The Itanos is a 3-star hotel on Sitia’s pretty waterfront, only 200 meters from the beach. This hotel offers modern rooms, friendly service and a lovely roof garden with great views. The hotel’s 72 guest rooms, all with en suite facilities. Each room’s a balcony and a range of modern amenities including satellite TV. Breakfast is included in the room rate at this hotel and is served buffet style in the main restaurant. The hotel also has an ala carte restaurant, overlooking the water, which serves many traditional Greek and Cretan dishes. There is also a bar and 2 TV lounges. The Itanos Hotel is a 3-minutes walk from Sitia’s Blue Flag beach, which is over 1.6 miles long. A good range of water sports are available from the beach including sailing, kayaking, diving and fishing. Mountain-biking, hiking and horse-riding can also be arranged.

Crete. As well as the magnificent beaches and warm seas, the size and physical variety of the island of Crete invites exploration, and Itanos, located at Karamanli 4, Lassithi, 72300, Greece, is the ideal staring point. Uniquely among Greek islands, Crete’s mountainous spine creates a sense of spaciousness, a life distinct from sea and sand. Fly-drive holidays to Crete – or simply the hire of a car for some days during your stay in Itanos, – will enable you to seek out the rugged formations of the interior, the fertile countryside and tiny chapels filled with frescoes, the mountain villages where time has stood still. Always, the authentic spirit of the islanders, their fierce independence and pride – as well as the best cooking and most delicious meals that constitute the famed “Cretan Diet” – will more likely be found where few others are looking. With so much to see, with dolphins to watch, shaded squares to paint, olive trees and wild orchids, Minoan remains and sweeping beaches, no wonder Crete holidays and Itanos are revisited so often.