Ikaros Beach, Luxury Resort & Spa - Adults Only

This is a beautiful place with lots of greenery, direct access to the beach, nice food options. Some beautiful seaviews. Rooms are kept very clean. The staff at the restaurants, SPA, reception desk and cleaning service is well trained, polite and kind. Food options are varied and food quality is good. All Inclusive was good value for money and included some drinks. 2 bottles of still water are made available in the rooms daily and free drinks are also available at the reception throughout the day. Quite a number of stairs but with some accessible rooms and restaurants. Would definitely come back!

Generally good experience with everything.

The location is stunning, the pools and seating as well as the restaurants are located beautifully along the coastline with views to the sea.

The "village" of bungalows and buildings looks very nice. Greenery is mainted well and is in general beautiful.

What really makes this a recommendable experience is the location/view and the impeccable and immaculate sand beach.

A gem of a resort! Fabulous Seaview room - exceptionally cleaned daily by lovely & friendly Katarina! All the staff were so friendly & helpful especially the food servers Antonis & Eva. My husband & I loved the entire Aegeo Spa team! Katarina manager was knowledgeable & very helpful. Panos is an amazing therapist! A complete oasis of relaxation in a very beautiful & quiet setting with well laid out properties amongst well planted natural vegetation. There wasn’t a bad view! The hotel guests were of varying ages & considerate. Food was very good quality & presented well in the different restaurants. We enjoyed the variety of bars with different atmospheres. The 4 good sized pools had very comfortable sun loungers, however they were on the chilly side at this time of the year. The beach area was good & the sea was good for swimming. Cats! They were clean & friendly. Your decision to adopt adults only was very much appreciated by giving us the most relaxed & pleasant experience. I can highly recommend this hotel to adult guests.

Great Greece. Beautiful Crete. Nice hotel. Fantastic seaside. Excellent food. Highly recommended. Robertas V.P. CEO, BANQUEINVEST*com

After spending 6 nights in another 5-star hotel in the area and getting transferred to Ikaros Beach Resort for our final night the difference is astronomical. This is what 5-stars is and should always be. It's a shame that we only got a chance to be here for a single night, not enough time to experience everything that Ikaros had to offer, however this is definitely going to be my pick in future.

The hotel is very clean, modern yet charming. It has a “small old rural village” feel, so you can just stroll around in the evening. Very romantic and atmospheric and calming.

The service was okay overall, some staff was very kind (especially housekeeping, the PR staff that greets you in the restaurant, spa), some staff not so much (only certain individuals in the restaurant).

I would recommend the hotel, but with just a few small touches, the experience could be even more elevated.

full disclosure: I wan't the one who planned this vacation, and we travelled with two kids and a baby - so it was rough.
this review has been toned down, after I blew of some steam.

service was amazing and everyone very friendly, no doubt about it (except for very rare occasions)
entertainment staff was exceptionally great.
rooms are cleaned, tidied and resupplied regularly.
there are lots of activities available.
in the resort and its pretty self-contained

yet there are things about the design and maintenance and overall concept that made me uncomfortable

:It not very accessible
far from the airport, extra time/money/stress for transport and the hotel Trasport doesn't seem better than airport taxis.
Malia is a bit remote but sort of generic as..
it goes for Comercial tourism
You don't really need to get out of the resort but the surrounding, if even reachable is debatable

moving around the resort:
Depending on your room, you may find yourself disoriented
to get around the resort we usually had to make detours the parking lot or a long winding road through the lobby (which was always well equipped with free refreshments)
Places that should be easily accessible like the beach, kid facilities, some of the pools, spa and most restaurants are usually walled behind one or more stairs , which is a very bad design choice.
BEAUTIFUL BUT TEDIOUS and
IMPRACTICAL

rooms:

Some Rooms are modeled in an open space aesthetic.
so there's not much bathroom privacy. And.
the lights might disturb your family at night.
.other rooms are much better sepereated

the room floors are slick and slippery when wet, very dangerous in a beach resort.

the resort does proud itself on being green and eco-firendly but ants everywhere. my room was often overrun by ants (they are HARMLESS) no matter how clean it was, and there are a few mosquitos.

The place IS very beautiful, and the service IS top notch, yet i have more rants about a lot of small things and it end up being STERSSFUL.

They need to fix a few issues for the resort to fully live to it luxury and prestige, but at least they listen and take it into account.

The place is really beautiful with nice view, great food, really clean and green. I give only 4 stars because the beach had mountains of seaweed and wasnt cleaned even if the beach is private, so i used the swimming pools, which were pretty nice.

The hotel is very beautiful located and has a private beach included which is very long.
The rooms are clean, modern and pretty. There is air-conditionning. The ressort is like a little village with two different outdoor swimming Pools and one indoor and sauna.
My personal highlight and biggest surprise was the definitively the food! The antipasti, the regional olives, fish and the pastry. It was absolutely amazing. Fresh, tasty and very good service. It isn't a classy child hotel, but there is animation programm for children. I felt comfortable the people around me, there was a good mixture of guest types. The only point to mention is, that you need a taxi /journey bus to go there from Heraklion.