Hotel Stellina — Hotel in Skiathos Municipality

We have just returned from a 10 night stay at Stellina and were pleasantly surprised after reading some of the reviews before booking. Here’s my personal, honest review.

Service - the staff were lovely and welcoming and the bar man Yannis was always helpful and smiling. He got to know us after a few days; remembering what we would like to order from the bar and helping us put up the brolly’s by the pool.

Pool area - the pool area was lovely with a big pool and no fight for sunbeds despite going in the height of the summer holidays! Sunbeds on one side of the pool have umbrellas for shade and on the other side there are trees that provide plenty of shade after 12pm which is fab too. Drinks and food around the pool bar are reasonably priced with bottles of water being 0,50 cents. The pool area is open 8-8 but the pool shuts at 7 and drinks are stopped around that time. People complain with this but there is only one guy at the bar and it’s nice to keep in mind he’s working long hours every day as they work throughout the whole summer :) the shops are also only a short 5 minute walk.

Cleaning - The rooms are cleaned daily. The sheets are changed every fourth day and the towels are changed every third day. This is explicitly stated in your room when you arrive and it is important to remember this is a 2* hotel and it doesn’t pretend to be anything greater than so.

Location - the location we loved as it was by the airport so a short transfer, straight across from the football ground which my boyfriend loved and used for his morning runs and it’s a 15 minute walk into the Skiathos town/ start of the port which is beautiful! There is some light noise from the airport but again we liked to hear the planes - it’s all personal preference.

Breakfast - breakfast was standard and minimalistic. Serving bread/toast/ scrambled eggs, sausage/bacon, beans, croissants, biscuits, cereals, Greek yoghurt, fruit, coffees, water and orange juice. Breakfast was from 8-10 and food was regularly topped up by the ever attentive staff so we never found ourselves having limited choice when we went down late.

Transport - the transport links around are incredible with buses being only around €2 per person across the island (our experiences of the price), the taxis from the port to our hotel in the day was €5 and €8 at night. We only chose to use these in the day as we enjoyed the night walk and there was often a queue for the taxis for those staying further into skiathos. We also took a lot of water taxis to beaches that cost €6 each and it was lovely to go by Sea!

If we were to come back, we would stay here again.

to keep in mind * there is a tax/arrival charge of €1.50 per day for both of us so we payed €15 altogether. This is not limited to the Stellina hotel as we have had to pay this...

I’ll keep this short as possible. We stayed here as a transit night to get to Skopelos (the better of the two islands) First night was a “garden view” room. Beds were filthy, pillows had mascara and muck on them. The couch had massive stains. You have to make your own bed, the aircon didn’t work, place stunk like smoke and mould. We complained and wanted to cancel our second night back through being told the manager would contact us. He never did. Though, we did receive an upgrade to the pool view room to which we were very thankful.. Then more problems. Aircon didn’t work but the kind receptionist grabbed a new remote. Then we had no toilet paper (I think this is standard practice as we saw the same nice receptionist take one roll to another room with its occupant). The pool view room also stunk of mould and a very thick smell of weed was present in the hallway (not family friendly). When you shower it sprays everything as there is no curtain only a small edge around the bottom which as you can see is useless (see pictures of water leaking everywhere and under the door). Then finally, the icing on the cake. We were told our breakfast was 8-11 so as any young couple do we wondered down at 10:20 to grab breakfast and noticed that it was all packed up. A female worker named Maria then walked up to my partners face and in a rude condescending yell said 8 till 10, and then laughed... I’m usually easy going, but rudeness is unacceptable! We asked her name and went to see the manager. In very few words he slammed the doors open and told us “sit” as if we were about to be interrogated. The kind receptionist translated for us to which the manager then apologised for everything concerning us and on behalf of Maria. We have stayed in some pretty bad places around the world, but this has to be the worst! DO NOT STAY! Walk 10 -15 minutes from the airport into town and there are much nice and happier hotels to stay at. Positives - The receptionist guys were very helpful and nice. Close to the airport. Late checkout. Oh and as I wrote this, the cleaner barged in...

Don't book!|My wife and I stayed here for 10 days, we are both in our 60s and have travelled all over Greece, and love skiathos, but this has to be the worst hotel ever, they are more interested in getting the 10 euros a day from you for the air con, the place is a dump, the rooms are so dated, the beds seem as if they have been there since the 2 world war, and are falling to bits, the room front doors are held together with angle brackets, the patio door on the balcony didn't lock, when we complained severaltimes, we're told, it would take 10 days for someone to fix, so we would have left before it was done!!, the food was awful, heated by tee lights, one 2 slice toaster for everyone, on our first day, we wondered why everyone was quing for breakfast, it's because it goes cold straight away, and so you had to be there when it was first out, we went on our first day, and never eat in the hotel again, the pool is full of algie round the edges, and attracts wasps, the sun beds are filthy, and all broken, and the pool area toilets are a disgrace, and filthy.|The girl on the pool bar serves you, when she has finished her ongoing conversations on her mobile, and is very rude, you get served beer and wine in paper coffee cups, as if you ask for a beer glass, are told they have none!.|We luckily brought a small electric fan with us, and gave it to a young family with 2 young children, as they were unable to afford the air conditioning costs, as there were on a budget, our air conditioning unit was rubbish, and we found a pigeon had made a nest at the back of it on the balcony, so now know why it was rubbish, there are safety deposit boxes next to reception, which are tin slots, not very safe, when reception leave at 11.00pm, and hotel left open for anyone to get at, we had to sleep with our belongings under our pillows.|I can go on and on about the bad points, as there are no good ones, this is never even a 2 star.|Stay...