Samaria by the Sea

Gigilos

"Stayed for 3 nights in this very friendly welcoming hotel. My room was ready as soon as I arrived on the morning ferry from Loutro. The use of sunbeds for hotel guests was a great bonus as was the wonderful restaurant and ever helpful staff. On my last day my ferry didn't leave till 17.30 and I was allowed to keep my room till then at no extra charge. Absolutely wonderful genuine people I will definitely stay again."

Livikon by the Sea

"First of all, we booked our room from hotels and it said we were getting tge suite which was a bit bigger, but when we got there we were told that all room sizes are the same basically. So if you are planning to book here, book the cheapest option you get. If you are going by car and you will put in the GPS Livikon by the sea as we did, you will not get any results. Better write: from Samaria to Livikon. It will take you there to Chora Sfakion. When you get there there is no entrance directly to the hotel because it's on the beach in front of restaurants only for pedestrians. You should park at the Square and the guy from the reception will give you a card so you can have free parking or else they have one or two spots you can park behind the hotel if they are available. Every room is Sea view, the beds are comfortable, the shower has good pressure and it's big enough. Not big, but big enough. There is shower gel in shower and a small fridge in the main area. We had an issue with the air condition but they immediately took care of it and changed our room. It was good that we had air-condition in both rooms since we were three people (other places in Crete have only one air condition for the bedroom and main area of the apartment). There is no elevator to the rooms. The rooms are located above some restaurants, patisserie,  mini market,  so we had everything we needed on our feet. We were treated with refreshments upon arrival which was nice of the lovely lady at the reception. There is a boat nearby (booked with Deligiannis boats-you pay on the boat) that took us to Loutro which I looooved! I said that next time I would book at least a night to stay at Loutro and enjoy the calmness it offers! In general I would book Livikon again! "

VENTUS Luxury Suites

"Perfect location in this corner of heaven. From check in to check out the service was amazing. The room was lovely, comfy bed, kitchen and awesome shower. Don’t use the hot tub but with a beach on the doorstep why would you!"

Sfakian Horizon

"Horizons is a series of rooms and two roomed apartments at the very back of Chora Sfakion: excellent for view but a hard walk down to the main village. We had a two roomed apartment. Ghastly bathroom: small shower area - hand-held shower- stickty shower curtain. One doublebed bedroom with TV, very poor lighting but with access to private balcony: another room with a poorly fitted (cheap?) kitchen area, some ill-made upright chairs ( the backs were not fitted correctly), one day bed and a TV. Breakfast was a buffet with coffee /tera. orange juice (good), four sorts of bread (fresh) cereals, fresh melon, yoghurt, honey and orange jam, spanokopita or tiropita, cucumberm olives, tomato, little apple turnovers, rizogala, and hard boiled eggs, hot scrambled eggs and hot bacon. Well presented. We paid 90 euros cash per night for the two of us to use an apartment and have breakfast. not bad value for money. The snag for us was that to get to a room you needed to walk down stairs. These are Cretan stairs: no handrail and there was no overwhelming willingness to help with our bags. (I am elderly and find stairs very difficult). However while there was no offer to help us load our car when we left, no praise could be too hogh for the ladies who cleaned our apartment daily. Excellent service"

Sweet Corner Masxali

"Overall our stay was pleasant: the room was large enough, we saw the sea from our balcony, toilet was big enough not to feel cramped and we had a kitchenette with everything except a pan for Greek coffee (which we like). The staff was friendly, they picked us up from the harbor and drive us back when it was time to go. The food in the restaurant was reasonably priced and very tasty, both during the day and in the evening. The private beach they have was nice although the path there is a bit steep, so it may not need the best choice for the most frail. For everyone else it poses no challenge. There are free sunbeds and umbrellas (in varying condition) as well as some tables. They also have a canoe and a “water bike” so if you use those you could save tens of euros during your stay compared to other options. There is no service on the beach but I don’t see that as a bad thing, just something I wanted to mention to those who look for full service. But those probably go for all-inclusive places anyway. The bed was very good in Greek standards, and we’ve tried several dozen different ones over the years. The moussaka we had one evening was the best I’ve ever had. Truly home made in their own way, from fresh ingredients and cooked the same day. I’d walk there for that from the town center (which is 300m away). The location is one of the bonuses of this place: it’s “far away” from everything else so it is SO quiet there. I just loved that. One day we got to enjoy a pack of goats just outside the balcony. One big minus (for the whole town) comes from all the lights everywhere. This town is supposed to be one of the very few places with little light pollution and we were hoping to do some stargazing. Yes, you can see some stars but the lights everywhere just hides most of them. What an opportunity wasted. Note, this isn’t a fault of the hotel, it’s the street lights on the roads that spoil it all. It’s just that this one is away from the center so they would have a perfect chance to take advantage of that if the lights could be turned off after some time. So pluses: + quiet + beds + nice views + all you need under one roof (if you want) + moussaka (had to mention again) Minuses: - sunbeds/umbrellas in varying condition, not as nice as in places that charge for them. Still very usable - light pollution prevents you from enjoying the amazing skies (but this goes for the entire village) I would heartily recommend this place to anyone wishing to enjoy Agia Roumeli. It doesn’t prevent you from checking out other restaurants and sights and you won’t even notice the crowd coming out of Samaria gorge in the afternoon filling all places as they don’t come that far."

Fata Morgana Studios & Apartments

"Glædelig ophold! Fata Morgana tilbyder en charmerende og typisk dekoration, et ægte postkort i positiv retning. Terrassen med udsigt over havet og Chora er enestående. Værelserne er rummelige og hotellet er særligt godt beliggende.. Jeg anbefaler det kraftigt."

Daskalogiannis Hotel

"Stor hotel med venlig personale og smukt værelse med udsigt over havnen.Bedøvelsen var inkluderet i prisen og havde få sunde valg."

John Akroyiali

"Hotellet er forfærdeligt, værelserne er tørre og ubehagelige, damer på receptionen rygede nær mit vindue, selv om jeg fortalte dem, at jeg har et sundhedsproblem, de ignorerede mig, og de var meget generøse over for mig, skrækkelig erfaring Jeg anbefaler ikke at gå til dette sted"