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| Advantages: |
Well, it's zante . So thats good . . . |
| Disadvantages: |
It's like having a holiday on a farm . . . |
| Recommend to potential buyers: |
no |
Haven been to Kalamaki many times before, I knew what to expect from the resort, and was of the impression that all accommodation in Greece was of similar quality. How wrong I was...
The rainbow apartments are situated on the left of the t-junction at the top of Kalamaki resort, on the road to Zante town. There are about 20 distinct apartments, sixteen in their own block, and a further four above the Rainbow restaurant. The apartments also have a bar, a pool, a volleyball "area", a table tennis table, and a pool table. Everything in the public area is of acceptable quality, although nothing acceptable.
The bar area sells the usual beers (Amstel, Mythos, Heineken etc), a selection of cocktails, Alco pops and soft drinks. These are of a reasonable price, a 500ml beer costs Euros. The pool table is expensive at 1.50 Euros, whilst the table tennis etc is free.
However, my biggest gripe with these apartments was with the accommodation itself. I'll list this for easy reading:
- The apartments are set in what appears to be a quasi farm. In practice this means that you have a number of cockerels crowing constantly from 03:00 to 20:00. This means to get any sort of sleep, you have to close your balcony doors, which in turn means you roast because of the lack of air-con. I was at crisis point a few nights over my fortnight because of these bloody animals and I seriously contemplated wringing a few necks because of it. I did not pay to stay on a farm, far less pay for sleep deprivation torture.
- The design of the apartments means that if one of the other residents door is opened, everyone else's door slams shut. This presents itself in the early mornings when people are getting up early etc and waking everyone else up due to slamming doors. It actually got so bad, that I made a point of slamming our door really loudly to make a point (we had tried to keep our slamming to a minimum up until that point, unlike some of the other residents). I then got a bit of a telling off by the bar guy...
- The rooms themselves were very basic, which you expect in
Greece, but the toilet in our room was pretty smelly, and did not flush well. The bathroom itself was also pretty poor, and I never felt totally clean for the duration of the holiday. Not nice.
- The pool was of fair quality and cleanliness, but I hardly got the chance to use it, as there were a number of turtle conservationists who used the facilities who did not stay there. This meant that actually getting peace to swim was impossible due to the number of people and their stupid pool toys being everywhere. Also they appeared to take umbrage with you if you actually had the audacity to swim as they were usually playing some childish game. Added to the fact that they never bloody shut up and this made it constantly noisy, as well as the fact they took up all the sun loungers. A good time was not had by all.
Apart from this, the apartments were ok. The staff were fairly helpful, and I guess that apart from the toilet, it was clean enough. But the serious lack of sleep and the permitted ignorant freeloaders were enough for me to say-DO NOT CHOOSE TO STAY HERE.
