Kokemuksia Steris -hotellista

Kirjoittanut Petri H Salo, Suomi

Hyvällä sijainnilla siunattu perustason toimiva hotelli

Ehdottomasti parasta on tässä ~30 huoneiston hotelissa on sijainti rantakadun varrella ja hyviä ruokapaikkoja. Kaupungin keskusta on kävelynmatkan päässä ja supermarketteja on kolmeen ilmansuuntaan tarjolla. Rannalta tien toiselta puolen saa tuolit ja varjon vuokralle alennuksella mutta löytyy myös "ilmaisia" paikkoja joiden business idea perustuu tarjoiluun tilauksesta rannalle. Huone oli siisti, riittävän suuri sekä toimiva ja pienellä keittiöllä varustettu. Pesuhuone myöskin yllätti kooltaan eikä tarvinnut missään siivouskomeron kokoisessa käydä suihkussa. Aamiainen oli hotellin yhteydessä toimivassa ravintolassa ja se olikin sitten ehkä pelkistetyin mitä koskaan olemme Kreikassa saaneet. Suosittelen aamiaisen nauttimista jossain lähistön muissa ravintoloissa jos kaipaa monipuolisuutta.

Kirjoittanut Erja L Pietarsaari

Siisti hotelli hyvällä paikalla

Hotelli sijaitsee Rethymnonin pitkän hiekkarannan ohi kulkevan rantatien varrella. Ylität tien ja olet heti rannalla, jossa on vuokrattavana rantatuoleja. Hotellin ravintola palvelee myös rannalla, jonne voit tilata juotavaa ja pientä syötävää. Rantaa myötäilee leveä kävelykatu, jota pitkin pääsee vanhaan kaupunkiin, johon hotellilta on alle 1,5 km. Hotellin henkilökunta on ystävällistä ja toteutti jopa toiveemme haluamastamme huoneesta. Huoneet ovat modernisti kalustettuja ja siistejä. Siivous toimi erinomaisesti. Vaikka rantakatu on vilkkaasti liikennöity, olivat huoneet hiljaisia. Hotellissa on helppo liikkua pyörätuolin kanssa.

Kirjoittanut louisebielby Walkington, Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta

Beautiful Hotel and Support a Local Family Business

This is just a great little hotel - despite being right on the main road just over from the beach (this is a positive point), there is no noise in the rooms from the road or other residents. We arrived past midnight and had a great reception from Dino. Rooms are spotless, well appointed and well looked after for our full stay. We paid for a late check out as our flight wasn’t until midnight and this was no problem and not expensive. All questions were well answered by Maria’s x 2 and the lovely Athanasia who is clearly passionate about the hotel and her family links. Couldn’t have wanted more from our stay.

Kirjoittanut Soenderiis Tanska

The View!

Sea view matters. I have been passing by this hotel for years, envying the people sitting in chairs in these front sea view loggias of Steris hotel, and wishing I had been there. I would drink sweet wine and eat kefalotyri cheese at sunset and night and watching vawes, I thought. Finally I decided to pay the price and spend 7 days there, although I felt guilty for betraying my old landlady from next door hotel. But if I didn't try, I would never know. The price is double compared my landlady, but one would have paid tripple or quadruple price in Milano or Berlin for ordinary 2 stars room. „Objectively“ the prices in Steris are good value compared to above mentioned cities, in the peak of the season. I booked First minute. State of my finances suddenly deteriorated, however, after Easter, so I was a bit nervous about my decision. No way back, though. When you swim in the beach you can see your loggia so close to the beach is the hotel. Between the 7,5 km city beach and the hotel there is Strand Road with two lanes which operates as 6 lanes in continental motorway. People overtake cars and bikes in both direction, can temporarily park on both sides, shuttle buses stop and take suitcase in the middle of the road, locals ride bikes with no helmet, in sandals and holding mobile phone in our hand and cigarette in the other, and still no traffic accidents, and turists can cross the street slowly as holy cows with no honking and cursing from drivers: it is island mentality. I like balconies and loggias looking at the strand roads. Since it is one of main roads and this is Crete's third largest city, so it is normal for the road be busy. If one doesn't want noise, than they should take a house in the wood. So, I decided to consume that famous sea view as much as I could. Like a poor Roma boy invited to Christmas dinner and who eats until food comes out though his ears. I didn't want to waste any minute of it. And it's magnificent, specially on II and III floor. Kitchenette was fairly well equipped. I decided to help water preservation and used only 1 set of towels and asked for no changing bed sheets. I asked for a kitchen cloth and dish-washing liquid, but I didn't get it. I wanted to do the dishes on my own. I didn't cook much, and I survived using serviettes. Bathroom is spacious, with many sharp edges which are not recommendable for elderly people, I think. Enough sockets and functional lighting, with two ways to light the bathroom: besides main light (with ventilation fan) there is a cool discrete ceiling lights which enables you to use the bathroom without fan noise. Toilletery (excellent herbal har&body foam) is of high quality. I never figured out how loggia lamp functions and how it is turned off. (Mea culpa, I come from an unergonomic part of Europe.) I wanted a sign „Do Not Disturb“ for my door knob, and of the ladies at the reception explained to me (to my embarrassment) that I should touch the button in my room, and really, I overlooked Star Trek option on two buttons on the wall. However, there is a bag in system – when you leave the room and take out the card from socket, there is no electricity, so Star Trek sign in the corridor doesn't glow any longer. First day I said at the receptionist I don't want my room cleaned (my own apartment is in a mess, so I am happy with one set of towels for a week, but when I returned to my room, it looks the cleaning lady began to do the room because she „wasn't informed in time“. She apologized, but I apologized to her several days later, too, since I maybe was rude, nervous when someone touches my staff. But the cleaning ladies here are nice in Rethymno, local working women, and I ironed out, I think, for I snapped. I forgot to mentioned bathrobe and slippers (one time used, I hope) at guest's disposal. The minuses are trifles. There is no writing desk. I had to bring loggia table in to work on my laptop. Salon table was too short. The TV was rather small. Sometimes I lost the sound on only film channel I had, STAR HD, I never didn't figure out why. Last night I missed a movie on that channel. Perhaps neighbours complained because I kept TV turned at all times, on STAR channel, but that would be ludicrous. So I can only wish I sometime in the future will again be able to afford that petit-bourgeiois longing of mine, longing of my once hungry eyes, that is – a sea view room in Strand Road of Rethymno. I had a feeling it was my last long journey in European summer. The prices go up, we bring potassium iodide with us, all sorts of World's dictators conspired to destroy the only pleasure which extinguished low middle class was able to be looking forward since the end of WW 2 – holiday in the sun. Security problems, pandemics, war. And I only want ice cold Mythos beer on a Greek beach. Is it too much? Ok, one more info: elevator has room for one person and luggage. But since there are only 3 levels, you don't have to wait much.

Kirjoittanut katone1 Barrow-in-Furness, Yhdistynyt kuningaskunta

Pros and cons

We have just returned from a 10 night stay at Steris and here is my honest no holds bared review. Hotel - we had a junior suite with two bathrooms of which the walk in shower was the best we have had in a hotel. Fantastic jet power and nice shower gel. The over bath shower was ok but not as good. Bathrooms are nicely appointed, easy to clean, modern. Nice sized bedroom with comfortable beds, good lighting and most importantly air con. Comfortable sitting room which can be used as a bedroom with attached small kitchenette. Again thankfully aircon in the living room! The kitchen is well appointed but we only used the kettle. We paid for the junior suite for the sea view balcony, sadly as another review states its not perfect. Traffic noise, and I mean incessant traffic has you thinking you're sat on the central reservation of the M6 at rush hour. The restaurant at the front of the hotel is popular of a night but that also renders the balcony unusable as the restaurant roof/canopy is retracted and the smell of cigarette smoke and food cooking becomes unbearable and you loose any privacy as diners can look up to you directly. It left us regretting our choice of sea view room. If you are from a busy city this may not bother you but living semi rural it was unbearable for us. Hotel cleaners are the friendliest ladies, work hard and always stop to say hello. One young lady on reception is also incredible friendly. Breakfast was nice, served in the restaurant it was a good mixture of cold products and hot on request but the fresh bread and ready boiled eggs was perfect for me. Again friendly breakfast staff. A big draw to this hotel was the pool, unfortunately we didn't feel able to use it as the planters used to section off the pool from the restaurant are no longer in place so you would be in the pool whilst people sat next to you eating which didn't feel nice. This needs to be resolved as I am sure it would deter people taking a quick dip, as we never saw the pool being used once! Cleanliness of the hotel and our room was good, We would have preferred a daily towel change instead of every other day but luckily we brought towels with us. Besides that the cleaners did an excellent job daily and maybe if we asked we could have had clean towels every day? To conclude our room was lovely and comfortable but the noisy location was a downfall. I would rate the hotel as good, location as noisy but convenient for the beach and lovely views from the balcony when it was possible to use. Now a lot of this maybe irrelevant when you look at cost. Without doubt, this hotel is cheaper than many of its competitors on the beach front and the rooms are lovely just not as boutique as I would hope. Definitely check the website for offers and prices and compare to others and you will see its competitive and if you are from a big city some of the issues wont exist for you. Thank you for a nice stay but sadly we wont be looking to return.