Отдыхом довольны,несмотря на некоторые мелочи Satisfied with the rest, despite some little things

This hotel belongs to High Beach 4 *, it is, as it were, its building lower in star rating. It uses its infrastructure, but is located outside its territory right on the beach. This building is not guarded, not fenced, which is not very pleasant, given that right past it is the road to the beach, along which ATVs, motorcycles, cars, etc. drive up. The road is very narrow and the transfer bus cannot get here, it leaves 200 meters on the road, you need to go to the hotel yourself. Reception is shared on the territory of High Beach. First we were settled in room 21 on the first floor near the stairs. The room is tiny, two steps from the threshold and a bed. The closet did not open completely because of the bed. I had to remove the bedside table and move the bed against the wall. In the toilet next to the toilet there is a hole in the floor and a shower. The distance from the toilet to the wall is half a meter. That is, you wash standing at the toilet. There is nowhere to dry clothes. The room has a second door-window to the street and a window also to the street. Although the glass is frosted, it is not very pleasant, especially in the evening, so the second door and window are always covered with a curtain. From this, the room is dark and uncomfortable. At night, someone drove by the second door all the time, walked, in the morning there were empty bottles. In general, horror. I was alone with a teenage girl. In the evening, I complained to the guide that having paid 3.5 thousand dollars for 2 weeks, I was counting on something more convenient for relaxing with a girl. I want to say thanks to the guide from LeGrand Gulie, who resolved this issue and three days later we were moved to a room on the second floor No. 29. It was a little larger, but lighter, with a balcony where you could finally dry your laundry. Toilet-shower, true, the same, but I already spat on it. I had a standard room for 1 adult + 1 child and, of course, I could not claim a family room. By the way, many visitors were accommodated in room 21, but after a while relocated. Apparently, he is their transshipment. I don’t understand people who say that they didn’t come to sit in the room and they don’t care. Although we did not sit in the room, but after dinner from 14 to 16 we rested in the room, as it was very hot. After swimming before eating, we went into the room several times to wash and change, in the evening from 22 o'clock we were also in the room. This is a lot and I want to relax, and not bother with everyday problems.
The hotel is located in such a way that you have to go to the beach bar and the pool bar in order to get a drink, ice cream, which is not very convenient. There are two pools where children constantly frolicked and it was annoying. At first they rarely used the pools, but then the sea began to worry, I was afraid to swim, I had to switch to pools.
This hotel has a beach with free sunbeds and umbrellas High Beach, there are many of them, they were always free, but vacationers from the village were allowed to use the free sunbeds for a fee. On the beach, everyone behaved decently, which can not be said about the village, but this is not the topic of the hotel.

The room was cleaned every day, bed linen and towels were changed every day. Toiletries were changed a couple of times. It's not very convenient that they were cleaned after dinner, when people were resting. I understand that before lunch from 11 o'clock they cleaned the rooms from which the tourists had checked out, and after lunch they took care of the rest of the rooms.
Beach towels give a deposit of 10 euros, exchange for clean 2 euros. Hairdryer, iron also on bail. But not for the entire stay, but use it and bring it back. With a hair dryer it's not convenient! Safe in the room 25 euros per week, locked with a key that needs to be hidden somewhere.
The hotel area is small but very well maintained. Everywhere flowers, all sorts of plants, trees. There is a tiny pond with fish, a chapel, a playground. Very cozy.
The restaurant periodically had a problem of empty seats. We just began to come to the beginning of the meal and always found a place for ourselves. But there were two of us, a small table is easier to find, and families, of course, have a problem. The waiters were quick to clear dirty dishes and prepare tables for the new arrivals. We liked the food in general. Large selection of meat, fish. Grilled. Very tasty olive pasta for a snack, the olives themselves, corn and olive bread. Most of all, I loved breakfasts. Very tasty cereals (oatmeal, rice), fresh pancakes, grain bread with nuts, omelettes, etc.
By the way, High Beach has its own garden right outside the territory. And all the vegetables that were served in the restaurant are grown on this site. A worker was busy there all the time, watering, trimming, loosening. Of the fruits, there were always watermelons, melons, peaches, nectarines, grapes, bananas, citrus fruits, kiwi, less often apples for lunch and dinner (as well as at the beach bar). Of course, if you come to the end of the meal, there will be no the best. Desserts: baklava, honey cakes, cream cakes, jelly, delicious cream in bowls. Desserts are monotonous, but if you do not eat everything at once, but alternate, then completely.

What else? Internet? Wi-Fi for a fee. You need to buy a card at the reception. We bought a card twice for 200 minutes for 10 euros and for 100 minutes for 6, I think. Enough for 2 weeks to talk on Skype, check mail, etc. The signal is not very strong, you need to look for a place with good reception. Near the building on the beach there is a Dolphin bar, where wi-fi is free, but only if you buy something. If you buy a cocktail, ice cream there, you won’t be able to meet 10 euros, but you will sit for an hour, so it’s unprofitable.
It takes about 20 minutes to walk to the nearest public transport stop. In the heat, this is essential. We used it a couple of times, went to the Cretan Aquarium, the neighboring city of Hersonisses. You can go to Heraklion, Agios Nikolaos, but my daughter refused to travel because of the heat.
This no longer applies to the hotel, but we took three excursions from LeGrand to the Palace of Knossos, the Lassithi plateau with the cave of Zeus, Spinalonga, a transfer to the Aquapark. I liked the guides, buses, but there are tourist offices near the hotel where excursions can be bought cheaper. I just didn’t bother with it, walk, compare, bought it at the hotel. We ourselves went to the ruins of the Minoan palace in Malia. It's up to you, but it's a long walk for about an hour!!! ! The hotel said that it would take 15 minutes to walk and I regretted 8 euros for a taxi. Still, we caught a taxi back)))) Not far from the hotel there is LeGrand's office, where we were given a diagram of Malia with all the notes, very clear. It was useful to us in our trip to the ruins. Yes, and we found a stop on it. I liked the hotel guide Gulia. Maybe because we bought excursions from her, but she was friendly, sociable. Well, I solved the problem with the number at the very beginning. It's just that someone wrote about her not very well.
I apologize for the wordiness. I'm glad if someone helped.