I travel a lot - one large 'luxury' hotel is the same as the next one. For our week long stay in Crete, the Korifi Suites was the perfect antidote. We booked our stay here quite by chance.
The hotel is built in a charming style, with lovely greenary and flowers growing all over the whitwashed buildings. Set on the side of a steep hill, there are fantastic views from every angle, and it's a short walk to the main 'drag' that runs along the three connected villages.
On our first night, we had booked a basic studio room - perfectly adequate if you were on a budget, but we paid to be 'upgraded' to a 'suite', which was a large comfortable lounge/diner/kitchen, bedroom, and private balcony with amazing views.
The suite was freshly decorated, very clean, and well equipped. It was decorated and furnished in traditional style - very comfortable, very relaxing. Just what we were hoping for.
The pool at the hotel is small, but all we wanted was to have the occasional dip to cool off - for that it was fine, there are even views from the water!
We hired a car for a week, and there is parking at the hotel (but nowhere else in the village). We bombed around the island, found fantastic deserted beaches and time-warp villages with brilliant eating, but only scratched the surface of Crete.
We spent late afternoons and evenings on our lovely balcony.
There are plenty of good restaurants and bars within easy walking distance.
Best of all - it's more of a family/couples area, no discos/loud bars, no trouble, no rowdy teenagers.
The Korifi was our perfect base for a relaxing stay - friendly and helpful staff, authentic and comfortable accommodation, for less than the cost of a four star, faceless box.
We will definitely return to Crete, and we will definitely stay at the Korifi.

Myself and my partner have just returned from a week in Crete, staying at the Korifi Suites in Piskopiano. The suites are lovely - very well situated with great views over the bay at Chersonisos and set back from all the noise and hubbub of the main port town.
My only quibble with the hotel is that air con is chargeable at 6 euros a night - we didn't take advantage of this as we were on a tight budget, but it was pretty uncomforatble in the room without it; I'd imagine this to get worse as the summer goes on.

Suites are fairly basic in the self-catering sense, although you could cook here every day if you really needed to, we felt it was much nicer (and just as cheap) to eat in the village. The best place by far to eat is the small taverna everyone calls "David's", even though apparently that is not its real name (we never did find out what that was); it is just beside the well at the fork in the road in the middle of the village, between Elisavet's and another fancier-looking place. Do not be fooled. David's has the best food by far out of all the places here, traditional Cretan, astoundingly cheap and totally authentic. Try the rabbit stew, dolmadez (wrapped in zucchini flower rather than vine leaves) or the cuttlefish - all out of this world.

Some tips: Chersonisos is no great beauty, but is nothing like as tacky as I'd imagined, especially if you stick right to the beach front, to the front of the pedestrianised shopping street. The best beach with lovely parasols, a freshwater shower to clean off and loungers to hire (6 euros for two loungers, all day) is between two restaurants at the bottom of this shopping street which slopes down to the shore.

There are lots of trips on offer and things to do; you can buy most either at the harbour if it is a boat trip you're after, or at the tiny bus station which is next to a bakery with an orange shopfront, opposite the petrol station on the main drag. We couldn't do Knossos as the guides were on strike at the time of visiting but went on a trip to some of the interior villages which was inexpensive and lovely, and another to Spinalonga via Agios Nicolaos - top tip for this would be to buy your tickets for the boat at the bus station then get the local bus service (they look like coaches, the stop is outside the newsagent's opposite the bus station) early in the morning to Agios Nicolaos and spend the morning there before boarding the boat at midday, as it is a really pretty little town well worth exploring. Beware the last bus back to Chersonisos is at a very early 8.30pm.

My last piece of advice would be to beware a marketing scam operating at the harbour - someone will hand you a scratchcard and tell you you've won a prize but you will have to go to a hotel to collect it. They will get you a taxi to the hotel but once there you are effectively kidnapped and forced to listen to more than an hour of hard-sell bullsh*t (we escaped as I put my foot down) before you can leave! Don't let this spoil your holiday.

We just returned from 8 nights at Korifi Suites and other then having a little trouble finding the place it was a wonderful experience. Even though there was limited staff for the winter season, they were more then accomodating and added to our wonderful memories of Crete. The rooms were clean and well cared for, the view was stunning and there were plenty of good restaurants within walking distance. This isn't a 5 star luxury boutique so don't expect one, but If your going to Crete to experience the island and a little bit of Greecian life, this a great place to stay.
Vicki Diemer, Anchorage, Alaska

We stayed at the Korifi for 7 days at the start of October 2008. The hotel is a little bit up a hill in Piskopiano. The hill and steps are quite steep and may be difficult for some.

The views from the room we had (D1) are spectacular. You can see all over Hersonissos bay. It's worth getting up early to watch the sunrise.

The hotel is very pretty from the outside and typically Greek looking. The rooms are comfortable, very clean but basic. The staff were friendly and helpful. The pool is a bit of a problem as it's small with little room to sit around. It's shaded for some of the day because of the buildings around it. The garden areas at the top are very nice.