Olympic Hotel, Heraklion

Advantages: Good rooms and beds, 3 restaurants
Disadvantages: no pool

...I had the pleasure of staying in this hotel when I travelled to Beijing in July, for a week. This hotel was great. Our rooms were furnished with many accessories such as hair dryers; not that we used them, TV, radio; there was English radio there, air conditioning, thank god, a mini bar and a safe. There were three restaurants in the hotel, and a massage parlour and a beauty salon. One disadvantage was there was no pool. But the views were excellent, since it was in the middle of the city, one thing that did restrict the views was pollution, not that a lot but still, but that was nothing to do with the hotel! It was situated near many western restaurants (in case you get sick of Chinese food) and the people at the desk will ring up and order pizza for you to take to your rooms for no more than it costs to buy! (Usually it costs 15% extra... Read review

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Advantages: beautiful lobby, great facilities, nice rooms, fantastic staff, very clean and safe
Disadvantages: some of the evening entertainment wasnt brilliant, magnetic key alters watches!

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hotel Minos ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As we scoured through the Thomson travel brochure looking for a holiday destination we saw a nice looking hotel which was situated in Rethymno on the Greek island of Crete. The recently refurbished Minos hotel is a four star hotel and is situated 150m from the beach. The pictures of the hotel looked lovely so we booked two rooms for 10 days in August. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Arrival ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Minos hotel is about an hours drive from the airport in Heraklion. The coach dropped us at a busy roundabout where we were pointed in the direction of the hotel entrance. The entrance to the hotel is up a reasonably steep slope and as there was not enough room to get the coach up there we had to carry our luggage up to the hotel. Thomson had mentioned the slope... Read review

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Advantages: Well run, value for money, good and plenitful food, all inclusive, family orientated
Disadvantages: Entertainment is amateur and you away from any other entertainment

...I booked at the Eupopa Beach after seeing an advert on Teletext, we stayed the first week in June and all inclusive for one week was £1100 for 2 adults and 2 children including the flights. We arrived at 1am to be met by the hotel manager with glasses of orange juice to refresh us after our long journey. After quickly completeing our registration forms a porter took our luggage to our room. Which was basic but clean and comfortable, There was a double and single bed and also a single sofa bed. It had an ensuite bathroom with a bath and shower (over bath), A TV and hair dryer was also provided. There was also a balcony, although where this overlooks depends on where you are in t he hotel - we were overlooking a farm. There are two pools at the Europa Beach, one quieter one and one activity pool, where the entertainment team run... Read review

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