Atrion Resort Hotel

Lovely clean modern hotel. Just across road from long sandy beach. Listed as 3* in brochure but recently gained 4* status and rightly so. Modern bathroom with seperate walk in shower. Rooms cleaned every day except Sunday. We had a late flight arriving at hotel after 1.30am but were still shown to our room and there was a bag of food each for us. Nespresso coffee machine in room with 2 pods per day given. Staff friendly and helpful. Katerina on reception gave us good info on buses and Chania town also providing a map. Theodora on reception very helpful on our last day and with a night flight. Towels provided free of charge and two shower cabins so we could freshen up before we left. Dining room was calm and tables cleared and cleaned regularly. Stephi kept a close watch on making sure food was replenished. Food was plentiful and though not to my taste on some nights the family always enjoyed the choice. Only niggle was it could have been hotter. Sunbed snatchers were in force from 6.45am some mornings! I can't understand why hotels have rules that they don't enforce. Fortunately we aren't pool hoggers and managed to get a bed around 5.30pm for our end of the day swim. Overall a good choice for families or couples providing various accomodation choices. The fun train which runs through the resort offers good trips at around 22€ per person for 3hrs. We did the German cemetery, beer tasting and hillside villages. Well run from little kiosks on main road. Wished we'd done a couple more. The beaches are mainly privately owned by small taverns. However for around 6€ to 10€ for 2beds and a sunshade you have access to the restaurant, toilets, shower and changing cabin with waiter service for food and drink on the beach. Nireus was our favourite- a family run place with lovely welcoming friendly staff and delicious food.

Overall was very happy with our stay in the Atrion, lovely room, and plenty of space, and a nice view of the resort and pool, bed was comfortable, the bathroom was in need of some TLC Room 215. Breakfast was fine if a little bit samish everyday and it would have been nice if there had been a chef to cook you the eggs of your choice. Their should be a separate facility to access hot water for tea, it was frustrating to have the to access the hot water from the coffee machine, the queues used to quite long in the morning,most mornings I gave up and just had a fruit juice. It would also be nice if there was a courtesy bottle of water left in the fridge for travellers who arrive in the early hours of the morning, did not find out until next day that there was a vending machine in the reception area. We booked a 3* accommodation in good faith through Jet 2, when coming to pay our tourist tax which we estimated for a 14 night stay to be 42 euros, we were instead presented with a charge of 98 euros which is 4* this is over double the amount. I would not have minded the charge if we had booked 4 star but we didn’t and this I feel needs to be urgently clarified with the travel companies so people are aware of this extra cost they will probably not be aware of.

-Good and quite calm location, everything is close -Friendly staff -Nice meals on the pool bar at this price point -Clean public areas -Not any big complains or problems We stayed for two weeks and the breakfast could have had more variaton on the options. Queues for coffee got long some times (~5mins). Wifi was around 5-10mbp/s so not the fastest but got the job done. Overall for 3-star hotel we had quite a nice stay! Note: website says that superior rooms have windows to pool or garden, but we had a room to the street, luckily not the main road.

Absolutely superb hotel and perfect for a week of rest and relaxation at the end of the season. Hotel was spotless, staff friendly and helpful and the pool area big enough for everyone to have a sunbed!! The hotel was perfectly positioned for the beach, some great restaurants and the bus into Chania. This was my first visit to Crete and I've already booked for next year!!