Enjoy Your Holiday While Staying At Crete Hotels

Crete is a great choice for a holiday, as it offers many different things to cater to all tastes. There are historic sites to be explored, water parks to be visited, beaches to be played on and aquariums full of interested water species. For the adventurous types, Crete boasts a wonderful National Park, the Samaria Gorge. The 16km walk boasts stunning views sure to please anyone who makes the effort to get to the end of the trail. If this sounds like fun to do, take a look at the available Crete hotels and book your holiday!

The island of Crete is bursting with history and culture, with so many places to visit and learn as much of it as you can. An activity not to be missed is a trip to the Samaria Gorge National Park, where you can walk through the 16km park, starting at the plateau of Omalos and making your way through the park down to the village of Agia Roumeli. The views are spectacular and the smell of the growing herbs waft through the air. Another place to visit is Spinalonga, renamed Kalidon/Kalydon in 1954, which is an ancient fortress built to protect Olous, which was once the most important towns on Crete. In 1903, Crete united with Greece, and until the mid to late 1950s, Spinalonga became a leper colony. If this sounds like an interesting way to spend your holidays, check out the available hotel deals .

Crete is a popular destination in Greece, and there are some great offers on hotels to be had, for example in Crete the three-star Phaedra Beach Hotel in Malia is available from £269 all inclusive per person. Located right on a beautiful beach it provides plenty of activities for all age groups and caters to all tastes. Only two kilometres away from Malia centre, it offers a large swimming pool as well as four kid’s pools, bars on both the beach and at the pool serving drinks and snacks, beach volleyball, BBQs, Cretan folklore evenings with traditional music as live music dancing nights. Room amenities include balconies, private bathrooms, a TV and direct dial telephones.

There are wonderful scuba diving opportunities in Crete, whether you already know how or you want to learn. The warm and crystal clear waters are perfect for exploring the depths of the ocean, with rocky and sandy landscapes and shoals of groupers, starfish, colourful sponges, octopus, moray eels and other Mediterranean fish at your fingertips. Occasionally you might even catch a glimpse of dolphins, small stingrays, barracudas, tunas and seahorses while swimming through the caves, shipwrecks, canyons and around the cliffs. Some of the best known diving on the island is accessible from dive centres in Agia Pelagia, Amoudara, Malia, Panormo and Adelianos Campos. Key dive sites in this area include Mononaftis or Lonely Sailor – a hug rock erupting from the sea around 50 metres offshore, the stunning El Greco Cave and Reef, Blue Cave – with its fabulous stalagmites and stalactites, and Anchor Valley – where turtles have been sited. In the Gulf of Mirabellou, you’ll find interesting Minoan sites dating back 4,000 years, where boats sunk with their cargoes of amphora.