Parilio, a Member of Design Hotels, Paros

Parilio may be one of my favorite hotels ever. I loved the simple elegance of the place. For people who appreciate architectural aesthetics, you will love it. It is so zen. I stayed for 4 nights with my two adult daughters. Things I love about it.. 1. THE STAFF: every member of the staff was so friendly and attentive. We would show up for breakfast and they would remember our individual coffee orders from the previous morning (and the coffee was excellent). It was the same thing for evening cocktails. They made us feel right at home and cared for. 2. THE FOOD: everything they served was delicious and high quality. We ate in town a few times but every meal we ate at Parilio was perfection, delicious, fresh and healthy. When we left to head home, we felt so good, not heavy and over-served like we often do on vacation. 3. OUR ROOM: the sun suite was so comfortable for the 3 of us. We thoroughly enjoyed our little private pool area We could not have been happier. 4. THE LOACTION: Parilio is situated in the perfect spot. We loved that it was a short distance to Naousa, a little out of the busy-ness of town. It felt like an oasis every time we returned to the hotel and we were always warmly greeted by the staff. The only bad thing is that it was very, very hard to leave so be prepared for that!!! :)

I signed a waiter contract for the Parilio Hotel in Paros on April 16th, 2025, before exchanging dozens of emails, providing all required documents and having 2 hours meeting. They ensured me that I was going to surely work there beyond my criminal record after they had already seen it and I bought new pair of shoes, bus tickets, ferry boat tickets and other stuff that I was going to need there. They cancelled me on 24th 3-4 hours before my trip because of my criminal record. I got half of my tickets money returned but I had already spent 100€ more for shoes and other necessities. They told me that they can't do anything to get my money back and after all that they never communicated with me after lots of emails and messages I sent.... I would advise any other applicants to not pay a cent before signing any contracts but this is what happened to me and I hope no one gets this type of behaviour by the management. P.S. HR was always 2 days late in any process and the manager ensured that his phone is always open for any questions and help we needed and after they cancelled me he was declining each of my calls.

We were looking forward to our stay at Parilio, in Paros. We had emailed ahead to make sure the room type we ordered had two outside Sun Lounges, so we could sit outside and enjoy with our feet up. Upon checking, late in the afternoon, we were shown to our room. We had dinner at the restaurant, that evening, which was very good. The next morning we realised we did not have any sun lounges as we had been given a 1st floor room. We went to reception to advise we had been given the wrong room and were told the room they gave us was an upgrade. That may have seemed nice for them, but we especially asked for a room with sun lounges. The lady at reception acknowledged this fact, only to say they didn’t have a room for us with a sun lounge until the next day. So, two nights and not what we had ordered!! The next day we had to move rooms, a nuisance but we did it. We had the new room, which was extremely comfortable for 3 nights only to have the air conditioning break down and was not able to be repaired before the evening. So, again we had to move rooms, and we understand it was not the teams fault, but nevertheless, it was annoying to have to move, yet again. The next room was not as nice, but was acceptable EXCEPT, to have staff walking past our private area to and from the car park, was not what we would have expected. What was more interesting this morning was the reception staff did not even bother to ask, “how is your new room, we are sorry to have inconvenienced you twice”, just nothing. We would have thought that an acknowledgment was the correct thing and even to say, please “have a drink on us” Just nothing, very unprofessional and it has left us with a bad taste in our mouth for this property and any others in the Empiria Group. A shame as the majority of the team are fantastic, but clearly lack some extra good training. With this bad taste, we would not recommend this property.