Sunrise Village Hotel Apartments

In over thirty years of holidaying in Greece this place is one of two hotels with the comfiest beds we have slept in. We had one of the deluxe one-bedroom apartments. The spacious balcony overlooked the excellent swimming pool and had a partial sea view and sunset views when available. The pool is cleaned daily. Swimmable when it opens at 10 am, by 4pm it is nice and warm. The apartment was well appointed but self-caterers beware there are no cooking facilities but a toaster, sandwich maker, kettle and coffee machine were provided. (It doesn't advertise cooking facilities but comes in the self catering category in Jet2's catalogue.) Daily cleaning and towel change. Wonderful shower. Attentive service. We reported a leaky sink and it was repaired within the hour. The furniture is ultra modern, too much so for an old fogie like me but my wife liked it. Beware the furniture has heavy wooden bases which can hurt if you bang against them. The bed base had sharp corners which drew blood from my wife, twice. Nicely situated just away from the hustle and bustle of the main town but there are seaside tavernas nearby. Two moans for the owners. A bigger table on the balcony would have helped, as would a bigger car park. We had to park in the street more often than not. What about the overgrown land next door?

Our first visit to the Sunrise and it didn't disappoint. We had a one bedroom apartment and it was fabulous. The only downside was the lack of storage, could do with a few more shelves in the bedroom. However, we did make use of the woven baskets that were scattered about the apartment, so we managed, it didn't spoil our experience. I understand that all rooms are now refurbished. There are rooms low down which don't have patio doors or views but it depends on what you book. We emailed the hotel before going even though we'd booked with Jet2 to ask for a room with a pool/sea view, and we got one. The room was cleaned everyday, cleaners all lovely, the pool was cleaned everyday. There is no pool bar but you can get cold drinks, including beer, at reception. The surroundings are lovely and it is well maintained and looked after. Thank you to Vasso in reception, who made us feel very welcome and is lovely and friendly.

This hotel is simply stunning, the rooms are beautiful and make you feel so relaxed. All the staff at the hotel are lovely. It is only a short walk from the port and the town. The pool area is quiet and absolutely gorgeous. Really reasonably price and we can’t wait to come back

This is a transparent and factual review regarding our experience of staying at a STANDARD STUDIO at the Sunrise Village 9th June 2023 This holiday was booked through the OLYMPIC HOLIDAYS website. There is a 20-picture sequence comprised of 5 images general hotel, 13 images of renovated rooms and finally just 2 basic wide angled pictures of a non-renovated room. There is NO written comment on the website stating which rooms have or have not been renovated. We had unwittingly booked a STANDARD STUDIO - INLAND VIEW anticipating it to be a renovated room: our room 204 was NOT a renovated room. OLYMPIC are contracted with the hotel to supply both renovated and non-renovated rooms. The STANDARD rooms continue to be poorly maintained awaiting future renovation. The room is spacious, cool and is cleaned every day but has many issues which rendered it unacceptable considering the price paid to Olympic, namely: - • A very rusty freestanding refrigerator (the original redundant fitted fridge is behind a screwed-up door under the rusty two ring hob) • Corroded shower base trim with sharp exposed metal edges. • Old rusty radiators. • Old hard uncomfortable bed • Corroded bathroom fittings, chrome plating worn off tap, loose corroded soap holder and a failed sink plug that empties a full sink in 30seconds. • Trailing sockets and cables for fridge and high wattage items (Kettle/coffeemaker) • Rotting bathroom window which could not be closed • Old noisy air conditioning unit which has a very musty smell (Health Hazard) • Shower door that would not close properly creating a slip hazard floor around the sharp base edges. After emailing just a few pictures to OLYMPIC on 13 June 2023 we were contacted by reception who showed us a deluxe 1 bed Suite which was a renovated unit (room # 310). We were allowed to transfer to this room at no extra charge for the remaining 9 nights. The move, prompted by the Olympic Resort Manager, was an improvement and much appreciated, however it was not without its problems. The room was a “Ground floor” (Greek nomenclature) which is really a basement/cellar room (English translation) with: - 1. No Balcony or terrace (contrary to OLYMPIC Website accommodation description) 2. No view from the small studio window which was at ground level (No inland view or any view whatsoever) 3. Adjacent to a continually noisy operating compressor room and cleaners’ storage area. 4. Did not contain a “Fully Equipped kitchen” as described on the Olympic Website: it just provided a kettle, a toaster, and a sandwich maker. There were NO hobs, oven, or microwave to cook meals so eating out became mandatory. 5. The Studio contained NO chairs or table to sit at and eat a proper meal: outside a very small glass table and chairs was available upstairs by the car park PEDESTRIAN ENTRANCE 6. The hanging space comprised 2 hooks with rope loops holding a small rustic wooden pole to put hangers on. There were no other drawers, cupboards, or proper shelves to s

We stayed here for 4 nights in June 2023. When we pulled up, I was a bit apprehensive as there were no recent reviews and it looked like a pretty old bunch of buildings. Looks can be deceiving. We found the small parking lot easily and happy that it was decent enough size to turn our car(many in the islands aren’t) and had a hose to wash the dirt off the car to avoid excessive cleaning charge from the rental company. The reception staff were extremely friendly and helpful. We had apartment 309 on the top floor overlooking the pool, but could see town and water over the top of the building. Our apartment had everything we needed, appeared recently renovated and was quite spacious. It had good blockout shutters which helped us sleep in a bit on early sunrises. It had a little fridge and enough plates and cutlery to Allow us to buy breakfast stuff from the supermarket and eat on the balcony in the mornings.Location was good, probably a 10 minute slow walk into town and all of the restaurants you could need. Some lovely little waterfront restaurants were a bit closer. The pool, whist appeared to have been built in the 60s or 70s was kept clean and good for an afternoon/early evening dip after returning from the beach. The pool wasn’t crowded and this is a fairly small hotel, but we could always find a deckchair. I wouldn’t want to spend a day by the pool like some of the leathery old sun seeking UK guests, as there are so many fantastic beaches on the Island, but it was fine for a quick dip and dry off. A couple of minor niggles, such as hot water not being available early in the morning some mornings from the taps or shower, no beach towels ( we were travelling for 5 weeks trying to avoid excess baggage and everywhere else we’d been had beach towels). The reception was helpful and did offer us some old hotel towels if we wanted to use them by the pool, but we wanted to go to beaches so bought a couple. The shower head was a bit odd and probably blocked, so had an uneven spray. These are tiny niggles and didn’t detract from our stay.

My daughter and I stayed at Sunrise Village for her 22nd birthday treat. We loved it. The rooms had everything we needed-including great air con. They were clean and bedding was changed half way through our week and towels everyday. Great to have a full size fridge for our drinks and snacks. The shower was good. The official 2 stars must be because there’s no cafe/ restaurant etc as the rooms are much better than 2 stars. You can buy cold drinks from reception between about 8am to 8pm. The pool area is good and was very quiet for us even in August. Skopelos town is a short walk with first restaurants just 100m away. The hotel rooms were very quiet both day and night. Beach next to the hotel is not great but you can get to lovely beaches by bus easily and staying in Skopelos town with its lovely streets, shops, restaurants and harbour was better for us than just a beach resort. We loved Sunrise Village and Skopelos town and would highly recommend both.