Manolis Studios

Recent Reviews: 146

• User:FredN367

  Trip type: Couples

  Quiet and relaxing.

  11 Nov 2025

  Manolis studious is a small, family run apartment complex, comprising of 14 rooms, a small pool and bar/food area, all are immaculately clean. The owners attempted to help us in every way possible.The apartment block is situated on the lower part of a hill, on the main road into Kefalos, The noise from the road didn’t bother our peace or affect our sleep in any way.There is a supermarket less than a 3 minutes walk down the hill, a fantastic restaurant 5 minutes walk up the hill, with a number of restaurants and tavernas down the hill towards the harbour. If you have a room upstairs the views of the mountain, beach and harbour are amazing.The rooms are basic but very clean, have a fridge, hob, plates, glasses and cutlery, ideal for stocking water, other drinks and making small lunches. There is free WiFi, air con available at a small cost and rooms cleaned regularly.We chose to have breakfast and small lunch’s at the bar some days and were not disappointed, breakfast options, we chose to have between scrambled egg on toast, beans on toast, full English breakfast.The pool area is lovely and very very clean, garden areas well kept, with sun loungers all around the pool, a small children’s pool and for the majority of the time a quiet and relaxing place to be.If you are wanting loud music, entertainment and late nights in the bar it is not for you.We look for a small, compact and friendly place to be able to relax and this was ideal for us.We thoroughly enjoyed our stay and have already booked for 2026.

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• User:Steve N

  Trip type: Family

  Terrible

  07 Sept 2025

  Do NOT stay here it's on the main road traffic is loud ,the manager is really miserable, no atmosphere, no music felt uncomfortable i didn't want to be there by the pool as my anxiety started ,the tiles in shower we're broken on the floor cutlery was in need of new ones nothing to really cook with only a electric hob no toaster, and nothing around it apart from supermarket jet 2 holidays say it's 1 kilometer to the resort centre more like 3 kilometres i will never stay here again if it was free

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• User:MARGARET W

  Trip type: Family

  Lovely quiet holiday

  25 Dec 2024

  One of the loveliest, friendliest, good with children, family run places we have stayed in. Very Greek 🇬🇷, basic, spotlessly clean, lovely bed linen. Close to a beach and a couple of tavernas. Very quiet. We hope to visit again for our third visit next year.

• User:Duncan H

  Trip type: Couples

  Greece is not about Center Parcs

  27 Sept 2024

  We (a couple) tried Kefalos for the first time (regular visitors to Kos) this year and picked the Manolis studios, just on a whim. Our stay was absolutely fine and we found lots of spectacular scenery, because the best beaches are round this side of the island. It isn't the best resort (Kefalos) for those with teenage (or thereabouts) kids who demand a lot of activities, as it's more an adult/seniors kind of vibe and you would need to hire a car to get them to the 'happening' places. However...if you walk up the hill and cross over by the Ikios hotel sign and walk down the drive, you get to THE most spectacular beach - Agios Stefanos, right across from Kastri island. Kastri itself (fifteen/twenty minutes walk away down the main road for the fit person) is a lovely sea-front place, with some nice hotels, tavernas etcManolis was what you would expect from a small (14 apts), family-run studio block - well, what WE would expect! Others seem to think differently, apparently wanting four-star luxury at 2-star prices. Greek showers are always seen as too small, shower-curtains are awful; rooms too small (it's summer, why are you staying in the room???), too poorly-equipped, hot water insufficient (solar heating; shower earlier!) and seemingly no servants to meet their every whim. We went self-catering and cooked a perfectly fine meal every night on the two-ring wossname, had some nice snacks at the bar and found the owners perfectly nice - they do like to try teaching you some Greek! Yes, lots of older people go every year, but it's a nice place to stay; relaxed, chilling and clean. And Supermarket Jim is four minutes away and a must for your alcohol purchases, their cheese pies and veg!

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• User:Joanne P

  Trip type: Couples

  Fantastic holiday

  07 Sept 2024

  We had a great 2 weeks stay at Manolis Studios. The rooms were basic but cleaned regularly and comfortable. The only downside was that the bathroom flooded every time we had a shower, so wet feet everytime we went into the bathroom. The air conditioning was good but if you want it, you need to pay extra and they seem to make the prices up as they go along. We went bed and breakfast and there wasn't much choice, egg on toast, beans on toast or toast with butter and jam. You can have coffee or orange juice but not both. There are plenty of sunbeds around the pool, it is however a public pool, and people come from the surrounding apartments to use it. The location was good, far enough out of the way to be quiet but close enough to get to the restaurants and bars. It takes about 25 minutes to walk down to the harbour but there are plenty of restaurants on the way down. Kefalos is a beautiful, laid back resort and we loved it. We have seen a lot of reviews about the friendliness of the hosts, however we had a different experience. We never found them particularly helpful or friendly. If you are a returning visitor it appears to be different and you are welcomed with open arms. We wanted to keep our room on the last day but was kept waiting until our last morning before telling us that we needed to be out by midday. The room however did not appear to be occupied right up to our departure at 6.30pm. It often felt as though you were putting them out when you needed serving at the bar. This was literally the only fault we had about Manolis Studios, we will return to Kefalos one day but won't be returning to the same accommodation.

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