Lindos Royal

Very disappointed in this hotel it’s tired and needs upgrading. The food was awful and cold, Iv never ever had such bad food at an all inc hotel and we stay at a few every year. Drinks again awful we ended up paying for drinks in the lobby bar, you couldn’t even sit in the calypso bar due to the vile smell. I’d never stay here again.

As the title of this review suggests, this should not be advertised by the UK travel companies as a 5 star hotel. 3 star at best. There are some features of the hotel that make it look and feel like a 5 star. The reception/lobby looks great as you arrive and the staff are very helpful. The main restaurant also looks great as the photos demonstrate. However our room was very tired and in need of decoration/updating. We booked a family room with garden view. The wardrobes looked like they were pieced together with leftover panels from an IKEA pack. The bathroom was also tired - the shower was ok but it looked like I grouted the tiles (FYI I am awful at DIY!). That being said, the beds were comfy and our towels were changed everyday. It did the job though. The pool areas are also in need of updating. Water from both the pools and the rain had a tendency to gather in places and the tiles when wet were very slippery. There were also loose tiles in the pools and around the pool areas. The waterslides kept the kids entertained but there were muddy areas and again, slippery tiles. The slides are also far from the main pool and bar areas. The pool bar was nice with a good atmosphere but again was quite tired and in need of some TLC. The nicest bar in the hotel which looked part of a '5 star' resort is the bar behind the lobby. However, this bar is not part of the all inclusive offering as it was serving premium drinks (Mythos beer, international branded spirits etc.) The location of the hotel is good. Nice and fairly isolated but close to beautiful Lindos which is a 12 euro cab ride away. As mentioned before, the main restaurant area is a nice place to eat. The food was generally varied and tasty catering for all tastes (the freshly made pizza is excellent) and the grill area had different offerings each evening. However some of the buffet food was lukewarm at times. Same can be said for breakfasts and lunch. The desserts and cakes were excellent and varied from day to day. The afternoon food at the pool bar was good for a quick snack. Pizza and fries on offer every day, with a third offering of either burgers, nuggets or gyros depending on day. For the facilities, towels are a 10 euro deposit, the safe in the room costs extra and there are no irons and ironing boards in the rooms. The latter 2 items I would normally expect to be standard for a 5 star hotel. It is a very short downhill walk to the pebbly beach. Be weary of the larger rocks in the water by the shore but once you're in, the water is crystal clear and great for snorkeling and fish spotting. To summarise, we did enjoy our week stay. The hotel ticked most boxes and the staff are wonderful but it is missing the 'wow factor' you'd expect for 5 stars. But maybe that's me being picky.... We did enjoy our week stay

On arrival looks amazing but you will notice you are isolated to a degree,so let's start with the room nice clean but needs a bit of tlc. Open the door to our swim up pool looks great but again dirty in places and needs new loungers.Broken light and wires coming out of wall. Reported hair dryer not working but never fixed or replaced. Food, well don't think I had a hot meal all week the variety wasn't too bad but quality was lacking. Drinks were average but limited selection. The themed restaurants please avoid, the planters are full of cigarette ends and cat s..t The staff, helpful and polite. So overall the hotel is not a five star hotel far from it to honest,if they invested a bit of money and followed the theme of the bar where you are charged to drink (not all inclusive) this could be a good 4 star hotel but at the moment it is lacking in so many ways.

On our last day today, so positives, food wonderful, the main buffet is great and plenty choice for being all inclusive and resort has a nice feel to it. Many pools to choose from and slides pool is great fun for all ages. Staff all friendly and hard working and hotel is clean. Our family room in the (suite) 2000s block has gorgeous glass balcony and has been 70% refurbished with only the dated bathroom and old style doors remaining. That said the bathroom is huge. Views from hotel are amazing and you can book three restaurants per 7 night stay. These are worth going to, however, being vegetarian seemed to be an issue at the themed restaurants, which surprised me. Housekeeping does a great job and the resort cats are gorgeous and well behaved and the cats add to the ambience. Staying in October you can get a sun-bed easily, I don’t think this would be the case in the summer months, there are not enough for the hotel being full by far. The new reception and bar area is amazing and if this is the shape of things to come then this resort could be one of the best on Rhodes and the resort does need it. The spa is fantastic with well priced treatments and the lady who runs it is amazing. Things which need improvement, the all inclusive drinks are not good, so much so after our 5th night I could no longer have them, been to a few inclusive resorts and never had drinks like these. The pool bar wasps and flies were everywhere, there is no need for this. The wooden awnings and canopies across all restaurants are badly worn and need attention. There is a private cove area and grassed sun-bed area which is in a stunning spot, however, this is all tired and a mess., which is sad as it could be stunning. You’ll see many reviews mentioning slippery floors, the floors are slippy across the whole hotel and pool area drainage is very bad, so much so that you walk through stagnant water to get to your sun-bed. You actually watch people tentatively walking and almost slipping all the time, easily rectified with better drains and rubber mats for main walkways. My husband fell coming out of our room after a light shower of rain, so all tiled areas are hazardous. If you have small children, be aware, there is a-lot of glass across the whole resort too and the resort is wide open, anyone can walk in and the surrounding hotels, which are owned by the same group, have corridors/doors connecting them all. On the second last day we had money stolen from our locked hotel safe, the same day that we had lots of issues with our door key, this was disappointing as I had only read of locked safe thefts happening in Turkey. There is such a large gap under the room door that it would not be hard to unlock the room, and the safes have a staff master code for emergencies etc, but who knows, as could have easily been another guest or outsider. Underneath the Digital panel there are screws, so the safe is really not great. We brought cash for cabs/tips etc. I would highly recommend that for cash and/or sentimental valuables, to bring a key safe/mobile safe and just place this is your hotel safe or keep all valuables with you at all times. Despite this, we did enjoy our weeks stay, would we return? Probably not, due to theft, the terrible all inclusive drinks and the extensive TLC this resort still urgently needs.