Bars & Restaurants
No Hotel would be complete without a respectable
Dining Room. It serves Breakfast and Dinner. The Breakfast
Buffet offers an extended English style Breakfast with whole food products.
Dinner offers salad and dessert buffet, soup, buffet of traditional Cretan
appetizers, a main course and table service. Once every fortnight, a grand
Buffet, a Barbecue with Greek Entertainment and Gala Candlelight Dinner without
extra charge is offered. Children's and Vegetarian menus are also available. The
Dining Room is large enough to accommodate all the guests at one sitting.
If you have something different in mind you can always
try the Cafe-Bistro by the Pool. It serves a large variety of
snacks, spaghetti, salads, sandwiches, ice cream and pastries. It stays open
until dinnertime. Your options are not that limited though.
There is also the Beach Taverna Votsala.
It is open for lunch with an extended menu of Greek and Mediterranean
delicacies, a separate fruit and Cocktail Bar.
Finally, you can visit the a la Carte Beach
Restaurant Meltemi, which is always open for dinner. It combines
atmosphere, entertainment and good cuisine - fresh fish, lobster, Chateaubriand
etc. Guests are refunded the cost of their half board meal if they wish to dine
there.
On the other hand, of course, if you just feel too
lazy, you can safely rely on the Room Service serving drinks,
snacks, pastries and breakfast, even meals from 07.30 to 02.00.
If you are wandering about your evening entertainment,
visit the Main Bar, open every night, with a pianist once or
twice a week. Its Terrace, the Moon Terrace, as it is called, is one of the most
popular spots of the Hotel.
If you feel like staying close to the Beach then you
can visit the Beach Bar that stays open during the daytime and
well into the night.
Finally, there is the Open-air Disco,
for the younger guests. Its operation depends completely on the population of
the younger age group. Entertainment area for the adults is the dance floor at
Meltemi.
Cuisine of Istron Bay:
Another reason for the Hotel to be proud is the
cuisine; Istron Bay is synonymous with traditional Cretan and
Mediterranean Cuisine. The national campaign for the implementation of
traditional cuisine was decided and partly run in the Hotel. Today, the Hotel is
a pioneer in implementing the traditional and creating contemporary Greek
cuisine. Cretan traditional cuisine is the main alternative in the half board
meals. You may also experience Mediterranean tastes in the Beach Restaurants
Votsala & Meltemi and the Pool Bistro
Finikas.
The Gastronomic Animation Programme offers an
opportunity to learn more about healthy cuisine and to make it a part of your
lifestyle. It includes a Botanical Tour with picnic, a series
of Cretan Cooking Lessons and a Grand Buffet
with a presentation of the traditional Cretan cuisine. Among other things, you
will have the experience of tasting aromatic Mountain Teas and
Wine Tasting, as well as the opportunity to learn how to make
spreads with olive oil and yoghurt. Of course, a good meal must also be
accompanied by the appropriate music, so Cretan Music and
Traditional Dancing is included in the programme.
It is said that the Mediterranean cuisine is one of
the very best in the world. You are welcome to try it at any time!