SENSES BLUE BOUTIQUE HOTEL

I spent a week at this hotel, and it was an excellent experience. The hotel is fantastic—very clean, quiet, with modern, stylish, and functional rooms. The rooftop pool is quite small and 1.6 meters deep, so children should wear armbands or other flotation devices. However, it was more than enough for us and often felt like our own private pool because it was rarely crowded. It offers very good value for money. The food was delicious throughout our stay. The coffee was very good, and the dinners were varied and of excellent quality. Although the selection was slightly smaller than in a typical five-star hotel, the standard of the food was comparable. The lady at the reception and the gentleman working in the restaurant were incredibly friendly, helpful, and attentive, making our stay even more enjoyable. The hotel is located in the city center, and the nicer beach is about a 400-meter walk away. There is another beach closer to the promenade, but we didn't find it very attractive. Overall, we were extremely satisfied with our stay and would highly recommend this hotel to anyone.

7 nights Bed and breakfast Lovely clean and very comfortable hotel. Rooms are as advertised, beautiful, clean and maintained to high standard. All staff very friendly and helpful and nothing too much trouble. Great view from roof, which has a small roof top unheated pool and was a sun trap, it was nice and quiet when we went (end September/October) I can imagine can get very busy during peak season. Breakfast was buffet, seemed to have a good spread, some of the hot selection, could have done with being hotter. Thank you for a wonderful relaxing stay and if over in Crete would stay with you again :)

Stayed there for 7 nights. Here are pros and cons: Pros: • Very beautiful hotel, recently renovated, I believe. The pictures online are the old version, so I had that expectation going in, but was surprised, when a really nice interior and exterior welcomed me. • The hotel is 16+, which for the most part was true. I saw some kids, but they were never at the pool thankfully, so it was very relaxing. • Very polite and kind crew of workers. Every day there are the same workers. It felt very familiar and safe. • Rooms are nice. I travelled in a party of 3, so my room had two main beds and one extra (a couch turned into a bed). Beds were comfortable, got a very good night sleep every night. • The rooftop pool area is very nice, renovated and has a great view. • Check out was at 12.00 in the morning. Our flight was at night. Thankfully they let us spend the day waiting at the rooftop pool area. Cons, but not really, because they’re not that bad: • Breakfast was okay, but the coffee they use is instant coffee, which completely turned me off, so I quit drinking coffee for the whole trip. • Also the orange or apple juices are not real. • The rooftop pool bar is not open, most of the time. • There is no duvet/comforter (very common for the Mediterranean hotels, since it’s hot during the night). There is a bedsheet and you can add a blanket which they provide on top of the bedsheet and pretend it’s a duvet. • The rooftop pool doesn’t have enough sunbeds for everyone. • One of the towels, which we asked for on our last day, after already packing up our own, had puke stains and smelled like it. Also we gave in a guarantee deposit (10€ a towel)z