We had a great stay on Crete for 8 days (mostly at Almyrida near Chania). In order to catch an early ferry to Santorini we decided to stay 1 night in Heraklion and enjoy Knossos and the Archaeological Museum for a day (Knossos is great - a must see - go later in the day). I went online looking for hotels close to the port so that we could walk there and not have to rely on a taxi. After viewing a number of hotels on Tripadvisor and other websites, we chose the Life 'Boutique" Hotel very near the port. The photos on the website looked great and the price was right (115 Euro for a triple) so we booked it early in February which was confirmed. Everything looked good. Mid July we received an email from the hotel indicating that they had accidentally cancelled our reservation and would we please make another. This we did. i was a little concerned about this but just passed it off.

On August 19th, after driving around lost for a few minutes, we were directed to the hotel... more