Rivari Santorini Hotel

Great location on the east of Santorini, close to local restaurants, supermarkets & the beach. The Rivari is a family-friendly hotel, set in lovely bougainvillea. It has a good-sized pool and all of the rooms are air-conditioned with ensure shower rooms and a television. Special shout out to Dina on reception. Warm-hearted, helpful and welcoming, Dina gave us great advice on things to see & do during our stay. Spiros, at the pool bar, is also very welcoming, a real gem.

The hotel is really quaint, spotlessly clean, and the air con is off the scale good. The staff are so welcoming and friendly, nothing is too much trouble. Special mention for Spiros at the pool bar. He was amazing. Best club sandwich ever. Really varied menu. I would highly recommend this hotel. 5 min walk down to the beach and the main drag for restaurants.

Great little hotel, really enjoyed our stay. The staff were so friendly, I wasn't a fan of the breakfast to be honest but that's the only thing I wasn't happy about. Spiros at the pool bar is an absolute diamond, really friendly, helpful guy who goes the extra yard for his customers. If I ever go back to Santorini I'd have no hesitation what so ever in booking this hotel again. Yamas.

We stayed at the end of September as a family of 3 with a 2 year old. The hotel is pretty and a 5 minute walk to Kamari itself. There’s a chess set that kids can play with and also a kids area with swings and a slide. There’s also a ping ping table we didn’t use, but great for older kids. You collect the paddles from the pool bar. Bedroom: Recently refurbished and they’re still refurbishing rooms. AC was quite loud, and gave us a bit of a sore throat whilst there. The extract funnels into the outside area and our patio outside was concave so it heated it massively, so we didn’t really sit outside because of that. Great to dry clothes however. Rooms were basic, there’s a fridge, beds were comfy enough, good travel cot for our small person. The smell people are referring too is the water as it has a high sulphur content. It’s not the drains, this is the same on any small island. Breakfast: Very sweet staff. It’s a varied continental which is well stocked and looked after. We found something each day no problem. Help yourself to high chairs. It’s a very relaxing ambiance sat outside. Pool: Loveliest man running the pool bar, nothing was too much problem at all. We enjoyed each afternoon around the pool after exploring, and our daughters flamingo and arm bands were able to be left there so we didn’t have to lug it around each day. The food was lovely, we ate twice in the day. The hotel doesn’t serve dinner or drinks once the pool bar is closed. There is a shower room in the main hotel near the breakfast area, we only found out about this when we went to use the toilets waiting to check out. We were told we couldn’t have a late check out, but surely we could have been told about this facility. We hired a car from the airport it’s cheaper, and we didn’t enjoy the bus to Fira so decided to hire once there. The hotel is great value, with amazing people working hard each day to run it. The couple who work behind the pool bar and at breakfast were who made our holiday. They even introduced our daughter to their dog Lupin. We would visit again, thank you

Nice clean hotel with a good size pool and jacuzzi. There are enough sun beds to accommodate everyone but sometimes the music could be lowered. We had a lovely spacious room overlooking the pool which had everything that you could want. Unfortunately the beds were extremely hard and very uncomfortable and the air con was outdated and loud. All other guests that I spoke to had exactly the same issues, so a bit disappointing. The poolside bar has a range of basic light snacks, bottles of beer and soft drinks. However, possibly based on price, most people purchased externally and then sat on their own balcony whilst still overlooking the pool or gardens, so not as well used as the owners would have liked. Breakfast is excellent with a range of English and continental choices although a selection of fruit would have been welcome, but this certainly did not detract from it. Location is good with a 5 to 10 min flat walk to the centre and beach making it an ideal base. Overall a nice hotel that needs some attention.