Six years ago this week (on 29 January 2001) http://www.CreteTravel.com the Guide to Crete went live on the internet.

I remember working on it non-stop the last few days before the launch – with the culmination of a 24 hour stint the day before… to launch at 9 am on the morning of the 29th.
What satisfaction and joy! To share with you all the discoveries, the tastes and thrills of Crete.
A sunny January day it was, so after catching up with some sleep, grilled fish at a beachfront taverna it had to be (it never tasted better) !

We included in the features a free “Ask a Question” service.
This gave us tremendous opportunity to find out what information visitors to Crete were looking for and “hone” our skills of providing helpful, informative, concise replies – and gleaning/understanding what people were really after in their questions.
We have answered since over 2500 questions – the mind races to think of it.

The praise we received from the visitors to our site gave us renewed energy to continue offering even more advice and help – and the need to take it to the next level:
Helping them practically, by providing them with reservation services for the small hotels that we had uncovered for them.

In the same year we launched http://www.Crete-Hotels-Rooms.com, receiving great thanks and feedback from our guests who had come from all areas of the world.
Being able to offer hotels we had “discovered” and visited, photographed and described with our own freshly-inspired words – was a reward in itself.

All this was followed by steady growth and our absolute adherence to honesty in describing the hotels we had found – and truth, accuracy and clarity in talking with our guests and appraising how best to satisfy their travel dreams and wishes.

“Many hotels later”, with the same philosophy, we launched http://www.SuperbGreece.com which will soon celebrate its own second anniversary, to offer small beautiful hotels and inns we discover one by one in other magical areas of Greece.

The adventure for us continues.

The pleasure for our guests – we will make sure – only increases.

CreteTravel.com celebrates 5 years of stunning the world and informing discerning travelers who want to know the real deal, the plain truth and the useful stuff about Crete.

On January 29 in 2001 at around 11.00 in the morning local time the website went live on the internet and has spawned a story which is now part of internet history.

As the information was consumed – appreciated by many for its frank style, user-friendly, easy-navigation, lack of hidden agenda, shear, informative and appropriate – requests started arriving for help with choosing just the right place to stay, that special inn, that romantic suite, that delightfully positioned villa.
We listened, we responded and later that year Crete-Hotels-Rooms.com was launched. Offering more true (accurate) photographs of each hand-picked hotel or villa, brutally honest descriptions, full price information, no mysteries, no tricks – just the plain truth and a whole lot of expert personal service, one-to-one advice and a driving desire to offer the best websites about anywhere in the world….but about Crete; the website and travel service has grown every year since and….yes, given birth to another, namely SuperbGreece.com which step-by-step is covering other chosen parts of Greece with selected, hand-picked hotels and inns with that extra charm, the delight a true and discerning traveler wishes for. Again personal service – all questions answered, any advice given, knowledgeable suggestions made – is provided to guest coming from all of Europe, USA, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, UAE, South Africa, Israel, Canada, Argentina, Hong Kong, India, and most countries (we are getting there too ! ) of the world.

Happy Anniversary.
There is so much more to come.