Messinian Bay Hotel Reviews 

Beautiful view, lovely beach and pool, friendly helpfull staff, nice rooms with seaview - the food went from very good to bad. Nice breakfast, thin coffee and juice. Icecoffe from the beachbar - oooh, would love to come back!

This hotel is run by dishonest corrupt Greeks. They are just looking to make fast money and will lie to people and they have no conscience and zero professionalism.
We booked our wedding at The Messinian Bay in Kalamata Greece in July 2016.
They did not want a deposit as our wedding date was the following July 2017 and the owner Dimitris said it was still early and not necessary. He said he would reach out closer to the date for a deposit after January. He assured me that our date was secured and that our guests could begin making reservations.
I had received a contract/proposal outlining the menue, drinks, room rates and all the details and pricing.
Our friends and families made reservations with them including us.
After a month we had a few questions for the hotel. We needed to sort out a few details with the music and the overall reception. For 6 weeks straight I sent emails, made phone calls to the hotel as well as to the owners personal cell phone asking and then pleading for them to please call us back. We simply had some questions we needed answered. Not once did we hear back. I couldn't sleep from the anxiety I felt not knowing what was happening with our wedding. I spent so much money in long distance calls contacting the owner Dimitris and the hotel.
It took my cousin travelling to Kalamata from Athens and pressing them to call me. After 3 days of her speaking with the Manager of the hotel I finally heard from them. They informed me that they had another group book that was larger than our wedding therefore they were not able to accommodate our wedding afterall. The owner Dimitris did not have the decency to call me back himself. He did not have the decency to be honest and upfront with us and explain the situation so that we could have come up with a back up plan.
I never heard back from him at all. From someone that works in the hotel industry and has for several years, this is unacceptable and would never happen in North America.
They knew exactly why they did not want to accept our deposit. They had known all along that there was the possibility of a larger piece of business coming in which this I can understand. What is unacceptable is leaving people hanging for 6 weeks and ignoring their phone calls and messages.
This hotel is a family run operation and they do not understand the concept of being a professional in business. The are unethical, they lie, and you cannot trust what they tell you.
I will warn everyone to stay away from this hotel. Our experience was horrible.