Blue Beach Villas Apartments in Stavros

No hot water for 6 days... Management not up for the job. Overpriced drinks. Double expresso euro 5. Are we in Rome?!! And poor quality. Cleaning people arrive with their with kids in tow... Wifi so so. Better places elsewhere... Never again!

Extremely disappointed—overrated and overpriced. The coffee was 6 euros for a freddo cappuccino, and the barrel beer was a whopping 6.5 euros. Even downtown in the harbor is less expensive. I've never seen a pricier place; they think it’s Mykonos. I don’t recommend it. At this point, it’s a pure scam."

A sad review this because the views from Blue Beach are some of the best. A five minute walk along the shore and you come to an area of sandy beach with caution signs calling to be aware of baby turtles breaking from buried eggs and trying to scurry to the sea.
But the surrounding area is tatty and shoddy and roads in dire need of repair. Which is a cue to acknowledge the same for Blue Beach apartments.
They’re asking top money for bottom end facilities and rooms. Our bathroom was showing signs of mould around the bath. The shower functioned but not correctly. When I booked I asked if the restaurant was open. I was told yes. When we went down to the restaurant we were given the menu. This was to be our last holiday dinner before flying out the next morning.
The very nice young waitress asked us if we were ready to order. Yes we were. And we’re then told most of it wasn’t available and we’re then given a short list of available food. They’d run out if beer, only a bother or two. There was no house wine. They’d run out. We ordered a Mousaka and a chicken dish. My mousaka came. Half an hour later the chicken arrived.
Then we asked for coffee before we retired - it was nine o’clock on our final evening.
There is no coffee the girl said. I’ve turned off the machine.
At a neighbouring table there was a feral cat on the table eating the remains of a diners meal.
We return for breakfast. Quite hungry. It was 24€ for two. The coffee machine was switched off. There was a flask of coffee that had been made earlier. Eggs were available but seemingly not made that hour. So I had two pieces of toast and a cold coffee.
The feeling for us was that this was end of season and they just couldn’t care. It was the one bad experience of the holiday. Crete doesn’t deserve this. And neither do we who pay! Avoid

We went to Blue Beach in the evening by the beach for a drink. 2 Greek coffees with raki (1dl) and 2 small draft beers, €22.00!!!!! Are they crasy? We have been coming to Crete for 15 years and have never seen this. This is a good practice to scare away external customers. At the same time we will advertise to them, which will be free.