Amaronda Resort & Spa Eretria

Very welcoming, friendly and helpful staff. The General Manager was extremely hands on, always made a point of checking on us. Food was always plentiful and the A la Carte on the beach was unforgettable, especially with the sunset. Fabulous

Gorgeous setting. Hotel interior is tastefully furnished. Staff is uniformly cordial and welcoming. But… Rooms inadequately furnished, as in no dressers and scant shelf space. Only six hangers provided for two people. The hot food in the buffet restaurant is perfectly horrid — flavourless, either mushy or overcooked, and inadequately labelled. (It isn’t enough to specify a dish’s Greek name without specifying its contents, I, for one, want to know if something contains meat.) We alerted reception to this oversight, to no avail. We’ve been enjoying all-inclusive holidays for 20 years, and only one place has had worse food. In fairness, the col salads and desserts are often delicious, but we were dismayed by the absence of cough guards above the food, and by the desserts being arrayed low enough to allow unsupervised kiddies to handle them. (We pointed this to out to management, which didn’t act on our complaint,) The a la carte restaurant down by the beach, I will no neglect to mention, is marvellous,

The bungalow we booked was recently refurbished with a nice shared pool. The property had great gardens and pool area. The beach bar and the sandy beach of the property were also great. What we felt could be improved is certainly the food as the quality was low. Moreover, a coffee machine in the superior bungalow is a service that should be added.

Great food, good quality hotel but... all inclusive exist only in 50%. Hotel offer extra pay food and drinks on both bars even if you already bought "all inclusive" option with your travel agency. This causes situations when you need to wait long time, every time if you want order any drink/soda etc., sometimes even 5-7 minutes despite that you are only person in line. Bartenders are rude and treat you like crap. This was really annoying that service on such hotel was so so bad. All bartenders with such attitude should be fired immediately (especially guys on Beach Bar - extremally rude). Hotel mostly for families - lot of children everywhere. Rooms shoudl be soundproofed cause you can hear all noises from corridor and lobby. Another annoying thing is both standards for french and other tourists - french tourists receive special treatment on every place. Hotel segregates guests with different all inclusive bands - firts hotel which do such things...

Sensational hotel - clean, modern, elegant. Excellent food - varied, prepared by enthusiasts of good meals (not only Greek), satisfying even the most demanding culinary tastes. Desserts are at the level of the best pasteries. Big pool and clean beach with a dedicated bar. The "all inclusive" option includes a few drinks, water, juices, cola. We didn't use the snacks between meals, because I had the impression that we were eating too much. Very nice service! And finally, creme de la creme - a brilliant singer and pianist Roula, whose recitals made us happy every evening. She is the soul of this place!

We spent a very nice week. The kids had a great time with the entertainment team either for young kids or teenagers. The choice of activities proposed during the day was diverse enough when we did not go on a tour. The team of the spa is great, very professional and smiling. I can't wait to come back when the hammam will be built. The only problem is the organization of the restaurant when there are a lot of customers. There could be a schedule to avoid the long line and reduce the noise inside.

We had an amazing stay! The people working, the hospitality, the food..everything was great! Loved how it made us feel like home! Must visit for a quite, family vacation as it is kids friendly and super safe.

What's good? The hotel is very clean and, with a few exceptions, is generally well maintained. Bar and waiting staff are very friendly and efficient. The food is very good - mostly greek, very tasty and quite varied. There's always an option of pasta, for example, if you don’t want to eat local. Pool and beach area are both really nice. What's not so good? It's in the middle of nowhere. 45min walk to Eretria, the nearest town. You need a €20 cash only deposit to hire a towel. Bring cash. We didn't. There is no shop in or around the hotel so bring everything you might need. Nearest shops are in Eretria. Poor WiFi – don’t expect to stream anything. The WiFi also doesn't seem to agree with vpns, if you were planning on working, etc. Only TV channel in English is BBC news, if that bothers you. My Personal Thoughts/Opinions? The biggest and strangest issue is the language divide. This hotel revolves around the French and if you speak any other language you're going to suffer. We had no idea of this when booking. The reps will barely wave at you, then sit down with French guests and take for quite some time. They also appear to play games and quizzes with the French guests, something which was never made available to us. I had the feeling that they were not confident of their English speaking skills so just didn't attempt it. I certainly am not one to shy away from conversation so it’s not that we didn’t want to speak. With that however we felt completely alienated for the whole stay. Really odd. To a point where on day 6 of our stay I realised you could play boules at the front, purely because I saw it out of a window. I thought we were going mad until we met another British couple who felt exactly the same. Again, could be a language issue but no explanations are given for anything. Our safe didn't work and someone came to look at it while I was in the shower. He then came back a day later to say it's completely broken, and left. Later that next day I asked reception for an update and they said it needs completely replacing. That was it. No room change, no explanation, so we just didn't have a safe and were not moved. A similar experience trying to get a late check out. We were just told "No". I asked why and they said "...you can't". Again, just quite odd behaviour. While it doesn't specifically list itself as an adult only hotel, it certainly gave the impression of one online. That said, when the weekend hits, it becomes pure chaos. The place went from quiet to overrun and full of screaming children. Monday however, back to normal. They put on entertainment some evenings which is quite good. The weekend entertainment was a pianist playing through an amp, which went on beyond midnight. The problem here is that, performing in the main lobby, you can't escape it if you're staying in the main building as it's just at the bottom of the stairs from the rooms. Quite frustrating for my heavily pregnant wife.

What a fabulous place! Errs on the right side of stylish without pretentiousness. Beautiful setting with its own beach, lovely gardens, scrummy food both all inc and a la carte. The staff really go the extra mile to make you relax. We have to give a call out to Anna on reception and Vanggelis the night receptionist, we’d lost our bag on the inbound flight and these guys helped us track it down. All in all a Greek Gem - thank you Coralia team, and thanks to Voyage Prive for finding us such a super getaway.