Rethymno Palace

“Good experience”

There are close a sighs around hotel. Good drink with magnificent View from the bar to beach

“Amazing”

Very nice resort highly recommended! Staff is fantastic! Great beach access and very family friendly! Food and drinks are amazing!

“Everything needed for a great vacation”

A very pleasant place for a holiday. The food was delicious, and the staff were friendly and helpful. The hotel is located right on the beach and offers everything you may need during your stay. There are plenty of shops nearby, as well as stores within the hotel. The surroundings are beautiful, an… more

A very pleasant place for a holiday. The food was delicious, and the staff were friendly and helpful. The hotel is located right on the beach and offers everything you may need during your stay. There are plenty of shops nearby, as well as stores within the hotel. The surroundings are beautiful, and there is plenty of space for guests to relax and enjoy their vacation.

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“Good vacation, but not amazed”

Ok hotel, but probably not worth the full price. We bought it through a last minute deal so we were content, but we wouldn't quite call it a 5* resort compared to other hotels we have stayed at. If you mainly want to drink and sunbathe and are ok with eating similar but good food every day, this is… more

Ok hotel, but probably not worth the full price. We bought it through a last minute deal so we were content, but we wouldn't quite call it a 5* resort compared to other hotels we have stayed at. If you mainly want to drink and sunbathe and are ok with eating similar but good food every day, this is the hotel for you. Pros: Most of the staff is friendly and super helpful. They were the highlight of our stay. The food was usually good, lots of seafood. Rooms were clean and cleaned properly every day and each room has a big balcony. The hotel has a nice (although a bit dated) design. There were few children, so the hotel felt calm and relaxing. Coffee and drinks at the beach/pool bar were very good and there is a huge selection. Cappucinos were great, we loved the bartenders. We arrrived around 3 in the morning and there were tables ready waiting for us with cold water and a small snack plate, which was great. Cons: The biggest, most annoying problem, is that there isn't enough sunbeds, and the hotel was full of people who would get up very early, come to the beach, reserve them with a towel, and then leave for multiple hours. The beach is much smaller than it looks from the pictures. So unles you get up at 7am, you likely won't get a sunbed! Even though there is a sign claiming that it is forbiden and that towels will be removed from reserved sunbeds, noone actually does that. There are some extra sunbeds folded by the pool, but you have to carry them over to a section of the garden and lay there on the grass and walk 100-200 metres to the pool/sea. This really ruined our experience, as we had to choose between sleeping and having sunbeds to lay on. The beach is only partially sandy and it's a must to have swim shoes, otherwise you will hurt yourself. There is a long concrete /stone section you have to cross with water around knee level. We saw many older people struggling to walk on the stones, and some people even slipped. If you have any sort of mobility issue, you will have a problem getting into the water. There is no way to get coffee before 10 am, as the machines in the breakfast buffet only serve a horrible brownish mixture that doesn't taste like coffee at all, and the bar only opens at 10. So you get up at 7 to get a sunbed and then wait 3 hours for coffee. We had to buy coffee each morning from a nearby shop. The food was good but very oily, everything was fried in buckets of oil. The meals felt very focused on french clients, who were a majority in the hotel, and we really missed any greek meals (such as pita, musaka, haloumi etc). The restaurant isn't big enough for the whole hotel so we had to race other people for empty tables, meanwhile the poor staff was absolutely overworked and didn't have time to clean everything up in time.

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