Anamar Zante Hotel

A beautiful little hotel, e we have just stayed for one week and I will honestly say for the money this hotel is superb . The staff are friendly and helpful and always smiling and cheerful. The pool and bar area are great , the rooms larger enough with a lovely balcony. The rounds are cleaned daily and kept immaculate . I would highly recommend this hotel. Close to all the bars and resultants with a local small beach within 5 mins walk and bigger beaches 20 mins max on the local bus with cost €2 . We hired a car for Couple of days which was excellent and are at the restaurant next door which is by far the best in the area .

We picked this hotel as it was 4*,and we had stayed at the 3*Contessa in Argasi previously. Compared to the Anamar the Contessa is a 6*!! The Anamar was a disaster from the start, on arrival you are asked to pay €7 per night greek room charge as the hotel is classed as 4*, a total of €98 for two weeks plus a charge to pay by card (altogether about £90). Our room was not bright and airy with a pool or garden view as advertised but very dark and brown, looking out to a hedge with a road beyond the hedge. When the shower was turned on the pressure sent the shower head spraying all over the tiny bathroom, but as the drain was located sloping up from the tiles it did not drain away. The bar pushed cocktails but had no tomato juice for my Bloody Mary so I opted for a glass of wine, no wine either. No WiFi in our room- told to go out on the balcony but that was no good either. We ran out of toilet roll by day 3 no spares. I contacted tui as our room had all these faults and no clean towels after 3 days. At breakfast the following morning I was approached by the manager who demanded I should have spoken to him before tui, I had and they had supposedly fixed the shower and offered to mop the floors every time we showered if we went and told them. We were moved to a brighter room with a pool view. Over two weeks our room was not touched on 4 days, 3 times I had to go and ask for clean towels and toilet rolls. After the first week there was only us and one other couple on the hotel, the breakfast buffet disappeared and we had to ask for what we wanted in the morning and wait for the manager to make it. During a thunderstorm water got into the electrics and set the fire alarm off twice one night. By the last couple of days it was just the two of us and all the sun beds were stacked up apart from 2, the tables and chairs in the dining room were stacked round our solitary table. It felt like we were an inconvenience. We have stayed in better 1* & 2*hotels than this supposedly 4*. On the plus side, the pool area was ok, good for a swim. The little bakery next door had good coffee and bakes. Argassi itself is full off lovely restaurants, cafes and bars. Zante town and it’s nice harbour is about a thirty minutes walk away, or €2 on the local bus.

an excellent welcome, we were really very well, the breakfast is very rich and good, the best. super clean rooms and very kind staff, always available. we will return with great pleasure also because it is located in a strategic position. I loved this hotel and I loved Zante

Christos has been super helpful and accommodating during our whole stay in Zakynthos - we would definitely come back because of his amazing hospitality! We had a few issues with our mode of transport and his calm manner has been very reassuring. He offered to help us in every step and made our stay as effortless as possible!

Booked for 10 days half board (breafast & dinner), with my sister. On arrival, informed there was no dinner, snack bar only. Hotel blamed TUI, who we booked with, yet they accepted us on a half board basis. We have taken this up with TUI as well. 4 plastic hangers in the wardrobe - this was for two people for 10 nights!! Cats running around freely in the dining room, actually seen on breakfast buffet. Cats pooped in hotel reception - we observed staff tyring to discretely clean it up. Hotel staff provided left over food for cats daily. Breakfast & snack bar - food very low standard Bathroom had shower the size of a sink basin with plastic curtan, after having a shower, the floor was flooded every night, had to mop up with our towels Sat on balcony one night playing music on my phone - no louder than my speaking voice, NOT hooked up to speaker - asked to be quiet and keep the noise down Saying good night to a friend outside the hotel, on the main road - staff member came out and told us off for making too much noise, we were not noisy, yet the staff sat outdoors every night talking, smoking never seemed like they had work to do No music at any time in the hotel, bar never open - if you wanted a drink you had to locate a staff member and ask yet they had a sign at reception saying "cocktails served daily with free shot" ??????????? Receptionists (two Maria's) tried their best help us Hotel manager Alexia (unsure of correct name) was very unsupportive and did not take any of our complaints seriouly and tried to make it seem like we were at fault for complaining!!!! We wouldn't stay there again if they offered it for free - it really is that bad:( Marie & Pauline, UK

Ultimately, this is not a 4* hotel. I assume the grading is given based upon the hotel facilities rather than the quality, and to give it credit, the pool area is really lovely. Breakfast is ok, fairly standard for this type of hotel with a selection of meat and cheese, pastries, and some hot (ish) food. The juice was pretty much un-drinkable though, and the coffee machine was ok. We stayed for a week and had breakfast twice, the rest of the time we chose to go into town and had brunch at the very highly recommended Isagra. What really lets the hotel down is the quality of the rooms, and from reading reviews it seems to be that there's an old block and a new block, perhaps the new block is ok, but the old block is pretty awful. Probably the worst room I've ever stayed in, and I usually stay in 2* hotels. The room was extremely tiny, all the furniture very dated, the wardrobe had 5 hangers for two people and no other place to unpack clothes, but the worst was the bathroom. It was small enough that you could take a shower while sitting on the toilet, which you may as well do because once you've showered, the toilet will be under an inch of water for the rest of your stay no matter how much you try to swish it down the drain with your foot. The shower tray is tiny and the curtain makes everything claustrophobic, if the room is intended to be used as a wet room seen as there's a drain next to the toilet/shower, they'd have been better off scrapping the tray and making it function properly as a wet room. The water also tastes extremely salty. I wouldn't drink the tap water on holiday anyway, but in this case you might think you're showering off the sea water as you can taste it running down your face, but then you realise that's the actual water from the shower. I don't know if it's the same for everywhere in Argassi but I haven't noticed it mentioned in reviews for other hotels. I had also contacted the hotel in advance to request a twin bed set up rather than double and was told this would be passed along to the team, but when I arrived it was set up as a double. I had a "garden view" room, and while the patch of grass and a few shrubs are quite pretty, the view is of the rooms opposite, separated by a patch of grass. No privacy at all, and the room we had meant people walked past our ground floor balcony constantly. Had this hotel been advertised as a 2*, I'd have got what I expected, but calling it a 4* (and therefore having to pay the room tax value on a 4* room) meant I was really expecting the rooms to be nicer, and so I would not choose to come back.