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5(98)
Safari Club: Crete by Sunset, evening Guided Tour
from €89

5(87)
The Gourmet Wine Tour of Heraklion area
from €165

5(73)
PRIVATE-Zeus’ Birthplace - Knossos-Olive oil Factory-Old Villages
from €116

5(33)
Explore the Real Crete-Zeus’s Cave - Villages-Olive Oil Factory
from €115

5(29)
PRIVATE TOUR - Winery+Olive Oil Factory-Old Traditional Villages
from €260
Olive Green Hotel
Meramvellou & Idomeneos 22
€120/night
1450 rev.Petousis Hotel & Suites
Andrea Papandreou,140
€200/night
482 rev.Pnoe Breathing Life - Adults Only
Karteros Beach
€443/night
481 rev.Metaxa Hotel Heraklion - Urban Boutique Living
43 Pl. Eleftherias
€174/night
285 rev.Galaxy Iraklio Hotel
75 Dimokratias Ave
€182/night
2658 rev.Aquila Atlantis Hotel
2 Ygias Street
€156/night
1806 rev.Ibis Styles Heraklion Central
26 Koroneou Street and Agiou Titou
€166/night
3427 rev.DOM Boutique Hotel
Almirou 14
€170/night
2777 rev.AI assistant
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Heraklion experience
Place looked nice. Food was quite good, except the pork steak was dry.
Get ready for the Chaos
Was ok when we arrived and was pretty quick but when we were going home it was another story, massive queue to get to check in desks and this was a night flight, 2 hour delay and kept changing everyone's gate, nobody had a clue what was going on and you can't hear the speaker system properly. Was total chaos, toilets f…
Madness
What in the name of chaos and sensory overload is this joke of an airport. For the amount of people in the airport this is way overcrowded and I am surprised that someone has not fainted or injured themselves. We did not even look at duty free the amount of people there were.. Food let’s just say not signposted so w…
Dirty stinking hovel of an airport
Toilets are disgusting. Staff miserable. No restaurant just a sandwich takeaway. Hardly anywhere to sit. Its just dirty, litter everywhere in the building. Really shocked at how horrible this place is. Weve spent 2 weeks on various islands and without exception every loo has been spotless whether thats a beach bar…
A digital SIM you install by QR code before you fly and that works the moment you land. No roaming charges, no hunting for a phone shop in a strange city.
Pick a car and hit the road.