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Enjoying Crete for something it offers uniquely, well uniquely found in Crete, and the same for other parts of Greece…

Andy Hayes’ respected travel blog and Website, Sharing Experiences, features the article that gets the travel juices flowing.

Read it here on Sharing Experiences > http://www.sharingtravelexperiences.com/the-real-crete/

3 ways to look at the biggest Greek island, 3 maps of Crete

Crete – interactive Map – find hotels
http://www.crete-hotels-rooms.com/Reservations/Help/Crete_map.htm

This map of Crete includes major attractions, sites, sights and hotels ! all in one…
http://www.crete-hotels-rooms.com/Reservations/Help/Crete_map_Google.htm

Crete standard printed maps
http://www.cretetravel.com/Maps.htm

More than ever to get really good advice is valuable. No less so for travel planning and decisions than anything else.

The personal group of SuperbGreece, CreteHotelRooms and CreteTravel – offer not only on-the-spot expert advice but mold this to what each guest likes best.

When you can find uniquely descriptive, mouth-wateringly-easy-to-use travel websites with honest-promise descriptions of hotels – and – and get free advice, ask questions, talk about where you went last year, why you enjoyed it, what you’d like to enjoy this time – well then, you have the recipe for lifelong-memory-building joyous holidays.

Try it (only available so far for Greece! ) >

Travel Guide to Crete the biggest Greek Island ( “it has everything” )
http://www.CreteTravel.com

Beautiful Small Hotels in Crete ( villas too ! ) >
http://www.Crete-Hotels-Rooms.com

Greece – cherish-able memories and small beautiful hotels >
http://www.SuperbGreece.com

And yes – valuable free advice, without which you may make the wrong vacation choice… but with it you will be happier than a lark singing in the spring and looking forward to summer.

Just a note to remind you that a few days of good weather in the south of England, after the recent bank holiday weekend, may be misleading!

To be sure to “stock up” with inspiration, traveller’s tales, great experiences and last but not least SUNSHINE, there are still a couple of months for that visit to Greece! (Probably more as sunny weather is not a rare sight in southern parts of the country during the winter)

Temped? Want to be informed? Here’s the place… http://www.SuperbGreece.com and look at “INFORMATION : Our Travel Guides” – it’s a good and helpful place to start. Wait, there’s more – you can always ask any questions you may have and know you will receive informed, helpful answers

Just curious about the weather? Check it out and read about it > http://www.cretetravel.com/weather_Crete.htm

So the monsters won.

Eurovision was an opportunity to see some splendid visual stimulation, in the form of Greece. Scenes of markets, villages, hotels ( some we identified ! ), people, beaches, monuments, archaeological sites, houses, ancient pathways, fantastic food and well….overall, a visual feast. These provided the interval, the pause that refreshes, between vastly contrasting music styles (well style might not always be the word) but well, ballads to bawdy, gaudy monster rock to the funny “vote for us song” – the latter probably should have won for its total lack of disguise, all marketing and no song!

So many areas of Greece are still unexplored – areas where tourism is a novelty, visitors a strange a wonderful event taking place. For example Kavala, with so much to see nearby from Thasos island to the massive bird and wetland sanctuary, the magnificent bends and twists of the Nestos river and so many ( yes many ) more delights in store.

Also consider the cosmopolitan, lively, interesting and friendly northern anchor of the country, Thessaloniki.

And the beat goes on !

In northern Europe and many other delightful points upon the globe, this weekend is Easter.

A chance to relax, visit family, meet your lover, visit a loved one, go to a church (even enter and say a few words) – whatever Easter is to you, yes it has become a holiday for all, enjoy it or be rewarded by it.

Here in Greece we are waiting for next weekend when Orthodox Easter weekend reaches us.

You will search for hidden eggs perhaps. We will go after the far more protein-laden real eggs by knocking them together and seeing who wins by breaking the other person’s red-tinted hard boiled specimen.

Hope the sun is shining where you are in spirit and also as a bonus, with luck, in meteorological fact.

Today – Saturday the 15th day of April 2006 is sunny here in Crete and gently warm, with high temperatures reaching between 19 and 23 degrees. The visitor season has started. Closed cafes, invisible under their winter covers, have sprung back to life…tables are being placed on pavements, roadsides, terraces and sea-edge positions with optimism and delight.

Just added to the SuperbGreece.com (the rest of Greece by CreteTravel.com ! ) website – it’s Athens! Hotels to stay in while enjoying the city.

The revived Olympic city of Athens is a wonderful place to visit or enjoy as a stop-over on the way to the hundreds of must-see places in Greece .

You just have to dine in Plaka, see the Acropolis in front of you, walk around and absorb the many sights of the city and stop at cafes, feel the atmosphere of this historic centre.

There is so much that is new, so much that is ancient but renewed!

These are the first of our selection of perfect hotels to use as your base for exploration and enjoyment.
This is where you choose where to stay in Athens with real warm human help, knowledgeable advice and real consideration for your preferences and wishes. (It is Not another robotic booking site).

Visiting Athens – then visit http://www.superbgreece.com/Athens/hotels.htm and do read the words of wisdom as to Why you should organize your stay and choose where, via SuperbGreece.com at http://www.SuperbGreece.com .

Also take advantage of the information we are happy to share with you in our guide to Athens: http://www.cretetravel.com/Athens/Athens_mini_guide/Athens_mini_guide-Museums.htm
Of course it is good to stay at the ideal location and this is a good way to choose that place:
http://www.cretetravel.com/Athens/Athens_hotels.htm

Welcome to the city of myths, dreams and romance. Not to forget the odd game of backgammon!

There is no reason why there should be any special news from Crete or from Greece today, even on Valentine’s day.
But well, perhaps that’s wrong, incorrect, a faulty premise….

We know how many come hither to Greece to enjoy that special magical light that kisses Greece and its islands, like lovers sighing at daybreak’s interruption to love-making “why dost thou now unruly sun…..?”
But apart from the morning after love’s kindling and its warm greeting of companions in the big world, we all welcome the bright dawn of day, the melting sun. Melting, as kisses, on an evening where amidst commercial overtones, true, deep and solid love lives free.

With love to loved ones, to the one love, and with a kiss to freedom which must be the pre-requisite of any true love, earthly or beyond.

I have been told recently by a customer: “the pictures of hotels you see on the internet are so often better than the reality”. Boy, does that hurt!

Why? All my life I have done my best to be honest and truthful. However, I am painfully aware of how easy it is to be grouped together with the many individuals and companies who do not tell the truth, especially when they are trying to sell you something.

I particularly ‘cringe’ when this happens, since I do not consider myself in the business of “selling” people anything. As you – our customers – testify, I and my employees go to great efforts to find out what each and every one of you enjoy when you vacation and match you to a place to stay that you will find just perfect.

It is my cardinal rule – if we don’t offer the one place we believe you would be delighted with – we say so and wish you luck in finding what you are looking for elsewhere (even point you in the right direction if we happen to have any insights).

I try to avoid being ‘spoiled’ by so much positive feedback about our sites and particularly about the extraordinary wealth of information and tips, as well as the largest number of real and accurate photographs of hotels we show (along with accurate, honest descriptions).

I am therefore taken aback when people who have browsed and browsed the internet, searching in vain through ?reservation? or ‘hotel deal’ sites for the information, rates, terms they need before making a booking (try it – it’s shocking how much information is only available after entering all your personal details! ) or had a bad previous experience, put us in the ?same basket? with such careless or slick operators.

How do we implement our honesty and truth principle?
- We start with a detailed, accurate description of the hotel
- We show an incredible number of *real* photographs (where else can you find even up to 35 different photographs for a hotel? ) ? in most cases, we take our own photographs, to avoid having only ?perfectly staged? photographs provided by the hotels.
- We go into great detail of what is (or isn?t) available to visit and enjoy nearby
- We are extremely accurate and careful about *distances* (A mile form the beach manages to become “2-300 metres or yards” according to some companies)
- We give ANY other information you request, again truthfully: at the same time answering your questions such as “what will I see looking out of my window, how busy/quiet is it/is it historic or traditional and..” etc?
- Prices are clearly and simply shown on our website, including all taxes and any extra charges there may be (again without you having to go through steps, entering your name and credit card information to see the final amounts ? unacceptable! )

Unbelievable? Why do we go the last mile, make the effort for you? Well actually it makes good business sense. We have a negligible occurrence of problems of any type and few disappointments (we make sure we are happy that you will be happy before making your hotel reservation).
Our guests come back to us often, year after year.

I am pleased to share that many of you, our guests, tell us “why didn’t you tell me it was so good?” when you have stayed at the perfect place we helped you choose. This is what we aim for with every single reservation, every one of our valued customers.

Doing a job moderately well does not exist in my life…it has to be the best possible result. Who wants to work at something without being passionate about it? Not me!

You work too hard and deserve to have great expectations of these, the greatest and most memorable weeks of your life.

Truth is king! Honesty is the most natural and relaxed way to live. It also builds a good business.
Roger
CreteTravel.com