Fodele Beach Water Park Resort

We really enjoyed our stay with Fodele. Despite the many positives, there were a few things we noticed throughout our ten day stay that we thought needed to be highlighted. The hotel itself is beautiful – super modern, clean and welcoming. We were really happy with our room and even got a partial sea view despite not paying for one. We often woke up about 7:30am to secure a sun lounger but we quickly realised that this was not actually necessary as there were always some available throughout the day. You can wake up at 9am and still find a good one! There was a great variety of pools and the waterpark was fantastic! The beach was also lovely and clean. The buffet always had a great variety and there was always something for everyone. On a few days of the week there were themed nights which included Asian, Mediterranean and Fish night. We booked in with the Greek and Italian a la carte restaurants. The Italian was absolutely amazing but we were slightly disappointed with the Greek and would maybe have done the beach BBQ instead upon reflection. The bar staff were always really happy and accommodating. Popi on the pool bar always provided us with fantastic service and couldn’t do enough for us! Unfortunately there were a few things that we think need to be improved. When we arrived, we were a little early for check in and we were told to leave our cases in reception. It felt quite chaotic and there wasn’t really any sense of direction from reception staff. The initial woman that checked us in was really nice but following on from that, staff made us feel like a nuisance whenever we had a query. This is something we have never experienced in a 5 star hotel before. One thing that really shocked us was the amount of queues – we did not expect to be in extremely long queues for both the buffet and the bars. If you choose the all-inclusive package, all of the food is included but not all the drinks which was a massive shame – you have to pay for the classic cocktails. During our 10 day stay, we didn’t find the cleaning service of our room to be up to scratch. We were often left without enough towels, the coffee not being replenished and our bed sheets were not changed once during our stay which we thought was quite poor. Checkout was at 12pm and our flight home was late evening so we needed to use the courtesy room. The hotel website states that you will be provided with a courtesy room equipped with a shower, bath amenities and towels. While this is technically true, we were shocked to find this was just a hot dingy room of showers cubicles with curtains just off the luggage area. There was no privacy to get changed and it wasn’t a clean space at all, with one of the shower cubicles smelling of urine. After popping our heads into the luggage area to have a look at the ‘courtesy room’, we went to query reception staff. They were extremely defensive and argumentative, even when showing them what the website stated. We were expecting to be able to

The hotel was fantastic. The views ang anlroind the hotel are beautiful with close access to the lovely beach. Delicous food, nice and clean rooms and amazing staff! At the bar Popi was so smily and kind and really fantastic!!!!!!! Everyone was really friendly and welcoming. The evening animations were also great, especially the disco night during the full moon night. The animation team was doing really great job enterntaining and encouraging people to participate in the activities. Zuzia from Poland and Samu from Italy were super friendly and fun and we had a really amazing time. The whole family including kids really enjoyed the stay here and we would deffinitely come back again.

We had a great time in the Fodele Beach hotel, the view from the hotel is amazing, the hotel itself is also of a great standard. close to a beautiful beach. Very nice and helpful staff, everyone is always smiling. Mrs Popy at the beach hotel bar everyday was so nice. A large selection of food, the Greek ala carte restaurant was delicious. Every day there are animators encouraging people to play different games. Samu from Italy and Zuzanna from Poland were very friendly, always smiling, they organized great fun, we liked the water aerobics and games on the beach. We will definitely recommend this hotel!

Arrived home yesterday after spending a week at Fodele beach. Travelled as family of 4, 3 adults and a teen. The hotel and views are absolutely beautiful but what massively let it down for us was the room. We booked a superior family room which was just above the shop with a partial sea view. Result as I hadn't booked one but that's as good as the room gets. The beds are really uncomfortable and the noise from passers by and other rooms was ridiculously loud. These rooms are inadequately insulated especially the doors. The room aboves balcony was directly above our bedroom with scraping of chairs until silly hours and then woken up super early by those going to breakfast first thing with young screaming kids and the cleaners shouting to one another and dragging of laundry bags. There was also frequently a disgusting smell coming from the drains in the bathroom. Not 5 star luxury at all! There was a great choice of food and couldn't fault this. Although the lady welcoming you in, was possibly the most unwelcoming human I've ever met. Probably not the best person to greet you in. Beach and waterpark really good, plenty of loungers at waterpark if you get there at 10.30 for opening or during the lunch hours when some are given up to go down to lunch. Shame we never got to use either the main pool or the pool near beach as the loungers were reserved at silly o'clock, and often left with towels on all day. Definitely not enough loungers for the amount of guests and very crammed in together. The hotel is built into the hill and there are so so many steps everywhere! There is a train that takes you up and down to waterpark though, which is a lifesaver as walking the steps to it is an absolute killer, especially in 30c heat. Unfortunately the train wasn't working for first half of week and had a people carrier instead, was a lot of waiting around for it, as lack of seats. Long queues at the bar in the evenings but moved quite quickly and good choice of drinks, although disappointing not all cocktails were included in all inclusive. WiFi good everywhere. Beautiful location and hotel but too many cons so sadly won't be returning.

ust returned from a great holiday, the resort, the rooms, the food... Everything is just fantastic. If I may be so kind to give some advice, spice up the animation a little more by throwing a theme party, there is plenty of room on the plaza or the beach. Provide music at the pool during the day, not just during the aqua gym. These things can make this already fantastic resort an even more excellent one.

This is a tricky one. We returned from this hotel yesterday. Some really good points but just as many bad ! We go to Crete every year, along with other destinations, but this was first time at Fodele Beach Hotel. On our first full day we had to ask to change rooms due to the ridiculously loud constant thudding music right above our heads coming from the main outside bar area , which went on till well after 1am - this was the ‘superior’ sea view rooms, room numbers start with ‘9’. When I complained to the middle-aged ( I say this as a middle aged woman myself but to differentiate her from the more pleasant younger Receptionists) she was dismissive and almost argumentative saying there had NEVER been any complaints about noise affecting these rooms before - this as you will see from the reviews is blatantly untrue. She talks AT you rather than TO you. She had an answer, although not always correct or polite, for everything. The queues for the outside bar in the evening were just a madness! Every evening we spent at least 20 minutes queuing from every round and heaven forbid you try to double up to save waiting time. The main barman, although jolly, was more interested in doing shots with guests than serving them. If your spending your days at the downstairs pool there is NO bar/snack area so everytime you want a cold drink you have to walk up 3 flights of stairs or take a very small, very hot lift. And they absolutely will NOT give you a tray to carry drinks if your with family and have to carry several , I still have no idea why. So, if in your response Fodele Beach, you could explain this it would be appreciated. I would also add we did not see anyone collecting glasses around the pool until the day before we came home and we were there 10 days. Incidentally, in agreement with previous reviewer, we had no life guard at our pool until day 8 of our stay. So moving on to the main restaurant. Firstly , completely agree with previous comment regarding Restaurant ‘welcomer’. This young woman is the most unwelcoming person I have come across - really not suited to her job. She was grumpy, non-communicative and really sour-faced. Food itself is fine, not perfect (we’re not particularly fussy eaters) but perfectly acceptable- what is NOT acceptable is the THREE hairs we found in different dishes on 3 different occasions. This can happen to anyone.. but 3 times?! Lastly for the not so good points. And to be fair, this is stated in their literature, this place is difficult to navigate without encountering stairs at every turn, so not for anyone with mobility issues. The very nature of its location forces there to be many stairs. So moving on to the more positive aspects - Firstly , the view . Just beautiful , mountains dropping down into the ocean, lovely. Stunning sunsets. Secondly, the cleaning staff , really exceptional, with the exception of the glass clearing away around the pool area but the pools themselves are lovely and clean and very well

We had an amazing time at this place. Its set on a cliff and there are a lot of steps but after eating several courses from breakfast to dinner and snacks in between, it was a much needed workout. There is a mini train going up and down every few minutes for those who can't climb stairs, which was really helpful. But the view was beautiful. There's so much to do, water slides, lounging by the pool or spending a day on the beach, playing tennis, basketball or table tennis, we were never bored. There was always enough equipment to go around. Just make sure you book the courts at reception. The only thing missing in this area was a place to play football. Our 5 year old along with a lot of kids of upto 12 year olds just wanted to have a kick about and there are areas that could be repurposed to allow this. Instead most of the boys were playing football in the carpark area by the chapel, not ideal. The staff were friendly and even when it was busy, it didn't feel stressed. A bit shout out to Gledi, the lady serving drinks at the water slide area (who is also a basketball coach), the entertainers were really friendly and helpful, thanks Carina, Enrico and gang! The food could be better, but it wasn't bad. The was a variety but some things like omelettes, bacon could be better. The snack bar on the beach could be better with more offerings in drinks and food. There are a lot of sunbeds but people were still reserving it by 7.30am so get there early, alternatively there's so many sun beds on the beach. The room was clean and spacious and it was good they provided new 2 large water bottles every day.

After overcoming surprise at rooms being high in mountain, we had the most perfect time. One thing we want can’t stress enough-the food was out-worldly, never have we ever seen such quality and offer in All Inclusive hotels. The amenities were awesome, pools were great, beach was lovely. We enjoyed every moment there. Thank You