Dear Grisel,
Good evening from Elia Palatino Hotel.
We would like to thank you for your very kind and honest review. We are glad you enjoyed the hotel's location and our breakfast.
We would also like to thank you for notifying us on the negative aspects of your stay, since they always help us improve with each stay.
On the other hand, we would like to clarify a few points.
Elia Palatino hotel offers rooms with balcony Harbor View and window City view, depending on the room type which is reserved.
While we fully understand the dufficulty in accessing the hotel on foot and in using the stairs to go to the room (which, in your case, was on the 2nd floor), we always clearly present full information about our properties, before the reservation is made, so that all our guests know what we offer. For this reason, with each booking we provide detailed information for parking places near the hotel and we always help with the guests' luggage, as we escort them to their rooms.
With regards to the toiletries, there is daily cleaning service with full refilling. Additionally, we willingly provide toiletries more than once a day, when a guest asks for it. However, if there was accidentally no soap refilling on one day of your stay, we would like to apologise for that and we would have certainly taken care, should we have known the problem.
Regarding the air conditioning issue, again we instantly look at all issues and immediately use our support service, but this also requires that we are aware of it. Furthermore, even when such a problem is fixed, we always encourage our guests to notify us again and we always check with the guest afterwards. We do not claim that we always have the perfect solution to any problem, but at least we try not to leave such issues unattended. In the event that an issue cannot be solved, it is our priority to move our guests to another room of the same type.
The coffee pods is a provision we offer on the first day of a stay, which is something we inform our guests of upon arrival. Still, we would like to apologise, in case we omitted to inform you of that, and it is fully understandable that one would expect daily refilling during their stay. It is honestly our purpose to improve on that.
We are sorry for the long reply, we accept all criticism and we hope that our guests accept, in turn, our apologies, as well as our clarifications.
We are honestly thankful for your preference to our hotel and we really regret to hear that it was not the best experience for you. However, we will be more than glad to welcome you again in the future and offer you the best possible services.
Kind Regards,
Antonis Yiakoumakis,
Front Office, Elia Hotels Group