Ramira Beach – Psalidi – Kos

We stayed at this hotel for the last 10 days of the season & really enjoyed it. This was our 4th Mitsis hotel & my personal favorite so far, mainly to do with the really friendly staff & atmosphere.

The hotel is around 30 minutes walk/5 minutes bus ride away from Kos town & on a road with other big hotels but they are not on top of each other. There are a few taverns & shops, most of which were closed due in late Oct. There is a wide cycle path all the way into Kos town & it’s possible to hire bikes cheaply from the hotel.

The hotel consists of the main building & blocks of rooms around the main pool & is bright & contemporary. We stayed in a family room in the main block with a separate area for the kids with two beds which are used as sofas if just two people using the room. Minibar which was refilled every other day, aircon, TV, plenty of storage. The room was identical to the superior rooms in the Roda Beach, Corfu if anyone has been.

The food was fine, typical Greek all-inc with the option of using the Chinese & Italian restaurants. It is possible to eat all day here as there is a constant supply of ice cream, cake, cookies & sandwiches in the bar areas. The bars are waiter service in the evening. You can also use the facilities of the Norida beach near Kardamena.

When we were there the entertainment team was smaller than in high season but the kid’s club was still on twice a day as well as archery, shooting & some kind of skittle game that seemed to get a good turn out every lunchtime.

Since we have returned we have read plenty of reports on other sites about the hotel closing up around guests. To be fair I don’t think this is the case. We only saw chairs being moved into the building from the pool area (on a very grey day), but these were placed in seating formations not stacked up ready to be stored as some people have suggested. There were also gripes about the food on the last day being limited, again not fair in my opinion.

The hotel has a check out time of 12 noon, but having kids we chose to keep our room on. The people that were moaning on the day were those who had checked out of there rooms but hung around until 10pm or later that night (the last night of the season) & ate & drank all day when most places would have removed the wristbands & sent them packing.

The hotel represented really good value as, excluding flights, it costed £400 for four of us for 10 days; that’s £10 pp per day, less than the cost of a meal for one in any taverna in Kos town! Wonderful package holiday at an unbeatable price.