Hotel Filoxenia

Pros +

• Didn't have time to experience the breakfast. Location was perfect for our needs, and the staff was friendly.
• Super clean, and excellent location close to everything, but out of the way enough to be quiet. A lot more character than the high-rise hotels. Owner was so helpful in sorting out all kinds of things - we made some arrangements through him, and some independently, but we should have gone through him for everything taxis, tours, rental car, he really looked after us well for everything he arranged (we had a very bad experience with something we arranged ourselves through Viator/TripAdvisor that wouldn't have happened if we had just booked through the hotel owner). While we were there, breakfast was being offered at a the nearby hotel Kriti. At first we thought it was a little expensive, but for Crete prices the breakfast through the hotel was a good deal. It also let us see a bigger, newer hotel - nice, but no personality. We were happy to be at the Filoxenia.
• Excellent breakfast provided in nearby hotel

Cons -

• The property doesn't look too promising from the outside - though that's not unusual in older areas - and it just so happened the road was also getting paved so some times there was noise or dust (but it'll be very nice when it's done). And of course while it's half a block from the ocean, and you can see the ocean from the balcony, if money was not object an ocean view would've been nice. But inside, especially in the rooms, everything is wonderfully maintained and very very clean, and waterfront would have been double or triple the price, and probably noisy. For us, this was perfect, especially the location where various people in our party could come and go to different activities.