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12 settembre 2024
Design over function! There are places that impress and there are places that really try, but fall short. Unfortunately this is one of the latter. I didn't really understand the resort concept and mood at all. It is designed in a way to emulate adults only vibes but is a baby family magnet!! It is designed to be beautiful and calm but in reality it is a huge maze of houses and small corridors with lack of privacy everywhere (lucky you if you don't a random baby strolling or lost inside your villa area..). I mean why is this even baby oriented? Lots of stairs, lots of walking, everything seems the same everywhere you turn, dark rooms, blistering dark restaurant area at night, a public road separating the beach...I could go on.. Oh the beach let me just say they try to have a beach club but is so cramped in the corner of the beach.. it just doesn't makes sense. The beach is average for Crete standards too. The outdoor gym.. if you put glass walls and AC maybe people will use it. At 30°C who will train there? The machines and equipment is top though. At night there is no airy space to chill, only at the reception at the top of the hill with no mood at all. Everywhere else the air doesn't flow as everything is cluttered (should a up floor villa). Ok.. now for the positives. Grounds and plants are really beautiful and well cared. Food was good and breakfast has a lot of variety. Staff polite but very heterogenous most of them rushing service, they feel short numbered at breakfast. Didn't like the breakfast receptionist communicating skills. Rooms are big although not cosy and condition is average since there is some wood and walls damage. I mean grey color all around the walls and ceiling just gives a darker mood that is not so inviting. Most of private pools are useless since they are in the shade and have no real privacy (some rooms could be better but there is always a discontinuity in the villas garden walls maybe for staff to maintain the pool and garden.. but why??). I really liked there were no bugs at the otherwise jungle feeling of the resort! Praise to the cleaning ladies and the amount of walking they need to perform at the resort. The main pool is big and has warm water but advice that for sure there will be a baby floating around you at the afternoon.. So would I return there? Definitely not! There is totally design over function everywhere in the resort and they should focus and adequate themselves at the reality which they carry! They are a family resort, mainly small children an baby resort, with wannabe vibes of modernity and coold mood without the praticality of a proper children resort. I would honestly only see this resort making sense if it becomes and adult only resort which is the way is was designed to be.
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