Alex's Bar — Restaurant in Parga Municipality

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First of all, I was stupid not to read the reviews before coming to this beach. The beach itself is nice, and the water is really clean and of beautiful colour. However, this is not the review of the beach, but of the staff in the beach bar. The problem started when me and my girlfriend tried to pay for the sunbeds with our credit card. The lady who is apparently the boss of the beach speaks very little english and is very agressive. She was not able to explain to us that their POS terminal does not work. When you try to say something to her in english she starts to yell gibberish and there is no way to understand her. Our encounter very soon became physical as three guys came running towards me and started pushing and shoving me repeatedly. I didn’t want to escalate the situation, so I did not answer physically to the pushing and shoving. One of them even picked up somekind of a metal bar and threatened to beat me with it. Luckily one gentleman who am I thankful to intervened, so I wasn’t beaten up by the agressive staff gang.

After this unpleasant situation, we sat in the bar for a quick drinks and a snack to relax and try to put aside the negative. The first thing we asked before we even ordered is whether it is possible to pay with the card and the boy who is a waiter confirmed it without any further explanation (the boy was the only member of the staff who was really polite). Therefore we ordered the food and drinks. When it was time to pay, my girlfriend went to the terminal at the bar to pay (we thought they may get offended if I approach to the staff again). The guy at the bar was very rude to her even though he apparently didn’t even know that we were together. Of course it wasn’t possible to pay with the card so we had to borrow the cash from other people who were at the beach in order to pay.

All in all, it was a terrible experience and it really shows how much Google and Tripadvisor reviews can be helpful. Just be sure to read them before coming here or bring your A game in bear-knuckle boxing. I am really dissapointed that these people ruined the image of the great Greek...

DON’T GO THERE – you are on vacation you don't need stress! We’re staying at a nearby hotel and had seen bad reviews, but didn’t expect it to be THIS BAD.

A few days we walked by, the place looked fine – the interior is nice. So we decided to try a late lunch yesterday. Just food, no sunbeds. Lunch was okay, and we asked the staff how sunbed charges work. Four different staff members told us:

“If you eat here, sunbeds are free. We open an account when you arrive, and as long as you order food, we don’t charge you.”

With that in mind, we came back this morning, wanting to spend whole day. A kind lady told us we could sit anywhere, so we left our towels. But immediately, an older man that was showing the beach (who honestly looked drunk at 10am) started shouting at us “No free, no free! 5 per person” grabbing our towels troving them at us.

Still calm, we explained we planned to stay for lunch and that we will pay (by that point no one asked for money). Instead of clarifying, he shouted louder. Then the same KIND lady suddenly turned on us, screaming:

"No free! It is disrespectful, go now, look, everyone is watching you!”

We never demanded anything – I simply asked again if ordering food covered the beds. We had planned to spend at least €100 that day. Instead, we were humiliated, yelled at, and treated like we were trying to cheat them.

This place is toxic, unprofessional, and stressful. The staff are rude, inconsistent, and clearly frustrated. Both restaurants on either side are much better – go there instead. I am in Greece every year, I know english is problematic but this is no...

The worst experience I ever had in an organized beach. Let me start by saying that the general location is great with blue clear waters and green scenery.

The problems start with this Beach Bar.We arrived in the area and we briefly entered the Private parking of the bar so that we can make a U-turn and in the first few seconds a very rude person told us to leave immediately and go to the public parking which is nearby.We didn't even have the chance to say if we wanted to stay at the beach bar as guests(in which case the Private parking is free supposedly)

After parking in the public area we made the mistake of actually sitting in this same beach bar ,an incredibly rude lady told us immediately that we need to pay 10 € only with cash,and when we said if we could pay with a card she told us that she doesn't have a pos for the beach and that it's already too cheap.She ALSO mentioned that the nearby beach bar(the one with the blue umbrellas) charges 25 € per set,which is a lie ,they charge way less,we asked as we were leaving

Before we leave we also heard her shouting at some guests that chose to go to the nearby beach bar with derogatory comment's(the irony is that she was calling other people fat while she was also not the skinniest 😂)

Also if you make the mistake of going to the parking area through the beach bar if you didn't leave a ton of money,you will be kicked out and enforced to go around.

All in all a horrible experience,every person and tourist should stay away until that place...