Sunshine Crete Beach

Where to start with this one? Best way I can describe this place is a hotel that seems to be run on shoe string budget. The hotel, dinning room and the room are clean. The food is also very good and the staff are very pleasant on the whole. And they are doing there best with what they have to work with. We stayed in a family room that was clean. Although the sink was blocked on arrival and the back door didn’t lock. We did report the door which never got sorted and I ended up fixing it myself. The double bed was two single bed pushed together. I don’t think that’s good enough personally. There was one single bed and a camp style bed for the kids. Which caused argument as the camp style bed wasn’t comfortable. Wi-Fi doesn’t work either. The place needs more money putting in to make it worth the cost. The hotel itself is dated. No air conditioning in the dinning room which made eating feel like a sauna at times. The air conditioning in the rooms works well so they stay cool providing you have a spare key card to leave the electricity on. There are no other place to escape the heat. Little shade around the pool. There’s frame work around one side that would of had canvas covering it at point in the past. But long gone now. So very little shade. There are some parasols around the pool but not many. More on the beach to be fair. I do feel there should be somewhere the escape the heat, either that been a bar with air condition or a lounge room. There is lack of sun loungers around the pool and the beach. You’ve got to be on it early to reserve one as they go quickly. I’d say there just needs to be more on the beach and around the pool to accommodate for the amount of guests the hotel takes. Through the day there’s one bar on the beach that is manned by two staff so there’s generally a queue. There’s a bar at the pool which isn’t used at all. If you are spending a day at the pool you have to go to the beach bar to get a drink. It’s not too far but why the pool bar isn’t operational to half the queues and have available drinks at the pool is beyond me. Again down to working on a minimal staff budget I think. There’s a gym onsite which in the pictures online has a good amount of equipment. This was one reason we booked this place as I workout regularly at home and having the gym here was a massive plus to booking this place. But, on going to the gym I discovered the state of it. Two rough spin bikes, a tired cross trainer, a bench press machine that’s seen better days (no pin in the weights, just an old piece of metal as pictured) and a broken rowing machine with no handle. The gym seems to be more of an extension of the play ground for children as it’s not manned or controlled so people roam in freely. It does say the minimum age is 16 but nobody seems to follow that rule. There’s is a small playground for children but it’s very limited. The bar on the evening is ok but again under staffed. Though the day there’s a beer pump at the beach bar whi