The Bio Hotel Apartments are very good, exceptionally clean and amazingly friendly. The hotel is a four star hotel and it scores four stars deservedly. The breakfast is fine, usual fare in Greek hotels, but nice with friendly and attentive service. There is a reasonable selection of continental and hot foods, with some traditional dishes each day.
The pool area is a reasonable size and the hotel is designed well around the pool so that it gets sunshine fully from around 10am to 6pm in the evening, when it closes. Although it did close at 4pm on Greek night which was a bit annoying as you did feel they could have put dinner back to 7pm and let people stay at the pool until at least 5pm. Then again we were on holiday so a local bar wasn't an altogether place to fall into instead. There is no real clamber for sunbeds here either and unless you were just unlucky, or turned up at 2pm there was something here available most of the time. Either way the beach is two minutes away and absolutely enormous so you could go there too.
We stayed for ten nights and had dinner here three times. It was pretty decent and at 9 euros for adults and 4 euros 50 for children was not bad value, especially compared to eating out. There were plenty of options for starters and desserts, but on main course there were only really two options so choice was a little bit limited. They did a lot of testing though to make sure the food was still warm with thermometers and the like, which was good to see. However, even though it is more convenient with children, we tend to try and eat in local restaurants and there are some really good options for food in Rethymnon.
Rethymnon itself is a very pleasant resort and its main charm is also the main charm of the hotel too. It is completely mixed from a nationality perspective. In the main I guess the majority are from Sweden and Holland, but there are a nice mix of British, Germans, Italians, French and Belgians, as well as East Europeans. If there is an advert for European Union success it is Rethymnon. Without the cliques of mass numbers from a single nation it brings about a really lovely atmosphere and this was never better demonstrated than in the Bio Hotel.
For great food head into the old town of Rethymnon. Some of the restaurants there are lovely, especially in the smaller back streets and well worth exploring to find. Try any that have the Crete Food standards awards. In the main they are identifiable by the lack of pictures of food outside.
All in all a nice resort and very clean, hospitable hotel and one I would be happy to recommend to someone going to Rethymnon.
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