Antonios Hotel Apartments — Hotel in Municipality of Festos

All the hotels and pensions are on one small road, we checked out a number of them and decided to stay at Antonio’s (called Andonios in the Lonely Planet). We paid 35 euros a night in August (no breakfast). It has free parking on site, nice basic rooms with a fridge and AC. Some rooms have newly tiled bathrooms, the upstairs rooms have a big private balcony. There is wifi but not accessible in all the rooms. The only negative thing was that the bed was a bit uncomfortable, we could feel the springs. The owner is quite a character with lots of info about local beaches to visit. We went to Red Beach which was lovely. It’s a hard 30 minute walk from the path that leads from the hotels car park area (risky in flip flops) – it’s better to take the path that goes behind the restaurants and bars. We really liked Matala, there was a good level of tourism, not too much but with ambiance, there was a relaxed hippy vibe, and lots of good priced restaurants with...

Crete has loads of accommodation everywhere and with very good deals. If you are planning to organise your trip as you go depending on how much you like the place it is very possible there. But in order to book the rest of your trip you need access to wifi. This is the number one criteria. Antonios appartement do not obviously understand that. 3 min to load a page in the evening, nothing the next day. We had to go in a bar to book our next hotel. Annoying. Other than that the room was good and quiet. But we had to investigate in the neighbourhood to get the keys as the owner was not on site and did not leave any note for us... But like always in Greece, a solution has been swiftly found, one uncle had the key. He was not there either the next day and we paid our room to the...

We stayed here for a week in August 2020 and loved here! The owner and staff couldn’t help us enough and made us feel so welcome. The rooms were spacious (ours has a bougainvillea strewn terrace) and clean - cleaned every day. It is in an excellent location the beach and town centre (50mts) and has free parking. The rates are also really good too. I guess we were lucky to come in the time of Covid, as we were told it was quieter as usual. Matala is a great little place. Sunset Taverna and Red beach and Yannis’ legendary mojitos are a must! All of it is totally...