cute; its located near airport, the constant noise of the planes is annoying but the smell of the diesel fuel that i understand is due to being near a diesel plant is awful; its as if you can taste it. The towels are air dried which I wouldn’t hate but incredibly abrasive …I also noticed I started getting bites overnight and attributed it to mosquitoes but my last night I was bitten 9x on my hand arm leg and chest and fairly certain I experienced bed bugs. I was flying to Mykonos immediately went to a pharmacy got cortisone cream & all natural bug spray as the itch and inflammation was unbearable for 2-3 days. Also, i was here for 3 days did not rent a car got the bus into Fira ez enough (to then transfer & go to Oia) however the hotel is so far from EVERYTHING….the only thing its close to is the airport.

This hotel was a delightful surprise. I selected it because we needed an overnight stay before flying home from Santorini. I selected it because of it’s proximity to the airport and because it was relatively inexpensive. Having said that, I wish we had booked it for longer as in many ways except one it was far superior to the other far more expensive hotels in which we had stayed. Our arrival at the hotel could have been under better circumstances. We had asked the hotel to organise a transfer from the ferry port to the hotel. In the chaos that is Santorini ferry port the driver had failed to meet us. As it turned out, this was not his fault. The ferry company changes ships that morning and was late arriving in Santorini, hence the mix-up. We ended up in a packed mini-bus doing a tour of the island eventually arriving at our hotel. The welcome we received at the hotel was wonderful. They were most apologetic for the mix-up even though it was in no way their fault. To compensate us for our inconvenience they provided a beautiful platter of fruit, which we thoroughly enjoyed eating on our patio outside our room. Next morning they even insisted on covering the cost of our taxi to the airport. The hotel was a short walk down a quiet road to the small village and beach of Monolithos, which was another delight. Our room was adequate with a comfortable bed. The only drawback was that the sink was in the room and the shower in the shower room had no door so than everything got wet, but this was a budget price hotel where the benefits greatly outweighed the drawbacks. Breakfast was an ample buffet that could either be eaten in the breakfast room or by the pool. The pool even had a bar service that was open all day. This hotel was a wonderful find.