Astir of Paros

Everything was great.  The staff, the facilities. One of the best 5 stars hotels we have ever been to. We will visit them again this year for sure. Advise: You should try the Asian food. It is delicious. We loved the pool, the beach, the exotic garden. Unforgettable stay. Dear Astir of Paros, thank you for everything. See you again very soon.

This hotel is at the best spot in Naoussa but the good news end there! It belongs to another era! The owner must either spend a lot of money to revamp it or sell it! It is a pity to have such a property and not be able to convert it into the talk of the town! The staff is helpful and kind but the management is absent!

Astir of Paros is being promoted as a beach hotel but it is apparent that management has abandoned the beach! Photos on the hotel’s website show a well-groomed, albeit small, beach with nice wooden sunbeds with white mattresses but alas one finds some old style metal sunbeds (some broken) with no mattresses, dirty and covered in sand! During our week-long stay, we have seen no member of staff attending to cleaning the sunbeds, the beach or raking the sand which is full of dry or growing ****s. An old umbrella with a rusted metal pole and concrete base was lying flat on the beach throughout our stay! We raised our complaint about the facilities on the beach to the receptionist on the day we arrived and asked him to relay it to the management but unfortunately we heard nothing back. As a result, on several occasions we had to venture out of the resort to other properly organised beaches! Our junior suite was decent, freshly painted, spacious and clean. However, the furniture is aged and is in need of replacement. A clean white cover over an old sofa or armchair is not good enough I am afraid for a 5* hotel. Also water pressure and water temperature issues should be looked into. Buffet breakfast is leniently average. Restaurant menus are in the form of photocopies on loose, typed A4 sheets of paper!!! Really? In a 5* hotel? The restaurant is headed by a Mr Babis, probably the rudest person we have ever come across in the hospitality industry! Waiter Aphrodite and pool barman Demetris on the other hand were very polite and efficient! The hotel is well located and has extensive grounds. With substantial new investment, progressive management and well-trained staff it could become the real “Star of Paros”. In the meantime the Greek Tourism Organisation should have another look at the number of stars it currently deserves. Andreas A., Cyprus

This place was heavily over priced. Average stay for the most expensive place to stay at.

My family and I stayed here for 8 nights. Overall the hotel was lovely , picturesque , very clean and the staff were very helpful and polite at all times. The manager of the catering area was lovely to guests , and very helpful to me and my family , sadly this did not translate to his staff, as a greek Australian it was quite disappointing to hear how he spoke to them . A little bit of what Aussie’s would consider “Modern Day Slavery” it was quite sad for me to witness this especially given how hard these young staff were working and the Horus they worked. No one deserves this treatment. The breakfast was not good, fruit was often brown and was not replenished often. A big shoutout to Antonis, Afro, Dimitri and the reception staff who were always so patient with my families indecisiveness.. Especially Daniel - who made my two little boys feel so at home and often spent time speaking with them and kicking a bit of the soccer ball too. Thank you for a wonderfully experience we certainly will be back. Until next time…

The hotel is overpriced. The front desk is incompetent and unable to fulfill what they described on the website. The service is good from the maids and taxi but you can’t use all the facilities. They advertise tennis and golf but they are not accessible. you’ll need a taxi to go from the hotel to the center of the island where are the restaurants and that’ll cost both ways €30, sometimes more..

Sadly this hotel is not a 4* or 5* and needs lots of work to bring it back to 5*. For the location it is set, it is beautiful but you do need a car to get into the Village. You would have thought for a 5* hotel in a location like this - shuttle buses into the village would be put on. Other hotels nearby offer this service. Running a buffet breakfast for a 5* dining experience, is really not what you should expect, especially for the amount of money you have paid per night. Table service with a menu is what is expected at 5* not buffet. All the same items were brought out every morning with not much variation and with a family of flies. It’s all about quality not quantity. The room standards have dropped and need updating and re-decorating. Slightly different to those pictured on the website. Number plaques had been replaced with marker pen written on the door. Sunbeds on the beach need replacing, it was hard to find a bed that was not broken. Half of the beach was used as a dumping ground for waste so, was not pleasant to be on the beach and having stole, also was covered in sea**** with a strong sea breeze. Hotel advertised a golf course onsite - this looked unused, scrubland with long grass. Also, advertised art shop but this was closed too. Pool bar onsite was really the only source of drink within 3 miles but was closing at 4pm on a daily basis due to staff shortages but was opening at 8am - no logic. Thought it would have been better to open later to keep the pool bar open in line with the pool till 8pm. 2 restaurants onsite had only just opened a week before we arrived and were very quiet. We looked at the menus but were informed that only 1/2 of the items were available. We did eat at the Asian restaurant and found the food to be lovely apart from the chicken wings that were uncooked. The hotel grounds are full of cockroaches 🪳, I’ve never seen so many in my life. While we were at the restaurant onsite one evening I visited the ladies toilet and there were 9 cockroaches running around my feet! I mentioned to the waiter and he promised they would be gone by the morning. I can confirm they were still there when I left for my flight 5 days later. I saw cockroaches around the restaurants and pool area every day. The hotel was very short staffed and was trying to recruit. We found only one lady on reception the be very helpful and friendly, the others where very rude. The barman seemed to do most things but didn’t get any appreciation. Each morning at breakfast we would here just another unhappy customer complaining about the service, standard or the WI-FI which, is very basic and caused a whole party to move hotels while we were staying.

Beautiful place. People who work there are super friendly and helpful. They go out of their way to make everything perfect. For example, we were consistently late for breakfast, so they would make us a plate anyway.

It shouldn’t be promoted as a 5 star. 3.5 is what it should be.