Hotel Scaleta Beach

Praise the staff, working hard on this weather ( 34C) doing all the best to accommodate everyone. The owners of this business, need to align with the customers though and needs: There are no excuses to patronise the opening hours for the swimming pool: 10 am- 6 pm. No need for that. Second cons is confusion for the daily basis food buffet. How nicely it will be to have it displayed in advance for the following week. 3 stars accommodation, includes a poor wifi signal to our room, however was beaten by the sea view. A very small maintenance reported, to the best ever receptionist Sofia, has been sorted out by minutes… Thank you ever so much for giving us the heads up about the tourist area, as well. Bar & restaurants staff very friendly and professional.

We had a great time at Scalatea beach hotel for our honeymoon! Our flight landed at 8.30pm and our coach transfer ended up being longer than anticipated so we didn't get to the hotel until midnight. We where very tired and hungry. The receptionist was lovely and said they saved us a plate of cold food as thought we would be hungry which was lovely of them. The food was ham, cheese, Cucumber, tomatoes, boiled eggs and bread with a glass of water. We thought that was really thoughtful. The room, hotel and pool was clean, beds where comfy, staff friendly and just a lovely hotel. The only down side is that we went all inclusive and the drinks where only between 11am - 10pm. Then you had to pay and was around €5 a pint or €10 spirit and mixer. We spent all our money on being all inclusive so we didn't have to worry about paying so come 10pm we coukdnt have anything else to drink. This was advertised on the website that there's a time limit on drinks. Food was lovely but limited options. Unless you love salad and fruit. Even though it's an adult only hotel thought we might have had a bit of entertainment rather than you tube music playing behind the bar. When we checked out we got a lovely little thank you gift (crete magnet) which again was thoughtfull. It's the little touches that made the trip beautiful. If the food options where better and all inclusive drinks where from breakfast until later at night we would give 5 stars.

We knew this was going to be a cheap and cheerful one but there were so many disappointments: the beds are awful, and asking for extra pillows and sheets wasn’t acknowledged. The hotel itself is up high in the middle of nowhere with no entertainment or excursions, so you need to be up for renting a car and tackling the crazy roads. There is a beach, but no loungers, services etc that aren’t reserved for other hotel guests. The food was really bland and repetitive, the drinks are served in the smallest glasses and there’s such limited options drinks wise in the all inclusive. We ate out a lot more than we’d planned to and brought far more snacks and ice creams form the hotel shop than we ever have before. The only redeeming features were the pool and great weather, but they can only take credit for the first. And, they limit the pool hours to 10:00-18:00, why?! Fab if you intend to just laze by the pool All day every day, but otherwise avoid like the plague.