Enorme Armonia Beach

My husband and I have just returned from a week's stay at Enorme Armonia Hotel. From the moment we arrived at reception and were shown to our apartment by the receptionist, we were treated with every couteousy. Since we arrived late and had missed dinner, we were given sandwiches. Our apartment was at the back of the hotel beside the dining room although very little noise penetrated our room. We were only steps away from the beach where there were plenty of sunbeds available. There was a comfortable pool area with a pool bar although we spent most time on the beach. Our room was a good size with a comfortable bed and cleaned every day.
The dining area and staff were welcoming and both breakfast and dinner were very good and had good variety.
Overall, this is an excellent hotel and I would recommend it.

Our flight was delayed three hours and we ended up arriving at around 2.30am in the morning. There had also been an earlier flight cancelled and people from that flight were put up in this hotel, so on arrival our room was occupied. We were offered a glass of champagne and taken over to the posh side - their sister hotel the Enorme Lifestyle! We were given a sandwich and drink but we were shattered and just wanted our bed. The room we were given was beautiful, large, modern with coffee machine, two balconies and a living area plus a gorgeous bathroom. We ate in the Lifestyle for breakfast and our bags were taken over to the Armonia. There is literally a long path between the two however, the lifestyle has swim up pools, private sunbeds etc. I think there is some confusion when writing reviews on Tripadvisor as a few appear to be for the lifestyle. The Enorme and it's staff are just lovely. Very helpful and knowledgeable. We were told we would be upgraded to a triple room for the inconvenience and I'm glad we were - the rooms are tiny. Very clean and good bed linen, only one coffee sachet though and no milk or coffee machine, ha! Nice touch with the bottle of champagne sent up to our room on the second day though - went down a treat!! I feel our one day stopover in the Lifestyle somewhat spoilt us slightly from fully enjoying the Armonia. It is a lovely hotel, pools are gorgeous and clean and it's right on the beach. great sunbeds - all free. Food: a bit hit and miss. We found the Mediterranean night the best. The food is not very warm and some of the food is very, very salty. The resort is full of Russians and Germans so maybe it is more to their taste as I noticed a lot of other nationalities pouring salt on their food. This hotel, when we went, was mainly Russian and German which didn't bother us at all. It did make me laugh though when a waiter in another bar knew we were English as he said we were the only ones who said please and thank you!! The resort: we did go towards the end of September and we found it really quiet. Not many bars around and only a couple of restaurants. You may find it a bit livelier during the summer. Got the hop on hop off bus over the road from hotel, 15 euro each but ticket covers you for two days. Worth getting on a dull day and just listening to the commentary on the city of Heraklion. Very expensive here. I feel for the people of Crete, they have been hit hard with the economy problems and the old story of the all inclusive is probably drying up businesses. However, when visiting the few bars we found they were generally 8-9 euro for a gin and tonic and 6 euro for a beer which is a bit steep. Don't think I would come to this area again. I've seen it now and we did have a lovely, restful holiday. If you could pick up the Enorme and put it somewhere else I would definitely return. Thanks for a lovely holiday.