Eleni Studios Parga — Hotel in Parga Municipality

The good news is, that the location is absolutely magnificent and Parga is a wonderful place, with everything you want in a Greek holiday.||The apartment was good. Clean. Plenty of room. Excellent Air Conditioning (that you have to pay for). Very good bed.||Swimming Pool. Also good, with excellent sun loungers with those deep cushions.||So why the three stars, I hear you asking? Simply because this was the worst hotel manager I'd ever come across. (note, we asked some questions, via social media) before we came here and go no response)||It started off in a manner that immediately made me wary. He wanted paying for the Air Conditioning that minute. No 'unpack you bags, relax and see you later'. Pay now!!||Then we had (there were four of us, two couples) the amusing incidents at the bar (our question first, followed by the answers);-||1) Can we pay for our drinks by card? - No. Cash only.||2) But you have a credit card machine here. Why can't we either pay using that as we go along or at the end of the holiday - No. Cash only. That's only for paying the rooms.||3) I see you do Breakfast. What does it consist of? - A bit of Ham and some tomato (seriously this is true, you'd think he didn't want to make it!!)||4) OK then. What about meals? Do you have a menu? - No. We do Greek Salad, Pizza (and something else - sorry I'd zoned out by then)||5) What about the bar? - We just have beer and wine||This remember is the first 30 minutes of us 'selling' his Greek Hospitality!!|||But we moved on and just thought it didn't matter - the rooms were excellent and we'd always be eating elsewhere. Pleasantries were always exchanged and we just thought perhaps he was a bit frazzled because he did everything himself (although his cleaner was excellent 8/10). The other three in my party, started to feel sorry for him.||Then four incidents occurred;||1) Aggressive argument for all the world to hear with his mother (note it is family run - more about that later) who was also surly and fairly unpleasant. My friend had his interprestar on and every bit of the two minute argument was, to say the least, a bit blue. ||2) Complaint about my wife's hair colouring affecting their towels. We've had 20+ holidays with her dyed hair and never have a complaint. As she explained. Put it on a 60C wash and it comes out. Strangely, we saw other towels with dye on them and they'd not been chastised.||3) Next a very windy day and one of the umbrella's breaks and nearly falls on a resident. I leaped up to help. Stavros (the manager) came running over and it takes him ages, whilst me and the other holiday maker are straining with this big umbrella, to work out that the metal pole has snapped. We had to tell him and help him. No problem here. Rightly, he said that all the umbrellas would have to come down until the wind died down - which would be a few minutes. 20 minutes went by, the wind did die down - I went to ask him if we could put them back up, only to be screamed at that he'll tell us when. Seriously. This is a guy with no idea of how talk to customers, when they ask anything other than basic questions.||4) Final one. My friend found a cat in a bad way, decided to feed it back to health. Only for another tirade abuse from Stavros. Now, in the interests of balance, he may have a point that there are many wild cats - but the restaurant owners in Parga and within a 50 mile radius had no issues with the many people who fed them (personally I don't like it, but it's a free country)|||In fairness, I probably wouldn't have given you all this background, if it wasn't for the fact that the hotel next door called 'Maria Resort' was the definition of greek hospitality. Here, there was an extensive menus - with the food of a good bistro standard. A variety of spirits (pleasing the missus as they had Bacardi!!). And two brothers who remind me of the how great the Greek are at hospitality, laughing joking etc. We all went there one night - simply because of that.||Ironically, they are literally sister hotels, named after them. They are run by cousins. One family had this one and the other has 'Maria'.||We'll be going back to Parga at some time, but staying at Maria and giving Stavros a big wave from their bar. Note, that unsurprisingly Maria was sold out when we booked.||Seriously. We spend hard earned cash for holidays. The least we should expect is courteous behaviour...

Just returned from a week away at Eleni Studios with my Wife.|Firstly I want to say that these apartments are some of the best we have stayed in (we go to Greece a lot). They are sparklingly clean and provide everything you need and more for a self catering apartment. |The views from the balcony are amazing, so worth a request to have at least a first floor room. The pool and bar area are also really clean and tidy. |Sadly, there were a couple of downsides to staying here. The beds were too hard for us, neither of us slept very well for the week and my hips even felt a little bruised due to lying on my side! The pool area while clean, had no atmosphere and was empty almost every day. |The hill down to the town is perfectly manageable but got a little tedious. I know we could have got a taxi but we are more than capable of walking and didn’t want to waste money. Unfortunately there are no other tavernas or restaurants nearby so if you go to the beach during the day you have to walk down and back up twice unless you have a meal in your beach wear. |The worst part for us was the noise. There is a building site behind the apartments and they started at about 0700hrs, lasting until early afternoon. The bin men collect the bins at about 0530hrs, loudly. And then Stavros regularly shouted up to the cleaners (rather than find them to have a conversation) plus one day had several very loud arguments with his Dad (who incidentally only spoke to us on the last day to say goodbye) which we thought was really unprofessional. |We wouldn’t go back to this place as we like to relax when away but would recommend to others who are perhaps more tolerant. Other than the noise and the hill,...

We stayed in a two bedroom apartment with a full fitted kitchen, large fridge freezer and a good walk in shower. Plenty of hot water and accommodation was modern, clean and very well presented. Towels and linen change was on a Sunday and Wednesday but clean towels were provided on request. The views from this accommodation are amazing, but it is adjacent to a main road so there is some traffic noise but not enough to keep you up at night. The accommodation is on the outskirts of Parga hence a quite steep walk downhill taking about 30 minutes, but we enjoyed the walk down, past restaurants, shops and the amazing views over Parga and the beaches below. If you’re very fit you can walk back but we took a taxi back each day, after a day at the beach and after returning from a night in the town. Very cheap at 5 euros and worth every penny. There is an also a supermarket near Taverna Petros that will deliver your order free of charge. Great restaurants and tavernas, where good food and watching the world go by was the order of the day. We enjoyed visiting the main beach in Parga town where we could hire an umbrella and beds for £15 euros. Stavros and his father were always on hand and provided a warm welcome and always did all they could to ensure you enjoyed your stay. Limited food options but bar snacks such as pizza, toasted sandwiches and needless to say a Greek salad were available. Good pool that was always quiet given most guests elected to go to the beaches, and surrounding restaurants and tavernas. We did have couple of days at the pool, which was very relaxing and felt like our own private Villa. Overall a great destination that was the base for a...