Creta Star Hotel

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I visited the Creta Star Hotel on 23 July for 2 weeks with my parents and my 23 yr old sister. I am a teenager so these comment are from my point of view.
This hotel was amazing. Great range of food, activities and the atmosphere was also fab. We started off on a bad foot - We booked 2 separate rooms but were given a “family suite” which consisted of a double bed, a tiny single bed and a broken camp bed. Not suitable for 3 adults and a teenager. They soon apologised and 2 days later they gave us 2 separate rooms (NB - Generally the Greeks are VERY laid back so don’t expect things done in a hurry).
Breakfast - wide range from crepes, fruit, toast, cereals, chips, English fried breakfast etc etc.... “Orange juice is just squash and should be avoided at all costs!
Lunch - quite busy and occasionally no-space to sit down at the small restaurant so you may have to wait about 15 minutes. There are the basics - chips, salads, pizza, hotdogs but also specialities of the day.
Drinks - Below standard during the day but excellent at night! Wine was normally fizzy because they put soda water in! soft drinks (coke, Fanta etc etc) are NOT fizzy and if they are, they are only fizzy because someone has added in Soda Water, which tastes awful! Cocktails were very nice and so were the children’s mocktails!
Dinner - A bit too early - 6.30-9 but again the food is excellent!
Puddings - fabulous. amazing. most delicious cakes/puddings you will every taste.
Rooms- As said before, family suite is not suitable for 3 adults and a teenager! Double rooms are reasonably spacious, always very clean and sea view is incredible!
Animation - Absolutely fab! I can’t say 1 thing bad about the animation team! They are all so friendly and are genuinely interested in wanting to talk to you. They do an amazing sport programme during the day and at night get all the little kids up on stage for the Mini Disco. The Night time shows they put on are outstanding - this particular choreographer was amazing and everyone put in 300% into EVERY show. They really made my holiday excellent!
All-Inclusive - Drinks during the day were average. Didn’t use any watersports facilities because the waves were too dangerous. Unlimited ice cream - watch out for the green one! Its marzipan NOT mint! very average, limited small cakes available and small sandwiches, which were nice.
Beach- Sandy - very nice. “Save the Turtle Beach” which means you aren’t supposed to walk on beach at night incase you scare them away and there are many cages on the beach sheltering turtle eggs. You must pay for sunbeds but it can be avoided. At a certain time (was 11.00-11.15 when I was there), someone comes around the beds to collect money. If you see him/her coming, go into the sea and you don’t get charged. Most days the waves were too rough to be allowed even to paddle in the water. Unfortunately, the incompetent lifeguard always went for 30 minute tea breaks! When I was there on the beach, I saw 4 rescues involving all ages , children and adults because the waves pulled them out too far. The holiday tourists ended up having to swim out to save them, or on one occasion, an animator!
Service - Good but slow....
Location - 5 minutes walking distance to “Mostra” nightclub which has amazing music after the Creta Star Hotel music stops at 12. 20 minutes drive from Rythmenon centre and the market in on Thursdays. Beautiful bar which is also not- all-inclusive which is down over the sea.
Bus - DO NOT TAKE BUS! Very unreliable!!!!!! took 1 hour 45 mins for the bus to finally arrive at the hotel after we were told it was “every 15 minutes!”. We saw many of them drive past but they were too full they wouldn’t stop. 1.40 euros per way for a cramped stand up mode of transport aren’t recommendable!
Crickets - Every day and night you can see hundreds of huge crickets. They are very loud and quite annoying but you do get used to them. Some were 2-3 inches long!
Tourists - one of the main low points was that there were NO English people. For the first week we were there, there was 1 English family I think. Then on the second, there were more, about 8 but it was OK anyway because everyone (even the little 5 yr old German girls) spoke English very well!
Overall- I would highly recommend this hotel but would suggest going later rather that sooner during the high season as there will be more English people!
If you want anymore information about the hotel, please email me at
funkeykim (at) hotmail.com
Hope this help some of you to make decisions about going to this resort or not,
Kim