Definitely recommend!

Written: 21 september 2021
Travel time: 8 — 15 september 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
10.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 9.0
I liked the rest so much that I wanted to leave a review and describe the most important points and features in a pandemic.
I really liked the unusual concept of the hotel with room pool sharing rooms, a small pool for several rooms (or for one room) gives a twist and makes it possible to refresh at any time without leaving the room. The room itself is spacious, clean, there is a kettle, cups, a small refrigerator, shower cosmetics and even an antiseptic. Also on the first evening, the hotel welcomes guests with a fruit basket and a bottle of wine. Of the minuses in the room, one can only name a paid safe (15 euros, as for me it would be possible to add them to the room price immediately) and very low pillows, but this problem is easily solved at the reception desk. Most of the guests are French, Germans and Italians, compatriots are rare.

The sea fascinates with its beauty, purity and number of shades.

The nearest beach is right across the road, small in size, rocky, at the bottom there is a smooth small white shell, there are stones in the water, so special shoes will not hurt. Two sunbeds and an umbrella for the whole day cost 9 euros, you can go out for lunch / walk, your sunbeds for the whole day are yours. You can relax without a sunbed, lay a towel in a free place and enjoy the sea, especially if you, like my husband, for example, do not like to lie on the beach for a long time. Particularly enterprising take sunbeds by the pool, and go to the beach from there, especially since the journey takes no more than 1 minute. Right on the beach there is an authentic tavern where you can have a tasty and budget-friendly meal or take drinks right on the beach. To the left of the hotel in 5-7 minutes there is a beach with a more gentle and sandy entrance, 2 sunbeds and an umbrella cost 7 euros there, a little further - a nudist beach.
To the right of the hotel is a beach with a stone slab in the water, there is a slightly more diverse underwater world, divers dive.

The food is quite varied and tasty. Fish, various types of meat (there was even a lamb), seafood (mussels, squids, octopuses, shrimps), Greek cuisine, fruits, sweets and even ice cream. I liked that at the entrance there is a basket with disposable seals, and the staff makes sure that everyone puts them on, because the guests themselves choose and apply food. Drinks at dinner for an additional fee, the prices are reasonable.
I would also like to note the work of the administrator in the restaurant in the evening, a stately elderly man regulates the number of people, meets you at the entrance, finds out your preference for the place of dinner (outdoor terrace or indoor hall) and escorts you to a table (or asks you to wait until a seat is free), wishes you a pleasant evenings, and you immediately feel the atmosphere of a good respectable restaurant, and not a noisy canteen, as is often the case in large hotels.

During the pandemic, there will be no evening entertainment (live music) at the hotel. So in the evening you can either sit in a cafe on the open terrace and enjoy the sound of the sea with a glass of Aperol, or take a 15-minute walk to Hersonissos, where there are many bars, restaurants and discos (during our stay from 1 am to 6 am there was a curfew, at this time needed to stay at the hotel).
The only disadvantage of the hotel is that the road to it is so tiny that not all buses can drive up, and sometimes (for example, to the sightseeing bus to Santorini) you need to walk 10 minutes to the nearest bus stop.


But in fact, Crete begins where the territory of the hotel ends, and no matter how cozy and good it is in the hotel itself, we definitely recommend renting a car (and the nearest car rental is literally 50 meters to the right of the hotel, the procedure takes 10 minutes) and go to see the island, such a trip will definitely give you a lot of impressions. Given the location of the hotel, in two days we managed to visit both the east coast (Spinalonga, Agios Nikolaos and Vai beach) and the west coast (Chania, Stefanou beach, Rethymno).
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