We are from ATHENS - GREECE and we travel to CRETA SUITES in the june 2005. It was the first time we visit the south Crete.
The town of Ierapetra and the areas have many thinks to offer.
There is first of all a nice organized town, with a beautiful boulevard and some ancient places.
The city have a descent shopping center. Plenty of taverns. We visit Spinalonga on the north coast, Vai palm beach, Sitia town in the east and Agios Nikolaos in the north. Also we visit Monastery Toplou, Zakros, the ancient Minoan site and the valley of the deads, a super gorge. We reccomend the beach at Koutsounari and Makrygialos. Then we have a cruise to Chrissi Island, the best but most forgotten island of Greece. Golden sand beaches here. There's so much more but do you have enough days.
Creta Suites Hotel is nice and clean. Spacy rooms with a lot of facilities. The best view i had in my life and the air is very clean and healthy their. It was good for my asthma problem. The stuff was very friendly and the food was excellent. We reccomend the hotel for young people, couples, honeymooners, families with kids, active or adventure travelers.
We will go back again for sure.

My wife and I stayed at Creta Suites in 2004, we got the room via an RCI timeshare swap. Ierapetra is on the far side of Crete from the airport/seaport at Heraklion, and after a long night drive over the mountains dodging Greek drivers (scary stuff) we finally found the resort, which is actually in a small village east of Ierapetra proper.

The resort is on the middle of a mountainside facing the Libyan Sea on Crete's southern shore, and a bit hard to find in the dark. Don't be fooled by RCI's promise of the beach being "a short walk"--it's more like a long hike, if you're crazy enough to go on foot. The room was a pretty standard timeshare suite, with cheap-ish furniture and small but functional bathroom and kitchen fixtures/appliances; about what we expected. The balcony view is wonderful. The location is very nice for exploring eastern Crete, a reasonabl drive from Sitia and many other lovely villages and cities. Ierapetra itself is charming, but you probably don't want to spend more than a couple of days on it. The south coast is much calmer and less crowded than the touristy north coast, and we appreciated the lack of hustle and bustle.

The evening caretaker at Creta Suites was a wonderful host. I wish I could say the same for the daytime receptionist, who was much more interested in making iced coffees for herself than assisting the guests. Again, contrary to RCI's promotions, there was no restaraunt or bar open on site, and no internet connection (the last was not important to us, but I didn't appreciate the dishonesty). When the hotel's hot water failed three days into our stay, she was worse than useless, and made no effort to assist guests or make any arrangements for compensation. In addition, she demanded a 50-Euro payment when we arrived, a payment noted nowhere on any RCI paperwork for our reservation, or on the Creta Suites listing at RCI.

In short, it was a decent place to stay if you know what to expect from a timeshare, but don't trust the RCI listings, and be prepared to be your own concierge. You won't get much help from the daytime staff.