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wizard

I have just booked these apartments for August 07 - family of 5 - Can anyone out there give me some information on them and the surrounding area!

please provide me with the location/village of the apts so as i will see what i can find.
just a name of an accommodation in such a big island is not ideal for me in order to locate it

I believe they are located in Gouves ??

kath HT Admin

Hello there. We visited the San Constantin Apartments, Gouves, in 2003.

First of all, I would say that are an awful lot of reviews on Holidaysuncovered. Take a look, they are very informative.

I obviously cannot comment on how the area is now, there may well have been a lot of development in four years, but this is how we found it. There was not a lot in the surrounding area.

If you turn right out of the main apartments (where reception is, there were additional apartments over the road) and walk to the t-junction at the sea, you can either turn right which will take you to a few restaurants. Alternatively, turn left, you then have to walk for some way, at least a mile, I would say, with not a lot on the way. You then turn left which takes you to the main drag. I seem to remember having to ask someone when to turn left because it wasn't immediately apparant. It was very dark on that walk and you had to be very careful walking with the traffic.

The apartments themselves were clean and the receptionists could not have been more helpful, they we always there to give out advice and help. There were an awful lot of visitors who returned year after year, and this showed. We felt slightly second-class, especially at the bar. The bar stayed open until the later early hours, nearly all night some nights, and it was very noisy. The management did not want to know when we said that we could not sleep at 3am.

The pool area was nice with good bar snacks. I hope that a complete ban has been put on the jumping from the bridge, it was very dangerous. The entertainment was minimal.

The better beach, in our opinion, was reached by going to the t-junction, turning right and walking for about a quarter of a mile, much better than the one right by the apartments.

We did have a good stay there, but it took quite a lot of effort to find anything to do. I think that if we went back to Crete, we would choose a more lively resort to stay in. If we went back to Gouves, we would hire a car!

Regards.