Boot Fayre 2010

With 40 tables of selling, the Boot fair was another success for Crete Island Estates and Almyrida Resort.

Hope to see you all again on our next Boot Fayre on April 10th 2011

Easter is close...

And we are OPEN!!!!!

The Almyrida Residence Boutique Hotel will be open from the 1st of April 2010 for the Easter celebration with special events on Easter Sunday!!!

Live music and cooking on Easter Sunday at THEA Roof Garden with magnificent view to the Bay of Souda and the White Mountains!

CHRISTMAS WISHES

The Almyrida Team
wishes to all our friends
a very Merry Christmas
&
a New Year full of happiness and joy!!!!!!!

Use our blog & website and receive special discounts!!!

Make your booking now through our website and receive from 5% to 12% discount - depending on the period requested - on our normal selling rates*. This offer is not cummulative with any other discount rate offer.

* From Rates given on direct bookings on the phone or fax

Save 22% on fine ancient Greek Jewelry designs

Almyrida beach hotel is happy to offer it's guests and friends a 22% discount on all purchases made from Greek Jewelry Shop! Simply enter the following discount code in their shopping cart ILOVECRETE22 (no spaces) and save 22% your order instantly!

Minoan jewelry is renown for its beauty and finess and a proud part of Cretan culture. Almyrida beach has secured that there is no minimum order limit or any other limitation from Greek Jewelry Shop so that it's friends and visitors can enjoy some of the best Cretan and Greek Jewelry designs that Greece has to offer! This offer is for a limited time only so please hurry to take advantage of this discount!

Wedding ceremony services in Almyrida, Crete

Some say that Crete is a step away from paradise, others call it a dream-retreat. If Crete is the place where you would like the most memorable occasion of your lifetime to happen, then let us arrange it!
Planning your dream wedding at the Almyrida Beach resort will be as easy as 1,2,3!
Simply contact us via our website for more information or at info@almyridabeach.com

Day out at the archeological museum

Why not spend a day discovering the ancient treasures of Crete?

THE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
OF HANIA

(25 Chalidon Str., tel. +30 28210 90334)

About the museum: The museum is housed in an imposing building, the renovated Venetian church of Saint Francis.
It contains impressive finds from the excavations of the ancient city of Kydonia, from Idramia, Aptera, Polyrinia, Kissamos, Elyros, Irtakina, Syia, Lissos, Chania, Axos, and Lappas (the last two in the prefecture of Rethymno).
The exhibits, painted larnakes of the late minoan period, vases and implements from the geometric period, statues from the Hellenistic and Roman period, as well as an exquisite Roman mosaic floor, are all outstanding.




Clay pyxis depicting a man playing a lyre and flying birds. Late minoan III B period (1310- 1200 B.C.)
Outstanding example from a local workshop. Kalami, Chania.


Spherical flask
unusual ceramic type
Late Minoan III period.