Отель-сад garden hotel

The hotel is located in cascades - higher and higher and resembles a flowering Greek courtyard in the middle. There are two small pools (plus a children's pool), deep enough for diving. A restaurant with a veranda, two cafes, one across the road with a sea view, which is open from morning until 18.00 (however, there is a sea view everywhere! ) and offers different types of coffee, frappe, ice cream, wine-beer, cocktails and a second veranda and cafe-bar near the reception, open from 18 to midnight.

The hotel has a spa, upon arrival a 25% discount card is given for visiting for 24 hours, there is a tennis court and a small amphitheater, but there were no animation concerts (which I am glad about), except for a Cretan dinner in a cafe by the sea on Tuesday at a price of 17 euros.

The contingent is different, there are families with small children.


We stayed in the room sharing pool and it was wonderful. The pool is almost always empty and you swim as much as you want. Its depth is small 1.30, but enough for us - not Olympic reserves.
Your own veranda, on which there is a table and 2 chairs, what else is needed for a great pastime with a cup of coffee by the pool! There is also enough space to spread out two air mattresses, on which we sunbathed (they can be purchased upon arrival, the price is 7.5 euros). The room is spacious, large LG TV, 17 programs, one in Russian - "Planet". The hotel is very green and blooming - this is its big plus. We rested last June in the elite five - there was no such blooming variety. Hairdryer, refrigerator, individual air conditioning in the room. Upon arrival, they gave 2 shampoos, 2 bars of soap and 2 gels. The shampoo was brought again, the gel was not brought again. So who does not take his - mind you. Towels for hands, feet (one), bath - changed every day. Beach towels must be taken at the reception for a deposit. It was a nice compliment from the hotel upon arrival - a bottle of white wine, a bottle of water and fruit.
Cleaned the room carefully and imperceptibly, never encountered a maid in the room. Every morning the pool was cleaned and the leaves were caught.

The beach, or rather the coastal strip, runs across the road from the hotel and along it. Everywhere they rent sun loungers and umbrellas for 2.5 euros each item. There is also a small beach from the hotel, but I liked the coast to the right of the entrance with small picturesque rock formations, where there were practically no people. The sea is clean, the water is beautiful, cool. Slippers for the sea are needed, but some managed to go barefoot over small shells, and then immediately swim.

The restaurant corresponds to 4 stars for food, in the morning - fried sausages, ham, cheese, eggs in different variations, very tasty bread, a muesli set with delicious white and pink yogurt, fruits - watermelon, melon, peach (pieces), kiwi.

Coffee, tea, drinks in the morning are free, and in the evening drinks are for a fee, but there is no tea and coffee, only water, beer and wine, and not in 100 grams, but in bottles. For example, a small bottle of dry white wine 375 gr - 8.5 euros. In the evening, meat and fish, national salads, appetizers, various sauces, seasonings, pasta, pizza, baklava cakes, 4 types of ice cream. We had HB, but for lunch they covered and the guests of the hotel dined.

I’ll note an unpleasant minus here - the glasses are washed poorly and the remains of lipstick were noticeable: (

The staff is very friendly, which I noticed on my first visit to Crete. So our check-in took place at 11.30 instead of the prescribed 14.00, and we arrived at 10.00. The managers in the restaurant are very pleasant and polite, they always show you to a table or tell you where to sit. True, they ask to change seats if 2 people sit at a table designed for 4-6. But this is in the first echelon of food, then already - sit down wherever you want.
As a minus, I note the queue for dinner at around 19:00, although it passed quickly, but I still encounter this for the first time. Therefore, we tried to come either earlier or later.

The hotel is close to Heraklion, 30-40 minutes to the airport, a little further to the city center. Everyone writes 15 minutes to Hersonissos, perhaps (we drove for several minutes by car), but the road is inconvenient, narrow, you constantly have to avoid and let cars pass. Near the hotel to the right and left pavilion shops, loudly called supermarkets, everything you need is there. The hotel also has a shop with postcards, water, etc. In the evening, a photographer offers his services - the price is decent - 10 photos 20 euros.

If we lived in a building near the road with a small low fence, with scurrying cars, or in the middle of the hotel, but with a small dark fenced area where a table and two chairs barely fit, the impression of the hotel would be different.
But we lived far from the road, in a beautiful room, and therefore the impressions are the most optimistic. For me, staying at the hotel was a real relaxation - calm, comfortable, a minimum of contacts, a maximum of positive.