Assa Maris Beach Hotel

This hotel is... shall we say... rather interesting. First, the location is fantastic and beach is beautiful. The grounds are very nice, and staff were friendly. However, while it appears some updates have been done, the rooms are not really up to par -- nothing huge, but a lot of little annoyances or things that are just odd. The included dinner was okay, though not on par with most of the other places we stayed in Greece. My traveling companion is from the US and lives in Romania -- apparently this hotel is very much an older Eastern European style of resort which is popular with the older generations from that part of the continent. For US or western European tourists, I would not recommend staying here as the experience isn't really geared to our expectations.

The rooms are very dirty and stinky. It's beyond just dirty. The pool is green, every furniture is so old, dirt and gross, that you can’t sit or sleep. The bathroom was nightmare- really stinky with dirt. The towels,the mattresses and the sheets in the room were gross. NO MATTER HOW DESPERATE YOU ARE. DO NOT COME TO THIS HOTEL.

First of all, we were been here 4 years ago and we have chosen to return in this hotel because we liked this place (beach and sea), but returning in this year was very big mistake. If serious conditions in rooms are terrible, no any reparations since foundation, fridge woks like perforator it's impossible to sleep when it works, bathroom is extremely awfully with lack of shampoos soup or other stuff. Secondly, the conditions of food, it's impossible to eat it. Moreover when you are going to eat you have to deal with a lot of flies in restaurant and with rotten vegetables and 2 types of food without taste as on breakfast as on diner. Also, prices for drinks ( water, cola, coffee and other) are overpriced for many times. All in all this hotel had become terrible and i can strongly affirm that i will never came there again and suggest you to don’t try it and choose another one. Also one of very important thing that i had written a comment on booking about all problems that i mentioned in this review but my comment was replaced with absolutely apposite words.

I had been here years ago and thought it would be pleasant to return. However, it was a hugely letting-down experience with unreliable customer service. I had proceeded with a booking over the phone, where the type of the room, the respective dates and the price was agreed. The motive was that paying them directly (even though with the prices quoted online) I could help a medium business to avoid unnecessary fees, even though I had no direct benefit myself. Huge mistake. I did not receive any written confirmation, so I proceeded with calling 3 times in a period of 10 days, and I was invariably told to not worry at all and that the booking is safe and guaranteed. After 2 weeks of the initial phone call, I eventually received the confirmation in writing: the initially just over €900 reservation for 4 nights was increased to just below €1300. When I called to (naively) question whether there was a mistake, I was dismissed with “we never agreed anything”. Obviously they chose to increase their prices once they reached closer to the reservation dates by not honouring already made bookings. Needless to say, I am never returning to that hotel again and, unfortunately, I will be sharing my experience with anyone I know who is planning to visit Chalkidiki for them to avoid similar treatment by this establishment. This hotel’s attitude is damaging the tourism sector, decreases any transactional trust, and leaves customers with little choice than going through intermediates and not bring any business directly to them. However, I thank them for the lesson learnt, albeit the hard way: one has to toughen up, look after personal interests only, and be less caring for smaller businesses by going through intermediaries, to which the businesses have to pay additional fees.

Beautiful hotel, right on the long sandy/pebbly beach, surrounded by pine forests, palm trees and flowers. Amazing and friendly staff. The food was very good. Very clean and well maintained. It's in the middle of nowhere and takes 90 mins from the airport, well worth it though. My only criticism is that you had to pay for drinks at the evening meal, including water or juice.

The hotel has been recently taken over by the new Manager, George. It is a beautiful hotel right on the long sandy/pebbly beach. The sand is full of silver glitter and looks so pretty. The hotel is surrounded by palm trees, roses, flowers and is very well maintained and clean. The food is incredible, with lots of choice, thanks to the brilliant chef Kostas. We went Half Board and my only criticism is that you have to pay for drinks with your evening meal, even water or juice. The hotel is in the middle of nowhere and it takes 90 minutes to get there from Thessaloniki Airport. However, it is definitely worth it. We wish the hotel every success for the future.

PLEASE DONT GO THERE. We made a mistake last year, the owners were so rude, the place is kept so bad, the female owner and older lady was yelling and screaming at a familly infront of us, this hotel is hell.

After 20 years of travelling through beautiful Greece, we found the Worst hotel ever. We liked the location, had no other options due to a late booking, and gave it a shot. What a mistake. And where should we start: dirty glasses, a kitchen as you can see in a photo the way it's maintained (dirty underneath the plates with food), flies in your eggs, a hotel owner who Literally yells at her guests, refrigerator has been changed 4 times in order to get a good night sleep, old old furniture that falls apart, unhappy guests at the reception, cleaners who simply forget to come to clean...and so on and so on. The swimming pool, don't let your kids in, if by any means you make a mistake and book this hotel as we did, as it was green and dirty for 5 days since we got there. The room we paid for - we got it 3 days later, for 250e per day, you can find amazing places, with amazing people, clean and well-kept, happy places, this is The hotel to AVOID.

Liked: - location was excellent (the sea and the beach) - the beds were comfortable Disliked: · Although this feedback is personal, other tourists who were in the hotel during the same period and with whom I discussed during the stay had similar observations. - the room was cleaned only 2 times during an 8-day stay and only after a complaint at reception - the cleaning of the room was very poor, consisting of emptying the trash can and arranging 1 bed (these are the only good things I noticed when I returned to the room) - bath towels were changed only once during the entire stay (8 nights), after a visit to the reception - the light in the room was insufficient, some of the bulbs / lamps being defective - lack of shampoo & body shower (only a rest of fluid in a dispenser in the shower cabin, finished after the 1st day) - an outdated & small shower cabin, with curtains which clung to your body during washing - discrimination between Greek tourists and tourists of other nationalities. One evening when there was a power outage, we were forbidden to use the tables on the outdoor terrace, while for a group of Greek tourists the same tables were arranged as soon as they requested it. - the lack of a backup power source - a power generator - that could have helped provide the water needed for washing when returning from the beach. In the last days of our stay there were numerous power outages that made it impossible for us to clean & serve dinner in normal conditions - lack of drinking water at dinner - not even 1 glass - tourists being forced to buy it. This is just about the wrong policy of the hotel, not being very difficult to include the value of a bottle of water / family (few cents) in the price paid for half-board. This is practiced by any tavern / café you go to, where you are offered 1 glass of water / bottle of water regardless of consumption (1 cup of ice cream / 1 coffee / lunch) - the lack of involvement of the management team in the activity of this hotel