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For someone used to booking with major hotel groups like Starwood, Hilton or Hyatt, finding a hotel on Greek islands such as Mykonos (And Santorini) can be a confusing and intimidating process.
For a start, major international hotel chains are largely absent from these islands, and the choices you have are from a mindbogglingly long list of mainly small, independent hotels, many of which are family run. Prices ranged from inexpensive/budget places to top end hotels, and everything in between.
What location? How do you judge quality? Apart from recommendations from friends and forums like SQTalk, online sites like TripAdvisor and Booking.com came in very handy with reviews and ratings.
In the absence of other information, we had to rely on reviews and ratings on these sites to determine which hotel to pick. TripAdvisor and Booking.com user ratings are not always reliable. While some reviewers are seasoned travellers, other reviewers don't travel much, and clearly have no basis for comparison when they give either positive or negative reviews. So you have to read between the lines sometimes and apply your own judgement. And it helps when a hotel has a very large number of reviews, where it becomes harder to game the system with biased reviews.
We booked our hotels on the Scoot website, which has a tie-in with Booking.com, and counterchecked the Booking.com ratings and reviews with those on TripAdvisor before making a decision. Our budget for a Mykonos hotel was in the moderate range, and we were looking for a place which offered good value.
For Mykonos, we booked Hotel Tagoo, which had a great location near Mykonos old town, and which had very positive reviews on both Booking.com and TripAdvisor.
And in this case, with Hotel Tagoo, we struck jackpot...this was a superb hotel: a wonderful family run property in a great location that I would have no hesitation recommending to anyone visiting Mykonos.
Before arriving at Mykonos, we had contacted the hotel and they arranged a complimentary car pick-up from the port to the hotel.
For someone used to booking with major hotel groups like Starwood, Hilton or Hyatt, finding a hotel on Greek islands such as Mykonos (And Santorini) can be a confusing and intimidating process.
For a start, major international hotel chains are largely absent from these islands, and the choices you have are from a mindbogglingly long list of mainly small, independent hotels, many of which are family run. Prices ranged from inexpensive/budget places to top end hotels, and everything in between.
What location? How do you judge quality? Apart from recommendations from friends and forums like SQTalk, online sites like TripAdvisor and Booking.com came in very handy with reviews and ratings.
In the absence of other information, we had to rely on reviews and ratings on these sites to determine which hotel to pick. TripAdvisor and Booking.com user ratings are not always reliable. While some reviewers are seasoned travellers, other reviewers don't travel much, and clearly have no basis for comparison when they give either positive or negative reviews. So you have to read between the lines sometimes and apply your own judgement. And it helps when a hotel has a very large number of reviews, where it becomes harder to game the system with biased reviews.
We booked our hotels on the Scoot website, which has a tie-in with Booking.com, and counterchecked the Booking.com ratings and reviews with those on TripAdvisor before making a decision. Our budget for a Mykonos hotel was in the moderate range, and we were looking for a place which offered good value.
For Mykonos, we booked Hotel Tagoo, which had a great location near Mykonos old town, and which had very positive reviews on both Booking.com and TripAdvisor.
And in this case, with Hotel Tagoo, we struck jackpot...this was a superb hotel: a wonderful family run property in a great location that I would have no hesitation recommending to anyone visiting Mykonos.
Before arriving at Mykonos, we had contacted the hotel and they arranged a complimentary car pick-up from the port to the hotel.
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