Danaos Beach Apartments

This is small mid range apartment hotel with 27 rooms, set over two blocks. Rooms are a good size with balconies. Twin beds, sofa, kitchenette with; fridge, kettle, single ring, microwave, crockery, cutlery, pots and pans enough for simple meals. I think there are some larger family rooms. Rooms have tables and chairs inside and on the balcony. Rooms have curtains and blackout curtains. Bathrooms are simple, but adequate; basin, WC and shower. The basin plug release in one room needed operating from below the sink, it was missing parts, on the second room the sink emptied with the plug in place. Plenty of hot water which never ran out and good shower pressure. Initial soap and shampoo provided. The kitchenette even came with enough coffee, sugar and milk for the first cup of coffee, nice touch. Kitchen sink area comes with tea towel, scourer and washing up liquid, again nice touch. Rooms are serviced daily and linen and towels changed regularly. Towels are not exactly soft and beds are somewhat firm! The hotel provides breakfast for an extra €8, we provided our own, but it looked good. The hotel has its own bar, providing snacks and drinks, pool drinks must be purchased from the bar. There are a few restaurants within walking distance and we used the pizza restaurant next door on arrival and on several further occasions and found it very good and not expensive, large portions! On a Saturday night they have very good live Greek music. There is a good supermarket close by which is well stocked. The very nice new hotel next door is lively and plays nice music in the evening, nothing too loud. Ideally you need a car to explore the area, there is a bus service to Rethimo, we had a car so didn’t use it. Given the distance from either Heraklion and Chaina airports a hire car for a couple of weeks might be less than the taxi rides to and from the airport. Our, not very good, hire car cost €160 for two weeks, booked from the UK (Carjet) well in advance. Flat screen TV with some English channels. Good room safe, extra €2 per day. Air conditioning in every room, but an additional €6 per day. There is a local climate tax of €3 per day in common with all other payments these seem to have to be in cash apparently their credit card machine is permanently broken! Limited car parking on site, which is covered and therefore protects your car from the worst of the sun’s heat, plenty of on street parking in the road. WiFi is poor, some connectivity in some rooms, around the pool and bar it was better, but never good. During our stay the guest were mainly Russian speakers from; Baltic Republics, Belarus and Romanians. Many English speakers, but no British guests that I detected during our stay. We stayed for two weeks but a lot of guests seem to be staying for a week. Nice well kept gardens with sun loungers, umbrellas, seating areas and a BBQ area. This good for families or groups to use, seating with tables and children playi

Good place if you want place for rest at night and at day to go to explore Crete islands. Hotel rooms need little restoration. The owners always happy and great you whit a smile. Breakfast tasty. Good place next to good restaurant. Next to the sea , beach is clean.