Kokkini Hani is located 14 km east of Heraklion.
It is located in front of a fantastic sandy beach which is crowded during the summer months and it is also close to the airport of Heraklion. The old national road goes through kokkini hani and makes easy your transportation as you will always find a taxi or the local bus.
The area of Kokkini Hani took it's name HANI from a building that was built in the area which was something like a hotel restaurant for the farmers that wanted to go to Heraklion market and they needed a place to stay and have meal for the night for them and for them donkeys.
After at the early 60s, Kokkini Hani started to grow and to attract visitors and slowly it became a holiday resort with big and luxury hotels and hundrends of holiday apartments. Now nothing remind the years before and the hani is disappeared.
There are buses every day to kokkini Hani from Heraklion that they also drives you to Gouves, Hersonissos and Malia.
If you have a rental car in Kokkini Hani you can use the old road and drive to the neighbouring beaches of Tobruk and Ammnissos or go to Heraklion and from there to escape for the west coasts of Rethymnon and Chania.
Kokkini Hani is offering to the visitors a large selection of small and economy hotels as well as big and luxury hotels or holiday villas that offering very high quality of services and budget rates. for the high seazon of July and August it will be dificult to find an accomodation so you have to arange for your hotel booking some months before. Do not leave it for the last minute because you won't be able to find something in a reazonable price.
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