Ikos Olivia

A fabulous Ikos property. We last visited here 7 years ago and it was wonderful up gave returned. We’re Ikos lovers and have visited nearly all of them. Olivia’s gardens have blossomed beautifully and their new restaurant and bar refurbishments have really brought the resort up to more recent Ikos standards. The team are experienced and genuinely want to offer you the best and most genuine hospitality. Your deluxe area is beautiful and the swimming pool is peaceful and picturesque. Thank you to Athina, Maria and George and all of your amazing team for truly looking after us for all 8 nights. My parents first Ikos and it won’t be their last. Have a fabulous rest of the season and look forward to seeing you all very soon. Thank you ☺️

We have just returned from a week in Ikos Olivia and have a had a fantastic family holiday however feel let down on some elements of the stay. This was our 3rd visit to an iKos hotel and the 2nd time to Olivia. We decided for the 1st time to book deluxe room with a private pool. The pool was great and bigger than expected. We had diner on the beach (included in the deluxe option) which, the lady who served us, Anna, was fantastic - great personality, attentive and a real credit to Ikos. The french man who was working alongside her was lovely also. The room, with private pool which we booked I advance had a good layout. The floor tiles on the patio near the pool are very slippy - these need to be changed for something safer. The children really loved having this available to them. We were disappointed that the room (619) had no view - it looked onto walls of the deluxe pool kitchen. We did raise this with the concise offered a different room but it would’ve meant moving everything 4 days into our stay and whilst appreciated was inconvenient for us. I’d recommend playing close attention to the location of the room if you are booking this room type. The rest of the Deluxe offering was not what we were expecting and a disappointment. The deluxe beach adjoins the public beach. The kids on arrival (around lunchtime) did not receive the welcome pack as promised and on departure we didn’t receive the gift of olive oil nor the lunch that we’d pre ordered for our travel, this didn’t make or break the holiday but is it indicative of the Ikos brand getting too big and losing sight of the little details. These were basic mistakes. We tried to make changes to our dinner reservations as we didn’t want to eat in the same restaurant 2 nights in a row but this couldn’t be accommodated. We weren’t offered the dine out option which a few other people we spoke to had, not sure if we would have done this but it would have been nice to have the option. We felt the standard of food in general was not as good as at Aria nor as good as our last visit to Olivia, especially case in Provence on our last night where 3 of 4 starters were cold (meant to be hot) and the mains courses were poor quaility. Our kids starters and main courses all came at the same time. Communication was difficult also with staff not able to understand what was happening. The day time room service options have very few healthy options. Across the whole resort the drinks on offer seemed to have declined and when we asked for certain things on the drinks list the were not available which has not happened before. The food in Fresco and Anaya were great but would highly recommend booking these in advance. We took full advantage of the sports and activities available at the hotel - the football academy, football tournament and also the tennis course every morning. It would be great if the hotel did a bit more to encourage more numbers of kids at these activities - if you don’t research them y