Guests have decided: 705 hotels in 38 countries will be presented with the HolidayCheck Award 2018. The
highly sought after tourism prize is being awarded for the thirteenth year to the most popular hotels
worldwide.
The Award is given based on guest reviews published on HolidayCheck within the last twelve months. 99
of the winners with consistently excellent reviews, receiving the HolidayCheck Award for at least five years
in a row, will be honoured with a special HolidayCheck Gold Award.
In Greece 54 hotels have been selected as winners, out of which 11 hotels will receive the HolidayCheck
Gold Award. The top hotel in Greece is Villa Stella Apartments in Kavala on the mainland of Greece.
These are the 10 most popular hotels in Greece:
- 1. Villa Stella Apartments (Greece mainland) – Gold Award
- 2. Hotel Apollon (Chalkidiki) – Gold Award
- 3. Apollon Xenonas Apparthotel (Chalkidiki) – Gold Award
- 4. Ikos Oceania (Chalkidiki)
- 5. Hotel Palladium (Kos)
- 6. Hapimag Resort Damnoni (Crete)
- 7. ROBINSON Club Kyllini Beach (Peloponnes)
- 8. Hotel Helena Christina (Rhodos)
- 9. SENTIDO Port Royal Villas & Spa (Rhodos)
- 10. Rhodos Horizon Resort (Rhodos)
The HolidayCheck Gold Award
For the second time, the HolidayCheck Gold Award will be given to hotels that have been receiving
consistently excellent reviews and thus, have been among the winners of the HolidayCheck Award for at
least five consecutive years. A total of 99 hotels which are spread all over the globe will be presented
with the HolidayCheck Gold Award 2018. Eleven prizes will go to accommodations in Greece this year.
The HolidayCheck Award Process:
There are strict rules in place for giving the Award: to even come into consideration for this sought-after
accolade, a hotel must have collected at least 50 reviews from its guests during a period of twelve
months (December 1st, 2016 until November 30th, 2017). In addition, the accommodations must have
been recommended by at least 90% of their former guests. Another tough hurdle that the hotels have to
face are the HolidayCheck “Suns”, which holidaymakers use when reviewing hotel. The scale ranges from a
minimum of 1 (poor) to a maximum of 6 (very good); potential Award hotels must have achieved at least 5
“suns”.
In addition, a hotel must not have used manipulation to go against the portal’s Code of Conduct. The rules
in the Code define under which conditions HolidayCheck considers active guest addressing for the purpose
of review collection acceptable. In extreme contraventions of the Code of Conduct, HolidayCheck reserves
the right to remove and recall current accolades.
The list of Greece’s 54 hotels that have been selected as winners follows:
