Hotel Kathrin Beach — Hotel in Municipality of Rethymnon

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...

Review for Hotel Kathrin Beach

We stayed in the renovated part of the hotel and were very satisfied with our stay. The rooms were clean and well-maintained, the air conditioning worked perfectly, and we had our own fridge in the room. A safety deposit box could be rented at the reception, although it's worth noting that it's not in the room, but rather kept securely at the front desk.

Breakfast and dinner were generous and varied, with plenty of options each day. There’s also the possibility of early breakfast or a lunch package if you're heading out early in the morning. The pool was clean, and the beach is just a few steps away. The hotel also has its own convenience store, which is a nice bonus.

As for suggestions for improvement: – The towel change policy could really be improved — every three days feels too infrequent, especially in hot weather when guests are likely to shower more than once a day. – The tiles around the pool are very slippery when wet, so either replacing them or putting up a visible warning sign would help prevent accidents. – It would also be useful to provide a proper iron, as the one available was extremely small and not practical. We didn’t bring our own, assuming one would be available, and ended up having to buy one locally. – I also believe that adding a standard small safe in each room wouldn’t be a big investment, and it’s something most guests highly appreciate when it comes to the security of their personal belongings.

All in all, a very good hotel with an excellent location and great...

We visited the Kathrin Beach Hotel at the beginning of May 2025. Although our transfer arrived at the hotel late in the evening around 11:00 PM, the check-in process was quick and pleasant thanks to the excellent receptionist. Even later, when I approached the receptionist for information, they were always warm and helpful.

To our surprise, upon arrival there were snack plates and fresh drinking water in the room. This was a nice touch, as we had last eaten at the airport around 1:30 PM.

The hotel grounds are full of plants and blooming flowers, and it’s about 50 meters from the pool to the sea. The rooms are spacious and clean, the beds very comfortable, and the bathrooms modern. We especially liked that a lot of attention had been paid to the design of the public spaces. You could see in the decor (hand-woven rugs on the walls, old tools, icons) that their Greek roots, culture, and continuity are important to them.

The food at the restaurant was very fresh and tasty, and the dinner menu was diverse.

It’s worth especially mentioning the hotel staff – they are very friendly, helpful, and professional.

We also took a few trips to the city of Rethymno, located 6 km away (we bought bus tickets for 2 euros from the supermarket next to the hotel entrance). In the evenings, we also enjoyed walks to the center of Adelianos Kampos.

Thank you for a beautiful vacation,...