Dias Hotel & Apartments
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Cruise Phase 1
... the ports at the same time as us which makes it busy and crowded. As you would expect, most of our sightseeing is limited to the areas around the ports. Time and opportunity prohibits in depth exploring, but it certainly allows us to get the flavour of the different places we have visited.
While cruising might not be for everyone, it certainly has been a great experience so far. Very good if you want to practise your skill of striking up a conversation with random ...
Arrived in Heraklion
... other (they're only having a conversation really!) and all sorts of airport staff sat in a long line wearing sun glasses and smoking cigarettes. We jump in a taxi straight away and for 12 euros we reach our Hotel. The city is only 4 kilometres west of the airport and it only takes 10 minutes to get there. Quite an entertaining short drive though...as while the car was making a persistent beep beep ...
Kreta
... naar Plaka en daar een bootje tot het eiland Spinalonga en daarna zouden we terugkomen en wat op het strand gaan zwemmen. Nu zullen we moeten kiezen. We gaan naar het toerismekantoor om te vragen hoe lang het duurt om de bus en de boot te nemen. Hij zegt ons een half uur. Dat valt dus goed mee. We vragen hoe laat er bussen zijn en op de typisch norse Griekse manier wijst hij ons een foldertje aan met de bus schedule vanuit Aghios. We lopen ermee naar buiten en ...
Heraklion to Mykonos - Ferry Trip from hell
... with white towns. We can see Oia and Thira and few other towns.
7.30pm and no sign of a ferry. Feeling somewhat frustrated we head back to the office to see that cranky cow who has absolutely no customer service skills. We get told 8.45pm. Several times back and forth to the office to get information. Hellenic Sea Ways were absolutely dreadful, no information given to passengers, no apology announced, no vouchers for a drink or meal, ...
Goodbye Crete
... port and go the Hellenic Seaways office and yeah we got two tickets to Mykonos tomorrow so don’t know what that agent was going on about. Troy seems to think you cannot buy tickets online within 24 hrs so we went directly to the office. Well with tickets in hand we decide that we are not spending tonight in Heraklion so we head east.
About 15 minutes out of Heraklion we find some nice enough resorts and book ourselves into Knossos Beach ...
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Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Swimming pool
- Room service
- Wheelchair accessibility
- Kitchenette
- Free parking