The Valley of the Butterflies Vacations from $1,025

Couldn’t fault this place! The staff were always extremely friendly and happy to help

Our stay at Ammades All Suite Hotel was professional, accommodating, and warm from start to finish. The hotel staff is well-trained, and eager to meet their guests’ needs across the board. The property is lovely, and is the perfect spot to unwind and soak up the sun, and the essence of Greek hospitality.

Lovely hotel, wonderful views - bar and reception staff were excellent. Lots of nice touches and features. If this were a four star hotel I'd be rating it excellent. Gripes: Breakfast had a huge range, but few coherent meals - missing basics like strawberries, bananas (most days), granola. The pool bar staff were lovely, but the cocktails were essentially 11 euro waters. It took 48 hours after requesting it for our private pool to be cleaned - despite us watching them clean pools in empty rooms. Our "skyline view" room had no view of the sky until you went out onto the terrace - the rooms are oddly nested so that your pool and terrace is elevated - so the view from your bedroom is essentially a wall. We went very early on in the season, but it felt like we were a dress rehearsal for the season. We did not take the half board option, and I'm very glad we didn't as the majority of options were buffet dining - which never feels special. We opted to walk 2kms most nights down the main road to restaurants - but appreciate few would want to be doing this, so you're either paying 15 euro taxis to get to restaurants/nightlife or you are accepting you are in one of three venues to dine your entire stay. Overall: it was a perfectly pleasant place. If you just want to switch off and be taken care of then you'll have a fantastic time. It is a 'big' hotel and so it naturally lacks some of the personal touches. It was one of the cheaper 5 stars, but still felt 4 star.

Lovely hotel and situated in a quiet area but convenient enough to reach areas of interest. We stopped in the premium private pool room. The room was amazing and high class decorated. The pool outside area however was disappointing. The sunlight only reaches a quarter of the area first thing and is shaded for the use of the sun-bed. It could do with some sun loungers as I had to grab an indoor chair to sunbathe with and situate right on the edge. Breakfast was tasty and plenty of variety. Restaurant food was gorgeous the first time we ate there. Had a massage which was very good but not for the faint hearted! He finds all your knots. Told me to relax a couple of times bless him. Overall, I would recommend staying at Kouros but I wouldn’t pay the extra for the room we had and maybe opt for a swim up one instead.

We stayed off season and were almost the only guests. The staff was extraordinarily helpful and f and we enjoyed our stay very much.