Hotel Aglaia Malia
, Crete
- Age Group: 18 - 25
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Clubber
- Age Group: 31 - 40
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Relaxation Seeker
- Age Group: 18 - 25
- From: Greece
- Traveller type: Clubber
hTe rooms were clean, the people were so friendly and nice - it was definitely worth the money! I'd recommend to anyone to go!
- Age Group: 18 - 25
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Young & Single
Apart from one night the security man came into our room without knocking with his own key.
Lucky we are light sleepers and started screaming at him. NO Idea what he was doing. he left when we shouted though.
Receptionist said he was checking if oven was off. Funny he went no where near the oven. They all stick up for their own though dont they.
Thank god no one was inthe room alone though!!
Beware of him!!
- Age Group: 18 - 25
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Young & Single
- Age Group: 18 - 25
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Clubber
- Age Group: 18 - 25
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Young & Single
- Age Group: 18 - 25
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Young & Single
- Age Group: 18 - 25
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Clubber
Didn't stay around by the pool, we found out own lovely communal pool area, free sunbeds and huge pool, bar area and it was so quiet becuase it's kinda hard t find as we found it by chance. But we loved it round there!
The 2wenty's reps were great out there, we had Taff (He rocked) We went on the Malia Mile - a must do becuase we made so many friends after that - the 50Cent night (though be careful because you pay about 40Euro's to be able to pay 50cent for you're drinks), the Booze Cruise, HedKandi beach party and the skool disco. EVERYONE should book the school disco, it was immense. The male reps did a strip.. woooo... so much fun and there was a 2 hour free cocktail bar to go with that aswell.
Had such a good time there that after a while you just got used to the hotel. Best places to go.. The Venue (for Indie music), HedKandi at pleasure beach, ZigZag, Banana's, Reflex and Newcastle Bar.
You really should go Malia, spesh if your a girl becuase it's 4 blokes to everyone 1 girl, and when we left a week later it was 7-1!! wooo! :-)
Had an awesome time and at the end of the day we could have had a worse hotel.
Oh.. and buy the Vodka Slush. it's soooo nice!
- Age Group: 18 - 25
- From: United Kingdom
- Traveller type: Young & Single
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Top Local Tips for Crete
San Georgio Restaurant passed the church at the top of the strip (keep walking) is out of this world. Food amazing, peacefull setting. Wow! More akin to Milan than Greece check it out for a splash of culture. A complete breath of fresh air from the re-creation of 'England' Malia Mile.
General tips about Malia. DON'T drink tap water. DON'T agree to any trips from the 2wentys reps until you're sure. TAKE money to the beach to pay for sun-loungers. Go to all the clubs to find good drink DEALS. BEWARE of the Greek mums and kids at night along the strip trying to sell you things and PICKPOCKET when you're drunk and don't know what you'rer doing. Stick with your MATES- my friend's drink got spiked in Malibu club. DON'T feel obliged to go in every bar when the bar reps grab you on the street to go in. Make the most of the daytime- go further than the strip, eg shopping in Heraklion. After the reps stripped us of our money on the first day we couldn't afford to do anything during the day but sit on the balcony or go to the packed out beach. Its cheaper to buy your ALCOHOL first from the supermarket and drink before you go out- you can take less money out and are'nt as tempted to spend all your money. Change your MONEY there not at the airport -the exchange rate is better there. Go in june/july/aug.
nightlife going out on bar crawls yes there are so meny great bars and clubs most open till 6am
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The owners are quite amusing to say the least. They are in their 50s / 60s and seemed to get very annoyed at the slightest bit of noise. Sometimes you could hear them shouting at the top of their voice for people to "sleep and get out...." :)
While we were there the man owner (who we called ciggy man) threatened to throw us out several times.
There was also an incident where a chair that was used in our room broke when someone sat on it (no they weren't an elephant). We tried explaining that it was an accident but got told that we had to pay 50 euros to replace it.. Luckily we found a hardware store down the road that sold them for 10 euros each haha!
Taking your food / drink by the pool is also a no no so don't bother trying.
Its around a 20-30 minute walk from the main malia strip (depending how fast you can drunkenly walk? :p). We got a cab there most of the time.
All in all we would happily go back there again as the owners did make it memorable.. If you're a couple looking for peace and quiet though I wouldn't recommend it.