Lying on the golden sandy beach of Platanias, Indigo Mare offers a swimming pool with an elegant restaurant-pool bar, a mini market and self-catering studios and apartments with private balconies. Guests also enjoy access to a private beach area.Indigo Mare studios and apartments are tastefully designed and include a kitchenette with refrigerator, a 23″ LCD TV and balcony with wonderful view of the sea or the garden. The bathroom is fitted with a bath or shower, while a safe box is also included in every room.The Indigo Mare restaurant serves buffet breakfast and dinner, whereas the pool bar serves poolside snacks, grilled meat and poultry dishes throughout the day. Menu items include fresh made deli sandwiches, hamburgers, pasta and a range of beverages. Children’s menus and high chairs are provided.Children enjoy their own pool, while the children’s playground, games room and nursery ensure plenty of fun moments for younger hotel guests. There is also a recreation area with billiards and table tennis on site.Indigo Mare is only 500 yards from the main square of the lively Platanias village. It is 15 minutes’ drive from the centre of Chania and 30 minutes drive from Chania airport. Guests have free access to the hotel’s underground parking area.

Crete. As well as the magnificent beaches and warm seas, the size and physical variety of the island of Crete invites exploration, and Indigo Mare, located at Platanias, Hania, 73100, Greece, is the ideal staring point. Uniquely among Greek islands, Crete’s mountainous spine creates a sense of spaciousness, a life distinct from sea and sand. Fly-drive holidays to Crete – or simply the hire of a car for some days during your stay in Indigo Mare, – will enable you to seek out the rugged formations of the interior, the fertile countryside and tiny chapels filled with frescoes, the mountain villages where time has stood still. Always, the authentic spirit of the islanders, their fierce independence and pride – as well as the best cooking and most delicious meals that constitute the famed “Cretan Diet” – will more likely be found where few others are looking. With so much to see, with dolphins to watch, shaded squares to paint, olive trees and wild orchids, Minoan remains and sweeping beaches, no wonder Crete holidays and Indigo Mare are revisited so often.