ST Constantin Sea Hotel & Spa Resort

Positives Excellent phone signal Near the airport Nice location Good road links Food is ok, wide choice. All inclusive wine is weak There are nice restaurants in the local area. Clean room, regular towel and linen changes. Staff are friendly. Good price. On site parking. Clean room. Hair dryer, fridge and a fixed retractable clothes airer on balcony. Shop on site is open until 22.00 . There is a supermarket next door which has a wider selection and is cheaper. Near beach. Nice local restaurants off site. Seats loungers on balcony. We upgraded to the newer part of the hotel. Negatives One key card for room. Air con switches off when room key card is not in slot. Plastic cups for drinks. All inclusive wine and beer was tasteless. Soft drinks were ok. Some of the food gets past it best when left in the sun. You need to bring your own beach towel. Hotel is looking tired in places.

Booked the swim up rooms in St Constantin hotel in Gouves Crete and was pleasantly surprised after some recent reviews. The Hotel is very spread out over a large area, with older buildings and newer extension. The room itself was excellent quality, cleaned every day except Sunday’s. The main restaurant was buffet style . Breakfast was very European catering for all tastes including UK “Full English” All other meals were Cretan based but quite international . The selection was enough to give everyone a choice, and also had a kids corner, catering for the youngsters. The desserts were superb including a chocolate fountain agin for the little ones. Fish day was amazing and included snails, octopus and superb stuffed sardines. Outside there was a snack bar open 11 am to 7 pm with smaller choice but again excellent quality. All inclusive drinks were available from 10.30 till 22.00 , ranging from help yourself beer, wine, soft drinks and coffees/teas. The cocktail bar also had a limited selection of cocktails using local spirits. There were three main pools, one pool near the restaurant with music, kids water slides and sunbeds. A second pool by the cocktail bar was a little quieter and the large pool was mostly adults with no music, just relaxation and conversation. There was a sandy beach nearby with two beds and an umbrella at reasonable prices. Entertainment nightly was a mix of kids early on and adults later. The team worked had in three languages to provide fun and laughter. Would add that Gouves is a very quiet resort, more for relaxation than wild nightlife. Overall our stay was really enjoyable and would definitely recommend and consider returning again.

in no way a 4 star i would say more like 2- we felt catfished by the pictures vs what you actually get. The rooms stank of sewage and our friends had to move room 3 times. the food in the buffet is terrible poor quality mass produced and sits out for hours and hours. break fast was ok ish. quiet hotel not very lively more a family orientated place. ok if you have low ish standards of a European holiday but it put me off Crete as an island and i would not return.

It was so good😊 , i enjoy it and l certainly try other one, l 'm feel rellaxe and good. The personal wad friendky and take care about you so good. I'm spacial thanks Katerina and giota . They werr very profesional and nice. The massage was so good , all product they used was smell good. The room was clean and look pretty.

In general it was a nice stay. Starting from negatives: - Firstly I wouldn't say it's a 5* hotel,as it's advertise itself. -The room we were staying despite being very spacious looked very tired. Not many shelves in wardrobes and not enough hooks in bathroom to hang towels and bathrobes, I ended up hanging them over our room on wardrobe doors and room doors (we stayed in a room with a private plunge pool). - a la carte restaurant, I was surprised that upon the booking, you needed to select what are you going to eat-preorder, and you had to pay for drinks, it was first time I have visited a la carte restaurant in this form. Additionally, you could only book it once regardless you were staying a week or two, but it didn't matter as we wouldn't consider to book it again - food was ok, not much choice though, and I think meat should be bit warmer, also I missed the fruit choice, especially in the morning. Over two weeks stay beloved grapes I have seen only twice and watermelon never was available in mornings. I ended up buying fruit in the local shop - drinks, it was first time where on all inclusive holidays fresh juice wasn't available at least for breakfast. Drinks from machine weren't great, and again I was buying drinks in local shop. I don't drink alcohol,so can't express my opinion on that, but my husband said it was ok. - there were few areas in the hotel which looked like they are not in use any more. Actually if you look on the TripAdvisor professional pictures, it looks like these areas are still in use, for example current baggage storage on these pictures looks like entertainment area, the same about roof restaurant, so it's bit misleading. Positives: - entertainment team makes your stay, they work super hard from the morning till late evening, making sure you will have loads of fun, so if you like being busy, make sure you will stay by activity pool - resort was very clean, you could see staff working so hard from early hours till late, making sure the grounds and rooms are clean - generally all staff was very polite, hardworking, and with smile on theirs face and happy to help anytime. - if you book a trip through the hotel you will get prepacked lunch to take away with you Summarises, it's a nice hotel, but it wasn't entirely what we were expecting to be, anyway staff will make it up, also it is within nice settings, lovely beach is across the road. Not far walk from the hotel there are amazing spots to watch incredible sunset and sunrise. Tips: slides are working but only three hours a day from 11am -1pm and 5pm-6pm , we thought they don't work at all, but then we spotted the note on the gate of the slide. There are loads of sunbeds, unless you decide to spend time by the activity pool, then may not be possible to get a sunbed in this area, as people leave their towels there over the night, some of the towels I have seen for a week, but hardly could see the owner.

Excellent hotel. Food was excellent for the whole week. Bar staff throughout friendly and fun. Very accessible to beach and local amenities. Entertainment team Simone, Kath, Raphael, Greg, Rhianna, Basia, Barbie and Mia were excellent hosts and kept the kids and adults entertained with games all week.