Avra Imperial Hotel

Property class: 5 and above
Luxury hotel with full-service spa, connected to the convention center, near Orthodox Academy of Crete

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Avra Imperial Hotel features a free kids' club and puts you within a 15-minute walk of Orthodox Academy of Crete. Guests can visit the spa to be pampered with deep-tissue massages, body wraps, or facials, and Basilico, one of 5 restaurants, serves Mediterranean cuisine and is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Other highlights at this luxurious hotel include 4 outdoor pools, an indoor pool, and a beach bar. Fellow travelers love the helpful staff.
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Reviews

9.0 out of 10
Wonderful

Popular amenities

  • Pool
  • Pet friendly
  • Free parking
  • Free WiFi

Room options

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Deluxe Room

9.2 out of 10
Wonderful
(5 reviews)
  • Garden view
  • 32 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed OR 2 Twin Beds
  • Free wired internet

Deluxe Room (Sharing Pool)

  • Garden view
  • 32 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed OR 2 Twin Beds
  • Free wired internet

Deluxe Room, Private Pool

  • Garden view
  • 32 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed OR 2 Twin Beds
  • Free wired internet

Family Room

  • 40 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Twin Sofa Bed
  • Free wired internet

Deluxe Room, Pool View

  • 32 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed OR 2 Twin Beds
  • Free wired internet

Deluxe Suite

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(1 review)
  • Partial ocean view
  • 60 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Double Sofa Bed
  • Free wired internet

Deluxe Suite, Private Pool

  • 60 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Double Sofa Bed
  • Free wired internet

Executive Suite, Private Pool, Pool View

  • 90 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Twin Sofa Bed
  • Free wired internet

Executive Suite

  • 78 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Twin Sofa Bed
  • Free wired internet

Junior Suite, Private Pool

  • 36 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed
  • Free wired internet

Junior Suite, 2 Bedrooms

  • 64 sq m
  • 2 bedrooms
  • Sleeps 6
  • 2 King Beds
  • Free wired internet

Premium Room - Residence Collection (Adults Only 13+)

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(2 reviews)
  • 32 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 2 Twin Beds and 1 Twin Sofa Bed OR 1 King Bed and 1 Twin Sofa Bed
  • Free wired internet

Premium Room, Private Pool - Residence Collection (Adults Only 13+)

  • 32 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed OR 2 Twin Beds
  • Free wired internet

Premium Junior Suite, Private Pool - Residence Collection (Adults Only 13+)

  • 36 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Twin Sofa Bed
  • Free wired internet

Premium Suite - Residence Collection (Adults Only 13+)

  • 60 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Twin Sofa Bed
  • Free wired internet

Premium Suite, Private Pool - Residence Collection (Adults Only 13+)

  • 60 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Twin Sofa Bed
  • Free wired internet

Junior Suite, Pool View

  • 40 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 King Bed and 1 Twin Sofa Bed
  • Free wired internet

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About the neighborhood

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Kolymvari, Platanias, Crete Island, 73006

What's nearby

  • Rapaniana Beach - 1 min walk - 0.1 km
  • Gonia Monastery - 10 min walk - 0.9 km
  • Orthodox Academy of Crete - 12 min walk - 1.0 km
  • Platanias Beach - 14 min drive - 16.7 km
  • Falassarna Beach - 38 min drive - 30.0 km

Getting around

  • Ioannis Daskalogiannis Airport (CHQ) - 46 min drive
  • Bus station shuttle (surcharge)

Restaurants

  • ‪Lounge Bar - ‬2 min drive
  • ‪Μπουκιά & Γεύσεις - ‬4 min drive
  • ‪Ioannis Kafenagogeio - ‬11 min walk
  • ‪Freshness - ‬9 min walk
  • ‪Μύλος Καφέ - ‬1 min walk

About this property

Avra Imperial Hotel

  • Avra Imperial Hotel features a free kids' club and puts you within a 15-minute walk of Orthodox Academy of Crete. Guests can visit the spa to be pampered with deep-tissue massages, body wraps, or facials, and Basilico, one of 5 restaurants, serves Mediterranean cuisine and is open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Other highlights at this luxurious hotel include 4 outdoor pools, an indoor pool, and a beach bar. Fellow travelers love the helpful staff.

All inclusive details

  • All-inclusive room rates at Avra Imperial Hotel are available. These rates are higher because they include onsite food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply).

Gratuities and taxes

  • Gratuities are included and additional gratuities at guests' discretion are accepted.

Food and beverages

    • All buffet and à la carte meals, snacks, and beverages included
    • Room service during certain hours
    • In-room minibar (all beverages included)

Land activities

    • Kids club
    • Childcare

At a glance

Hotel size

    • 328 rooms
    • Arranged over 3 floors

Arriving/Leaving

    • Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: anytime
    • Contactless check-in available
    • Express check-out available
    • Early check-in subject to availability
    • Check-out time is noon
    • Contactless check-out available
    • Late check-out subject to availability

Special check-in instructions

    • Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
    • Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Required at check-in

    • Credit card, debit card, or cash deposit required for incidental charges
    • Government-issued photo ID may be required

Children

    • Up to 2 children (11 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
    • Babysitting*
    • Supervised childcare*
    • Free children's club

Pets

    • Pets allowed (dogs only, 1 total, up to 13 lbs per pet)*
    • Service animals welcome
    • Food and water bowls available

Internet

    • Free WiFi and wired internet access in public areas
    • Free WiFi (speed: 25+ Mbps) and wired internet access in rooms

Parking

    • Free secured, covered onsite self parking
    • Free secured, covered onsite valet parking
    • Electric vehicle charging point on site

Transfers

    • Bus station shuttle*

Other information

    • Smoke-free property

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Reviews

Avra Imperial Hotel Reviews

9.0

Wonderful

9.2

Cleanliness

7.2

Location

9.0

Staff & service

9.2

Property conditions & facilities

Guest review summary

What guests liked

  • The restaurant offered a wide variety of excellent food options, including high-quality à la carte restaurants and rich buffets, with some guests praising the exceptional gastronomic experience. (22 reviews)
  • The all-inclusive package offered a large variety of drinks and food with no restrictions, providing a great value for the guests. (6 reviews)
  • The breakfast buffet offered a great selection with many options to choose from. (4 reviews)
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Reviews

Verified review

8/10 Very good

Nice resort overall. Breakfast buffet was excellent with a lot of selection. The loungers by the main pool are hard with no cushions. Residence collection and seaside pools are comfortable but they are adults only. Pool bar staff just stand around at the bar instead of walking around to take orders. Recommend stocking up at the shop across the street and serving yourself poolside.
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10/10 Exceptional

We had an amazing stay. Everything was great - the staff were very friendly, the room and hotel was super clean, and the food was tasty as well. We can't complain and will return.
Verified review

10/10 Exceptional

The Best hotel and superb service, staff really go the extra mile to make it a holiday to remember. Great dining options and amenities. Beautiful hotel too and surrounding area
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10/10 Exceptional

Excellent Service. Excellent resort and facilities. Great selection of food, very clean rooms, tidy pool areas. Very friendly and accommodating staff from the reception to the dining areas. An excellent resort to relax in comfort. Will visit again. Deserves its 5 star rating.
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10/10 Exceptional

I had a wonderful time at the hotel! I loved the spa, the pool and had the best night sleeps! It is a shame that the main restaurant does not serve a real espresso from ground coffee beans as it would have been nice to enjoy a good cup of coffee with the wonderful breakfast, but despite this, I will happily return to the hotel
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10/10 Exceptional

We loved our stay. The hotel is very comfortable and the staff is helpful. The pools are amazing (although a bit cold in the low season). The facilities are in great condition. We couldn’t have asked for more from this hotel!
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10/10 Exceptional

The room was spacious, clean, and comfortable. The property was well maintained and beautiful. The staff from housekeeping, bar, concierge, wait staff to front desk were fantastic. They all went out of their way to make you feel welcomed and valued. Thank you all for an enjoyable time.
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10/10 Exceptional

Great hotel

Great hotel with many facilities. Lots of pools, nice spa, great gym and nice grounds. The restaurants are good and many options. Unfortunately they don’t label the foods in the buffet well. This makes it hard for vegans, people with allergies etc, I am sure they could do a little better on this!
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10/10 Exceptional

The service was very good! The employees were very kind and helpful. Especially Jessy and George. We had a very pleasant stay and I would recommend the resort!
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10/10 Exceptional

Ideal property for families with children. The luxury all-inclusive package we booked was also great. A special call-out for the staff in the pool-bar where we spent a lot of our time. They were pleasant, warm, offering great level of service. They made our stay special. :-)
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10/10 Exceptional

My daughter (15) and I loved this hotel. Our stay was just amazing. We enjoyed our room with a private pool and the awesome pool view. The food was amazing. We liked the buffet. The staff were very nice and the cleaning lady was very kind and caring. It’s a nice hotel for families too. We will be back. Thank you for being a part of our wonderful vacation. Your hotel was a big part of this wonderfulness.
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10/10 Exceptional

Would recommend

Was such a beautiful hotel, food was amazing out of this world so much choice. Staff all so friendly. Would recommend. Sun beds and chairs around pool was not very comfortable after a while.
Verified review

10/10 Exceptional

Quiet, relaxing resort

We spent a few days in one of the larger suites. It was modern, quiet, comfy. The food was good - not the best we have had but above average. Staff was extremely friendly and accommodating. We'd definitely consider it again for quiet/relaxation time. They probably could pay a little extra attention to cleanliness especially around dining areas.
Verified review

8/10 Very good

Very good value for the money

This hotel has a really good spa with gym, saunas and jacuzzi. Rooms are very modern, soacious and clean but the bed is extrmely hard. The buffet restaurant was more tyan enough for us for the weekend - they have extremely wide range of varieties on table and the selection changes day to day. But the staff was absolutely lost with allergy information and they had my wife eat food with nuts and almonds several times although she kept asking if it was safe ot not. Very poor job on several occasions from the restaurant staff. Otjer than that it was a very nice and relaxing stay!
Verified review

8/10 Very good

The resort was great for the excellent selection of restaurants, food, pools, cleanliness/spotless. Great if one wishes to relax/lounge for several days and enjoy amazing food. On the other hand reception staff seemed a bit defensive and evasive with encountered issues. One particularly annoying thing was 2 treadmills for the hundreds of people at the facility. Having to wait for the right moment for exercise equipment, to work off all that overeating was disappointing. The property is not beachfront, and the beach was painfully rocky. Good stay nonetheless.
Verified review

10/10 Exceptional

Nothing unique, just a regular hotel property. Unfortunately the food isn’t really Greek style and could be better. We decided to eat outside. Also the noise of the kids can be a bit annoying. But it’s not an adult only hotel, therefore you have to try to be seated at least outside. Staff has always been nice and try to accommodate our requests. The a la card restaurants you have to make an online reservation and on the day you get confirmation for almost an hour later - sorry, that’s not how it should work. We canceled!
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10/10 Exceptional

Fantastic all inclusive stay with family

Avra was a stunning large hotel offering multiple large pools with a smaller pool near the beachside, multitude of restaurants with some needing pre-reservation but easy to do throught the link they send you, covering asian, italian and pool side snacks as well as main buffets. The all inclusive option is fantastic and large variety of drinks all available within this. They catered amazingly for my 8 month old son especially for food, Jessie at the concierege helped us greatly in putting together meals to send to the chef and be prepared for him. Overall a few less vegetarian options (as mains) for adults but they did make efforts to do the other dishes without the meat. Staff were all very polite and courteous and hotel was large and very clean and maintined well. Spa area also large with indoor pool, sauna, steam lovely massage therapies also Beach very close by but more pebbles than sand Provided us with many baby amenities
Verified review

10/10 Exceptional

We traveled through Crete and stayed at a double bed luxury room with pool view. It was in de building across the street so not in the main building but it was much better over there. Perfectly for couple without kids. Our restaurant was much smaller and less crowded with extra chosen meals from 5 star chef Babi. At this point we wanne thank Nikos, Argiro, Manolis, Giannis and Elaine for your services. At the entrance is a baby kitty and lots of good places to enjoy. To mention the beach is full of Stones maybe you could build a little path with sand sacks or something similar and the cleaners could be a bit precariously. Nevertheless it was a great hotel and so beautiful as well. Thank you for the stuff members who made it more nicer there for us. Greetings Ari and Zoi
Verified review

8/10 Very good

We stayed in the adults only area which was lovely. We had our own private pool and the room was very spacious. We had no issues with getting sunbeds around the pool in this area but I know those in the main part of the hotel did have. However the sunbeds were the most uncomfortable I have ever come across and whilst the room accommodated three of us, there were only ever two sunbeds on our private patio, despite us asking for another one three times. Food was great, loved being able to dine in each of restaurants once during our stay as we were all inclusive. The prices for these restaurants were as expensive as eating out in the UK so must be pricey for those on half board. The buffet was good, however the food was lukewarm most of the time and not hot. I have been all inclusive before at other hotels and they manage to keep the food hot. Not sure why they couldn't here, despite seeing other reviews complaining about the same issue. All in all, I would stay in the Adults only section again (though its actually age 13 upwards) but I don't think I would go to the main section of the hotel as the sunbed issue and waiting 30 mins to get served in the evening would be a really pain and put me off. Only one additional last thought, they need a standard waste paper bin in the room, the small bins in the bathroom are not good enough for the rubbish such as empty bottles, food packets, paper etc, so we ended up collecting it in a pile for housekeeping to remove.
Verified review

8/10 Very good

Our stay overall was good, the food was great, facilities etc were good; and staff were extremely helpful. Some things however were not great, hence the four stars: - Upon arrival to the room, although cleaned, the sheets had stains on them, room not entirely cleaned as dust and cob webs on furniture, also there were tiny lizards and other insects roaming around. - There were cats wondering around in the food areas and restaurants, which wasn’t pleasant as not everyone is a cat lover, the staff didn’t respond to this very well, at some times there was also a dog wondering around. - It wasn’t very friendly for children, lacking facilities. - Our all inclusive package was self service only in the breakfast and lunch main buffet halls, where you can choose what to eat, but simple things like a soft drinks machine and tea/coffee and beer etc was all waiter service, it would’ve been good to be able to just get these yourselves. They did have a water and juice machine. The snack bars were only all waiter service and nothing to just grab yourself; and although fairly timely, it’s still not very convenient when you cannot just help yourself and have to wait for food and drink. Not a major issue, but good to mention. - The venue said they have variety of gluten free options however in reality these were not great nor enjoyable. They had one type of GF bread which was not nice at all. If the above were addressed, then we would be really happy to visit here again.
Verified review

10/10 Exceptional

I’ve stayed here many times and it is my top choice for Kolymbari!
Verified review

8/10 Very good

Top!
Verified review

6/10 Good

There is no real housekeeping there
Verified review

6/10 Good

Staff were all lovely, so helpful and were the highlight of the stay. Due to lack of staff being on roster we weren’t able to book the spa over the weekend. Our room was quite worn and in the bath room quite grubby. Just felt a like the place was a little run down.
Verified review

10/10 Exceptional

Great stay, would stay again!