We arrived at 4pm and the transport dropped us off at the top of a hill the driver saying it is somehwere down the hill. When we found the hotel, there were staff asleep in their rooms with the door open, and no one seemed to know we were arriving. We were sent up the hill to the other part of the hotel called the Mythos, given the keys to our room and sent back to the Sophia. No one helped with thr suitcases and out room was up a steep, slippery hill and then 92 steps! we complained and eventually changed our room with a lovely view of the bay. Breakfast was find, the usual fare for Greece but the evening meal was bordering on inedible. (We went half board) The swimming pool should be condemned, and was never cleaned. No-one used it. The hotel was clean but tatty, and definitely needs upgrading. However, the staff were lovely, and seemed to have more than one job to do in the hotel, so were constantly tired. Would not recommend at all.
Bali as a resort is simple and quiet, with about 5 Taverna's, all selling quite nice food, and all the people in the resort were lovely, welcoming and kind. Would go back to Bali, but not the hotel.

We arrived at the Hotel at 11:00 p.m. and were met by Michael who told us there were no rooms at the Hotel. He was nice and polite and gave us a late meal (part of our first night's booking) and then he took us to another hotel he manages, the Filion Resort and spa. We interacted several times with him over our 10 day stay and we generally got on OK, but I can see how easily it might have been different. Your relationship with him will define your stay.

The hotel has a great location and the staff were friendly and the food was good. But they routinely overbook and then farm you out somewhere else!

The resort of Bali is beautiful, it is small and very quite. Bali is suitable for couples and families with young children as the beaches are sandy and brilliant for making sandcastles. My children are teenagers now and there wasnt much for them to do especially as the resort was full of Russians and Germans so they were unable to make friends as communication was difficult.


The hotel was cleaned everyday and fresh towels were given. We had booked a one bedroom apartment and when we arrived we were given a studio with one bed in the kitchen, we asked to be moved and we were after about four days. We were half board, the food was adequate, but not fantastic. Most mornings we were given hard boiled eggs. We were provided with squash to drink, but this was so watered down that it tasted horrible. The evening meals usually consisted of a greek salad, some evenings we had chicken, meatballs, chops, or stewed meat, not all on the same night. The meatballs did come out three nights in a row, and the spaghetti bolognase was turned into a salad the next day, there was also quite alot of choppped egg in the salads. The two waiters were lovely, but sophia was a bit grumpy looking and would watch people to make sure they didnt take too much food. All of the rooms were up lots of steps, we had 91 steps from the road to our apartment, which got harder everyday. There was also about 60 steps to the beach. There wasnt a pool bar, in the brochure it looks as if there is, but that is just were you eat your meal, you can buy a drink to accompany you meal, but that is it. Also nobody really uses the pool everybody goes to the beach.

We went to the waterpark this was expensive, but worth it. It is quite new and small. We booked this through the rep, she tried to charge us adult price for the children, there was no need and fortunatley my husband said no. The olympic rep wasnt at all pushy, however she didnt have a lot of get up and go.

Finally the drinks in the bars were expensive, we ate out in two restaurants neither were fantastic. At the nest we ate pig on the spit this was nice and not too pricey. We also ate at the Panoma this had a lovely view of the bay, but the food was naff.

I would go back to Bali, I felt very safe there and had a lovely relaxing holiday.

We stayed at the Sofia in Bali for two weeks in August. The rooms were clean and adequate. The food was nice though a little repetitive by the second week. The staff were friendly and helpful, the biggest problem we had was with how rude and arrogant most of the other guests were; they couldn't or wouldn't queue and pushed past our small children at meal times. The pool also needs some attention as there is a large hole in the bottom of the pool and to our knowledge there were never any chemicals put in during our stay. I would go back to the Sofia as we enjoyed our stay but i would instruct our children to forget about manners and use there elbows as seems the norm.