I would like to leave an unpleasant review about the Agelia Beach Hotel 5 *. We had the imprudence to purchase vouchers for this hotel. It all started with placement. Booked a room with three full beds, was offered a room with one double bed. Probably the hotel did not know anything about our reservation. Next was offered a room with a double bed and a folding bed.
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I would like to leave an unpleasant review about the Agelia Beach Hotel 5 *. We had the imprudence to purchase vouchers for this hotel. It all started with placement. Booked a room with three full beds, was offered a room with one double bed. Probably the hotel did not know anything about our reservation. Next was offered a room with a double bed and a folding bed. I would like to know if this is how it should happen in 5 * hotels? This number also had to be abandoned. As a result, after a long wait, they offered a room with a double bed and a single bed. I had to go to reception to have my room cleaned. A week has already passed, and our bed linen has never been changed, the used ones are re-made, there is a constant blockage in the shower cabin, the sink and faucet have not been cleaned, probably since the installation. We have to catch the maid to ask for toilet paper. As for nutrition, this is a separate issue. To choose a dish and it was hot, you need to come at the moment the food outlet opens, otherwise it is not known when a new portion of hot food will be brought. Sometimes you never know what has already been taken out of the trays. Why is food not heated? The food is not tasty. All drinks on the all inclusive system do not stand up to criticism. I would like to note the cleanliness of dishes and cutlery. One word - poor quality. Lipstick marks after washing a cup is the norm for this hotel. Now about the hotel itself. You should have seen what the descent to the beach was at the time of our arrival. Probably someone complained and had to dig out the stairs, which were littered with sand and stones. Class! The unkemptness of everything in this hotel extends to the grounds and landscaping. 4 bushes and a few palm trees, scorched green areas and this is 5 *. Night lights are either missing and in their place are just wires or there are no lighting bulbs. The descent to the pool was covered with a tattered green covering. For several days we watched when it would be removed Removed. It is not clear how the hotel positioned itself, which gave itself such an assessment. The only two pluses are the proximity to the sea and constant wi-fi. I would not advise anyone from my circle of acquaintances to purchase tours in this hotel.
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• traveled 7 years ago
Foolishly succumbed to the persuasion of the tour operator and took this hotel! Do not believe the pictures, but read the reviews of real visitors! Upon arrival, we were put in an unair-conditioned bus and we drove to the hotel for 2 hours along a serpentine, with a stop at all the hotels along the way. Baby got sick : ( In the hotel: we took a room with a sea view, as a result we got the main view of the restaurant, and if you turn into a nook on the balcony, you will see a view of the bar and a piece of the sea! Room cleaning is superficial, the balcony was washed only after being asked.
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Foolishly succumbed to the persuasion of the tour operator and took this hotel! Do not believe the pictures, but read the reviews of real visitors!
Upon arrival, we were put in an unair-conditioned bus and we drove to the hotel for 2 hours along a serpentine, with a stop at all the hotels along the way. Baby got sick : (
In the hotel: we took a room with a sea view, as a result we got the main view of the restaurant, and if you turn into a nook on the balcony, you will see a view of the bar and a piece of the sea! Room cleaning is superficial, the balcony was washed only after being asked. Soap is given only upon arrival, then you need to ask the cleaning lady. The three of us rested, but we stubbornly put two sheets to cover ourselves, the third had to be knocked out at the reception. (Just to beat out, because the attitude of the staff is extremely unfriendly). The furniture is old, the bathroom mirror is stained black from old age, there is mold in the corners. The room is constantly damp. Lots of mosquitoes and wasps! Little food, monotonous breakfast consists of 6 courses and all sorts of cereals. Lunch and dinner are standard 9 courses, which change periodically. Popular dishes are quickly snapped up and the iron trays are empty, after 20 minutes they will only bring an additive (if they bring it at all). There are regular queues for food. For lunch and dinner there is no tea or coffee (this is a fee). For dessert, periodically jelly or muffin, which is not healthy to chew with soda. There is only one soup and it is a broth made from sachets with grated cheese and breadcrumbs. Fruits watermelon, melon, pears, apples, sometimes grapes. Plates are greasy and chipped, glasses regularly run out and they are also in no hurry to add them. There is only one restaurant for the whole hotel, and there are only 2-3 waiters for it! If you take a pear with you, they will throw a tantrum, saying that the concept of the hotel is nothing to take away! In the pool bar, only soda (one glass per hand) and local alcohol are free of charge. The bar on the beach is all paid and it seemed to me that it does not apply to the hotel at all. The child has nothing to eat. And there is nowhere to go nearby, since the exit is immediately to the highway and to the nearest store 1 km to the right or 1.5 km to the left. All in all, I would not recommend this hotel to anyone!
Upon arrival, we were put in an unair-conditioned bus and we drove to the hotel for 2 hours along a serpentine, with a stop at all the hotels along the way. Baby got sick : (
In the hotel: we took a room with a sea view, as a result we got the main view of the restaurant, and if you turn into a nook on the balcony, you will see a view of the bar and a piece of the sea! Room cleaning is superficial, the balcony was washed only after being asked. Soap is given only upon arrival, then you need to ask the cleaning lady. The three of us rested, but we stubbornly put two sheets to cover ourselves, the third had to be knocked out at the reception. (Just to beat out, because the attitude of the staff is extremely unfriendly). The furniture is old, the bathroom mirror is stained black from old age, there is mold in the corners. The room is constantly damp. Lots of mosquitoes and wasps! Little food, monotonous breakfast consists of 6 courses and all sorts of cereals. Lunch and dinner are standard 9 courses, which change periodically. Popular dishes are quickly snapped up and the iron trays are empty, after 20 minutes they will only bring an additive (if they bring it at all). There are regular queues for food. For lunch and dinner there is no tea or coffee (this is a fee). For dessert, periodically jelly or muffin, which is not healthy to chew with soda. There is only one soup and it is a broth made from sachets with grated cheese and breadcrumbs. Fruits watermelon, melon, pears, apples, sometimes grapes. Plates are greasy and chipped, glasses regularly run out and they are also in no hurry to add them. There is only one restaurant for the whole hotel, and there are only 2-3 waiters for it! If you take a pear with you, they will throw a tantrum, saying that the concept of the hotel is nothing to take away! In the pool bar, only soda (one glass per hand) and local alcohol are free of charge. The bar on the beach is all paid and it seemed to me that it does not apply to the hotel at all. The child has nothing to eat. And there is nowhere to go nearby, since the exit is immediately to the highway and to the nearest store 1 km to the right or 1.5 km to the left. All in all, I would not recommend this hotel to anyone!
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We chose this hotel based on its appearance: we liked the photos. The reviews were not paid attention, but in vain. The check-in took place at night, cold snacks were waiting in the refrigerator. When ordering the tour, they made a note: windows to a quiet place. We appreciated the "banter" of the Greeks: the window (balcony) is exactly above the main porch! The noise from this is incredible and incessant! The air conditioner broke a day later.
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We chose this hotel based on its appearance: we liked the photos. The reviews were not paid attention, but in vain. The check-in took place at night, cold snacks were waiting in the refrigerator. When ordering the tour, they made a note: windows to a quiet place. We appreciated the "banter" of the Greeks: the window (balcony) is exactly above the main porch! The noise from this is incredible and incessant! The air conditioner broke a day later. Five days promised to fix. Even the local guide did not help: there are no available rooms with working air conditioning! I had to write to Moscow (to Pegasus) and a miracle: in 40 minutes the number was found. After that, the guide did not say hello! The food is excellent, there are no questions about meat and fruit. Fish are scarce. In the bar, wine is poured from bags into jugs and put in the refrigerator, at the same time diluted with water! You can drink water only at the reception from the cooler and pour it into your own bottle! There is no Russian speaking staff! The rooms built in the attic are very hot and there are no sunscreens on the balconies. The exit from the beach (where the sand is washed off with water) was not cleaned during my stay there. All sand is transferred to the pools. Wouldn't want to go there again. And you decide for yourself.
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• traveled 8 years ago
I'll start with what many have written about: for the first two or three days, guests are accommodated in a plywood chicken coop built on the roof of the hotel, which does not have not only a TV and a safe (forget about the bathrobe and slippers indicated in the description), but even a wardrobe for clothes, and in the early days we could not even unpack our suitcases, because there was simply nowhere to put things.
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I'll start with what many have written about: for the first two or three days, guests are accommodated in a plywood chicken coop built on the roof of the hotel, which does not have not only a TV and a safe (forget about the bathrobe and slippers indicated in the description), but even a wardrobe for clothes, and in the early days we could not even unpack our suitcases, because there was simply nowhere to put things. Then we were moved to a room with the above benefits of civilization, demanding a receipt that we have no claims against the hotel under the DANGER (!!! ), that otherwise we will not be moved. In the new room, a poorly functioning shower was found, spraying water in all directions, and on the second day the bar on which the shower curtain hung fell off. In order for this nonsense to be repaired, I had to go to the reception for three days asking for it. They cleaned the room badly, the plumbing was not cleaned even once during our stay (9 days).
About food: very poor and monotonous. Breakfast is continental - scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs, sausages, tomato-cucumbers, two types of cereal, milk, buns, tea and a brown liquid with an indefinite taste and smell, which they called "coffee". Everything. There were no fruits for breakfast. Lunch and dinner - chicken and some meat (for lunch there was still disgustingly cooked tilapia, which is impossible to eat, there was no other fish in principle), fresh and stewed vegetables, pasta and french fries in unlimited quantities, from fruits - watermelon and melon, for dinner, if you're lucky, also grapes. There was no tea or coffee for lunch or dinner. About "if you're lucky" - food was added during the meal very slowly, and when all this was brought, the people rushed to sort it out in agitation, and if you do not have the skill to push in Soviet lines, you can be left without food. Some time before the end of the meal, the staff generally stopped updating the dishes, and one day, when we arrived half an hour before the end of lunch, there was almost nothing to eat. In a word, if you expect to eat plenty of seafood and fruits in the southern island country, you can easily do this in any cafe near the hotel. Coffee lovers go there.
There were mere trifles left: the lack of drinking water in the rooms (it was only on the first floor in the foyer in the cooler, but regularly there was no water or glasses), the inability to change beach towels (we managed to do this only on the fifth day, after an hour and a half waiting for them at the reception) and the general indifference and rudeness of the staff.
Summary: if you are a fan of relaxing in 2-* hotels at a high price, then this option is a godsend for you. To the rest: don't make our mistake.
About food: very poor and monotonous. Breakfast is continental - scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs, sausages, tomato-cucumbers, two types of cereal, milk, buns, tea and a brown liquid with an indefinite taste and smell, which they called "coffee". Everything. There were no fruits for breakfast. Lunch and dinner - chicken and some meat (for lunch there was still disgustingly cooked tilapia, which is impossible to eat, there was no other fish in principle), fresh and stewed vegetables, pasta and french fries in unlimited quantities, from fruits - watermelon and melon, for dinner, if you're lucky, also grapes. There was no tea or coffee for lunch or dinner. About "if you're lucky" - food was added during the meal very slowly, and when all this was brought, the people rushed to sort it out in agitation, and if you do not have the skill to push in Soviet lines, you can be left without food. Some time before the end of the meal, the staff generally stopped updating the dishes, and one day, when we arrived half an hour before the end of lunch, there was almost nothing to eat. In a word, if you expect to eat plenty of seafood and fruits in the southern island country, you can easily do this in any cafe near the hotel. Coffee lovers go there.
There were mere trifles left: the lack of drinking water in the rooms (it was only on the first floor in the foyer in the cooler, but regularly there was no water or glasses), the inability to change beach towels (we managed to do this only on the fifth day, after an hour and a half waiting for them at the reception) and the general indifference and rudeness of the staff.
Summary: if you are a fan of relaxing in 2-* hotels at a high price, then this option is a godsend for you. To the rest: don't make our mistake.
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Unfortunately we booked this hotel. Everything in the description is a lie. The hotel positions itself as 5 stars, although in fact the maximum is 2. The hotel is far from everything, there is absolutely nothing to do. The acoustics in the hotel are excellent - in your room you will hear everything that is going on in the entire hotel.
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Unfortunately we booked this hotel. Everything in the description is a lie. The hotel positions itself as 5 stars, although in fact the maximum is 2. The hotel is far from everything, there is absolutely nothing to do. The acoustics in the hotel are excellent - in your room you will hear everything that is going on in the entire hotel. Especially when someone closes the doors - a deafening bang is heard. The food is monotonous and primitive. Those who had cars went to other restaurants to eat. The bar on the street closes at 18-20 but not at 01, as it is written in the description. The mattresses in the rooms are stone, it is impossible to sleep. In a word, a dull, cheap hotel that tries to squeeze as much profit out of nothing as possible. Of course, those who have never seen other hotels may like it.
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The hotel is just in the village, there are a couple of shops nearby and that's it! For young people, rest there is just like in a sanatorium (very well-fed people and all the elderly, many many children) There is no animation, for 10 days it was not! still a good sea is super (the end of the season was, it was stormy all the time) The food is pi .
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The hotel is just in the village, there are a couple of shops nearby and that's it! For young people, rest there is just like in a sanatorium (very well-fed people and all the elderly, many many children) There is no animation, for 10 days it was not! still a good sea is super (the end of the season was, it was stormy all the time) The food is pi . . c full, with all this the hotel itself positions itself as a 5-star-it's a triple !!!!!!! ! What you ate for breakfast you will see for dinner. There are no pastries and there won’t be! Fruits-apples! Desserts-a lot of jelly and melon !!!!!!!!!!!! ! Meat-horror, fish-horror! it was something: (As a result, there was nothing to eat and it’s nothing you ate every day! Sea view when buying tickets, you can not take them only 6 rooms with a view, all the rest overlook the road or the roof or a piece of the sea! There is water in the pool just ice! Everything was not bad except for the hotel! In Greece for the first time, there are few impressions!
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For a long time I wanted to write, I myself read reviews about this hotel here. We traveled through an intermediary travel agency that ordered tours from Teztour. Before our departure, our nerves were disturbed by the news that was shown on TV, problems with visas to Greece on about. Crete. We waited for the documents until the last day and were also on our nerves.
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For a long time I wanted to write, I myself read reviews about this hotel here. We traveled through an intermediary travel agency that ordered tours from Teztour. Before our departure, our nerves were disturbed by the news that was shown on TV, problems with visas to Greece on about. Crete. We waited for the documents until the last day and were also on our nerves. We flew with Aeroflot, which we did not regret. Then we bumped into a small airport for 1.5 hours. I was pleased with the organization of the teztour, we went out and the guides immediately met us, showed us where to go to the bus and we went and drove everyone to hotels along the way (1.5 hours). Very nice girl guide told the story of Fr. Crete. We arrived at about 12 o'clock and the first thing we encountered was a language barrier. The administrator did not understand Russian at all, she gave us questionnaires, which were also in English. But then she realized that we had a problem and she filled it out herself. She explained that they would check us in from 14.00, but for now we can go to the bar, which is on the beach, and we can also have lunch. I must say right away that the cuisine is normal, only the breakfast was monotonous (fried eggs, boiled eggs, sausages, fried bacon, delicious puff small buns with cottage cheese, with spinach and cottage cheese, sweet puffs, always a cupcake, vegetable salads, bread, butter, honey, milk, dry breakfast, juice, tea, coffee, scrambled eggs). Better to come early in the morning. we got up early, went to 7.30, and at 8.00 to the sea. Because it is very hot there 40 degrees, already at 11 o'clock it burns the skin. We took a family room, my daughter had a separate room, a view of the road, but we still didn’t hear noise from the road if the door to the loggia was closed. There are air conditioners, there are curtains in the bathroom, there are tiles on the floor, in the bathroom the water, like everything else, was wiped with a towel, they were cleaned almost every day, during the day we slept and on some days the maid did not have time to clean in the morning, and in the afternoon we were in the room (linen changed). There was a TV, we didn’t take the remote control, I took a rope with me to the loggia and pulled it on chairs to dry clothes (I read a review that there was no place to dry swimwear). At first, there were not enough sunbeds on the beach, and people, mostly Russians, got up, went to the beach, put their towels and left for breakfast, we ran into this on day 2. Then people began to complain, apparently, that there were not enough sunbeds, they put up brand new ones. But we also began to take places with towels, like everyone else. The minus of the family room is that the rooms are together at one end of the corridor and there were many families with small children who screamed and slammed the doors during the day and could be heard. I’ll tell you right away about the bars, there is a bar in the hotel that is open from 18.00-23 for free, they pour alcohol in it without sparing, and on the beach there is a bar where most people sit in the evening, I didn’t like that they dilute it. Well, we compared beer, you drink it, you drink it and you don’t get drunk, and then we went to Rethymnon for souvenirs, walked, went to the tavern and there they gave us not very strong beer, so we immediately got drunk after a couple of sips. We immediately compared good beer. What is the dress code for dinner. Nobody adheres to it, especially Russians. Men in shorts, and even in swimming trunks, one came in wet. Food is not allowed to be taken out, but we took apples and oranges with us and ate at the bar in the evening. The minus in the bar is that there is alcohol, but no snacks, we were ready to buy, but no nuts, no chips. Then everyone sniffed around 50 meters from the hotel, there is a store, we all went there in the evening to buy chips, nuts, ice cream and came to the bar. We liked the food, almost everything is baked with cheese, they do not spare cheese, tomatoes are everywhere, there was one joke. Apparently a dish from the chef - snails, well, we scored, but there were no special forks for snails, we tried to pull it out with a knife, fork, and threw everything away. There was not enough seafood, there was fish, but mussels, etc. 1 time. Desserts - 2 types of jelly, biscuit and national cakes with honey and cinnamon and nuts. Animations were on certain days: Greek dances (a hotel employee invites you to dance sertaki), live music. These animations are 2 times a week, otherwise there is nothing, but somehow we didn’t need to. We took an excursion from Teztour, and we ourselves went on one excursion to Rethymnon and bought tickets at the museum not expensively and looked like ourselves (we saved a lot). They didn’t take the car, they needed a license, if you didn’t take it, friends can send you copies and drive on copies. On the day of departure, you can order an early breakfast, we ordered for 5 o'clock in the morning, it was sandwiches, cake, tea, coffee. We had breakfast, no one even checked the number, the Teztura bus arrived and along the way we collected people at the airport (2 hours). We liked it, maybe because there is nothing to compare with yet, but if you are going to rest for several years with a child in silence, a normal vacation option. Maybe we will go there again with two children.
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The hotel is new and quite cozy inside. Most of the rooms face the road with transformers. With access to the sea 6 rooms. Of the rest, only small pieces are visible. The guides respond to the complaints of tourists: "Well, at least a piece of the sea is visible? If so, then this is already with a view of the sea.
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The hotel is new and quite cozy inside. Most of the rooms face the road with transformers. With access to the sea 6 rooms. Of the rest, only small pieces are visible. The guides respond to the complaints of tourists: "Well, at least a piece of the sea is visible? If so, then this is already with a view of the sea. " So I do not advise overpaying for these "pieces". But from the dining room, the views of the sea are beautiful.
The food at the hotel is quite decent. For breakfast: bacon, sausages, eggs, several types of cheese, a variety of pastries, toast, jam, vegetables, fruits (oranges, apples, bananas, grapes) and other breakfast ingredients in European hotels.
Lunches: fish, several types of meat, excellent mashed soups, mussels, french fries, stewed / boiled vegetables. In general, there was a choice.
For dinner: fish, meat, casseroles, a wide variety of cheeses and other dishes.
Of the minuses, unnatural juices and tasteless desserts.
The rooms are new, clean, quite comfortable with spacious balconies. The bed was changed 2 times in a week. As for the noise coming from the corridors, I somehow did not notice. Surprisingly great hair dryer for a hotel.
When checking into this hotel, you should not particularly count on the evening promenades. There is simply no external infrastructure. At 100 meters from the hotel there is a cafe and a small souvenir shop where, in addition to Greek trinkets, bus tickets are also sold. The hotel is very good for those who rent a car. The location is very convenient. For evening gatherings, the hotel lobby with a bar, billiards, and chess is quite suitable.
The sea near the hotel is very clean, as is the beach, which is monitored and cleaned.
There are 3 swimming pools on site. Functioning bar.
Once again, the hotel is a very worthy option for those who plan to travel by car. And not really for those who are used to walking along the noisy embankments, full of cafes and other entertainment venues.
The food at the hotel is quite decent. For breakfast: bacon, sausages, eggs, several types of cheese, a variety of pastries, toast, jam, vegetables, fruits (oranges, apples, bananas, grapes) and other breakfast ingredients in European hotels.
Lunches: fish, several types of meat, excellent mashed soups, mussels, french fries, stewed / boiled vegetables. In general, there was a choice.
For dinner: fish, meat, casseroles, a wide variety of cheeses and other dishes.
Of the minuses, unnatural juices and tasteless desserts.
The rooms are new, clean, quite comfortable with spacious balconies. The bed was changed 2 times in a week. As for the noise coming from the corridors, I somehow did not notice. Surprisingly great hair dryer for a hotel.
When checking into this hotel, you should not particularly count on the evening promenades. There is simply no external infrastructure. At 100 meters from the hotel there is a cafe and a small souvenir shop where, in addition to Greek trinkets, bus tickets are also sold. The hotel is very good for those who rent a car. The location is very convenient. For evening gatherings, the hotel lobby with a bar, billiards, and chess is quite suitable.
The sea near the hotel is very clean, as is the beach, which is monitored and cleaned.
There are 3 swimming pools on site. Functioning bar.
Once again, the hotel is a very worthy option for those who plan to travel by car. And not really for those who are used to walking along the noisy embankments, full of cafes and other entertainment venues.
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We rested in this hotel from May 13 to May 20.2012. In general, we had a pleasant impression of the hotel, although we took a ticket at random, guided only by the low price and the fact that the hotel is new. Much of what is written in the previous review is true, but the owners have eliminated some of the shortcomings.
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We rested in this hotel from May 13 to May 20.2012. In general, we had a pleasant impression of the hotel, although we took a ticket at random, guided only by the low price and the fact that the hotel is new.
Much of what is written in the previous review is true, but the owners have eliminated some of the shortcomings.
There are no complaints about food, such a variety of food as in the huge hotels of Turkey and Egypt you will not see here, probably due to the fact that the hotel is small. But the food is very tasty. For lunch and dinner, there were always two types of meat, fish, vegetables and fruits, except that with desserts it was not very good. There was enough food for everyone, there were always plenty of free tables too. Nice pizza was at the pool bar between lunch and dinner. I didn’t try strong drinks, but beer and red wine are on the level, Egyptian and Turkish swill is not close by. I liked the local cold coffee frappe. Fresh, as elsewhere for money.
I liked the attitude of the staff, all very polite and cultured.
As for the deposit for a towel and a TV remote control, it's true. Noise isolation did not improve either, but considering that we rented a car and traveled around Crete almost all days, and returned tired in the evening and turned off almost immediately after dinner, the noise of steps in the corridor was absolutely on the drum))
The beach is sandy, the entrance to the water is rocky, when you go waist-deep, then sand again. The sea is clean, the view from the left is super! The mountains are impressive, especially at sunset.
I don’t know if it makes sense to take a room with a sea view, since there are very few rooms with a real sea view due to the fact that the hotel is located at the end of the beach.
There are no longer any pallets with nails on the way to the beach, there are normal stone steps.
The hotel itself is located in the village of Sfakaki. There is no entertainment around. The best option is to take a car and drive around the island, or you can take a bus and go to Rethymnon (stop 100 meters from the hotel).
I can only say good things about the hotel guide Roman from the TEZ tour. He told about the excursions, but he didn’t force them. Even when we refused excursions, he still helped to solve all the questions that arose, advised what was worth seeing on the island, helped to sort out the car rental.
Vacationers are mostly ours and the British, many with children.
I think that the hotel draws on 4 *, although it has 5 * on the sign. If you have any questions, I'm ready to answer.
Much of what is written in the previous review is true, but the owners have eliminated some of the shortcomings.
There are no complaints about food, such a variety of food as in the huge hotels of Turkey and Egypt you will not see here, probably due to the fact that the hotel is small. But the food is very tasty. For lunch and dinner, there were always two types of meat, fish, vegetables and fruits, except that with desserts it was not very good. There was enough food for everyone, there were always plenty of free tables too. Nice pizza was at the pool bar between lunch and dinner. I didn’t try strong drinks, but beer and red wine are on the level, Egyptian and Turkish swill is not close by. I liked the local cold coffee frappe. Fresh, as elsewhere for money.
I liked the attitude of the staff, all very polite and cultured.
As for the deposit for a towel and a TV remote control, it's true. Noise isolation did not improve either, but considering that we rented a car and traveled around Crete almost all days, and returned tired in the evening and turned off almost immediately after dinner, the noise of steps in the corridor was absolutely on the drum))
The beach is sandy, the entrance to the water is rocky, when you go waist-deep, then sand again. The sea is clean, the view from the left is super! The mountains are impressive, especially at sunset.
I don’t know if it makes sense to take a room with a sea view, since there are very few rooms with a real sea view due to the fact that the hotel is located at the end of the beach.
There are no longer any pallets with nails on the way to the beach, there are normal stone steps.
The hotel itself is located in the village of Sfakaki. There is no entertainment around. The best option is to take a car and drive around the island, or you can take a bus and go to Rethymnon (stop 100 meters from the hotel).
I can only say good things about the hotel guide Roman from the TEZ tour. He told about the excursions, but he didn’t force them. Even when we refused excursions, he still helped to solve all the questions that arose, advised what was worth seeing on the island, helped to sort out the car rental.
Vacationers are mostly ours and the British, many with children.
I think that the hotel draws on 4 *, although it has 5 * on the sign. If you have any questions, I'm ready to answer.
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Now I will tell you the whole truth about the hotel and in general about the rest in Crete. I consider myself obliged to describe everything because, just like you, who are reading this review, before the trip I re-read a ton of reviews, both good and bad, but the travel agency manager assured me that the hotel was good and said not to believe the reviews! not true, trust the reviews!! ! everything that was in the bad reviews about the hotel is really true !! ! But I'll start with the good anyway.
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Now I will tell you the whole truth about the hotel and in general about the rest in Crete. I consider myself obliged to describe everything because, just like you, who are reading this review, before the trip I re-read a ton of reviews, both good and bad, but the travel agency manager assured me that the hotel was good and said not to believe the reviews! not true, trust the reviews!! ! everything that was in the bad reviews about the hotel is really true !! ! But I'll start with the good anyway. For the money that we spent in this hotel, in principle, I would not have any particular complaints, but. . . I concluded for myself that it is better to overpay a couple of thousand and not face many moments. The hotel is really located conveniently in relation to the street of bars and restaurants nearby and shops nearby! all OK! a very nice renovation was made in the lobby of the hotel, and in general the renovation in the hotel is new, except for half of the rooms (they are old, but not dirty, we lived in this and it seemed to me quite monralno). The old style rooms don't have hair dryers and the showers are just terribly uncomfortable! ! the whole floor is in the water, a stupid curtain and if you want to wash something, there is nowhere to do it. I don’t know how the new rooms are, but there definitely are plasmas. Since I started about the rooms, I'll tell you about the settlement! this is what started our "successful" acquaintance with the hotel. We were with a friend. Approaching the reception, I asked the administrator, smiling, to give us a good number, she apparently understood the opposite. We were given a hole on the -1 floor, we went to watch it and with every step I was more and more terrified. the room was somewhere far down the corridor, next to the stairs to the restaurant, from which it smelled terribly of food, the door was broken down below, but this is all nonsense, when we entered the room it turned out to be very small, the bathroom was 1.5 by 1.5 in which just do not turn around, but the worst thing was when we looked at the balcony, it went out the wall. . . We returned to the reception and asked to change the room, to which we were told that all the rooms are occupied, and it’s better that they don’t give us anything and that 3 floors of the hotel are superiors, we were told that the rooms will be available only tomorrow (so they tell everyone, in the hope that everyone habudetsya). After my tears, we were taken to the manager, who broke down and thought for a long time, and in the end, for 50 euros, he moved us, albeit to an old room, but with a sea view. as we found out later, EVERYONE faced problems with the settlement!! ! and many paid money from 50 to 80 euros!! ! Next, I want to talk about nutrition. I’ll note right away that I’m not picky about food, but on day 5 I didn’t want to go to a restaurant at all, because the assortment and quality of food was disgusting, and if at first we chose what to eat on the 5th day, we just got tired of eating the same thing, and generally sick of this food. Whoever goes to the sea hoping to eat seafood (like me) is definitely not the place for you, they are not there! give 1 day through 2 fish like pollock. Meat of an unknown animal and origin, we don’t if, stupid salads are seasoned with a terrible taste of mayonnaise. always Greek salad, potatoes, 3 sauces, 3 salads, meat and chicken / fish / something else. from fruits melon / watermelon / grapes, 1 kind of sweets. But beer and wine are free, but also so-so. Breakfasts are standard European: vegetables, potatoes, eggs/amlet, cake, cheese, ham. I don’t know how food is in other hotels, maybe in Greece it’s like that everywhere. We were also in Cyprus in the top three, but I can’t even compare. . . Beach: only adult aunts and vacationers with children go to it, there is nothing for young people to do there. he is sooo small, ugly, at the entrance to the sea there are giant stones, slippery, I even fell 1 time. the beach is convenient only for when you suddenly want to swim or sit by the sea for 5 minutes in the evening, and there it is not at all the advantage of the hotel. Swimming pool: we were there 1 time on the day of arrival when we went around the hotel. Of those with whom we talked after, we were alone there)) the pool is sooo small, for children. There is no animation in the hotel! In general, all modlodezh rests on Star Beach, which is 10-15 minutes from our hotel. it's very cool there, a DJ plays, a large pool, access to the sea at 17-00 foam party every day, several bars. In short, the whole party is there. Sunbeds are also 3 euros, cocktails from 6 to 8 euros. By the way, the people in Golden Beach are mostly young, I don’t advise you to go with children, there’s nothing to do with them. many Russians. Summary: if you take a ticket for 10 days for 22-23 thousand, then you won’t be very upset if it’s more expensive or there is an opportunity to pay extra, it’s better to choose another hotel. Hotels a little cheaper than this are also normal (we looked at them on purpose). I hope my review will help you make your choice!
Review from — vOtpusk.ru
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