Labranda Blue Bay Resort

Just got home after 7 days. Overall a really enjoyable trip. Initially we booked the annexe and it was a big mistake. Old, tatty, not very clean, ants everywhere. For the price we paid it was pretty poor and after 2 days we had to pay for an upgrade. The family room we changed to was excellent. Lovely room with an amazing sea view, well worth the extra cost. If you’re interested in going, don’t expect to get a sunbed by the pool unless you’re up with the birds. In the 7 days we were there we NEVER got a bed! There are signs saying no towels to be left on beds but the masses snag them way before breakfast so anyone who doesn’t get up with cockerel has zero chance. Food is excellent. Drinks, a bit limited. No free ice cream for the kids in the all inclusive 🤔… bit strange. Staff helpful, nice and clean. Not much to do around the area outside of the hotel and a taxi to old town Rhodes is around €20 each way and 20 minutes away. Amazing weather though 👌🏼

Please ignore the negative reviews we nearly changed hotel last minute so glad we didnt. The hotel is on a flight path so yes plans do come over regularly so dont book if this is an issue for your party.The postive to this is hotel is only a ten minute transfer from airport we were the first drop off and last to be picked up. The rooms were clean and tidy however in some places could do with redecoration but this didnt effect our stay. We found reception staff to be kind and helpful and nothing was too much for them.Juat a heads up the service tax for your stay has to be paided in cash on arrival.The rooms were cleaned everyday and fresh bottle of water left for us as well.We had booked a sea view rooms would reccomend this the views are out of this world. An amazing animation team great programme of activities on 6 days a week during the day and in the evening they are all worth there weight in gold and tried to get as many diffrent people involved as they could. Pool bar yes you do have to queue at busier times but not for long.A tip by the pool there is a self service Fizzy drinks and water machine for use during day so I took my own stanley cup to fill up there. The food in the resturant as per some previous reviews can be the same most meals however in our weeks stay we always found something to eat. I would recomend booking one of the three resturants on site which you can go to one during your stay you book your reservation through an app upon check in we went to the burger resturant it was amazing. The cats are in resturant areas however they do not get up on tables or counters and are only looking for scrap pieces of food.The waterpark attached to this hotel is good - Only 4 slides however is good fun for a few hours. The hotel offfers a place to leave luggage on departing and gives you access to a shower room if booked at recption ready for you return flight home for free rather than having to pay 10euros an hour for late checkout. The hotel is an excellent location as the beach easily accesible but is rocky we expect that in Greece so was prepped.It is a 40 minute walk to the nearest town strip.However the hotel does offer a minibus services to local attractions Rhodos Old Town,Butterfly Park,Water Park etc for a fee. Overall a really good holiday thankyou to all the staff who are incrediable helpful and made us feel welcome.

We stayed here for 5 nights, arrived fairly late at night and had booked a family room which was due to have 2 rooms both with 2 twin beds. The room we were given was appalling and more like a hostel. It had the tiniest bathroom and my daughters 'room' was a box with a dodgy sofa bed in that was filthy and falling apart. To top it off the lift was directly next to our room and the lift made so much noise, like a high pitched drilling all through the night. The room also did not have a working flushing toilet and the mattress me and my husband had was unbearable with springs coming through. I went to reception the first thing the following morning and told wait a few hours and will see what they can do. 4 times I went back to reception to be told at 8pm they couldn't do anything today but come back the next day. Roll on the next I was finally given a suitable room but no compensation was given except a bottle of wine and 3 pieces of fruit in our room that were from the all inclusive buffet. On our final day they let us have our room for a few extra hours. I spent 2 of my 5 days holiday chasing for a suitable room which isn't acceptable. Overall the food is fairly good, but long queues for everything, drinks, dinner, beach bar etc. The place looks nice in some places but really tired and worn in others, especially around the pool areas. The location is near the airport (its under a flight path which is fairly noisy) but that's about it. They use a travel company to provide buses into Rhodes old town but fairly pricey.