Agia Fotia Beach — Attraction in Municipality of Ierapetra

Great beach - mostly coarse sand of the type found along most of this coast, but there's a quiet pebbly section towards the far end (away from the taverna). You can also rent sunbeds and a parasol in the sandy part of the beach if that's your sort of thing.

Bit of a drive down a narrow road to get to the bottom, where there is a small car park. The taverna tend to block out most of the parking spaces so a lot of people seem to give up and drive away, but if you wait then a staff member will come over and clear a space for you (as long as you are going to buy a drink or food in the taverna). This is probably a bit cheeky and seems to annoy the locals (not sure if they actually own the car park?!) but since we were eating in the taverna anyway, which has good vegetarian food, it worked well for us. A...

This is the best beach we found in Crete. There are sunbeds available at €10 for a pair. There are showers and clean toilets at the bar. The service was excellent. There was a friendly guy from the bar always around without being in our way and he always brought us drinks and snacks quickly. We also ordered pizzas, fully expecting to be disappointed like at other beaches, but these ones were actually really good. The prices were fair. Getting to the beach from the main road is a little tricky, but nothing too complicated and there are lots of parking spaces right next to the beach. If it weren't so far from Heraklion, we would've definitely come here all the time. I can highly...

The beach and its surroundings are very nice, the entrance to the water is paved by stones. The panorama of those hills is really impressive and nice.

What spoilt our experience was that even at almost 7 pm, when pretty much almost everybody left, majority of chairs were empty, they had the balls to ask 6 euros for to chairs. After my reply that the day is pretty much over so 6 euros are quite ridiculous to ask, the guy lowered it to 4 euros. So I insisted on the ridiculousness of that request and we just put our stuff in the ground as it didn't worth for quick swim. Greek people should think less about getting every single last penny...