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Traveling to Crete for first time. Would like a nice, quiet beach front small hotel hopefully with breakfast. Would like one near Heraklion so it's close to the Palace ...will use buses or taxi's. Also, would like a taxi tour guide who could get us tickets for the Palace. Any ideas? Thanks!

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i gave another person a hotel recommendation on a different threat. it's about 1 block from the beach, so not directly on the beach. it's on the bus line from downtown about 10-15 min. generally the trade off between stay in iraklio vs. on the beach is that downtown has a lot of shopping and restaurants, but no easy sandy beach access. also if you rent a car beach hotels generally have side streets with plenty parking. buses on the island is pretty good, but taxi is not expensive either. i found the drivers are pretty honest, so it's a very nice place to relax.