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.

A really good, family friendly hotel and resort. We travelled with 6 children aged 3 or under and 6 adults and stayed in superior family rooms with garden views. The rooms were great, two bedrooms and a bathroom with a fridge, tv and excellent air conditioning. The hotel is nice and clean with a good variety of bars and restaurants. The water park is a great feature and the pools are nice. The beach and sea is lovely and good selection of sun beds and shade across the beach. Access around the hotel is tricky if you have a pram as there are lots of different layers to the complex separated by steps so I’d recommend taking a carrier if you can. There are some negative reviews about food and bar queues but we found the food was really nice, especially the beach bbq which was excellent. There were queue at some of the bars but not long and they moved quickly. The entertainment is a bit budget compared to other resorts we’ve stayed at so that brings it down a notch on the review. I wouldn’t visit if travelling with adults only as children dominate the pool during the day.

Brilliant experience at the Aegeo Spa at Fodele beach. Beautiful Space and very welcoming ladies there to help. Thank you Katerina for your service, so friendly. I highly recommend visiting the Aego spa at Fodele beach. 10/10 definately worth checking it out

First of all I would like to say that the hotel is in beautiful location and the staff is very friendly. Unfortunately the hotel is understaffed and the queues were long. The main negative thing for us was day and night entertainment. There wasn’t much going on at the pool or beach during the day, no music at the pool area. Also evening entertainment felt like a nursery show. Really disappointing. Hotel requires walking quite a lot of steps which we didn’t mind. Also, we’ve had a car, so we managed to do some exploring without the car we would be really bored. Overall good, but definitely not 5*.

Travelling as a single mum, this has been a wonderful holiday. The staff were incredible, especially Pantalons americano coffee and Christina tidying up. Everything was clean, always felt safe and looked after. Special shout out to the aegeo spa with great massage for mum and son together, where my 8 year old had a chocolate aromatherapy massage and Maria really took my shoulder tension away. Finally loved the mini club and entertainments team - Beas water gym was a fave, and the staff have been so kind at the kids club. Great break.

Fodele Beach is a great hotel for a family holiday. The rooms and hotel are clean, modern and well decorated and the views to the beach and hills are stunning. The wide variety of swimming pools and easy access to the (very clean) beach is great. The food in the main restaurant for all courses is good quality and plenty of variety. We also attended the Sunday night beach BBQ which was really good. Our 5 year old loved going to mini/kids club activities both in the day and the evening, all the entertainers were so friendly and we felt very comfortable with them all. The team put a lot of effort into the Sunday night animation show and our son really enjoyed the production. Whilst the location seems remote, there is easy access to a bus to Herakleion which runs each hour and takes around 30 minutes, and a team member who sits in reception each day to help book excursions and guide you with tourist queries. We found it quite easy to travel around once directed. I also enjoyed a visit to the spa where all the team were very professional and made me feel comfortable and relaxed. One piece of feedback is that we were unable to book in for any a la carte meals as all the restaurants were fully booked for our time, but appreciate it is a busy hotel and the lovely hostess ensured we got booked onto the BBQ instead which was appreciated.

This was our first time at an all inclusive and it was above and beyond what we hoped and expected. The location is absolutely lush. A short trip from the airport and you're in the bay of fodele, a beautiful bay surrounded by mountains predominantly occupied by the resort. There is a few other small hotels & a gift shop down the beach and the road runs close by to the hotel, although despite being in one of the rooms closest to it, it doesn't disturb or encroach. The resort spreads up the hillside and down onto the beach, with bars, snacks and restaurants across multiple levels. I actually can't think of a better location than fodele beach for such a resort. Food: I am a vegetarian and my partner has a nut allergy, severe to peanuts. From a vegetarian point of view there is always a small selection of choices for mains as an addition to the daily pasta, pizza, soup & salad options which are available lunch & dinner every day. The buffet is extensive, with a wide variety of dishes, I sometimes felt disappointed that something I liked the look of often had meat in it (stir fry noodles, with an additional label stating pork etc) but overall the minimum I would have on my plate was 3 different hot food options as well as the backup of pizza! A note for vegans, there was always a vegan pizza, and I believe the pasta may have been vegan as well as plenty of build your own salad, but that was about it I believe (although don't quote me); the vegan pizza often also was topped with peas? Overall I was pretty happy about the food situation, I definitely felt catered for. Also, a crucial addition, the wine is bottomless refill serve yourself style. Amazing. As for nut allergies, everything has a label with details of allergens, although later on in the service some often go missing and the deserts are more or less guess work due to the labels often struggling to correlate particularly obviously to that on show. There was always a variety of nut free options, however the labels often we assumed were saying "may contain" as things like margarita pizza were labeled with nuts. Overall as someone who has lived with a nut allergy for 27years, the deserts aside I found it to be as good an experience as I may have expected from a buffet style restaurant. On our final night we ate at "ambrosia" the Italian restaurant (which with a 7night stay is free for all inclusive for a single booking which includes 5courses!) having noted a nut allergy on the booking they were extremely attentive, coming to the table to outline what was & wasn't containing and re-itterating when we ordered something that has "traces" . It was at this point we realised that we probably should have asked for more assistance in identifying nut traces Vs containing foods in the buffet. The entertainment was overall pretty great we found, as a mid twenties couple. The evening entertainment admittedly wasn't always the greatest. Daytime however the "pink wave" crew who are lovely have a timetab

Fodele Beach Resort is an amazing place to visit. We have been twice now, and have loved each trip! There's loads to do, with the water park on site, loads of pools, the beach just meters from the resort (and right next to one of the pools!) along with water sports and the Aegeo Spa. One of the girls in the spa, Katerina, is really nice and makes you feel so welcomed here! She remembered us from our previous visit and is so lovely. Fodele is one our top 3 places to visit regularly.

This was our first visit to Greece and it certainly exceeded our expectations in every way! The views from the hotel is absolutely stunning - it is not overlooked by any other hotels nearby and felt incredibly serene and calm, a great place to come to relax. Food was fantastic every single night with a large variety to choose from - in particular some beautifully cooked seafood dishes. A huge thank you to the hotel staff who made our stay so wonderful - our children are already asking when can we come back again!