in terms of price / quality ratio = 5+

Written: 20 july 2011
Travel time: 3 — 11 june 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
Location, territory: the hotel is located within the city of Hersonissos, a 5-minute walk to the main street of the city. 25 minutes drive from Heraklion airport. First coastline, 20 steps to the sea. The hotel area is compact. On the territory: 2 hotel buildings, 2 swimming pools, no internal park or sports grounds. The hotel does not have its own beach. Municipal (which is 20 steps from the hotel) is not well maintained, the shore is rocky, there are algae in the water. But, fifty meters to the left is the beach of the Creta Maris hotel: sandy beach, sandy bottom, clear water. True, for renting a sunbed and an umbrella you will have to pay 4.5 euros per day. But, if a sunbed and an umbrella are not critical for you or you have it with you, the entrance is free.

Rooms: took Superior Double Room Seaview (overlooking the sea). A room for 9 nights with breakfast and dinner cost 590 euros for two. The room is small but new and very clean. Bathroom, toilet, air conditioning, hair dryer, refrigerator, TV.

There is no minibar, but there are a lot of shops nearby where you can buy everything you need (the Spar supermarket has excellent freshly squeezed juice for 2 rubles 1.5 liters). The room has a huge balcony with a table, chairs and sunbeds. The view is good. At night you can hear the sound of the sea. There are blackout curtains at night, which is very important if you have gone too far at night and need to sleep off in the morning : )
According to numerous reviews, they did not take Standard rooms, they write that the building in which they are located is not the newest and the rooms are not very comfortable.

Food: on the level. Breakfast, lunch, dinner - buffet. Drinks during lunch are paid. Not to say that the food is very diverse, but you can always find something to your liking. In addition, taking dinner at the hotel is not at all necessary, there are a huge number of restaurants in the city where you can have a great dinner for little money.

Staff and service: all top notch. The staff is very attentive.
My acquaintance with him began with correspondence by e-mail when ordering a room, where they answered all my questions in detail and took into account all my wishes for the room and accommodation. If you do not speak English, there are Russian-speaking staff in each shift of the hotel.

SPA, swimming pool, animation: SPA is expensive. In Moscow, you can find + - for the same price and a professional massage therapist. The pools are small. In the central pool, the water is very cool, slightly warmer than the sea. The only good thing is that it chains all foreign tourists of the hotel to its sunbeds, due to which the sea is freer : ) There is almost no animation. In the mornings 30 minutes of aqua and several evenings a week an impromptu show "dances of the peoples of the world".

Bottom line: there are certainly pluses, there are minuses. But, animation and a large hotel area are not the most important thing on a sea holiday. I tried to evaluate objectively, so I noted all the minuses. But the impressions are the most positive.
In terms of price-quality ratio - the highest rating.

And one more piece of advice: if you contact the hotel directly, the room will cost less than on booking. com.
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