отдых в Греции holidays in Greece

Rested in this hotel from 14 to 23 July 2009. I'll tell you about my first impressions. We were met at the Heraklion airport by representatives of the meeting party KOURKOUNIS TOURS S. A. Our guide was a girl Wilma, a good girl, but too talkative : ) - she has such a job! We put everyone on the bus and after 20 minutes we were already in the city of Gurnes, where the hotel itself is located.
It turned out that there used to be an American military base in this town, now only abandoned buildings and some kind of metal antenna masts are left of it.
Now about the hotel:
- the hotel is really good, we liked it. It's a quiet, family run hotel!

But for some reason they forgot to write in the advertisement that the hotel does not have its own beach! "Pebble, sand - 20 mot of the hotel across the promenade. Sunbeds and umbrellas by the pool - free of charge, on the beach - for an additional fee. " The sea is really located across the road from the hotel, and the beach is 100 meters away! The beach is municipal, there are no sunbeds and umbrellas on this beach. Maybe this is better, because. in other hotels the whole beach is full of these sunbeds with umbrellas and if you want to sunbathe - pay 6 euros! So we can say we saved on this, and the beach is really normal.
- there is indeed air conditioning in the room, but to use it you have to pay 6 euros per day! (although in advertising it is included in the price).
- a water sports center on the beach (for an additional fee), daytime and evening animation - all this is missing!
- now on the food bill, we took the BB tour (breakfast only), : )) and did the right thing! For 10 days we were fed, to choose from: boiled eggs, scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs!! ! : )tea or coffee, to choose from. , yogurt (not sweet), orange juice and a piece of cheese with sausage!
So we went to dinner in neighboring taverns, since there are enough of them! There is a mini-market in the city where you can buy something for lunch, because. I don't want to eat in hot weather.
Not far (400 meters) from the hotel there is an oceanarium, very beautiful, go - you won't regret it!
Now for the tours:
- we wanted to go to Santorini and the Palace of Knossos, but to our great regret, for all 10 days, representatives of KOURKOUNIS TOURS S. A. could not organize this for us !! ! So we saw Santorini only in the pictures, and went to the Palace of Knossos ourselves (although without a Russian-speaking guide you can’t understand anything there, the ruins are the ruins)! We walked around Heraklion, the girls went shopping! : )
Tip - rent a car (rent directly at the hotel) and you will be able to drive around the whole of Crete, see for yourself! Car rental per day from 40 to 65 euros.
You can take a quad bike and ride along the sea (40 euros).
In general, if you do not pay attention to the little things, we really liked our vacation in Crete.