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The Xenia
Hotel is very fortunate in its setting, chosen by the Greek
National Tourist Organisation when it developed quite a small hotel in the
then remote village of Hora Sfakion. The structure
was sympathetic to traditional buildings of the area: indeed the main
entrance retains the characteristic arch which epitomises houses of
the area. Gradually the GNTO moved out of running the
hotels itself and this hotel was sold to Giannis
Braoudakis who, with George Lykoiannakis as his
manager, has extended and improved the hotel to its present state. Of
the 19 rooms, some face East into the old
harbour, others South over the Libyan
Sea and others West towards Loutro, the
mountains and the setting sun.
No other hotel has such
a superb location in the town: and no other hotel has its own large
landscaped car-park in its large site. Facilities for guests include
a lift - Xenia is the only hotel in the village itself to have this
facility - satellite TV in every room, air-conditioning, room safes,
refrigerators, hair-driers, as well as the normal shower and toilet
facilities. The rooms are spacious and the views from all of them
spectacular. If guests wish to stay in the hotel all day, they can get into
the sea either by way of a well built walkway and steps into the deep sea
or by steps down to the little Vryssi Beach - or if they
wish to soak up the sun, there are sunbeds in cleverly adapted recesses
overlooking the sea.
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