Exceptional Blue Flag beaches and wonderful excursions
Gouves holidays are a wonderful destination for families and couples. Gouves is located on the north coast of Crete and east of Heraklion. You will find your holiday to Gouves is a fabulous developing tourist resort with exceptional sandy beaches, plenty of tavernas, shops, bars, and clubs and only minutes away from quiet traditional villages inland. Crete's climate conditions offer weather to suit every taste. From January to March snow covers the mountaintops, from April to May you will find the warm spring weather which brings out the wild flowers which appear everywhere in particular in the mountains and gorges. June is comfortably warm with peaking hot days. July and August give blazing sunshine which dries out Crete's land. Crete slowly starts to cool down in September and October brining in the famous light winds that fan the island. The wet season in Crete comes around November time signalling the beginning of the olive harvest. The land will also soak up the pure rainfall to fill the reserves ready for the next year.
Holidays to Gouves offer a marvellous sandy beach which is well organised and is a favourite with sunbathers and swimmers. The beach has been awarded by the EU a Blue Flag for its clean golden sandy beaches, its crystalline waters and the facilities it has to offer. Holidays in Gouves can provides wonderful excursions, for instance if you like to do a bit of walking on your holidays why not try exploring the fertile fields and rolling hills a little inland or discover some of the pretty, quiet, traditional villages which are also inland from Gouves.