KARATARAKIS Hotels & Restaurants SA owns, leases and manages hotels, residencies, restaurants, and conference facilities. Active in the hospitality industry since 1976, the group provides complete accommodation, gastronomy, leisure and entertainment services.
An unexpected invitation, a weekday excursion, and the promise of bread and wine. It appeared someone had read my previous article about Heraklion and decided to take me up on my comment that I should return to Crete near-immediately. It […]
When your fellow travel writer friend demands – demands – that you take a two-day break and fly out to Crete’s largest city and capital, Heraklion, you know there’s a story there. Butwhy had she spoken so highly about the […]
Crete continually steals my heart, but there are some places and some memories that are more profound than others. So, when I found myself back in the beautiful village of Kamariotis, the memories came flooding back. It was here where […]
Where there is a vision there is a way … There are a few lucky people on this Earth who have had the grace and joy to be born somewhere wonderful. Where generations have passed down stories, traditions, and wholesome […]
What does it mean to live like a Cretan? To Nikos Kazantzakis, it means to search for “the consciousness of [your] land and race”. His words live on to the heart of every Cretan and every Greek. Raw, full of […]
KARATARAKIS Hotels & Restaurants SA owns, leases and manages hotels, residencies, restaurants, and conference facilities. Active in the hospitality industry since 1976, the group provides complete accommodation, gastronomy, leisure and entertainment services.
