Why it made the list
The pool
Tall palms stand over the pool at Kallitsakis Beach, set in a flowering garden between the low apartment buildings. It's a fresh-water outdoor pool with a shallow end, ringed by sun loungers and umbrellas, and the pool-view balconies and ground-floor terraces look straight down onto it. It opens with the summer season, from May to October.
With only 18 apartments around it, this is a small, low-key pool, open from 09:00 to 20:00. The sea is about 50 m away, so it's easy to split the day between the beach and a swim back at the apartment. Here's the thing: the pool isn't heated, and the water is at its coolest at the start and end of the season.
Checked against the property's official facilities on 8 Oct 2026. We re-check monthly.
The stay
Kallitsakis Beach is a small, family-run apartment hotel in Platanias, on the coast west of Chania. Platanias Beach is a minute's walk away, the village square about 300 m, and Chania town around 11 km east. Gorgona Beach and the church of Agios Dimitrios are both under 2 km.
The 18 units run from studios for two to a maisonette for up to five, and every one has a kitchenette and a balcony or terrace, some facing the pool and others the garden. There's no restaurant, so you'll be eating out in the village or cooking for yourself.
Worth knowing: the hotel closes from November to April, and towels for the pool may not be provided, so bring your own. Parking nearby is reserved in advance at a small daily charge.
Good to know
No. It's an unheated outdoor pool, so the water is coolest in May and October.
The hotel and pool run from May to October, and the pool is open from 09:00 to 20:00.
Children of all ages are welcome, cots are free on request, and the maisonette sleeps up to five.
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