Hersonissos Palace, Hersonissos

Advantages: Swimming pool
Disadvantages: Rude manager, unclean apartments - see review!

...complaining to her about the water (and one girl had even got a rash from the swimming pool!) Anyway, things calmed down that day. The next night, we kept awake all night by a group of Dutch girls on our floor running up and down the corridor banging on doors until 7am which WE got the blame for! One night we didn't even return to the apartments but the manager blamed us for having a party on our floor - I couldn't believe it, we weren't even in Hersonissos that night!!! We were completely discriminated against and when we complained about the Dutch girls (as did the English parties), we were laughed at and told to shut up. We felt very threatened by the manager and had to sleep with things against our doors as he was very aggressive and walked into our rooms using his key TWICE when we were getting showered etc. In short - DO NOT stay... Read review

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Advantages: Excellent
Disadvantages: None

...First of all a HUGE thank you to Nikos, Angela, Tilly and Billy for making our stay so enjoyable and making us so welcome from the day we arrived to day we left. Nothing was too much from the minute you wake until you finally crash out... (the pool bar is open 24hrs but not rowdy so if you dont want to stay in the bar til 4am as i did on more than one occasion you can go to bed with hardly any noise) The apartments themselves are very beautiful the pictures in the brochures do not to it justice. Everything is kept so clean and picturesque. The rooms are all a good size and are just what you need for a comfortable stay. The location is brilliant.... 10 mins up the hill are traditional greek tavernas and restaurants that serve the nicest food great value for money... 10 mins down the hill and you are in the main town of Hersonissos... Read review

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Advantages: Large island - plenty to see an do. Friendly people. Superb weather
Disadvantages: Doesn't feel like an island. The drivers

...I've just spent autumn half-term in Crete. It's somewhere I'd already been to ("in a previous life" as my wife calls it) and she's always wanted to go to. Having not been there since 1974(!), fearing the worst excesses of tourism, I was reticent, but as she'd booked a stay nowhere near my previous haunts, I was quite happy with this state of affairs, especially given the amount of ground work she puts into choosing a location. Please bear in mind that this was the very last week of the (British) tourist season, so you may have other views on the places I describe, relating to how crowded they were at the time. Where we actually stayed was a village called Koutouloufari, which lies just inland and uphill from the seaside town of Hersonissos, and slightly east of Heraklion Airport. Heraklion (or Iraklion, which is nearer... Read review

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