The Eria Resort is purpose built for disabled people and their carers. The hotel is wonderfully barrier-free from the pool (gentle sloped ramp with good handrails and wheelchairs suitable for the pool if needed) to the bedroom suites with walk/wheel-in showers and plenty of grab rails. The view from our balcony was lovely and I would recommend the first floor rooms because of this. The staff were very friendly and unfailingly polite and helpful. We particularly appreciated the help given by Iannis (not sure of spelling!) during the airport transfers - something that can be a bit stressful with a wheelchair.
Breakfasts are great - wonderful greek yoghurt, fruit, cereal, pastries, cheese and fruit as well as cooked food if you want it. It was nice to be able to eat at the hotel if we didn't want to go out, but we enjoyed eating at the many restaurants along the seafront at Maleme. We were glad we had hired an electric scooter as it would have been a long push back from the beach (about 15-20mins walk). We chose to take the quiet road to the beach through the olive groves. This was fine as we had lights on the electric scooter but otherwise a good torch would be advisable. Maleme seafront is ideal for wheelchair users - very flat and you can "wheel" quite a long way. Restaurant staff were keen to make you feel at home and the food was very reasonably priced.
We appreciated the wheelchair accessible outings as we chose not to hire a car. Crete, by its nature, is not very accessible terrain so it was good to be able to get out and about without making the effort ourselves!
It was good to stay at a hotel where you could relax knowing that your disabled partner can be as independent as possible. I thoroughly enjoyed my lazy holiday and we have already booked to go back in 2007.





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