Holidays in Greece are becoming more and more popular for Eastern European tourists. Homer's homeland attracts, as a rule, educated people, with interest and respect for ancient culture. They cannot but be attracted by the prospect of a holiday on the most famous sea in the world - the Mediterranean. Traditionally, the most demanded (in terms of price / quality) by tourists is economy-rest of a decent level. In this article, we will provide an overview of one of the hotels that provide this level of resort services.
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The first line Club Hotel Iliochari 3 is perfect for a measured and calm beach holiday. Iliochari and its small area, according to many tourists, are very well maintained and are the best way to relax. The nearby beach and swimming pool of the hotel complex comply with international standards. The nature of the sea coast is breathtakingly beautiful, where the sea air is enriched with volatile phytoncides. Guests at the hotel restaurant are fed tasty and varied. Judging by the reviews, tourists here both relax and recover.
Transport infrastructure in the vicinityof the hotel complex is quite developed and favors the trips of visitors to the historical sights of Greece.
Hotel location
Club Hotel Iliochari 3 (Peloponnese) is located in the southern part of the country, 15 kilometers from the town of Loutraki and 20 kilometers from Corinth. It is built near the world-famous wonderful pebble beach. Its guests go very close to the sea, only 80 meters, practically, after leaving the hotel, it is enough to cross the road.
The location of the hotel complex favors excursions. Yes, and how: just to the heart of Ancient Greece. The hotel's shuttle bus takes just an hour to Athens, where you can see the famous Acropolis (upper city). It is also not far from here to historical sights - the ruins of the city of Mycenae, to the incredibly textured (the narrowest in the world) Corinth Canal.
Thanks to the constant plying of numerous scheduled sea ferries across the Mediterranean Sea, accessibility for the guests of Club Hotel Iliochari 3Agio Theodori (the most picturesque islands) and the fertile island of Crete (with a pier in the port of Mili) is ensured. By the way, the last route traditionally enjoys special attention of Greek guests in general and hotel guests in particular. The exoticism of the Minoan culture, which has a seven thousand year history, naturally attracts the guests of the Club Hotel Iliochari. Crete naturally attracts tourist flows, as the ancestral home of the Hellenic culture, which gave rise to the world-famous legend of the Minotaur.
Hotel complex. Infrastructure
However, back to the main subject of our article. The snow-white three-story horseshoe-shaped buildings of the hotel complex have a very original look, thanks to harmoniously repeating arcades and terraces. In the courtyard, protected from the wind by the walls of the three residential buildings of the hotel, there is a swimming pool, as well as a recreation area. For guests on the territory of the hotel complex there are several snow-white compact one-story cottages covered with textured red tiles.
Club Hotel Iliochari is surrounded by a chic garden with textured palm trees and magnificent lush flowering plants, including tree-like bougainvillea. The garden is skillfully structured by landscape designers. Between the artistically designed flowerbeds and lawns are well-groomed terraces, where vacationers like to stroll.
Numbers
Club Hotel Iliochari has 150 rooms. Living quarters for the guests of the hotel complex are quite different. Some of the economy class contain a minimum set of amenities and are maintained in operational condition with cosmetic repairs (painting and whitewashing the walls).
Others that can be classified as "classic" and "luxury" are decorated with genuine designer taste:
- diluted "English" color scheme, using a spectacular combination of pastel warm with snow white colors;
- blackout curtains on the windows;
- elegant armchairs, sideboards, coffee tables;
- spreads on armchairs, beds, chairs.
Thus, the club hotel offers its customers as many as seven types of rooms:
- studio (economy option) - 18 m2;
- Double Economy Room - 25m2;
- Junior Suite: 37 sqm living area included2;
- Standard - suite: there are two rooms, one of which is a transformer - a bedroom and a full living room;
- Maisonettes - suite: located on two levels, on the lower - a living room, on the upper - a bedroom;
- Royal - Suite: exquisite design, upgraded living room - salon and double bedroom;
- Executive Suite: Exquisite design, upgraded lounge-saloon and twin bedroom.
Accordingly, the cost per night of accommodation in hotel rooms of different price categories is significantly different - 3,516 rubles against 15,982 rubles. However, all client rooms have common features. So, all of them have a balcony, a bathroom. Rooms are equipped with TV, air conditioning. The suites are equipped with a kitchenette with a microwave, an electric kettle, a dining table, a sideboard.
The rooms of the hotel complex are cleaned daily; linen and towels are changed three times a week.
About regular tourists
Judging by the reviews of the hotel guests, there are regulars among them who visit Club Hotel Iliochari 3 for several seasons in a row. Reviews indicate that this, in its absolutemost people who adore the very spirit of ancient Hellas.
Furthermore, according to the regulars, the Mediterranean Sea in the bay of the hotel is especially transparent due to the unique filtering properties of the local rocky soil.
Beach vacation
Directly from the windows of the Club Hotel Iliochari 3 a wonderful landscape opens up. On the one hand - the unique distance of the wine-colored (as Homer wrote) Mediterranean Sea, on the other - the lush color of a well-groomed garden.
Magnificent comfortable pebble beach, awarded the Blue Flag, begins 80 meters from the hotel complex. It is adequately provided with sun loungers and umbrellas. However, pine plantations are so close to the water that their dense crowns successfully replace umbrellas. Therefore, most of the bathers are located in the shadow cast by slender forest giants, saving on equipment rental.
A chic embankment, along which it is so pleasant to walk, laid along a pebble strip, dotted with cafes and restaurants. This beach resort deservedly receives very positive and flattering comments from hotel guests.
However, by the will of nature, bathers will find stony soil here, running through which you can injure your leg. Tourists should get beach slippers to protect themselves. They should also be especially careful when entering the water (after all, it is transparent): you can step on a sea urchin in the shallows, and this is quite painful.
Food
Typical situation forMediterranean European resorts: food is limited to two types: breakfast or breakfast + dinner. However, gourmets have the opportunity to dine by appointment right on the territory of the Club Hotel Iliochari. Guest reviews indicate the presence of two restaurants: a grill - a restaurant and a cafe "Garden of Eden" (both are located in the garden recreation area).
Standard meals (breakfast + dinner) are as follows:
- breakfast is quite light: scrambled eggs, ham, a few slices of cheese, quite tasty yogurt, wonderful honey and jam, a small croissant, biscuits, fruit;
- dinner (it is quite late, from 2000 to 2100) is more dense. There is a main course (choice of Mediterranean-style fish or meat), side dishes (alternating potatoes, pasta, rice, beans, stewed vegetables), two or three types of salads, as well as the same ingredients that we listed when talking about breakfast.
In general, as can be seen from the reviews, the guests of Club Hotel Iliochari are so passionate about beach holidays that gastronomy is considered as something accompanying. However, no one remains hungry.
However, judging by the reviews of tourists, a significant part of the hotel menu is occupied by famous Greek dishes:
- pita (Greek lamb kebab),
- kefta (chopped chicken cutlet, mixed with bacon and flavored with spices);
- ashi (special baked potatoes with minced meat);
- moussaka (eggplant casserole with meat flavored with bechamel sauce);
- rice soup with lemon andspinach.
Active Leisure
Naturally, from the point of view of mass character, first of all we should talk about bathing tourists in the water area of the beach. Let's face it, many of them come here just to swim, dive, etc. from morning to evening. The sea beckons, it is rich in colorful fish. They are not afraid of people at all. Some of them do not hurt at all, but comically bite bathing people who have invaded their realm. It is impossible to be in Greece and remain indifferent to the Mediterranean Sea.
It would also be appropriate to warn a special category of guests of the Club Hotel Iliochari 3- car tourists: beware of renting a car (especially for trips around the city). The thing is that the rules of the road and the Greek temperament are incompatible things. The local streets are quite narrow, and local drivers drive in such a way that using the same transport infrastructure of Homer's homeland with them, let's face it, is simply humanly scary.
If you can still drive here on country roads, then in the city it's better to just use the services of Greek transport.
Tours
Three-star Club Hotel Iliochari 3 (Peloponnese, Loutraki) is a good platform for excursions in Greece. Judging by the reviews of its guests, the most popular Russian-speaking excursions to Delphi (Greek religious center), Corinth (an ancient polis founded 6 thousand years BC), Meteora (a beautiful rocky monastery complex), Mycenae (the center of an original ancient culture), Epidaurus (ruins of an ancient theater and temple).
Of course (and almost all tourists agree with this), excursion acquaintances with the beauties of Greece should start from the Acropolis of Athens. It is here that the well-preserved historical ruins of the most iconic buildings of Hellas are located: the Acropolis consists of the ruins of the sanctuary of the goddess of hunting Artemis; the temple dedicated to the wife of Zeus Athena, living quarters for weavers (arrefor), the temple of the Erechtheion, the statue of Athena, the main royal passage, the main temple of Athens Parthenon and about a dozen other buildings.
About diving
The Mediterranean Sea is an attractive place for water sports and diving. On its coast, the infrastructure of various private schools and courses that teach diving, surfing, windsurfing, water skiing, and parasailing skills is developed. About practicing one of these sports - a few words.
Among the guests who check into the inexpensive Club Hotel Iliochari 3, there are traditionally divers. After all, only 15 kilometers away is the town of Loutraki with wonderful diving centers. All dives (as evidenced by advertising) occur at a depth of about 30 meters. Beginners are not taught here, those who want to get acquainted with the underwater world must have some experience in multi-level diving. However, judging by the reviews, divers get true satisfaction from getting to know the deep Mediterranean. Instructors deliver divers by boat to places where they will meet with red corals between rocks, mussels, oysters, lobsters,tuna, mackerel, sea bass, eels, sea turtles.
Diving in Loutraki is developed: well-tested popular diving routes are tied to a certain time (almost like a bus), they are served by experienced trainers, they are provided with speed boats, equipment.
Shopping
Club Hotel Iliochari is located on a rather quiet, remote and, perhaps, therefore, especially beautiful coast. It is unlikely that ardent shopaholics will choose it, because they are attracted by the trade infrastructure, and they settle near shopping centers, supermarkets, and markets. For Iliochari guests, the purchase of souvenirs, the purchase of local food products are associated with a trip to the nearby town of Loutraki.
One of the best places to buy food and drinks is the Spak supermarket. It has a very wide range, and the prices are also quite reasonable. For fashionistas who prefer an expensive, veiledly elegant casual style, we can recommend the Spoiled store.
Tourists love the original clothing accessories, made in the ancient Greek spirit. They are presented in a very impressive assortment in the Glamor store. Dipilos is the best store for buying small and original souvenirs.
Conclusion
Club Hotel Iliochari can be described as an inexpensive family hotel. Rest in it heals. Near it is one of the best beaches in Greece, marked with the Blue Flag. This hotel complex is designed for relaxationvarious according to customers' requests. Here, the room stock includes both economy class and luxury class. The hotel staff is friendly and helpful. Domestic tourists communicate with him mainly in English.
