I read a lot of reviews about this hotel before I went last week on a 7 day all-inclusive holiday with 2 friends (all aged early 20s)
What we didnt realise was the resort of Tsilivi was closing down for the season, and this was the last week the hotel was open before winter.
I was pleasantly surprised by the room, which was basic but fairly modern. It was cleaned daily and we had fresh sheets and towels a number of times in the week.
The food was pretty average, with much the same thing every day. Still edible though, and fresh salad and fruit every day. A massive downer was the amount of cats and dogs allowed to roam through the hotel, especially when trying to eat. Some may like that, I did not.
The entertainment was apalling though. Not a big deal for me who was quite happy sitting in the bar reading a book or playing cards, but seeing as it was half term there were a lot of families there with kids aged 2-15 with nothing to do.
The pool was nice, and plenty of sunloungers to go round.
Beware of the rain though, the hotel leaks like a seive, with towels being placed throughout the hotel to mop it up. I know of some guests whose bedrooms even flooded.
The staff were a mixed bunch. The receptionist (Sophia?) and Mickey the geordie barman made the hotel, and were always keen to help. The rest were miserable and rude, and it seemed like an inconvenience to be staying there.

Overall, for the very cheap price I paid it was good value and a good relaxing getaway, but the hotel needs a complete rebuild and a change of staff to live up to being a proper family holiday hotel.

we were expecting a nice family holiday we were celebrating a 50th birthday and a wedding anniversary so looking forward to a brill time. we had paid in total over 3000 pounds for 6 of us ALL INCLUSIVE. the all inclusive was a joke we arrived there at 10pm there was no where to get a brew no where to get a snack we were told where our rooms were not shown to it rooms were adequate to sleep in shower fine if your 4 foot 2 inches food was only just edible only if you were really hungry it was only just warm same food every other day staff miserable except Micky and Teena over run with stray cats cat faeces in flower pots and swarms of flies wonder why????? no entertainment we even had to pay for bottled water the self catering guests had more choice of food snack bar was open 9am till 5pm but always ran out of chips or burger buns around 3 so all inclusive holiday was limited 8-10am breakfast 1-3pm dinner 7-9pm then that was it till next day it cost us more going out to buy food NEVER EVER AGAIN

Just returned from here and had a great time. Booked it as a last minute self catering thing and was not expecting much but I was pleasantly suprised.

Rooms were basic but most Greek apartments are. It was clean and we had a lovely sunny balcony. All staff were very friendly and the location was excellent. We just had a short walk from our room and we were on the beach. We've stayed in Tsilivi before and was not even aware that part of the beach existed.

I can't comment on the food or entertainment at this hotel as I did not use these facilities but for a self catering short break it was wonderful. We stayed in Cyprus in July in a 4* hotel that cost us 3 times as much as this did and had a much better time here in Tsilivi.

I feel compelled by my experiences at the admiral to write this, my first review.
Tsilivi was recommended by everyone we spoke to, we paid all inclusive & we were really looking forward to the holiday – unfortunately we stayed here…..

Firstly, every poor review on this hotel is justified & I can verify each comment is valid. The place is run by Eastern Europeans whom show preference to their fellow countrymen & treat the western Europeans with contempt, distain and as an unfortunate side effect of running (using the term loosely) a hotel.

Everything is focussed towards the polish, the food is very very basic (oily, fishy, inedible mush) they will ignore serving you at the bar until you either go away or you insist on making yourself heard. The entertainment is also mostly in Polish, it would make sense for the owners to make it exclusively an eastern European complex.

The full inclusive element is a complete & utter rip off. You are dictated what you can have (very little) & when you are allowed to have it. As an additional feature the staff publicly change the clock forward 20 minutes regularly to minimise what you can order throughout the day.

The staff evidently water down the drinks heavily, whilst I was there the beer that was served in small plastic cups went off 5 times, smelling of eggs & tasting of cleaning chemicals.

There were only 2 staff that showed a modicum of customer service, Alex & Sandra both were happy & pleasant. The other staff were god awful by comparison. The bar staff comprised of Mickey, whom was egotistical, rude & unpleasant individual, 1 sullen polish guy who doubled up as a resentful receptionist (whom insisted on evidence that we were all inclusive upon arrival) & 1 completely rude middle aged blonde woman whom treated you as an inconvenient hinderance. The bar cook’s hygiene was also questionable throughout.

In terms of the cleaners they mopped our room once in 2 weeks.

By the 3rd day we refused to eat & drink at the complex using the place just as somewhere to sleep as the food had make us all ill & the watered down beer wasn’t worth fighting 60+ polish bullies for.

If you are unfortunate enough to have to reside in this hotel, leave your manners, goodwill to all men & tastebuds at home, or do what we did & spend your time at the beach & eat out locally at the Golden Fish which was awesome, which shouldn’t have been needed as we had bought an all expensive inclusive holiday.

I implore you to learn from our mistakes & only stay here if you are under severe duress or are of eastern european dissent.