Elena Village

My wife and I stayed here for 10 days. Upon arrival was greeted by a friendly receptionist. Our room was really spacious more like a small apartment than a hotel room separate lounge with a small kitchenette. All the staff throughout the hotel were extremely friendly and helpful. Rooms cleaned everyday linen was changed several time during our stay, fresh towels everyday. Bar service excellent. The restaurant service and food is excellent also great value both at lunch and dinner. The pool area with plenty of comfortable sun loungers and plenty of shaded areas. A special mention to Michalis whom served breakfast and lunch always had a smile. A great big thanks to all the teams in the hotel we had a great holiday.

Just back from a visit here and I can not recommend this hotel enough, the staff are really friendly and always happy to help. We stayed in room 37,which gave beautiful views over the sea and was a good size one bed apartment, slight things like the shower head wasn't great it didn't really move as me and my partner are different heights, it made it tricky and the bed was quoted as a double which was two twins pushed together. Other then that, lovely pool lots of sunbeds and reasonable priced drinks. Highly recommended if your on the island and it's close to lots of restaurants and about a 15 euro taxi to the port.

We booked this for a walking and climbing holiday. It is well positioned for walking to many crags and a nice walk away from restaurants and shops when needed. Built following the slope of the hill on 7 levels, there are many steps to access the rooms although this does make for a well thought out and attractive setting. One star removed due to the lift not working on several occasions when we had large loads.

Fantastic stay at Elena Village Hotel. Location perfect, just on outskirts of massuri so no noise but walkable to main hub. Spotlessly clean and room very spacious. Fabulous breakfast. Also had dinner one evening and it was very good. Staff friendly and helpful. Shop and a car/scooter rental right outside. Nice mix of people staying....climbers, couples and families on holiday. Pool gorgeous and has amazing view of the crags. Only fault is I cant stay anywhere else now when visiting - its too lovely! Thanks Elena Village....we will be back next year

The Elena Village Hotel is a perfect spot for island exploration. Breakfast is plentiful and caters for all. Staff friendly and helpful. Rooms all have a sea view with the Studios well equipped and comfortable that are cleaned every day. A funicular lift takes you to the upper floors and is a joy. The island being a climbing paradise means there is a fantastic mix of all nationalities at the hotel. Free strong signal wifi throughout. The hotel is indeed constructed in the style of a mountain village (think Lindos). It is a short stroll down the road to the village that has an abundance of restaurants and the local beach along the main road in and out. Highly recommended.

I booked the Elena Village for a number of reasons. Based upon previous reviews and the hotel's information, I believed it would be perfect to spend our 30th wedding anniversary, it appeared ideal for a disabled person, and as my wife has Coeliac disease it guaranteed Gluten free food. We booked a Superior suite with modern facilities and emailed the hotel well in advance to make them fully aware of the problems my wife had. They confirmed receiving our email. We arrived at 2.30am and were met by the night porter, who took us to the funicular lift and told us the room was on the 5th floor, leaving me to manage two suitcases and two items of hand luggage on my own, as my wife has mobility issues. The room was quite a distance from the lift, involving long corridors and 3 separate flights of stairs. We were allocated a suite with a private pool, which was not the superior suite we had booked. We were to learn later that the only reason we were allocated the room with a pool was because the hotel had double booked our superior suite. We decided to have a meal at the hotel on the first night, and ordered stifado. It was the only night we ate there. It was dreadful. We spoke to other guests who’d had the same experience and wouldn’t eat there again. Two days later we were told that we would have to move rooms on the 11th Sept. We were shocked. Reception said that the Night Porter should have told us. I told them that if we had known this, we would have refused the room. This was the actual date of our Anniversary and I told them this would spoil our special day. I asked them if we could move immediately or the day before our Anniversary. They initially agreed, but later put a note under our door to state that it was not possible. That was when we realised they had double booked. Later they said we could remain in the room until the day AFTER our Anniversary (superior suite still not ready). I told them we had booked a tour with the rep on that day. They said they would move our belongings for us, as we had to be out of the room. So we had to pack our clothes, fridge items, dry foods, Medication, etc on our Anniversary day. We both felt so let down. Returning from our day trip we asked reception if we’d been moved? She pointed to two cases and asked if they were ours? We said no. She said in that case, we had been moved. We had to unpack everything in our new room, which was over a shop on the main road. Road noise at night was awful. In my humble opinion, this was not a superior suite. The bathroom hand basin was OUTSIDE the bathroom, overlooking the kitchen. Not ideal planning. The coffee percolator hadn’t been cleaned for weeks and was full of mould. We brought this to the attention of the manager and the following day the cleaning staff approached us, telling us that management had phoned her at home and ripped into them. We then had to complain about the two ring hotplate, as the cable had been burnt through exposing the wires. The cleaner changed

Having spent my 50th birthday here last year and having such an amazing time, we decided to return again this year. We were made to feel very welcome again and settled in to our room on the 3rd level. I’ll never get tired of seeing the island of Telendos bathed in evening sunshine and seeing the sunset. You get to enjoy this beautiful sight every day. The rooms have everything you need and bedding and towels changed frequently. It has a lovely kitchenette, ideal for making coffee, snacks etc if you don’t want to eat out and just want to soak up the view from the balcony. The pool was never crowded and the staff at the pool side bar were always cheerful and happy to bring drinks and snacks over. If you choose to eat at the hotel, the food is amazing. The hotel is situated a good 10 mins walk from the centre of the ‘town’. This can be a bit hazardous after dark as it is a fairly busy road with scooters, hire cars etc and the road is unlit. My advice, take a little pocket torch or use your phone. We did hear the odd person moaning (as they do) about a lack of nightlife…. This is Kalymnos not Kos, It doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a quiet island that is a Mecca for climbers or people who want relaxation. There are tavernas and snack bars a plenty in the town. The hotel has a moped/car hire place next door and a little mini market. It is a fantastic base from which to explore this great island and a fantastic place to return to after visiting its many pebbled beaches and quiet coves. You will be made to feel welcome by the hotel staff, who work hard for you from May to October. Yes you may get the odd leak, smell or rogue hair on your floor. If you tell them, they will sort it. Simples ! I can only give you our honest appraisal of this lovely hotel and fabulous island. It may be at odds with others but I feel that you will enjoy it. Thank you to all the incredible staff that worked so hard to make our stay brilliant. Michael, Faneria, Eleni, Costas and all those I have forgotten. We’ll be back.

We have just returned from a 10 day holiday in this hotel. Firstly I want to point out that the walk into the square in Massouri takes a lot longer than 10-15mins and it is quite misleading on details on the Jet2 site, both me and my partner are not unfit but found it quite a trek so luckily outside the hotel is a bus stop and for 1euro takes you up to the square we used this most nights to go up and walked back as it was downhill The hotel was ok the reception area and pool area were well kept and the young staff working in this area were always lovely and had smiles on their faces. Unfortunately our room had a number of problems it was just the main classic room (we had no option to upgrade at booking). On our first night the bathroom was flooded after a shower and water flees were running all over our toiletries and towels this had to be sorted the second morning. We had to wipe down our fridge as there were marks on the handles and dried food on the door we also had to wipe down the tables and worktops as these hadn’t been cleaned also. The shower was only useable if hand held and the hose also had to be replaced during our stay. We had clean towels every day but our bed linen was only changed once during the 10 nights which I would expect more especially in the high temperatures. Breakfast gave you a good choice although most of the time by 9.45 the hot selection was only Luke warm. On our last morning we asked for the scrambled eggs to be topped up which were taken out of a microwave nearly cold we couldn’t eat them. There is just one small toaster for all the accommodations and 9 times out of 10 there was a queue so again not ideal. Wish we could have had a premium room as by all accounts these are so much better so my advise to anyone going here pay the extra. The views from all rooms are spectacular with views over Telendos which is also worth visiting on the ferry for 3 euros there are some quite beaches here and lovely to watch the sun go down All in all we had a lovely holiday and met a fab group of people and had lots of laughs we just felt there were some areas that could be improved

Wonderful location, wonderful view, silent, clean, kind hotel workers at everywhere. Restaurant is a miracle. Pool is lovely with mountain view. Strongly advice. Rooms and beds are very comfortable and big.