This hotel is in a perfect location, can't fault amoudara. The hotel looks great but our room was outside the hotel. Our room was spacious but really dingy. There were squashed mosquitoes all over the walls. It just looked neglected. The shower room was a good size but the drains smelt vile. The cleaner came in daily but literally emptied the bins and made the bed. The shower room, toilet wasn't cleaned all week, the towels weren't changed until I left them thrown on floor. Breakfast consisted of SPAM, cheese, bread and cucumber. Dinner was salad every day with more bread, and either liver, fish or boiled burgers. Mealtimes were a hurried affair. I went knowing it was 3 star, but this was a real budget hotel despite its appearance from the outside. We were the only English people there, which wasn't really a problem for us, it seems that the area is favoured more am the Germans and Russians and the English seemed to favour further east of the island. The village has lots of bars and tavernas and a great bus route. The locals were lovely and it seemed that every shop we went in they have us a glass of raki, so be prepared! We were there for a week and it wasn't really long enough to fully enjoy the island. We visited knossos which was great, and spinalonga which moved me almost to tears. Heraklion is great but the traffic is crazy, really mad! Yes I would visit amoudara again in a heartbeat but never will I stay at this hotel again.