Fodele Beach Water Park Resort

We have just spent the week at the Fodele Beach Hotel and had a fantastic time. We were a family of 5, with two young children (8&9). On the second day, our children went to kids club and we barely saw them for the rest of the week they enjoyed it so much! The entire entertainment/mini team by Pink Wave were amazing with our children but we were particularly impressed by the dedication and warmth shown by one staff member, Karina. Karina was kind, caring and naturally engaging and will be truly missed by our children.

This is second visit to Fodele Beach as a family with our 5 year old daughter. The hotel is perfect for families, catering for all ages and interests. We absolutely love the waterpark and slides. You are guaranteed a fun day in the sun! The food is beautiful and the hotel offers so many different themed nights to choose from. The staff are absolutely amazing, they are so friendly/ welcoming/helpful from the minute you arrive to the minute you leave. They make an effort to get to know you and greet you on every occasion. They help you arrange excursions, and make everything so simple. We visited the CretAquariam which was amazing!! Definitely a must see! Then visited Heraklion city for the day! The restaurant Ippokampus was beautiful with the best seafood!! 😊 A visit to the Aegeo Spa is a must!!! It can be a little pricey depending on what you choose but it's worth every penny! Katerina is fabulous and makes you feel fantastic! You leave feeling so relaxed and refreshed! My husband loved the selection of water sports by the beach and enjoyed the Jetskis so much!! Our daughter had the best holiday in such a clean, safe and friendly environment!! She loved the kids mini disco each night, which is so fun for the little ones. I would highly recommend Fodele beach for a family friendly holiday! We can't wait to return! (Fanily of 3 visiting from Belfast NI)

The hotel is beautiful, but if you don’t do stairs then it’s not for you. Our room was lovely, air con was great and had a gorgeous view but we had 134 steps up to it from main reception. There is a train that runs during the day, but doesn’t start till 10.30am and stops at 8.00pm. This means you have to walk up and down at breakfast and up and down at night. A bit tricky if you want to take a drink up to your room at night to sit on the balcony as by the time we got up to our room I had spilled most of mine. There is nothing around the hotel, no shops or bars to walk to apart from one wee shop on the beach and a couple of restaurants. The shop on the beach was much cheaper than the hotel shop. We were there in May. Weather was lovely and the Waterpark was fairly quiet. We found the pools cold, but once you were in they were fine especially on the days the temperatures were in the early 30’s. We always went to the quieter pool which was near the beach and never had any bother getting a sunbed. There’s a lift up to the bar area. Just a shame there’s no music playing at the pool during the day. We are used to holidays with music and fun activities round the pool. We found the food a bit repetitive, but always found something to eat. The ‘fish’ night was almost all fish which wasn’t great for non fish eaters. The cakes were delicious. I wasn’t keen on the vodka based cocktails. I’m a vodka drinker but they just didn’t taste that good. The lime daiquiri was lovely as was the pina colada. The white wine was nice too. All in all this is a lovely hotel with stunning views, a great waterpark and beach. It will definitely suit some families, but we wouldn’t return only because of the location and the many steps up to the rooms.

I loved the body scrub with cretan herbal mix. The specialist was wery profesional. That gentle whisper in the ear “is everything ok” during the procedure just melted the tension in my body and lead to relaxation journey. Deffinetely recomend to try spa services! ＜3

Had really high expectations for this place. Really raved about on social media and we were excited to visit Greece for the first time. My first point is important for those travelling with children……There are no lifeguards at the pool, and whilst i understand you are responsible for supervising your children, it would have been comforting knowing that a lifeguard was present. Not a lot of people know life saving skills. That being said, we closely supervised the 4 year old with us. ROOMS Safe in room Shower /wet room Rooms clean and tidy Tea and coffee in rooms Blackout blinds Air con Balcony Toiletries TV - basic TV guide Decent wardrobe space Listing stated mini bar service in room for additional cost. Was not even offered this. Onsite shop - very expensive and there is nowhere else to shop so you have little choice Check in was quick and staff very helpful when taking your luggage to rooms. There are a lot of slopes here, which can be very physically challenging. Luckily there is a train which runs around the resort during the day. However it was out of action on our last 3 days. The hotel staff use golf carts to help you around which is great given the number of slopes here. As per, having to get up at the crack of dawn if you had any chance of getting sunbeds. Frustrating to see beds reserved and empty for most of day. On our last day, notes were attached to beds stating that items would be removed if unoccupied. This never happened. Sadly, the food was repetitive, same things every day. We were not at all impressed by the foods available. The queues for the restaurant and drinks are long! This was frustrating particularly as we were travelling with a 4 year old! Snacks and lunches were the same everyday. Pizza, pasta, chips with the usual salads. Any meats were very dry. Asian night was decent food and we managed to eat a decent meal. On several occasions, staff did not replenish food quickly enough. One evening the queues were so long we had to sit separately to accommodate our group of 6. If you wish to sit outdoors to eat, you end up on cheap folding chairs which really lets the place down. One evening the queue was so long we went and had a drink and came back. When we came back the childrens buffet was closed. I felt that there was less choice when dining later in the evening. The self serve drink stations were brilliant and was a relief that you didnt have to queue for a drink with your meal. Hotel staff in general seemed really miserable. I always felt rushed when ordering drinks. The entertainment staff were great though! Rooms were okay, but given the cost of this place my expectations were much higher. The guy who swaps towels was very agressive on one of the days where it rained. He was shouting out that people had let towels get wet. He then ignored the queue of people wanting to swap towels. I walked to reception to get clean towels and was told to go to the man at the pool. I explained wh

Nice Hotel, good Service and very clean. I really liked the Spa and the Massage from Maria. I felt so relaxed after that. Food is also good and the Entertainment in the evening ist cool. The kids loved the beach and the train which goes every few minutes.

Brilliant massage from Raphael and service, staff so friendly and made me feel very comfortable. Spoke about my needs, job, sports I do before we started, any past injuries and advice going forwards..Would really recommend and hope to get time to go back.

The hotel and water park are spotless. The staff attentive and friendly. The food is fresh and delicious. Good variety, inc. drinks. The shop is very well stocked and reasonable. Plenty of refreshing pools. Rooms are cleaned daily & fresh water is left. The blonde lady in the waterpark is funny and friendly. Had a wonderfully relaxing massage with Maria in the Spa and Katarina is so professional and friendly. Thank you. Beach is clean, lots of sunbeds, water is so clear, grab a snorkel from the shop and see the fish! There is a train up and down the hill every few mins. Can grab a buggy back to yr room at the end of the evening if wanted. Thankyou Fodele. We will be back. 😀

Well this hotel is absolutely beautiful! The food was amazing and lots of different choices! But there is a few negatives as to why we wouldnt go back .. the pools are absolutely freezing, like colder then any holiday pool ive been too and my daughter refused to get in it ! She loved the small heated pool but its undercover and not many sunbeds around it and also in the coldest area of the hotel. The queue for drinks in the evening were very long, they didnt have enough staff to cater but they did the best they could and were the friendliest members of staff there. Now the evening and daytime entertainment was very poor. There was nothing by the pool and very rarely seen anything happening down on the beach apart from yoga. The kids club was disappointing as when i went to look at it with my daughter there were kids running in and out and the staff were not paying attention so this put me off putting my daughter in kids club so she didnt attend. The evening entertainment was not very good. My daughter enjoyed a couple of the disney nights but everything else we either sat by bar or went bed early because we were bored. The hotel is in the middle of nowhere, the hotel say the buses are easy to get but we waited and 7 buses went past all absolutely full and the same the next day. Taxis were like 40 euros each way if you wanted to go anywhere. Housekeeping were very good and cleaned to a high standard. There is a regular train to take you up to the water park which was very helpful. All in all beautiful hotel but the entertainment let it down and freezing cold pools. I would of been happy with a game of bingo but sadly nothing like that was on.