White Olive Elite Rethymno - All Inclusive

I stayed in the hotel with my family (incl 4 children – 5, 11, 14, 20😉) for two weeks and found it very friendly, comfortable, with a cozy atmosphere and good location for sightseeing the most spectacular places in Crete. What we do like in the hotel: First of all great hospitality and proffesionalism of the Staff (!!!) – kind and caring Manager and his Team, the Restaurant and Bar Service are of very good proffesional skills, the Man who takes care of pools is very thorough. Morover: - very tasty and good quality meals (!!!) - greek cuisine, delicious sweets (!!!) – my children loved them, mostly local foods, wide selection of fresh local (!!!) vegetables and local (!!!) fruits, there is selection of dishes for vegetarian (!!!), however some days the vege selection should be more rich in protein on lunch and dinner, tasty and fresh snacks and vegetable/fruits salads in the pool bar; - silence (!!!) - there is no artificial noisy and distracting entertainment: no animation for kids 😊😊😊 and no loud music 😊😊😊 – I spent time with my children in closeness and could still admire the beauty of Crete we experienced on trips; - calm music in the lift; - simplicity (!!!) in interior and exterior design and timetable, colours of the nature - white/olive/beige/brown, no unnecessary things and activites - I could really calm my mind and rest; - high standards of cleanness (!!!), including pools, which are perfectly clean; - very comfortable rooms; - cool wind from the sea (!!!) everywhere, all the time, early in the morning you will find the wind also on hotel’s corridors – try not miss it (!!!); - clean sandy beach, enough wide to take comfortable sun and sea baths – while daily exercising on the beach sand, I did not find any pieces of rubbish on, under or close to my body (!!!), the hotel is laid on the seashore, so the beach is pratically part of the hotel. I do appreciate an efforts to support enviromental care: - room cleanning and changing of the towels possible also on demand (!!!) – for me the room does not need to be cleaned and towels washed every day, to have done it the message must be sent electronically to the reception; - reusable plastic cups, no plastic accessories or any other unnecessary accesories for drinks in the pool bar, however I wish they were also for snacks; - nice bins for segregation of rubbish everywhere they are needed, bin for used baterries and electronics near reception; - possibility to fill empty water bottle with mineral water from the restaurant or pool bar (!!!). For those who like sightseeing: - good location for trips to Central and West Crete – easy and fast access to national road as well as the road to south coast and Psiloritis Mountains, we made a cruises on our own by rented car: we set out of hotel at 3 pm to: *Elephterna Museum and Arkadii Monastir, *Elephterna Archeological Site, *Rethymno, *Heraklion Archeological Museum, *Knossoss Palace, *Maleme and Souda Cementeries, we set out of hotel at 10/11 am to: *Faistos and Matala Beach, *Gortyna and Kommos Beach, *the Mount of Psilloritis and Ida Cave, *Falasarna Archeological Site and Balos Beach, *Elaffonissi Beach, *Chania. We always managed to be back till 9 pm on dinner, although we moved very slowly (5 year-old child, the need of just seeting in great places and the passion of the photograhy😉); - the hotel has an offer of Cretan car rental Traffic - altough the car we hired did not come from our dreams, the price was bargain and the car – safe, in good technical condition (based on our 12 days of experience with the car), in my opinionTraffic is good choice and better than global car rentals. All of us, including the youngest children, were content of staying at the White Olive and, especially adult part of family, took a really good rest. :)