Porto Bello Royal

We love staying here. It is lovely and clean and welcoming. Plenty of space. Good selection of buffet food. Many pools. Great all inclusive hotel. Access to the beach and family friendly. Staff are all very friendly and helpful. I would highly recommend this hotel to my family and friends.

There were some exterior areas which could do with some maintenance eg. Concrete floors which could be fixed. Other than that, nothing to not like about this lovely hotel.

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The food was very good for all-inclusive. The restaurants by the beach were very good too. The pools were great. Great private beach

The pillows were like stone. A bit remote but we were happy to stay in the hotel.

The buffet was good but nothing about the hotel was 5*

Bellboys didn’t even take our luggage in or to the taxi. Simple requests were ignored. Dirty towels remained in the room for the duration of the stay, toilet paper was single ply and like tracing paper. The offerings at the bars were very basic. Pools were all cold, while there were many of them, they were all the same. None were heated. The kids club was a shack with very basic amenities and next to no security, definitely not somewhere you can leave your child!

Right on the beach, beautiful sea, lots of pools

It’s massive. We had to walk 15min to eat, go to the beach, etc. I paid for a sea view and was “upgraded” to a swim-in room with no sea - view Doctor on site works 1hr/ day Food can be incredibly repetitive for 7 days

Great views, attentive staff, plenty of pools so you can always find a sun bed, shade etc. Enjoyed the buffet breakfast. Every meal service had plenty of options.

Whilst the breakfast buffet was consistently good. We found that numerous dishes at lunch/evening all tasted the same or were exteremly salty. Not many greek options, very much catered to tourists. Would of loved to have tried more local dishes rather than burgers, chips and pizzas. Lots of deserts to choose from but all tasted very bland apart from the odd dish.

+/- Family Room with Sea View in the main building (close to the restaurants) with VERY NICE view. No sun umbrella nor pergola on the terrace = unusable during direct sunlight. + Lot of pools to choose from +/- Close proximity of the decent Aquatica Aquapark (no food and drinks are allowed to bring with - you have to buy everything on site). Aquapark is not big. 2,5hours is sufficient to fully explore it and have fun. You have 10% discount when Porto Bello bracelet is shown. + LG smart TV in the rooms with HDMI ports to connect Laptop/iPad and watch your own content + Usable Wi-Fi (EU data plan is still better choice) + Bring snorkels - there are fish in the sea + Running/Jogging possibility along the beach or along the road to the nearest town Kardamaina. +/- Hotel shop with good selection and cold Starbucks coffee. There is no immediate outside hotel shopping availability. You have to go 3km to the nearest town. +/- I recommend to request room beside to pool to have proper shade and own sun loungers possibility. It seemed to me there are not enough sun loungers for the amount of guest (so you have to wake up early to put the towel on it - and of course use it during the day. You encounter lot of "reserved" sun loungers with no one using it through the whole day). No one is enforcing hotel rule which forbids block the sun lounger. +/- Main hotel restaurant has decent international food selection. But we found greek/asian cousine "weird" and unable to chose from. Dinner should start earlier. 7PM is too late. Inexplicably hotel sometimes opens the door for dinner at 6:45PM. So, if you come at 7 sharp you find no free table inside (airconditioned).

- COLD POOLS - only during one day (air was 40 C) it was pleasant to chill and play with the children in the pool. During other days (30-35 degrees and windy weather) the water was cold (our children were shaking during extended stay in the pool - essential tremor). Hotel should invest in the solar panels to have electricity for the pool heating. - Loud and leaky (water dripping) A/C. One AC unit was weak the other one did not work. Technicians had to repair it twice. Even so it was loud and made strange noise. We were forced to switch it off during the night. - Full Inclusive gives you drinks in the cups. No bottles, no cans. Fridge is filled irregularly with cans (no Pepsi MAX). So you are forced to buy your own. - Water bottles are made from very thin plastic, so you spill the water around when opening the bottle for the first time. - Pool bars open at 11AM. Too late for us. - Rooms in the main buildings suffers from night music program noise (stops around 22:30) and cigarette smoke smell (in the basement there is hotel staff room where employees are smoking and the smell goes up through the stairs). - Public hotel restrooms stink - You often find garbage around the resort and on the beach. - Hotel beach beds (sun loungers) have BLACK LEATHER cushions. So any inch exposed without towel burns you alive. - Umbrellas around the pool and beach are small and provides insufficient shade coverage. Pergolas would be much better. - Family Room has thin doors and no sound insulation between the beds for adults and children. So it is merely just poor optical barrier between to room areas. - In room bathroom drainage smells badly. - Windy weather sometimes - Sea is cold - be prepared for it. Extended stay in it is not pleasant. - Beach has sand, but the sea entrance has rocks. - Hotel bins have separated slots for plastic and paper, BUT the bin lids with the appropriate labels are often displaced. So guests have no choice but to mix the waste without separation.

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