KoSea Boutique Hotel

I will attempt to provide a fair overview of my experience at the KoSea Boutique Hotel in the hope it may be of assistance to you when making a decision to visit yourself. Overall a mixed experience with many good and bad points. First the Good. Staff are very pleasant and helpful, not only at the hotel but everywhere we visited in Kos. The breakfast buffet food was fine and we thought the food was more than acceptable with a good selection. Our room (junior suite with sea view) was nicely furnished with a very good bed. All the soft furnishings were very good including sheets, pillows and the plentiful towels. Air conditioning is silent and works perfectly with the simple wall control. Plenty of wall sockets and a flat screen tv although not a smart tv so only BBC World service & MTV available in English. Bathroom was a little on the small side but perfectly functional with plenty of hot water. Drinks at the poolside bar seemed reasonable with the exception of Gin & Tonic (10 euros). Other typical drinks – small bottle of Coke 3.5 euros – small bottle of local beer, 5 euros – glass of local wine 4.5 euros – coffee (latte) 3.9 euros. Now for the Bad. I need to address the major problem not only with the hotel but with Kos town in general and this is the extremely busy road right outside the front of the hotel. I always extensively read reviews and watch video’s before visiting a new place. This problem rarely gets a mention in any review which seems unbelievable given the sheer amount of traffic here. Just by the very picturesque ancient castle, is a busy ferry port. There are many high speed passenger ferries and a regular stream of full size “roll on – roll off” vehicle ferries carrying articulated lorries, tour buses, cars etc. Virtually all this traffic comes past the front door of the hotel. Lorries parked below my window with engines running at 5am whilst the driver grabs a coffee is common. The noise is constant and very annoying. Having paid for a junior suite with sea view, we found that instead of enjoying the stunning view, we had the constant drone of traffic which is not what I expected. If I could choose one word to describe the driving here, then I would use “Manic”. Trying to cross the road involves taking your life into your own hands. Heavy goods vehicles racing down the road, horns blaring to move pedestrians out of the way, scooters racing around them etc makes it very difficult to cross the road. Once you do cross, the pedestrian is then confronted by a “cycle lane”. This is also extremely busy with the amount of cyclists here which consist of many electric cycles racing along. In addition there is the constant menace of electric scooters and motor scooters that also use this lane as a race track. If you have any mobility issue or have young children, perhaps a pushchair then I suggest this is a serious problem. Had to mention this problem first as if I had known about it beforehand, I would simply have ruled the hotel and town out and looked elsewhere. “Tourist Tax”. I’d never heard of it before our trip and had never been to Greece before but be prepared to hand over a 10 euro, per room, per night tax, before you get your key! Nasty little shock. Apparently it goes towards eco sustainability! Sea View. As mentioned you will only get the drone of traffic so waste of money paying the extra. Pool view at the rear would be quieter if it was not for the building at the rear of the hotel being gutted by workmen using noisy power tools and lorries delivering building supplies whilst your trying to relax. More noise and nowhere to get away from it at the hotel. The hotel is called a “Boutique Hotel” and the pictures tend to show a small frontage building with a small pool and pool bar. However, if you read the details offered by the tour operator, there are 73 rooms here. Some are family rooms so capacity is somewhere around 150 – 200 people. Plenty of pictures about of the pool area so you can see there are 18 sunbeds. The numbers speak for themselves. There are other chairs around the pool but they are not sunbeds. In addition, the breakfast room also has limited capacity. If I had to guess, I would say seating capacity for around 80 – 100. This would be fine if people wished to have breakfast at different times, but we experienced most people turned up around 10.00– 10.15am as I assume most people on holiday do not wish to get up early. Hence be prepared to wait for a table at times and for the mad scrum to get food from the buffet. In short, the facilities here are geared up for a much smaller hotel capacity. In Summary, although the rooms are nice and staff very friendly, the hotel has grown more bedrooms than the facilities can cope with. Traffic issues and noise is very bad. The hotel is not cheap and I feel it represented poor value for the money we spent. For all these reasons, sadly, I could not recommend The KoSea Boutique Hotel. As for Kos town itself, once you get into the quaint back streets away from the traffic it is very impressive with lots of great places to eat the fabulous food on offer here at very reasonable prices. But, everywhere around the harbour has the manic traffic which spoils the town. It is more like a city break. I hope the review is helpful.

We stayed here in August in a sea view room. Didn't find any noise problems from the road and enjoyed people watching. Compliments to the staff in all areas - very helpful and friendly. Rooms very clean and well serviced. Great location and a short walk to Marina and town. Unable to understand some of the negative comments. Keep up the good work.

Thought I’d write this as we’ve just left the hotel after a fantastic Kos week away, We chose this hotel as was central to many things. It reminded me of the old “ small & friendly “ hotel listings you used to get back in the day. So transfer is 30 mins from the airport so nice & quick, Hotel is clean & generally well maintained, the staff are very very good & very pleasant. Our room was a first floor sea facing room with a comfortable bed & great view. The downside to the sea view rooms is that the road noise is horrendous. Alongside the echoing corridors, guest noise & the road we would not chose a sea view again. The cleaners are excellent but they start getting prepared around 8am & cannot help but make some noise. Our room had some kind of electrical issue as the lights stayed on a bit even when switched off ??? Breakfast is a bone of contention as so many English we spoke to moaned that there was no toast & it let down the offering. Please….add a toaster to the breakfast experience. Fridge & coffee maker in the room Small bar at the pool serving some food but not snacks. Room 202 needs a little TLC as our basin was cracked & had been for a while, the crack was bad but didn’t leak. Shower room architrave is water damaged. And our surprise was the poo paper sign…..come on Kos it’s 2026, sort your plumbing out ! We will return to this hotel should we visit this wonderful island again.

I personally do not think this hotel is a 'boutique' hotel and struggle to rate it as 4 star. Location is very good for getting around the area. On arrival late at night we were 'upgraded' to a junior suite which we thought was great but although the room was very good and spacious we had issues with the bathroom and the balcony. The balcony overlooked a dirty roof, a wall with extractor pipe and was directly under 2 walk ways and above the smelly kitchen bins! When we asked to have our original room (terrace) we were told it was no longer available and asked to pay an extra 600 euros to have a 1st floor room overlooking the street at the back, this wouldn't have worked for us as the lifts are tiny and inaccessible for a wheelchair! The bathroom, although 'accessible' it was very awkward as no vanity or storageshelf area, very low lighting, no adjustable shower head (no pole to slide lower) pressure was far too high and soaking bathroom toilet paper etc if you didn't hold on to it, no wheelchair adjustable mirror for correct height, no anti slip floor etc generally very difficult to use for 2 weeks. I wouldn't recommend this hotel to disabled guests as both the breakfast area and the pool toilets and showers are inaccessible. We were cut off from reaching the breakfast area until they unlocked a door by the pool and moved planters to allow my husband in his wheelchair to get to a breakfast table. He couldn't reach the food as it is up 5 stairs so he couldn't see the food nor serve himself throughout our 2 week stay. The pool toilets and shower rooms are down 2 sets of steps so he would have to go back to the room to use either. There was also no allergy or dietary options at breakfast for myself, no toast machine and very little in the way of variety. Most of the food available was greasy, and uninviting, couple of baskets of dry rolls. We ended up going elsewhere for breakfast and were ready to go home after a week as very disappointed with our stay here. It was an expensive stay and totally not worth the money. The pool bar, pool and staff at the pool were the only things that made our stay enjoyable, Anna, Nestios, George, Eleanor, Chris and our cleaner were all very friendly and helpful.

We all thought the hotel hit the target Firstly the staff are all really nice Chris as you walkin the door George the restraunt manager and the Scottish lads in the pool bar The pool isn’t the biggest but there are always sunbeds and the pool bar isn’t expensive and offer a good range of drinks and food Our room a sea view room was really up to date Lovley bed slippers towels robes and the shower was great Cleaners never stop and the reception are always there to help Great location near to everything yes the road outside can be busy but it’s kos town All in all great wee hotel