The Atrium Prestige is a beautiful, peaceful, luxury beachside resort, just over an hour’s drive from Rhodes airport. It really is a perfect place for a holiday.
Many seven night packages include a free return airport transfers. That’s well worth choosing as I would guess the trip would cost easily €100 each way. Our driver was waiting for us with a sign and drove us in a comfortable mini-van.
The above video covers all the hotel in 12 minutes – if you want every last detail, then please continue reading.
Glass of prosecco at a friendly check in and we were soon in a two-room family suite with ultra all-inclusive. Golf carts take guests to some rooms, but ours was walkable.
Two-bedroom, Sea-View Family Suite
The first bedroom had two kid-size beds, we asked, next day, for these to be made into a double and that was done immediately – always handy to have a spare bed for when I’m snoring! The only issue with the first bedroom was that it was close to the corridor and housekeeping start around 7am!
The bathroom was beautifully appointed, with plenty of quality toiletries and towels. There was both a bath and shower. I’d like more hooks to hang towels, bathrobes and swimwear.
There was a window to main bedroom, but there is also a blind for privacy.
I was slightly surprised to see that toilet paper shouldn’t be flushed, as I thought that being so new, the plumbing would be capable – apparently the problem lies with the island’s sewer system. It’s so easy to forget and drop paper without thinking. There was no bidet.
The main bedroom had a comfortable king bed, with a bedroom bench (yes, that’s what the end-of-bed furniture is called).
A small sofa and dining table for two. And a large terrace with another dining table and two sunbeds.
There was a large safe, mini-bar, fluffy bathrobes and slippers.
A bottle of wine, water and a fruit basket were left on the table.
The wi-fi was fast and reliable throughout the hotel, including the beach.
If you’d like to see suites that have a heated private pool, please watch the video from the start of this review.
Ultra All-inclusive
If you have the ultra all-inclusive package, then pretty much everything is free. You can dine at the fine-dining restaurants, Asia and Thalassa, as much as you like as well as visit the other restaurants for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
There is an app that allows you to order drinks and food to be delivered your beach or pool sunbed and make restaurant reservations.
There are a choice of wines, served by the bottle, half- and even quarter-bottle, all good quality and perfectly drinkable – included as part of all-inclusive, as is bottled water. We liked the Maestro red. €24 a 0.75l bottle and 1 litre bottle of water €3 for non all-inclusive.
Good quality cocktails and top-shelf drinks such as 12-year old Glenfiddich single-malt whisky, Hendrick’s gin and Diplomatico rum are all included as part of ultra all-inclusive.
You are still asked to sign for food and drink. There is also a space to leave a tip. The total tips appear on your final bill. I have a feeling that many with ultra all-inclusive leave nothing and perhaps those who aren’t add a percentage to the total shown. We tended to tip €3 for drinks and lunch at the beach, €8 in the fine-dining restaurants and another €3 or €4 in the main bar. No idea if that was stingy or generous.
Access to the hydrotherapy pool and sauna in the spa is free for ultra all-inclusive guests.
The room mini-bar was complimentary and restocked each day.
I can’t understand why anyone wouldn’t choose to add ultra all-inclusive – drinks are expensive and it isn’t as if there is a local restaurant within walking distance.
There is a shop within the hotel that sells snacks, alcohol, swimwear, cosmetics, sunscreen and inflatables.
Aegean Main Restaurant
We didn’t make a reservation for our first night and headed to the Aegean main restaurant. We sat on the outside terrace. Drinks are served at the table and there is also an al la carte menu. The staff were really friendly and couldn’t do enough for you.
The buffet was sumptuous, with plenty of delicious items to choose from,
We returned on ‘Greek Night’ and ordered some excellent à la carte dishes; dolmades, lamb and moussaka.
Breakfast is also served in the main restaurant. Good coffee, fresh juice and bottled water brought to your table. The buffet extensive, plus an omelette station that also provided fried and poached eggs.
Other Restaurants
Prestigio à la carte – Italian
Lachania à la carte – Greek
Grill Corner à la carte – Greek
These sit below the Aegean Main Restaurant.
We didn’t visit any of these. For lunch, we were happy to order food direct to our beach sunbeds. For dinner, we preferred the fine-dining restaurants; Asia and Thalassa or the Aegean Main Restaurant with a mix of buffet and à la carte menu. I can only only guess that Prestigio, Lachania and Grill Corner are aimed at those who didn’t book premium all inclusive, or perhaps for those staying longer than a week who want variety.
Beach
The beach is private and has plenty of comfortable sun beds with beach umbrellas. The sand is a mix of small stones and sand. The entrance to the sea, quite rocky. Wear beach swimming shoes. This isn’t a Caribbean beach, but the sea was clear and warm enough for swimming in October.
Towels are provided at the beach bar.
The hotel wi-fi works fine on the beach and that makes it easy to order a piña colada and some lunch from your sunbed.
Thalasso Spa
The spa pool is beautiful, the salt water 27°C and there are plenty of thalasso therapy jets to play with. There are various treatments available, including massages, but all are at extra cost.
Towels are provided. We didn’t use the sauna.
Main Bar
The main bar sits on the floor above the main restaurant. There is a large open-air terrace and plenty of seats inside.
The bar is also the location for evening entertainment. Don’t expect lavish shows, but the entertainment is mostly good quality. We liked a Dire Straits cover band, a group of four opera singers and some traditional Greek dancers. Some acts, such as The Passengers and some Spanish ballroom dancers lacked emotion in their performance, but may because it was end of season. The reggae covers band weren’t good at all.
Pools and Pool Bar
The pools are stunning, with plenty of sunbeds from where you can order food and drinks. The water was colder than the sea in October and so we didn’t use them.
There isn’t any loud music blasting, or some animation team shouting over a loudspeaker. Don’t expect any foam parties. It’s just peaceful.
The pool bar was quiet and served similar food and drinks as the beach bar.
The pools are beautifully illuminated at night.
Check Out Experience
The hotel reception were friendly and were happy to arrange a late checkout until 2pm – we could also have lunch on the departure day.
The only odd episode was when we came to pay the bill and were asked if we’d like to add 10% tip for the hotel services. That’s quite a substantial amount and something I’ve never been asked before – I declined to add the tip.
Bugs
There were no mosquitoes. I saw a wasp one time while having breakfast on the restaurant terrace. I didn’t see a single cockroach. Our room terrace had non-biting ants. No spiders. Just a few small flies.
Overall
The Atrium Prestige Resort is amazing. The architecture is beautiful, everywhere is spotlessly clean, the staff friendly and professional, the food delicious and the ultra all-inclusive plan really is ultra.
If you want a peaceful, luxury, beachside holiday then look no further.
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