Steris Elegant Beach Hotel & Apartments

Oh we loved it. Totally wheelchair friendly. We loved the location. It's in walking distance from everything. The staff is helpful and friendly. Thank you, Maria and Konstantinos! The accessible room is big, and I enjoyed the pool. Good job!

Excellent location, lovely views over the sea clean, well equipped, stylish rooms that are very comfortable. I didn’t cater but the rooms are cleverly put together so you could if you chose to. Lovely place to stay and would definitely come back All the team very welcoming and made stay exceptionally comfortable

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 overloo

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.