Filoxenia Hotel

The hotel exceeded our expectations. The location is great, just few minutes walk from Alykes Beach and a lot of shops, cafes and restaurants. Parking is never a problem, since the hotel has its private parking, but there are always spaces to park around the hotel. The WI-FI worked properly the whole time and everywhere in the facility. The hotel is very clean and they tidy the rooms regularly on a daily bases. In addition, they accommodated our request to do the cleaning around our schedule. The staff is amazingly friendly, going out of their way to make our stay as pleasant as possible. We were given complementary breakfast for the whole duration of our stay, which was amazing! The breakfast itself is very nice, food is freshly cooked with good ingredients and there is a variety of different things to accommodate each culinary taste. I would definitely recommend this place, it is a great value for money.

Just some very minor issues. Some of the balconies (as was our balcony) might benefit from some type of a shade, having in mind that when the sun is shining, it is impossible to sit there during that period of the day. Water pressure was a bit lower at times. Other than that, everything was up to standards.

We vacationed in winter, out of season. The place is magnificent, picturesque. Beautiful mountain villages are within driving distance. There is a shop around the corner. There are restaurants on the embankment. But the best food was in the tavern, which you can find if you reach the embankment, turn right and walk about 15 minutes past all the restaurants. The hotel itself has caring staff and an acceptable breakfast. At our request, salad was included in breakfast

The mattress was somewhat dented.And yet, in Greece you need to be careful when choosing a place where you can eat well. This does not apply to the hotel, but in Volos we were served the worst soup of my life, which was impossible to eat. But the family-run taverns are quite decent. But these are all minor things. Everything is great for this price.

That Georgios went out of his way to provide me with coffee for the morning. I’d requested vegetarian Breakfast and they provided a wonderful selection and a specially tasty omelette. The location, just a three minute walk to the sea, quiet, 20 minutes from Volos centre and very convenient for the summer months operation of Nea Anchialos airport. I was there before the season, an the only restaurant (the wonderful IPOKAMPOS, what a discovery!) was about a mile awa. Luckily I was offered a lift by very friendly locals both there and back ( a sudden violent storm blew up that would have tossed me into the waves had I been on foot). I’ll be back.

A local map would be helpful. Plus a kettle in the room.

Our ferry was unexpectedly re-scheduled changing our arrival time from 21h30 to 01h30 AM! Sent a note over Booking.com and the hotel arranged to have a staff member wait up for our very late arrival. Such nice people 👍

The room is clean and comfortable. There was something for everyone for breakfast. The location is great with a beautiful beach on the doorstep with a supermarket and restaurants. We had our ferry booked to leave early. We told them and they immediately offered to organise us a taxi and make us up a breakfast box each for us to eat on the ferry. They are all very smiley, friendly and welcoming. Would definitely recommend and wouldn't hesitate to rebook.

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The breakfast was ok, something for everybody, every day fresh cooked ( eggs, bacon, fresh cheese pie, etc.) as well as fruits, greek salad, and even pudding . The room was cleaned every day, fresh towels, bed sheets, air conditioning, safe all included in the price. Top!

Just one thing: the small soap provided was replaced every second day although it was barely used. I understand that some persons like it "fresh" but there is no point since it's soap not food :)

Location was very good. It was close to the beach. We arrived late afternoon and went immediately to the beach. It takes only 3 minutes by walking! The room was very clean and quite comfortable for 3 people. But what was more important of all was their friendliness! They have guided us for the evening, what to do in Volos, where to eat, where to park our car etc. We had an early ferry the next day and hence we did not book a room including breakfast. Despite of this, when we came back at night we found a pack of snacks in our room for next morning 😊 Sandwiches, cold coffee, cakes, orange juice… It was beyond our expectations! Location, cleanness, friendliness … what else would one expect from a holiday😃

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Only one negative observation: at our room, the cleaning personnel arrived at 14.30-15.00 hour daily…I think it’s not an appropriate hour, because we want to rest in bed. The cleaning of the rooms should be made especially in the morning. The rest was fine.

Great location, in two minutes from the sandy beach with free sun-beds and umbrellas. Beach bars and tavernas on the coast. Fully COVID measures in the hotel. Excellent continental breakfast incl. eggs, sweets, Greek yogurt, bacon, juice, milk, coffee/tea and so. No olives ;( Very good internet. Elevator ;) The staff was very friendly and helpful.

The only facility missing is how to dry your beach towel and swimming costumes😊

Breakfast was pretty good given that it was included - plentiful supply of fresh coffee and helpful staff . Staff went out their way to help us including locating a taxi man that we left a key part of our push chair in!