Camelia

Recent Reviews: 61

• User:967alfiec

  Trip type:

  We have stayed here 3 times over passed few years it's cheap and cheerful

  30 Sept 2021

  It needs updating rooms are okPool is nice not deep Kaan and his wife so nice and helpfulSo if you are looking for a cheap place to sleep this is for you !!If you want luxury book Blueberry tyriaki 450 meters away !

• User:Carol L

  Trip type: Couples

  Dirty disgusting place

  20 Sept 2018

  We arrived on Saturday the 8th September 2018 at 3.30am. Was shown to room 2 walked in. All I can say is this. We lay our beach towel on the bed, as we were really tired. We got picked up at 7.30 am and left. Booked into a hotel on the beach front with a sea veiw. The apartment was so disgusting I said I thought homeless would object to staying there. I have complained and I am expecting my money back.Mouldy bathroom ceiling, grout around toilet 2” thick and mouldy, rusty, cooker dirty, around cooker dirty. Place is just awful. The sun beds were rusty, the electric wires were hanging lose. It was the worse place I’ve ever walked into. Walked back out after 4hours at 7.30am. I was furious. Don’t go there ever. I have pics if anyone wants to see them inbox me.

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• User:mike_snow

  Trip type: Family

  Spacious and basic but falling to bits. Needs refurb ASAP. Questionable management. All talk, no action.

  22 Oct 2016

  I stayed with my 2.5 year old son and my parents shared a separate apartment. Let's start with the positives. Its cheap. If you pay more than £11 per apartment per night then you need to shop around or email direct. That may sound ridiculously cheap to many folk but it really isn't. You can find comparable apartments at similar rates locally. The space is a huge plus. Apartments have two spacious balconies at the front and rear where two people could have enough space to socialise on. The living rooms are large. Bedroom sizes are good with a large wardrobe and small bedside cabinets. The apartment I had, the wardrobes had no shelving which was a shame. Kaan, the the guy who rents and manages the place will put some effort into helping with requests. I got a much better pan for cooking off him and a bread knife after asking. Cooking equipment and utensils are lacking but if you ask for something then he will try and help. Peaceful generally. It was nice and quiet and because it is self catered, you won't hear people getting up early for breakfast or heading for an evening meal and making noise at the same time. The negatives. The most important one are the bathrooms. I presume they are all horrific. I've seen two and seen other complaints. Mouldy and in desperate need of money being spent. They even have remnants of a previous botched refurb such as grout, adhesive, filler and whatever else it could be on the walls and on and around windows. As if it would have taken too long to finish the job properly. The shower rails are much wider than the trays (likely a cheap job lot) so preventing water from going all over the floor isn't easy. On arrival, my shower did not have a bracket to hold it to the wall. This was put in place on day three. Doors, windows and handles. Again it is like someone years ago bought a cheap job lot that was unsuitable but went with it anyway. Door handles are too big for the holes. You regularly hear people struggling to lock their balcony doors and they start clashing them to see if that helps. Some of my family were in a different apartment and on arrival, both of these doors would not lock and required attention. I had to open a window and bend my arm around to push the handle fitting to be able to lock it. Annoying. We arrived at night in the early hours. The next day I had a look around the apartment and felt like it hadnt had a good clean. This was obvious when I looked in the fridge and the previous occupiers water was still in there. Cutlery in the drawer wasn't clean. Some things had dried oil on them which took a while to clean. The excuse was that it had been so busy for 4 months. I know this to be nonsense. A proper clean up was organised for the next morning. The cutlery draw wasn't done but the place felt cleaner and the fridge was spotless. If you wanted anything from the bar before early to mid afternoon then you're out of luck until Kaan shows up. Once there, he would spend 99 percent of his time staring at his laptop. Even as you approached the bar. I wasn't there for the customer service so this made little difference to me but I know other guests spoke negatively about it also. There are notices on the main door inside the apartments. They say that rooms are cleaned daily and that bedding and towels are changed every other day. This never happened. Ever. I thought it was a little excessive anyway but this needs taking down and changing to something closer to reality. Bedding and towels every 3 to 4 days and rooms cleaned once, maybe twice a week. The kitchen cupboard doors are hanging off, sometimes just hinges need tightening up. Simple stuff but obviously if the manager doesn't care about it it wont get done. Talk of improving the place "for next season" is becoming a broken record. Guests I spoke to said they won't be coming back any more. They could handle staying there years ago when the service was great but that isn't the case any more. In advance of the holiday, Kaan spoke about providing a cot bed suitable for my 2 year old but this never came. No high chairs either. Its hard enough keeping children happy on holiday so having internet access would have been a plus. The wi-fi is horrific. I had to sit on the balcony to get a signal. No good when its dark and you don't want to attract the bugs, or have a 2 year old that 10 minutes of youtube would do wonders for while youre trying to cook. Another router to improve the signal for all apartments wouldn't be too much of a chore. Or I guess it would. Running out of gas seems to be a bit of a nightmare for guests too. You had to wait until someone could bring some in. Having spare gas bottles must be really expensive. The cleaners were friendly and if you wanted bedding or towels changed, you just had to ask.Location is too far out. My family have been going there for a few years and up until this trip, didnt mind the walking. At 76, its a bit much now. A brisk 12 to 15 minutes or a steady 15-20 minutes to the sea front. The main gate can often clash as it is on springs, metal to metal but for most of the trip, some sort of padding was cellotaped to the frame. It really wouldnt cost much to make a proper job of it but that sort of effort would out of place. Overall, if you want somewhere cheap where you're left alone and can handle a bit of the rough stuff, go for it, but don't expect much. The money you save may well end up costing you more in dolmus and taxi fares die to the location unless you dont mind the walking. And don't listen to promises of work getting done in preparation for next season, or promises of snacks and food being available next season either. It's all talk and no action. If I'm out there again in May/June, I'll call by to see if anything has changed to prove me wrong.

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• User:G5479MQstevenh

  Trip type: Family

  10 day break

  21 Oct 2015

  appts big but in need of refurb, especially bathrooms, location good pool good, kaan who runs it is very nice and helpful, but needs to do snacks, icecreams etc, he says he will next year, had a great time

• User:Jon_n_Jackie

  Trip type: Couples

  much worse than previous reviews suggest

  09 Oct 2015

  we read previous reviews about the Camelia prior to booking and whilst expecting 'budget' accommodation we were expecting basic cleanliness, basic room cleaning and regular bed linen changes, the apartments failed on all these items.- We were 'supposed' to have been given an up grade from B & B to self catering apartment however we were not told that this was because the apartments no-longer provided ANY food.The 'new' owner/tenant was pleasant enough but it was hard to enter into a long conversation as he was too indulged in his laptop.The apartment grounds were very over-grown and dirty and had obviously been this way for some considerable time.The actual apartments were dirty and run down, the apartments were supplied with a calor-gas cooker hob which we dare not use as the cooker extraction was not sealed into the wall and in fact was hanging loose from the wall orifice which would have allows co2 to easily leak back into the room if you did too much 'cooking'.We did ask some guests who had been returning for some years about the reviews - some said they had been asked to write 'good' reviews and some said their reviews were for the last owner (Dede) .The usual question - would I return can only be answered with a significant and resounding ' NO'

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