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[ARGONAUT]

Plakias and south Crete were great! weather was great, done a lot of walking, good beaches outside Plakias, took lots of great pics - no stress ! when my mates arrived for thelast week - we all had good time, dined well, drank well - had a laughs and some rough mornings ! Only moan is the lack of a decent club - The Meltemi has died me thinks and they should hire a new DJ! We stayed at the new Myrtis star hotel in Plakias, I can honestly say the were the best rooms I have ever stayed in in Greece, brand new hotel, jacuzzi bath shower in all rooms, big rooms too at very reasonable rate!!!  Far end of Souda probaly the best nearby beach but best beach was at Frangocastello..............Next time I go to Crete will be in April / May when all is pristine and new blossoms...
While walking i found that they are using some gorges as rubbish dumps, completely messes up the local enviroment and i was disappointed. Thanks to Anso Travel for the great transfers...

cheers  jason

[harribobs]

Hi Jason

Good to hear you enjoyed your stay in Plakias and Southern Crete, certainly spring is a great time to be walking, with everything in bloom

i am surprised you picked Francokastelli as your favourite beach, we stayed there for one night but weren't very impressed, to my mind it doesn't compare with the 'far end' of plakias beach

[beachcombers]

.....beach, we stayed there for one night but weren't very impressed, to my mind it doesn't compare with the 'far end' ....

Harribobs,
Did you really stay one night on the beach, (on your age?   ) must have been chilly in May? :'(
Perhaps you have been waiting for ghost of Francocastello!  

Anyway we found the place a bit desert like and did not like it that much either.
Looking forward to be back home at P* in the beginning May.

Beachcombers

[harribobs]

Harribobs,
Did you really stay one night on the beach, (on your age?   ) must have been chilly in May? :'(

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Good Lord No!!     my days of sleeping on the beach are long gone

the Artemis studios, very nice indeed and i can recommend their taverna as well

[Susan K]

Are you talking about The Artemis next to the Oasis hotel because I stayed there last year and there wasn't a taverna?

Susan

[Rodger]

i am surprised you picked Francokastelli as your favourite beach, we stayed there for one night but weren't very impressed, to my mind it doesn't compare with the 'far end' of plakias beach
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Maybe you're thinking of the town beach?

There's a long, duny, undeveloped and quite beautiful beach to the east of the town (at least it was still undeveloped in, er, 1991).

[harribobs]

Are you talking about The Artemis next to the Oasis hotel because I stayed there last year and there wasn't a taverna?

Susan
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not quite sure about the Oasis, Susan, it was the first place across the road from the Kreta taverna, the actual taverna was on the sea-side of the building. We stayed there about three years ago

Maybe you're thinking of the town beach?

Yes I am, we didn't see the dunes    we walked on to Sfakia the next day

[ARGONAUT]

hi

i picked frangokastelli because the littlle protected bay was like a giant swimming pool, protected by the rock reef from tide, water was so calm and clear, also was all sand and gently shelved into the water -no nasty stones.........and the far  right taverna was just a god send..................

cheers

p.s has anyone heard of the story that there is a wreck of a ww2 german aircraft in the gorge behing plakias? just bits left seemingly???




Hi Jason

Good to hear you enjoyed your stay in Plakias and Southern Crete, certainly spring is a great time to be walking, with everything in bloom

i am surprised you picked Francokastelli as your favourite beach, we stayed there for one night but weren't very impressed, to my mind it doesn't compare with the 'far end' of plakias beach
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[harribobs]

Sounds like we missed the best part of Francokastelli, but in our defense, we had walked there from Plakias that day.

I've never heard of a wrecked german plane up there (don't know if anyone else has, I have heard of a wrecked Mig down the coast in the foothills of the white mountains tho