Lindos Imperial Resort & Spa

Quite possibly the best holiday we have been on.. This hotel was roughly an hour away from Rodos and half an hour from Lindos. We booked two trips out, the first day doing Lindos and Rodos and the next was a boat trip to Simi. The coach collects you from the hotel and drops you off. Our tour guide came from Rhodes and talked alot about Greek culture and family culture which was also great to learn. Not just the places we were visiting. After the tour they give you a couple of hours at each destination to spend some time walking around. Its clearly very well planned and with Dimitrios as our tour guide it was next level. The hotel itself was very clean. Very comfortable and the staff were the best. They were fantastic with us and really went above and beyond. On one occasion I asked about booking the restaurants, as on their app, it was saying that they were fully booked. When I spoke to the staff in reception they asked what date my partners birthday was and explained that you could only book the restaurant three days in advance so wait a couple of days. With that it was really easy to book restaurants, the gym, the spa and you could even send requests to housekeeping using the app and there was also a map of the resort. When it came to my partners birthday, we got up to the room after being out all day and eating at their Greek restaurant and there was a bottle of sparking wine, bowel of fruit and a chocolate cake in the fridge. This had clearly been planned from the day I asked about the restaurants and it was such a nice surprise. We stayed in a room with a balcony and sea view, which was stunning. There is an activity pool with slides but we spent most of our time at the main pool with the pool bar and it was perfect. There is so much to do it would easily fill your time in the evenings and during the days you spend at the hotel. It was my first all inclusive and I was a little worried about the food. We spen three evenings eating at their restaurants and the rest of the time using the buffet and actually I was impressed! The staff were brilliant and although the food is mass produced it was still really good with plenty of options. Including local food that you can try. The restaurants are fantastic. The portions aren't huge but they really make up for that with the service and quality. Plus, once you have spent a couple of days eating at a buffet its really nice to eat a little less but at a restaurant. If you are still hungry they did a crepes evening with a range of toppings, sweet and savoury and that was delicious! The beach is on the doorstep with its own bar but its not a sandy beach so bring flip flops. I really am struggling to mention something that I disliked, even when we arrived at 2am on the day of check in they had spaghetti bolognese. I think the only thing I was slightly disappointed with was the gym. It really didnt have a lot and when we used the jacuzzi in the spa it was cold. Realistically I probably wouldn't have used the gym as much as I would have at home and we did go for runs along the coastal road in the morning with no issues. I would definitely recommend this hotel and I would look to go here again. Perfect break away!

We just came back from 7 nights at Lindos Imperial. We (myself, wife and 2 daughters 11 & 13) had a really lovely time. The hotel is fantastic, the main areas, lobby, pools etc are kept in great condition and look lovely, but some of the further away areas are looking at little tired. We stayed in a "Family Suite garden view with private pool". Pro's: Food was fantastic and constantly being restocked in the main buffet, all the meat was beautiful, changes daily but staples kept the same incase of fussy eaters / children. The other snack bars are excellent, pizza's was delicious, Gyros lovely, crepe's my girls couldn't get enough off. You'll never go hungry. Plus if you stay for 7 nights you get 3 free dinners at the on site restaurants, bare in mind spaces for these fill up quickly but also check each day as other places to pop back up! don't check once, see its full all week and give up. check each day. Local bus stop literally outside the hotel that goes to Lindos town (€3 per person, 20 min journey), highly recommend as its so beautiful with 100's shops and a stunning acropolis ontop of the town, a real must see. Cleaning systems for rooms are great, electronic screen on each door saying if you want room cleaned / do not disturb. Staff was all very friendly and helpful. Cons: Pool's are NOT heated! really cold.. once full submerged it does get better but we couldn't handle longer than 30 mins a time. This includes private pools as we had one for our room. You are not really given all the information you need, kinda left to find things for yourself or scan qr codes to find where things are or other hotel details. The water at the bottom of the pool slides is really shallow, maybe only 2.5ft deep! so each time we was hitting the bottom when coming out so be careful. Room blocks where always dirty no matter how many times you see people "clean them" Tips: Acropolis is €20 per adult and free for under 11's. If possible visit Lindos town on a sunday as it's super quiet compared to other days but everything is still open! but no crowds. If you are staying in block 6000 there are no bars you can use, you have to walk back up to the main area as block 6000 is down the road a little. BUT you can use the bar in the next too hotel "Breeze" which i think is a sister hotel and really close. The bar lady there Camelia was an absolute angel!! her bar can see the pools in our block so if she wasn't busy she'd walk over and take drinks orders and bring them to you, then once she knows what you like to drink will just randomly bring you drinks!! :) Special shout out to Camelia, she was amazing. Bring swim shoes for the beach as its stoney. but still a beautiful beach. Bring ear plugs! unless it was just our block but there are nesting birds EVERYWHERE inside the corridors, nesting on light fittings above room doors.. and at 2am they start making so much noise and don't stop, we couldn't sleep until we used the plugs. but overall we had a really lovely time, we'd recomend it but wouldn't go back purely because of the cold pools.

Raw chicken served at the pool bar. When you tell them no one cares! Try and complain and they just keep you waiting and offer nothing. You can’t get fresh towels daily. You can’t book the restaurants as they are almost always fully booked…even though no one is there when you walk past in the evening.

Focussing on the positive. This is a lovely hotel with helpful, friendly staff. We had a room with a shared pool which was great as we had our own patio, away from busy pool area. However, I have to give it an average score as the food wasn’t great. I’m a vegetarian and the options were very limited. My husband eats anything but wasn’t impressed either. Additionally most of the food (including the soup) was tepid. The beach isn’t sandy it’s more gritty. The hotel is in a remote area. So unless you hire a car or want to travel via bus/taxi (30 euros one way in taxi to Lindos) there are not a lot of places to go or dine out. We had a nice week but def wouldn’t recommend or go back.

Very disappointing experience overall, especially for a hotel that claims to be 5-star. Problems started from the moment we arrived. Check-in took well over an hour despite the hotel not appearing particularly busy, and after travelling for hours we weren’t even offered water while waiting. That said, I do want to mention that the staff themselves were lovely and polite throughout our stay. The man handling check-in was clearly working alone and doing his best under pressure, so the frustration is more with the hotel management and organisation than the employees themselves. The biggest issue was the food. Every single day the buffet was almost exactly the same, with very little variety and most dishes tasting bland or reheated. After a couple of days it became repetitive and honestly frustrating considering how much we paid for the stay. To make things worse, the cutlery and plates were often visibly dirty, which immediately raised concerns about hygiene standards. Unfortunately those concerns turned out to be justified. On the second day of our stay, everyone in our group became seriously ill with food poisoning after eating at the buffet on the first night.It completely ruined the holiday, and even now that we are back home, some of us are still unwell and recovering. We lost 2 days of the holiday and spend the remainder feeling ill instead of enjoying the facilities, and the hotel staff didn’t seem particularly concerned when we raised it. Seemed like this may be a regular occurrence so this doesn’t shock them. The hotel itself looks nice in photos, but the overall experience did not match the 5-star reputation at all. Poor food quality, repetitive meals, and serious hygiene concerns. Nice photos and a fancy lobby can’t make up for poor hygiene and an experience that left guests sick. I would not return or recommend this hotel to anyone.