Oscar Suites & Village
Oscar Suites and Village is a 63-room hotel and apartment complex at Agia Marina, west of Chania, and it is the strongest family option in this batch. Oscar scores 4.6 on Tripadvisor across 737 reviews, ranking 5th of 36 hotels in Agia Marina, and 9.2 on Booking.com across 176. Guests return year after year, and the reviews describe gardens, two sets of pools and a restaurant that runs from morning to evening.
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Hotel information
| Hotel | Oscar Suites & Village |
|---|---|
| Address | Agia Marina |
| Type | Air conditioning · Airport shuttle |
| Style | Hotel and apartment village at Agia Marina, west of Chania |
| Signature | Separate pools for children and adults, so both groups get the week they wanted |
| Keys | 63 rooms and apartments, the apartments giving families a kitchen and separate space |
| Ranking | 5th of 36 hotels in Agia Marina on Tripadvisor |
| Review record | 538 of 737 Tripadvisor reviews at Excellent; 8 at Poor |
| Dining | The Valentino restaurant, open from morning until evening |
| Grounds | Gardens guests describe as lush and properly maintained |
| Beach | Set back from the sea, so swimming means a walk through Agia Marina |
| Booking.com rating | 9.2/10 (176 reviews) |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.6/5 (737 reviews) |
| CreteLocals score | 8.6/10 · read the verdict |
Booking.com and Tripadvisor scores checked on September 25, 2026.
Location
Oscar Suites & Village is located at Agia Marina, in Agia Marina Nea Kydonias. The map below shows the exact spot; Google Maps and Waze give turn-by-turn directions.
Who Oscar suits, and who should skip it
Oscar suits families who want an apartment with space, a children’s pool and gardens to run around in, within reach of the Agia Marina beach. It suits couples who want quiet and do not mind children being present. Anyone who wants an adults-only week, or a beachfront room, should book one of the nearby hotels covered on this site.
Advantages
- 538 of 737 Tripadvisor reviews rate the stay Excellent, with 8 at Poor
- 5th of 36 hotels in Agia Marina, a busy and competitive strip
- Separate pools for children and adults, which is rare at this size
- Rooms and apartments, so families get kitchens and separate space
- Gardens that guests describe as lush and properly maintained
- The Valentino restaurant open from morning until evening
Disadvantages
- Not on the beach, so the sea is a walk through Agia Marina
- Only 176 Booking.com reviews, a thin sample beside the Tripadvisor record
- Children are present throughout, which will not suit everyone
- Agia Marina is built up and busy in July and August
- A village layout means walking between buildings and levels
- Repeat guests take much of the peak availability
The rooms: 63 keys as rooms and apartments
Oscar is organised as a village rather than a block, with both rooms and apartments across 63 keys, and guests describe them as beautifully designed and immaculate. The apartments are what make this a family hotel in practice: a kitchen, separate space and a door that closes between the children and the adults.
The grounds matter as much as the rooms here. Reviewers single out the gardens as lush and well maintained, which is not a small thing in a place where most properties are concrete to the boundary, and the layout gives children somewhere to be that is neither a pool nor a corridor.
Two pools, a restaurant, and the returning guests
The separation of pools is the structural decision that makes this work for both families and couples. There is a pool for children and a pool for adults, which means the people who want quiet get it and the people who want to play do too, without either group feeling they are in the wrong place.
Valentino, the restaurant, runs from morning until evening, so meals do not require leaving the property with tired children. And the review record is full of people who came back: one couple describes returning year after year since discovering the place by chance, and lists the rooms, the pools, the gardens and the restaurant before concluding that what matters most is the staff. That ordering, facilities first and people last but decisive, is the usual shape of a genuinely good hotel review.
How to get there
Fly into Chania airport (CHQ), about 25 km east on the Akrotiri peninsula, roughly 30 minutes by road. Agia Marina is on the coast road west of Chania, before Platanias.
Pre-book a transfer with child seats if you are travelling with young children, since that is the part that is hard to arrange on arrival; the operators are in our guide to taxi and transfer services in Crete. Hire a car for Elafonissi, Balos or the gorges, and check the terms in our car hire guide for Crete. Agia Marina’s shops, tavernas and beach are all walkable, and the bus into Chania runs along the coast road.
The Crete Locals review
Oscar earns 8.6 from us. Fifth of 36 hotels in Agia Marina, on 4.6 across 737 Tripadvisor reviews with 538 at Excellent and only 8 at Poor, is a strong position in a crowded market, and the Booking.com score of 9.2 agrees with it even on a smaller sample.
What the hotel has worked out is that families and couples want different things and can have both if you build for it. Two pools rather than one, apartments as well as rooms, gardens instead of paving, and a restaurant that opens early and closes late. None of that is expensive in itself; it is the result of decisions taken at the right time, and it is why the same guests keep returning.
The limitation is the beach, or rather the lack of one. Oscar is set back from the sea, so swimming means a walk through Agia Marina, which with small children and beach equipment is a real consideration in July. Weigh that against the space and the gardens, which a seafront hotel on this stretch cannot offer at the same price.
Book Oscar for a family week where an apartment, a children’s pool and a garden matter more than a sea view, and book early because the returning guests take the peak weeks. Book on the seafront if walking straight onto the beach is the priority.
