Hotel Kathrin Beach

Stayed there for the second time. Peaceful, clean, very friendly staff. Hotel has a nice beach and a wonderful garden for people who appreciate plants. Choose a room with a sea view. Great place for peace and quiet.

The hotel itself is fine for the price. Pool area new, we were lucky enough to get a new room, we did request a chair, but never received one. No shower gel which is exceedingly unusual. Had to ask for a hairdryer. The breakfast is absolutely awful. Coffee like water. No fruit juices, just diluted squash. Dried banana slices on offer! The cold meat I wouldn’t even feed to a dog. The poorest quality. Not even a carafe of water at dinner. Instead an overpriced mini bottle of water. We only ate dinner once as the look of it was off putting. Nothing refilled. Hotel is exceedingly clean.

Hotel is located close to Rethymno city in friendly place, where you can find many tavernas, shops, car rentals etc. Hotel is divided up to 4 buildings, mostly 2 floor ones. Reception is located in the main building, where is also one underground floor. Rooms located on that floor are overpriced as their quality is not good. Very small bathroom together with WC, which is not suitable for tall people (size of bathroom is approx 1x1.5m). Next (one) room is equipped with large bed with terrible quality. Any light movement on that bed produces loud noise, which disturbs your silent night. If you planned to sleep, you will be unlucky. From balcony, you can touch the car wheels. There are no clothesline available to dry your clothes and unfortunatelly there is no hooks to fit yours one. Sometime you can see cockroaches at corridor, as they are living round the hotel. There are much better rooms in the hotel, if you want to see them, visit the first floor (right from reception), there you will see completelly different quality. As we noticed, the underground floor rooms were rented mostly to travellers from CZ during our stay. As advantage, you will have the room air condition and fridge for free. Rooms are equipped also with TV, but there are mostly the German channels. Food is really good. It makes no sense to take too much of food for a first round as there were all the time full boxes of it. Even 5 minutes before the end of opening hours. Someone can say, that it is the same all the time, but there is really so many things to eat, that you can choose every day different meal. One thing we were missing is the watermelon (the red one). It was not there, but it is not the issue. If you plan to rent a car, check different rental shops, as there are many of them. Our favorite was the one located in front of the ice cream shop located at corner of Kaisareias street. We have been to Crete second time and unfortunatelly we have to say, it was a last time. The beach is not safe, especially for kids, there were plenty of syringes throwed in sand, two of them were seen in the sea too. Those syringes were probably from junkies. Nobody cleans the places. We were witnesses of dialogue of the hotel guests with some hotel guy about this (they asked to clean the place), but nothing happened. It is necessary to say, that syringes were seen also at diferent adjacent beach places (and not only there). This is the reason, why we set the Average rating.

We spent two weeks at the hotel, then returned in late summer because the welcome, comfort and quality were excellent. Comfortable, clean rooms, close to the sea, superior half board with truly exquisite dishes and abundant choice made our holiday very nice. The beach bar is also excellent! (see photo). The staff, from the manager to the waiters, are always present at the service of the customers, they are kind and helpful. Reasonable quality and price. Highly recommended!!!!!

Very nice place. Beach is right at the hotel, rooms are clean and nice. Staff is very friendly and helpfull. We liked the food with local cuisine and also standard meals. Calm place not crowded, but with good acces to the city lidé. Eva, Slovakia

The hotel is nice, very nice people, great food, few steps to the beach, rooms are very clean. the only flaw is that some rooms on the south-east may smell with mouldiness, not because of lack of cleaning, but because of old AC mixed with extreme heat. AC should be cleaned.