Hotels Near Kakovatos Beach in Zacharo

This is a little jewel box of a country hotel. Laid out in a Hacienda style, the setting immediately puts you at ease and in a relaxed frame of mind. Add to it the tranquil bucolic surroundings and you’ll begin to slip into the proper attitude to take in an enjoy this deeply historic town. Olympia really cannot be understood, let alone enjoyed without some acclimation…primarily letting go of the urgency to do something or be somewhere. Checking in at the Hotel Olympion Asty is an excellent first step. Sitting by the pool at sunset, or just enjoying the view from the balcony in the room will do wonders for your psyche and your mental state. The Hotel Olympion Asty is also located on the top of small hill and overlooks the town of Olympia, suffice it to say that the location automatically makes wandering around town or shopping “not an option.” This enforced detox is exactly what your soul needs to begin to truly enjoy Olympia, to fall into that frame of mind, that pace that allows you to truly understand it and why this place was so special to the ancient Greeks. Ok, let’s talk nuts and bolts. The rooms are new and well-equipped. The air conditioning leaves much to be desired, but that’s just continental. The bathrooms are all steel and glass and the toilets are new, sturdy, and clean! There is plenty of space and I appreciate hotels setting out sufficient counter space next to the sink. The rooms are spotless and give you the feeling of being luxuriously clean and neat, tastefully appointed and thoughtfully functional. The room we had had a split level with a separate sitting area with a sofa bed, and a balcony overlooking the city and the plains….just gorgeous. The kitchen out a very solid buffet dinner on the day we arrived and the breakfast was just as good the next day. While you may not get a buffet, it is clear what the kitchen CAN do and you are in good hands at the Olympia Asty. The pool is great. It was clean, spacious enough to do laps comfortably and deep enough to be thoroughly enjoyable…likely deeper than most hotel pools at 2.9m at the deep end. There is a small pool bar as well.

This is a reasonable 4 star hotel. Our room was an OK size with a couple of stairs going down to a small sitting area and the balcony. Unfortunately once we put a suitcase on the luggage rack at the bottom of the bed it made it a bit tight walking around the bed. The room had a view overlooking the swimming pool. There was a small pull-out clothes line on the balcony which we really appreciated. The bathroom was a reasonable size although there was a bath with a shower over it rather than a walk in shower. The hotel is up a hill and the distance to the town is not very far. However, it is a very steep hill. We walked down very carefully and caught a taxi back which only costs us 5€. There is free parking at the hotel. There was quite a range of food available for breakfast. On the second morning of our stay there was someone cooking omelettes to order which was great. On check-out the receptionist told us there was a charge for mini-bar items we had consumed. We told her that we had not consumed anything. She quickly said “sorry, my mistake”. She did not check anything and we were left with the feeling that this had been a “try on”. Regardless, it would seem that this is something that the receptionist should check before advising customers of an additional charge because last impressions count. Without this incident I would have rated the hotel as very good rather than average.

Arrived at midnight after a long drive from Delphi. The owner came out to greet us and help with our luggage, he told us that he would be available for anything we needed until 3am, wonderful to know! The room / suite was the entire top floor of the hotel. The owner told us that he had to planned for it to be his home and that showed, everything you could need was there. In addition to the bedroom and bathroom, there was a sitting area and a small area for cooking (fridge, stove top, plates, cutlery, glasses). The rest of the space was a partially shaded deck with dining table, sun beds and a hammock. The view from the deck over the countryside was beautiful and peaceful. Breakfast was delicious with many choices - the yogurt and honey and also strawberry jam were so flavorful. Was ideally located for an easy walk to the archeological site. For the accommodation and breakfast provided, this was excellent value. Only stayed one night but would have loved to have stayed longer to enjoy the space on the top floor and would absolutely go back if retuning to Olympia.

I couldn't because the hotel was included in the circuit we made of classic Greece (for the rest, Mr de TRAVELPLAN , review where they put our customers their correspondents even for one night, that the trip was not exactly cheap ), The hotel is a very good hotel, and the hotel is very good. The hotel is very comfortable and very comfortable and very comfortable. The bathroom was very small and distant and in our room, the garden, for example, had a hole. The only good thing is that I had a small balcony that was giving the main street ( full of shops and restaurants ) and had a small refrigerator, very important for the heat of Greece. We had the dinner included and consisted of mackerel and chicken , i.e., as a child menu, completely insulted, seemed to be the typical hospital food. And the breakfast is better not to talk, scarce and how little there was (sweet jam and cheese and some biscuits ) of poor quality. The hotel was very comfortable and the hotel was very comfortable. It is very close to the archaeological site of Olimpia but I imagine there must be other better options, though to be better this hotel doesn't take much. The 3 stars that sold us in the program would be at the time but now have left them on the way and, in my opinion, they are not even in the pension category.