No Hotel would be complete without a respectable Dining Room. It serves Breakfast and Dinner. The Breakfast Buffet offers an extended English style Breakfast with whole food products. Dinner offers salad and dessert buffet, soup, buffet of traditional Cretan appetizers, a main course and table service. Once every fortnight, a grand Buffet, a Barbecue with Greek Entertainment and Gala Candlelight Dinner without extra charge is offered. Children's and Vegetarian menus are also available. The Dining Room is large enough to accommodate all the guests at one sitting.
If you have something different in mind you can always try the Cafe-Bistro by the Pool. It serves a large variety of snacks, spaghetti, salads, sandwiches, ice cream and pastries. It stays open until dinnertime. Your options are not that limited though.
There is also the Beach Taverna Votsala. It is open for lunch with an extended menu of Greek and Mediterranean delicacies, a separate fruit and Cocktail Bar.
Finally, you can visit the a la Carte Beach Restaurant Meltemi, which is always open for dinner. It combines atmosphere, entertainment and good cuisine - fresh fish, lobster, Chateaubriand etc. Guests are refunded the cost of their half board meal if they wish to dine there.
On the other hand, of course, if you just feel too lazy, you can safely rely on the Room Service serving drinks, snacks, pastries and breakfast, even meals from 07.30 to 02.00.
If you are wandering about your evening entertainment, visit the Main Bar, open every night, with a pianist once or twice a week. Its Terrace, the Moon Terrace, as it is called, is one of the most popular spots of the Hotel.
If you feel like staying close to the Beach then you can visit the Beach Bar that stays open during the daytime and well into the night.
Finally, there is the Open-air Disco, for the younger guests. Its operation depends completely on the population of the younger age group. Entertainment area for the adults is the dance floor at Meltemi.
Cuisine of Istron Bay:
Another reason for the Hotel to be proud is the cuisine; Istron Bay is synonymous with traditional Cretan and Mediterranean Cuisine. The national campaign for the implementation of traditional cuisine was decided and partly run in the Hotel. Today, the Hotel is a pioneer in implementing the traditional and creating contemporary Greek cuisine. Cretan traditional cuisine is the main alternative in the half board meals. You may also experience Mediterranean tastes in the Beach Restaurants Votsala & Meltemi and the Pool Bistro Finikas.
The Gastronomic Animation Programme offers an opportunity to learn more about healthy cuisine and to make it a part of your lifestyle. It includes a Botanical Tour with picnic, a series of Cretan Cooking Lessons and a Grand Buffet with a presentation of the traditional Cretan cuisine. Among other things, you will have the experience of tasting aromatic Mountain Teas and Wine Tasting, as well as the opportunity to learn how to make spreads with olive oil and yoghurt. Of course, a good meal must also be accompanied by the appropriate music, so Cretan Music and Traditional Dancing is included in the programme.
It is said that the Mediterranean cuisine is one of the very best in the world. You are welcome to try it at any time!