I’m just back from a last minute holiday to the sun. In the past I would have gone to any destination, just go get away but this time it was different, we had our little baby girl to think about.
After much whinging at the missus to get her to organise a holiday away with me, I finally gave up pestering her about it and told her I wasn’t going away this year since she didn’t seem that pushed….
Well that was definitely the wrong thing to do, she was now determined to go on holidays and took it on herself to go off and book the holiday. I got a phonecall from her on the Thursday afternoon, “all booked, we’re going to Rhodes on Sunday…..”. I was stunned!! What hotel, what resort i asked??? “Well that’s why I’m ringing you”, she said. “Can you look up the Tsappi Hotel in Kremasti, Rhodes”, that’s where we are staying.
So off I went researching the place and the hotel. There was plenty of information on the location, located just 10 MINUTES from the airport, small village, not much to do etc….. I could find absolutely nothing about the hotel itself. At this stage I was quite worried, we were bringing a 3 month old baby to a place that sounded like a hole and it looked like the hotel didn’t even exist! Anyway, I just thought, feck it, I’ll deal with it when I get there, at least I know not to expect much.
When we arrived in at the Tsappi Hotel, it was obvious right away that it wasn’t a hotel at all. It was merely a nice name for a set of apartments. From the outside they were clean and modern looking compared to the other buildings around this deserted little village. On the inside, not too bad either clean enough, but no air conditioning. This was obviously worrying as our little baby was already sweating with the heat. In an attempt to cool her down, I went out onto the balcony with her. Only sitting for two seconds, I could see what looked like headlights of a Juggernaut heading towards me. I knew though that there we no roads in the direction i was looking. Pretty quickly it became apparent though, that this in fact was a very low flying plane, heading right in our direction. In fact we were right in the path of planes landing at the airport. Just to give you a flavour of how close, you can view the video below, or just look at this on Google Maps (below - click to enlarge)…… The second swimming pool to the right of the airport is the Hotel Margaret, which was just a few yards away from where we were staying.
Oh, and the video evidence…. this was taken on my mobile phone and is on it’s side. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX59NcvjDIo
There was absolutely nothing else to do on the holiday, granted the beach was nearby and the main village was about a five minute walk (through a housing complex). The village was lovely, but very little there. Prices weren;t much cheaper than here in Ireland for eating and shopping, but the beer was cheap!
All in all, unless you are looking for a complete flaking out session don’t go here and oh if you think airplanes flying over your head every 60 seconds, with between 15-20 min intervals, steer clear of this place!! 
i am digusted at what you have to say about kremasti i just got back from there yesterday and it was the best holiday ive ever been on, yes, i agree with u about the hotel, i couldnt rate that and the plane which you over aggerated the planes were about 5 a day and roughly 3 a night there is plenty to do there in hotel margaret has lots of entertainment including greek night and kareoke theres 2 waterparks close by and rhodes town is just 30mins drive away, and im booking to go back next year it was that good so your advice is terrible thank you and goodbye.
p.s i was on holiday with you and you werent complaining…..
Hi Ashling,
Holidays I guess are all about what ever interests you. I didn’t say it was a bad place, I just said it wasn’t the place to go unless you were looking to flake out.
Yes Rhodes town was 30 mins away, but on any other decent holiday I’ve been on, you haven’t had to go far for some entertainment.
Oh and yes the hotel margaret had entertainment. A greek night and a karaoke, two nights. The greek night I wasn’t there for the whole night, but I did get coaxed into dressing up as a woman and running around the bar, which was a bit of fun. All in all, I still think it was a poor place for MY type of holiday.
AND… the planes were that bad, when you have a baby terrified each time one flew over, maybe you notice it more. I’m sure if it was just me, I would have got used to them very quick.
So who where you then if I was actually on holiday with you? I’m glad you had fun!!