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Everyone needs a place to lay their weary head. For travellers visiting Plakias, Costas & Chrysoula is an excellent choice for rest and rejuvenation. Well-known for its charming environment and proximity to great restaurants, Costas & Chrysoula makes it easy to enjoy the best of Plakias.
Rooms at Costas Chrysoula Hotel offer a flat screen TV, air conditioning, and a refrigerator providing exceptional comfort and convenience, and guests can go online with free wifi.
24 hour front desk, baggage storage, and currency exchange are some of the conveniences offered at this hotel. A pool and an on-site restaurant will also help to make your stay even more special. If you are driving to Costas & Chrysoula, free parking is available.
While you’re here, be sure to check out some of the barbeque restaurants, including Manousos Taverna and Apanemo, all of which are a short distance from Costas Chrysoula Hotel.
Whether you’re travelling for business, pleasure or both, Costas & Chrysoula is sure to make your visit to Plakias one worth remembering.
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HOTEL STYLE
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Charming
Languages Spoken
English, French, Spanish, Greek
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Agios Vasileios Municipality, Crete 740 60 Greece
Name/address in local language
Costas & Chrysoula
236 reviews
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Good for walkers
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Great value for money, very friendly owners and staff. excellent cleaning in room frequent towel and bedding change, beds made daily, whatever they used either on fabric softener or cleaning solution smelled gorgeous. Breakfast as expected , loved the choice of fresh fruit. Always either a hard boiled, fried or scrambled egg . Bacon but no heated area so bacon often cold. Fresh bread/toast, Greek yoghurt, honey jams, chese, cooked ham etc. Unlimited coffee. Juice. Teas. Pool area clean. Always has a shady side. Less than 5 min walk to the beach if you turn right and go through the cut at end of carpark No late night noise, good sized beds and good pillows. Full height shower too. Didn't use cooking facilities in room. Only cups and glasses but had the basics. And was impressed they provided washing up liquid, cloth and tea towel, I needn't have taken my own, thank you. A relaxing stay in Plakias. Would return
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Date of stay: May 2024
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My wife and I got back from a week's holiday at this hotel yesterday. We really enjoyed it. Staff were helpful and friendly and every thing was very clean and tidy. The pool, which we never used, was very deep deep at one end - 2.7 m I think. There was nothing wrong with it, but the sea and beaches nearby were so nice, we went there instead. There were plenty of free sunbeds right by the pool, with no towels being put out to reserve any.
We paid £20 extra for the room to have a kitchenette. The room was large, with a flat screen TV, a massive balcony and a powerful shower. The hotel seems to serve a number of apartments in the surrounding area owned by the same family. We were actually about 100m from the hotel in one such apartment, which was no problem for us.
Breakfast, served by the pool fine, with plenty of fruit and Greek yoghurt, bread, cereal, pastries, eggs, and cake. There was also the German option of various cold meats. The coffee was very good, while the orange and apple juice drinks were average. real fruit juice would have been nice.
The town centre, which is right on the sea and beach, was about 150m away. There was a really great promenade that runs nearly the whole length of the bay, as well as a pier, and more beaches just round the headland in the other direction. Eating out at night was vey reasonable, cheaper than the UK, and the food quality was good. There was lots to choose from. The Greek salads were brilliant, and every time I got chips, they were homemade and hand cut. A huge mixed grill was only 15 euros.
The crystal clear sea was the best I have ever seen, and full of colourful sea life for snorkelling. Sun loungers on the beach were generally free if you bought a drink. We had a late lunch on the beach most days for a very reasonable price. A fresh home made pizza was 7 Euros and a litre of water about 1.5 Euros, all brought to your lounger. A large beer was 4 euros.
The sea was very calm indeed, even when it was windy, making swimming very easy.
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Date of stay: June 2024
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Room Tip:The half board option casts less than£100 per week extra and the evening meal is served by a...
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Its nice hotel in nice Plakias area. WiFi is low in hotel. We had an offer from TUI with breakfast and dinner - but only breakfast is in the hotel and dinner is on vocher in Gorgona restaurant but witout drinks you have to pay extra. And hotel has some addidrional building few minutes from main hotel building.
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Date of stay: August 2024Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Amazing place, so friendly and welcoming, nice size pool, rooms are great and the owner Strick doesn’t take any Messing around from misbehaving visitors. Recommended great breakfast and helpful, good facilities at the hotel and the town, bar man Angelo makes the best cocktails and is a good conversationalist . We will be back, Thank you Costa and Chrysoula and staff for a great holiday so far. Andrew & Silvia Pugh
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Date of stay: July 2023
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Pool is always quiet
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We are so impressed with our stay at Costas & Chrysoula and only wish we were here for longer! The pool was unfortunately out of use but it didn’t matter at all, as the beautiful beach is only 3 min walk away :)
Breakfast was great and all the staff are lovely. Rooms are exceptionally clean. Gorgeous spot tucked away among some fantastic local restaurants.
Thanks for a gorgeous mini holiday! Hope to see you again soon. Hannah & Linda xx
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Date of stay: April 2022Trip type: Travelled with family
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We did not actually stay here but used the pool facilities and found them to be great. The pool was great and although not massive is very deep +2.9 M. Friendly staff and the some of the best chips i have eaten ;-). Will be returning again next year.
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Date of stay: July 2023
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We stayed at Costas Chrysoulla from 7/8/12 - 21/8/12 and after reading the previous review from Galaxy 1965 wonder if we stayed at the same place and would like to put across a more balanced review. The hotel is not access by a dirt car park off a small dark alleyway off the main street. It can be if you wish to use this as a short cut and save yourself a nice two minute stroll. The hotel is actually accessed off a main well lit side street next to the Apollo apartments with a Taverna on the corner and several shops and supermarkets open from morning until late at night. There are certainly no dodgy unlit back streets to be walked looking over your shoulder. Yes the rooms do have a two ring kitchenette and sink area but there is sufficient to make food if you wish but it is so cheap and close to all Tavernas with wonderful food why would you want to do this on your hols? Also you know what you are getting prior to booking so why complain about this?! The pool is very clean and Costas maintains it daily - we saw him - every day without fail. Also in the two weeks we were there I don’t know of anyone suffering from any eye/ear infections as is quite often the case on holiday. This itself speaks volumes for the cleanliness of the pool. Have you really ever gone on holiday and seen signs at a family hotel saying kids can’t play with a ball or a lilo in the pool??!! What a fun holiday that would be. What the previous reviewer seems to have omitted is that he did not seem to bothered at the time when he was showing off to the same kids he is having a go at when he was back flipping into the pool , and strangely also fails to mention that he asked the Rep if they could change flights and stay at the hotel for a further week! Can’t have been that bad then can it? The hotel is not “covered” in ants. There is foliage along one wall at one side of the pool and being a Mediterranean country I suppose does have a few creepy crawlies. Again what the previous review fails to mention was that he made the choice to lay under this foliage for seven days in “his spot” and could have quite easily have moved to another spot around the pool and avoided this. Your choice. I’m all for people giving an opinion on this site because that is what we all come here for, but if you are going to offer criticism for which people may make a decision on whether to spend their hard earned cash on a holiday then please be fair and get your facts right. The resort of Plakias itself is beautiful. We have been to Crete several times before and have stayed in Hersonnisos, Ammoudara, Aghia Pelaghia, and I would say that Plakias is as close to “untouched” Greece as any, and much nicer than all of the above. It is very laid back typically Greek with lovely Tavernas where you can eat outside and watch the sun setting over the sea. It has not been spoilt by quad bike hire shops and tacky souvenir shops and the locals and bar and restaurant staff are all very friendly and polite and not pushy in any way. The beach is about 5 minutes flat walk from the hotel and is around 3km long with nice clean sand which edges the sea which is very clear and calm with no dangerous undercurrents or large waves but does drop off fairly quickly and gets deep. It can be windy at the beach which nicely takes the intensity of the heat off but if it is really windy - and sometimes it is - you can get a bit sandblasted. A single road runs parallel to the sea lined with tavernas and bars and the odd supermarket. The bars are great for sitting in on an evening facing the road and people watching. There is a row of about 9 or 10 Tavernas all next to each other along the sea front and all are very chilled out and relaxed. Gorgona taverna is owned by the the owners of this hotel and we ate there but found it to be expensive compared to other tavernas and a lamb dish was served up with a portion of I think packet rice which was disappointing. The “Barbecue” taverna is brilliant and Efi who runs the place with her partner is lovely and Nikos the waiter is very friendly and helpful. The food is plentiful and very good and extremely cheap. Expect to pay around 6 euros for a main dish or 2.50 for something smaller, but filling. A good half litre carafe of wine is 3 euros. Eleven of us ate for 88 euros with plenty of starters, main meals each and wine for us all. Quite often Efi or Nikos would provide carafes of wine on the house with our meal. Please go and try this place out. The hotel itself is in a great central position only five minutes easy walk to everything you need - beach/shops/bars/tavernas and is still far enough away to be very peaceful and away from it all if you want to be. The rooms are very nice, large enough to be comfortable and very clean. Most of the rooms seem to have recently been repainted and refurbished and are of a really good standard for 3 star Greece. The balconies are large and the bathrooms and newly tiled and the showers and good and powerful. The bar is looked after by Chrisoula during the day who is lovely and by Angelo on a night who is a character and a really nice guy. The only criticism I could offer is the drinks could be a bit cheaper. 3 euros for a large beer is standard on the seafront with the views and atmosphere so maybe a bit less here would encourage people to have a few drinks in the hotel bar before going out for the night. Although saying that the bar area was still well used and sociable with everyone chatting away later on in the evening. The hotel is family run and it has that feel and because of this then the guests do mix well and it is very friendly. I would say that it is predominately English at the hotel with a few other nationalities and everyone whilst we were there were very polite and friendly. Les the hotel rep is a very nice guy and a little bundle of Scottish energy. He always made time to chat and genuinely was interested that everything was ok and was always there for advice and help if needed. More importantly he never gave us any hard sell of trips etc and obviously loves his job and cares about what he does and the guests he looks after. Would we go back to Plakias and the same hotel? Like a shot - and I suppose that’s the best recommendation I could give. The hotel was perfect, Plakias is beautiful and to top it all we were lucky enough to share our holiday with some lovely people who really made our time great fun and very special. Thanks to Graham and family in the midlands, James and Hannah in Lincoln, Graham and Ali from Leeds with his extended (new) family of Sue and Deri. Great laughs and good times - big thanks to you all. Same again next year?
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Date of stay: August 2012
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:e mail the hotel direct with any requests and they will accomodate you
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We were allowed to use the pool and facilities of these apartments whilst staying at the Dora Studios and we were made most welcomed . Free wifi was included. Friendly atmosphere, nothing seemed a problem to them. Took the short cut over the wall.
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Date of stay: July 2013
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Hi well we're do I start. Arrived 07/08/12-14/08/12 The complex is accessed via a small alleyway dirt car park and road from the main road and beach. The room to my opinion is not suitable for self catering two very small electrical hot plates and sink no oven no microwave. Theres no area to prepare food or eat it come to that. The so called kitchenette is in your bedroom so if you like your cloths and bed linen smelling of food then perfect for you. The toilet and shower thank god are separate from the bedroom. When you shower the toilet is right next to you so not only do you get a very unpredictable shower ( cold to scolding ) the loo gets a good wash as well. The shower room / toilet stays continually wet nice when sitting on the loo and also very slippery as the floor is marble please do be careful. You are charged 5 euros per day for air con and you have to hand over some form of ID passport driver licence, this is kept behind the bar in a secure place. When I provided my ID the chap showed me someone's passport that was left on the side of the bar not very safe in my opinion. The pool area is small and not big enough to accomidate the amount of rooms that are occupied some 60 plus. There are only a limited amount of sun loungers and even some of these are broken. The pool was not cleaned at any time during my stay apart from a bleach mop being run around the tiled edges. Ok so you get kids at these places but just put a sign up saying no ball games or inflatables allowed in the pool! seriously at one point it was like a flotilla at the Queens 60th anniversary up the Thames. Of a night if you venture out the area when you leave the complex it has no lighting and its pitch dark go in pairs, we had no problems but you never know. Look out for the ants there everyware. The staff are very friendly and helpful the rooms are kept clean and beds are made for you each day. Our room was opened with a electronic key just bear in mind if you are charging any electrical equipment do it of a night because as soon as you leave the room and take the key the electric turns off. Would I go back yes to the region proberbly not to the complex. Also there is a 3hr transfer from the airport. Hope this reviews been helpful.
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Date of stay: August 2012
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Room Tip:Go for room numbers 23-29 these open out to the pool but the balonys all face other buildings.
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The apartments are literally a minutes walk on to the main strip - but there is no noise to bother you. Our room was just outside of the main complex which was easily accessible - it was basic but there wasn't anything we missed and the cleaning was fantastic. Everyone is so friendly and does their utmost to ensure you have an enjoyable stay.
Breakfast was lovely, the bar made the most delicious cocktails and they own Taverna Gorgona which is a 2 minute walk and the food is absolutely delicious - we ate there several times!
The pool isnt huge but it is nice and very clean. I never struggled for a sun bed and everyone is friendly around the place.
The beach was pebbly and the waves really came in a bit too harsh and fast for me - making it difficult to just nip in for a dip. If there was one recommendation I would make it would be to buy a pair of jelly shoes as it would be easier to walk on the beach and would also wear them in the sea. There are a few areas that allow nude bathing but they are away from the main tourist area but be aware that if you decide to visit Souda Beach (6 euro by taxi each way) then it is a mixed beach!
Although it is only a small resort there are plenty of places to eat and drink. Carry on walking past the Gorgona (towards Souda) and you will find some nice fish restaurants. In the other direction you should try the waffle place on the main strip - I cant remember the name of it but its by the shop that sells papers and the waffles are amazing! Lots of places do cocktails and its really a lovely way to end the day sitting on the beach front with a cocktail - having said that though you would be hard pushed to beat Angelos cocktails at the apartments bar!
Make use of Les the Olympic rep - he is friendly and very knowledgeable of the area and will give you tips on places to visit. There is only a handful of tourist shops so you may wish to visit Rethymon which is about 35km away - but there are buses to take you places.
It isn't a fast pace of life in Plakias and that's the nice thing about the resort. You will be totally relaxed by the time its home time. The 2 hour journey to/from the airport is a pain to be honest but it was a lot more enjoyable doing it in daylight rather than travelling to it at 2am in the morning.
If you are looking for a relaxing holiday, a nice basic but so very clean apartment with friendly helpful people and a traditional Cretan feel to the place then you wont be disappointed.
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Date of stay: July 2014
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Dear Mr Moffatt,
Thank you again for your reservation with us!
We will note to give you the room you want! We are looking forward to seeing you again!
Best regards
Kostas
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