My sister & I have just spent a great week in Laganas, enjoying some lovely weather. We stayed at The Hotel Astir Palace which was very nice but we are sorry to say one or two things stop us from giving it a rave review. Nearly all holiday residents were up in arms at the charge for sunbeds around the pool area. We did not pay as we found all the surrounding hotels welcome you with 'free' sunbeds, open for all. We had a week of varying our use of pool and hospitality - in turn of course our euro's were spent on drinks and snacks at other hotels and the 'Astir' remained relatively unused and lacking 'atmosphere'. In the evenings the place was empty, this could be due to being early in the season, but we never saw one drink served in the bar in 7 days! no entertainment or atmosphere to even try and draw in custom. They also wanted 16 euros for a key to the fridge (which was on and running the whole time anyway), we didn't bother. The owners are being very short-sighted as they......
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