Cyclades Hotel

Close to the beach, wonderful family, helpful and friendly

I stayed at this hotel for a week and it was fantastic. The room was beautiful, ok the bathroom wasn't state of the art but as good as you'll get on an island in Greece and my price range. Bed was super comfy with beautiful linens. Double doors opened out to a stunning flower filled courtyard that was exactly what I pictured when I thought about 'holiday on a greek island'. The hotel is also a two minute walk to the beach and about 5 to the centre of the port, with lots of restaurants and shops to look at on the way. The staff couldn't help me enough. It is a family run hotel and each family member showed me an extra touch of hospitality that made this stay extra special. For example, my quad bike broke down in the middle of the street and one of the sons ran out to check that I was ok, helped me move my bike and called the bike rental shop for me and arranged for them to check the bike. Another example, I was sitting in the courtyard one night and the mother brings me her home made rice pudding (which is delightful) I don't know if it's a greek thing but they make you feel like you are in their home without being intrusive of course. This hotel and the people that work there took my trip from great to fantastic.

We have a spacious studio room on ground floor, balcony overlooked a common garden courtyard. The upper floor rooms have private lounge chairs on private covered deck; very nice (wish we had those). Room has refridge, 2 burner top, glasses/dishes/utensils/pans for making your meals in. We mostly only used refridge and ate light meals out, prices were cheap compared to British/Caribbean/ or parts of US. The brothers picked us up and dropped off at the brand new 53 days old Paros airport for 20€ each way. the family run the small hotel, they stay busy all day but very friendly, they seem to remember all the guesses, greeted by names, and switching different languages, very amiable personalities. we just love them. Hotel is a block from the beach, plenty of restaurants just on that first block on the beach, and they were good. The Filoxena has free beach lounge chairs with any purchase. Try their ouzo order, for 3.5€ I got a tall glass of ouzo, bucket of ice, a glass of water to mix w ouzo and a small plate of mere. Can't find that cheap deal any where else. Lots to see for a small island, we walked all over, got lost a few times, found beautiful sceneries for our rewards. This is traditional Greek with blue dome churches (400 of them here), windmills, beautiful sunsets but without the few thousands of tourists/cruisers as in Santorini. Much slower pace, very friendly people, cheap room and food, and delicious ice cream. We can easily come back here and stay in the Cyclades agai

The stay was very good. The staff were extremely kind and hospitable, a family run business. The beauty of the hotel was it light Mediterranean colours, simplicity. Only minor improvements would be to increase the diversity of the breakfast buffet; which was very limited, e.g. only tomatoes and no fresh fruit or salads. The buffet was the same each day, otherwise a good stay.

Arrived in Paros and felt like a family welcome. The hosts could not do enough for us. Not to mention the great breakfast they include. Helped us plan our time on the island and advised us on the less known spots.