Platanes Beach — Attraction in Municipality of Rethymnon

Very nice and wide beach with send and some pebbles, so take your shoes for more comfort. Terraces offer sunbeds and umbrellas for a price, as well as toilets and free showers. Also you can always bring your own umbrella and towel and sit for free. There is also some kind of turtle protection area, you can contact volunteers to find out more information about it. We caught 3 days of quite high waves and red flag, one of quite comfortable swimming with a green flag and one day of a yellow flag, with the waves comparable to the red flag day. Be careful, the waves can steal your shoes, undress you and even on the yellow flag day you can be scratched by the pebbles and send, if a wave...

I'm giving it 2 stars due to amenities, but the beach itself is disappointing. You definitely need water shoes - too many rocks, pebbles and the likes. Entry in water is rough, steep and, if you are not a GOOD swimmer at least, you'll not be able to enjoy it at all! It goes deep very quickly and, combined with the constant waves and currents, you can't even stay close to the shore cause all the rocks will slide from under you within minutes.

So. I can only recommend this for good and above swimmers.

Otherwise, there are beach bars all over, beds are 7eur per 2 beds per day, and the...

For our first time in Crete, we want a beach holidays. So, a long a sandy beach is a must for us, luckily we found just what we wanted!

Our hotel was only 5 mins away from here. The beach is long and sandy with plenty of umbrellas, cost us 6€ for 2 beds and 1 umbrella for a day.

There was no rock at all, just pebbles and sand. The wave was calm too, the water in July was cool, not warm but you get used to it in a few minute and it was actually great because of the hot sun

Overall we had a great time here, would definitely recommend for people looking for a relaxing beach as far as the...