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#1,425 of 4,435 hotels in Crete

Location

4.5

Cleanliness

4.4

Service

4.0

Value

3.8

See why so many travelers make Castri Village their hotel of choice when visiting Palaikastron. Providing an ideal mix of value, comfort and convenience, it offers a family-friendly setting with an array of amenities designed for travelers like you.

Rooms at Castri Village provide a kitchenette, a refrigerator, and air conditioning, and guests can stay connected with free internet access.

In addition, while staying at Castri Village guests have access to outdoor furniture, beach chairs, and sun umbrellas. You can also enjoy a pool and a lounge. Need a place to park? Free parking is available at Castri Village.

While you’re here, be sure to check out Surf Beach Bar, one of the Italian restaurants that can be found in Palaikastron, which is a short distance from Castri Village.

At Castri Village, your comfort and satisfaction come first, and they look forward to welcoming you to Palaikastron.

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Property amenities

Free parking

Free internet

Pool

Free breakfast

Bicycle rental

Game room

Books, DVDs, music for children

Children's television networks

Secured parking

Wifi

Pool with view

Outdoor pool

Plunge pool

Shallow end in pool

Bar / lounge

Coffee shop

Restaurant

Kids' meals

Special diet menus

Wine / champagne

Swimup bar

Windsurfing

Board games / puzzles

Indoor play area for children

Children Activities (Kid / Family Friendly)

Kids pool

Pets Allowed ( Dog / Pet Friendly )

Car hire

Full body massage

Massage

Non-smoking hotel

Outdoor furniture

Shared lounge / TV area

Sun loungers / beach chairs

Sun terrace

Sun umbrellas

Laundry service

Room features

Air conditioning

Housekeeping

Kitchenette

Refrigerator

Room types

Ocean view

Non-smoking rooms

Family rooms

Good to know

HOTEL CLASS

HOTEL STYLE

Ocean View

Family

Languages Spoken

English, French, Greek, Italian

Location

Kouremenos Beach, Palaikastron, Crete 72300 Greece

Name/address in local language

Castri Village

Getting there

Sitia Airport

8.3 mi•

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Kasos Island Airport

39.4 mi•

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32 Restaurants

within 5 miles

Restaurant ELENA

564

1.5 mi•$$ - $$$•Seafood

1.5 mi•$$ - $$$•Mediterranean

Vai Restaurant Palm Beach

848

2.5 mi•$$ - $$$•Seafood

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19 Attractions

within 5 miles

2.7 mi•Religious Sites

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Nathie77 wrote a review Aug 2022

Brussels, Belgium62 contributions17 helpful votes

Excellet Cozy Hotel

We stayed at Castri Village for 2 nights and had a pleasant stay. The apartments are spacious, clean, and the view from the balcony is simply amazing. The pool area was clean, the pool was big enough, and the restaurant was good. The breakfast buffet was excellent . Not too far from Vai Beach, and Kouremenos Beach, where ther are a few good choices for restaurants.

Date of stay: August 2022

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Michelle M wrote a review Sep 2021

7 contributions

Amazing!

This was our first stop in our 2 week Crete venture and I’m so glad this is where we chose! Beautiful view and location, the kindest staff EVER (who went above and beyond for us and were so wonderful) food is amazing, great room! Thank you Castri Village!

Date of stay: September 2021Trip type: Traveled with friends

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Anna Wig wrote a review Jul 2019

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Fantastic hotel!

Everything is great about this hotel - from the lovely, very friendly and helpful staff to the fantastic view. They host a very calm and luxurious pool area with enclosed bar and restaurant. The level of cleaning is high. The quality of our stay was high stretching from car rental help to beautiful cocktails and great food. We definitely recommend this hotel!

Date of stay: July 2019Trip type: Traveled with family

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Turist wrote a review Jun 2019

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Lovely hosts

The most adorable people run this hotel. The hotel was Beautiful situated with a lovely view. Nice clean room (hard bed) and the breakfast was realy very nice. We also had a little kitchen and fridge. The owner drove us on request to the closest little town. Ca 5 minutes by car. Bus runs twice a day. there are no taxi out there as they are situated in sitia 30 minutes away. If you would like to go to sitia you will have to take taxi back in the evening for 25_30 euro. if you are in urgent need of anything at the hotel you can not just pop out to get it. If you hire a car/bike this is a perfect place to stay. It was to far to walk for us to palikastro in the heat at daytime and to dark in the evening. Pluss the hill in the hotel site was very steep. lovely owners, hotel and vieuw but the location was a little abandoned for us half elderly women.…

Date of stay: June 2019Trip type: Traveled with friends

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ManolisKaterina2009 wrote a review Sep 2018

Athens, Attiki, Greece18 contributions5 helpful votes

A nice place but it needs a restoration

We spend a couple of days. The positive part is the nice view. The negative is the building is a bit old and there is not enough maintenance. The closet smells mold and a rusty nail was at the floor of the bathroom. Breakfast was bellow average. Thus the room was overpriced.

Date of stay: August 2018Trip type: Traveled with family

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Sophington wrote a review Aug 2018

Cirencester, United Kingdom16 contributions9 helpful votes

Quiet family friendly hotel

We had the most fantastic ten days here. The hotel is spotlessly clean, the staff so kind and helpful. Our apartment was spacious and had a lovely terrace overlooking the bay. We woke every day to watch the windsurfers racing back and forth. The breakfast was extensive, lots of options both hot and cold and was included in our room rate. The pool is big enough to do a few lengths. Other guests were from all over Europe, a very civilised bunch. Nothing was too much trouble for the staff. We punctured a tyre and Yannis spent a good two hours sorting it out for us and was calm and patient. Most people go out during the day so it never feels busy. It is extremely windy up there on the hill, beware the staircase next to the pool if wearing a full skirt! The hill is very steep and if you are driving up to your room its all in first gear, but the lane through the apartments is wide enough to pass. Cannot recommend highly enough. We will go back just as soon as we can.…

Date of stay: August 2018

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d d wrote a review Aug 2018

Paris, France124 contributions16 helpful votes

Good hotel, bad management, AC issues

Difficult to give a rating "average", but here are my impressions in every aspect: Room: if you think of an hotel room it's ok, for a typical apartment / studio in Crete the equipment is very limited. Even for a hotel room: in the main bedroom had a bed and a small desk, no chair, not even a hook for your clothes, no closet, so in the evening, we undress and clothes go to the ground ... 3/5 Cleanliness 4/5 Pool 5/5 Hall / Pool area, view, WC 5/5 Wifi 1/5 almost non-existent Buffet breakfast 3/5, quite limited (watermelon every day as the only fruit? In Greece the summer?) Staff (Friendliness) 4/5 Manager / Manager 0/5 Our main concern: no air conditioning at night from 22h till mid-morning, and one day even in the afternoon. The manager wanted to convince me that it was a mishandling on my part, then after my insistence sent one, two, three, four people to check it out, impossible to get the air conditioning working. The last day , finally , a tech came and confirmed that the compressor were over-heating dangerously. All without any excuse, without any effort to sew the situation. Shame for a hotel of this category / price, there it is 0/5 So it's globally a 2/5 but if you are lucky with the A / C everything can change.…

Date of stay: August 2018

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Trip type: Traveled with family

Room Tip: better close to pool, building 1 or 2

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Johan E wrote a review Oct 2017

6 contributions7 helpful votes

Wounderful

All in all a good experience! We were just relaxing by the pool reading and listen to podcasts which was great. Most visitors had rented a car and was not at the hotel during the day. The ocean was a few minutes walk with a bit rocky but nice beach and beautiful water. Internet was good (10mbits) and we also had 4G connection.

Date of stay: September 2017Trip type: Traveled as a couple

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Göran L wrote a review Jul 2017

Orebro, Sweden27 contributions15 helpful votes

To quote the Rolling Stones: "Mixed emotions"

A very mixed experience. Arriving at the hotel we realised it was even steeper than we could have guessed from the pictures, but that is no problem to us. The view is magnificent overlooking the bay, filled with windsurfers from dawn to dusk. The rooms are big, clean and is what you can expect from a mid-priced greek hotel. The pool area is nice and rarely very populated, so it is easy grabbing a sunchair and just relax. The breakfast buffet is not sensational, but very ok. But then you have to have lunch and dinner too... and then it is time to leave. We ate at the hotel twice, and that was twice too often. Completely disastrous and overpriced, probably taking advantage of the hotel being a bit outside the tiny village. Use ten minutes of walking one way to get to the beach restaurants. Better food at better prices. Then buy some mineral water and some beer and bring to your room - at about half the price compared to the hotel. And do not mess with the owner, a strange mix of Bruce the Shark from Finding Nemo and Basil Fawlty from Fawlty Towers...who got badly irritated when we changed tables in the empty (not surprising) restaurant because of some flickering lights. Stay here for swimming in the pool, tanning and sleeping - but the rest of the time you better go somewhere else.…

Date of stay: June 2017

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Trip type: Traveled with family

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Clarencephil wrote a review Jul 2016

Montreal, Canada253 contributions129 helpful votes

Great place

I was there in early July 2016. This hotel was built by a Cretan restaurant owner who made money in Paris, sold it all and decided to come back home. The owner and his family who run the place are really charming, I got to watch the semi-finals of Euro 2016 with them. The resort consists of several multi units bungalows, located along a hill, over the large bay. Each unit has a fridge and a stove, ans is modern and well equipped. Our unit had a large balcony with an incredible panoramic view, which is almost worth the price by itself. No problem with parking. The wi-fi in the room was a bit iffy but was OK by the beautiful pool. Breakfast was a nice buffet. All in all one of our best experience of our 15 days stay in Crete. It was however a bit more expensive than other hotels during our stay.…

Date of stay: July 2016

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