Epavli Grace Hotel
Epavli Grace Hotel is a 21-suite boutique property in Chania, aimed at travellers who want a quiet, modern base within reach of the Venetian harbour. Epavli Grace scores 9.4 on Booking.com across 826 reviews and 4.8 on Tripadvisor across 28. Those two samples are wildly different sizes, and the Booking record is the one to read: 826 reviews at 9.4 is strong evidence, while 28 reviews is a handful of opinions.
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Hotel information
| Hotel | Epavli Grace Hotel |
|---|---|
| Address | 22 Bouniali 22 Μπονιαλη |
| Type | Air conditioning · Airport shuttle |
| Style | Modern boutique suite hotel in Chania, away from the harbour crowds |
| Signature | A quiet base for day trips into western Crete, with parking easier than in the centre |
| Keys | 21 suites rather than standard rooms |
| Evidence | 826 Booking.com reviews against only 28 on Tripadvisor; read the Booking record |
| Ranking | 62nd of 122 hotels in Chania Town, a position driven by low review volume |
| Suits | The second half of a trip, after several days driving around the west |
| Not here | No beach and no resort facilities; the building is modern, not Venetian |
| Airport | Chania (CHQ) about 15 km, roughly 20 minutes |
| Booking.com rating | 9.4/10 (826 reviews) |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.8/5 (28 reviews) |
| CreteLocals score | 8.5/10 · read the verdict |
Booking.com and Tripadvisor scores checked on September 25, 2026.
Location
Epavli Grace Hotel is located at 22 Bouniali 22 Μπονιαλη, in Chania Town. The map below shows the exact spot; Google Maps and Waze give turn-by-turn directions.
Who Epavli Grace suits, and who should skip it
Epavli Grace suits travellers using Chania as a base for western Crete, who want a modern suite to return to after a day out at Balos or Elafonissi. It suits guests who value quiet and space over a harbourside address. Anyone who wants a full resort with a beach club, or who prefers a historic building, should look elsewhere in the city.
Advantages
- 9.4 on Booking.com across 826 reviews, a large and consistent sample
- Suites rather than rooms, in a modern, well-kept building
- Quiet setting, which guests raise as the first thing they noticed
- Easy reach of the Venetian harbour, the old town lanes and its restaurants
- A practical base for day trips into western Crete, with parking easier than in the centre
- Only 21 suites, so the hotel stays calm even when full
Disadvantages
- Only 28 Tripadvisor reviews, so that 4.8 carries little statistical weight
- 62nd of 122 hotels in Chania Town, a ranking driven by low review volume
- No beach at the hotel, so swimming means driving or a bus
- Modern rather than historic, which is the opposite of what some Chania visitors want
- At 21 suites, high season sells out well in advance
- Limited on-site facilities compared with a resort
The rooms: 21 suites, built recently and kept well
Epavli Grace sells suites rather than standard rooms across its 21 keys, and guests describe the property as modern, well-kept and pleasant, which is faint praise until you have stayed in a tired city hotel. The consistency of the Booking.com score across 826 reviews suggests the standard holds across the categories rather than varying by wing.
What reviewers emphasise is the calm. Guests arriving after several days of driving around western Crete describe the hotel as the place where the trip slowed down, which is a specific and useful recommendation: this is a hotel for the second half of a holiday rather than the first.
A base for western Crete, not a destination in itself
The clearest account in the review record comes from guests who split a trip between Kissamos and Chania and chose this hotel for the second half. Their reasoning is worth repeating: staying in Chania itself let them give the city proper time instead of driving back west every evening, and the hotel was the convenient, quiet solution for doing that.
That is what Epavli Grace is for. Chania is the natural base for Balos, Elafonissi, the Samaria gorge and the Akrotiri beaches, all of which are day trips, and the question is where you sleep between them. A modern suite in a quiet street, with the old town reachable on foot or by a short taxi, answers it more usefully than a room on the harbour where you will spend all evening anyway.
How to get there
Fly into Chania airport (CHQ), about 15 km away on the Akrotiri peninsula, roughly 20 minutes by road. The hotel sits in Chania rather than on the coast road, so the approach is straightforward.
Hire a car if the plan involves Balos, Elafonissi or the gorges, since those are hard to reach without one, and check the deposit and insurance terms in our car hire guide for Crete. Pre-book a transfer for the arrival itself if you are landing late, using the operators in our guide to taxi and transfer services in Crete. Taxis to the old town are short, and parking is easier here than beside the harbour.
The Crete Locals review
Epavli Grace earns 8.5 from us, and the score rests almost entirely on one platform. 9.4 across 826 Booking.com reviews is a large, well-evidenced result for a 21-suite hotel, and it is the sort of number that only holds when the basics are right every week rather than most weeks. The 4.8 on Tripadvisor agrees with it but comes from 28 reviews, which is too few to add much, and its 62nd place of 122 in Chania Town is an artefact of that low volume rather than a comment on quality.
The hotel’s value is clearest for a particular kind of trip. The places western Crete is known for are all day trips from Chania, and travellers doing that circuit need a quiet, modern, comfortable room with somewhere to put a car, in a city where parking is the daily problem. Epavli Grace does that and does not pretend to be a harbour hotel or a resort.
What it will not give you is atmosphere in the Venetian sense. Guests who want thick stone walls, a courtyard and 500 years of history will be happier in the old town, at a higher price and with a harder arrival. That is a preference rather than a fault, and the reviews suggest people who booked this hotel knew which one they wanted.
Book Epavli Grace as the Chania base for a western Crete week, ideally with a hire car, and expect a quiet modern suite rather than a historic one. Book in the old town if the building itself is part of the holiday.
