Sfakian Horizon

I stayed at this hotel for a few days and really enjoyed the time I spent there. The location offers a glorious view over the little town of Sfakia, looking down to its picturesque harbour. It's worth pointing out however, that access to and from the town is via some perfectly good but quite steep stairs as the hotel must be around 100m above the town. It's no problem for anyone in reasonable health, but for anyone who struggles with mobility it might cause a problem. The comfortable appartment-style rooms all open out onto or are above a large sun terrace with a decent sized swimming pool in the middle of it. Ideal for a quick dip at any point during the day. The staff were all very cheery and helpful and along with the views and comfort, helped to make my stay a very enjoyable one. My only complaint is that the breakfast on offer every morning was a little basic compared to what I'm used to at hotels. There were more than enough options to please most tastes, but the lack of a (free) coffee machine serving fresh coffee and no fruit salad as an option (unlike other places I stayed in Crete) made me leave 4 stars rather than 5. But please don't let this put you off. This is certainly one of the nicest hotels to stay in if you plan a stay in Sfakia and I'd happily stay there again if and when I visit that town again in the future.

Horizons is a series of rooms and two roomed apartments at the very back of Chora Sfakion: excellent for view but a hard walk down to the main village. We had a two roomed apartment. Ghastly bathroom: small shower area - hand-held shower- stickty shower curtain. One doublebed bedroom with TV, very poor lighting but with access to private balcony: another room with a poorly fitted (cheap?) kitchen area, some ill-made upright chairs ( the backs were not fitted correctly), one day bed and a TV. Breakfast was a buffet with coffee /tera. orange juice (good), four sorts of bread (fresh) cereals, fresh melon, yoghurt, honey and orange jam, spanokopita or tiropita, cucumberm olives, tomato, little apple turnovers, rizogala, and hard boiled eggs, hot scrambled eggs and hot bacon. Well presented. We paid 90 euros cash per night for the two of us to use an apartment and have breakfast. not bad value for money. The snag for us was that to get to a room you needed to walk down stairs. These are Cretan stairs: no handrail and there was no overwhelming willingness to help with our bags. (I am elderly and find stairs very difficult). However while there was no offer to help us load our car when we left, no praise could be too hogh for the ladies who cleaned our apartment daily. Excellent service

Checking out the southern part of Crete more for business than pleasure we were surprised at how clean and welcoming the hotel was. The sea facing room had everything needed with staff who went out of their way to ensure your stay was pleasurable A spotlessly clean swimming pool was very welcome at the end of the day Snacks were available from the bar area around the pool which also doubled up as the breakfast area And talking about breakfast the choice was excellent with a buffet that will have you firing on all cylinders for the rest of the day My only advice would be to bring jellies when you go swimming off the beach if you have baby feet like me