Upon arrival in the capital of Crete, Heraklion, we were greeted with a luxury, private coach, just for our hotel. This we warmly received as that meant there would be no dropping off at other hotels which would have increased our transfer time. This was a little concern of ours as we had booked a resort.
We booked a 5 star hotel on a 5 star resort. We don't normally do this, but we thought it's our honeymoon and why not? The hotel happened to be all inclusive as well, we like to eat out and experience local restaurants and cafes but again thought it is our honeymoon and as it turns out, there were lots of different types of restaurants at the hotel.
First impressions were excellent, it certainly looked 5 star. Our room was incredible. The bed was huge and so comfy, didn't think we'd ever get out of it! The bathroom was all marble with a huge power shower with all the bells and whistles and the bath was a jacuzzi bath! We had booked a 'swim-up' room and certainly got that! Open up the patio doors and step out onto our decked porch and then straight into the pool! There was a like a river/pool that snaked around the hotel and had steps up to all the ground floor rooms.
We cracked open our bottle of Champagne and toasted our honeymoon. We went and had a wonder around and ended up at one of the pool bars for a Pina Colada and a lager. Here we met another honeymoon couple.
Slowly we went back to our room. We were both very tired from the trip as we had to show our faces at a birthday party hours before we flew!
Steph nearly slept in her clothes she travelled in as tiredness, Champagne and Pina Coladas make you very sleepy!
The first two days were a bit windy and rainy. The locals said it was the worst weather they had seen for a long time. No matter, we became excellent at table tennis and propped up the bars in the hotel and out! We wanted to wait for the sun to come out before we went exploring. We didn't have to wait long, day three to the end of our honeymoon, we couldn't have asked for better weather.
The honeymoon couple we met had gone to one of the sites we had on our list when it was raining and said they didn't enjoy it much as they rushed around it because otherwise they would have been soaked through.
We were staying in Crete longer than them, so stuck to our plan of waiting for the rain to stop.
A view from our flight
Our huge and most comfy bed
We were impressed with our room
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