Stella Village Seaside Hotel
Stella Village Seaside Hotel is where the Stella story began: the collection’s founding 1987 hotel, 277 rooms in gardens 10 metres from a private sandy beach at Analipsi, running all-inclusive with the group’s water park included 500 metres away. Guests score it 9.2 out of 10 on Booking.com across 1,210 reviews and 4.3 out of 5 on Tripadvisor across 2,279. Our verdict lands at 8.2 out of 10: the family-budget pick of the Stella family, with dated corners and evening volume the honest veteran’s caveats.
Hotel information
| Hotel | Stella Village Seaside Hotel |
|---|---|
| Address | Analipsi Hersonissos |
| Type | Air conditioning · Airport shuttle |
| Style | Family all-inclusive beach hotel, four-star |
| Signature | Private sandy beach 10 metres away; Stella Water Park included |
| Keys | 277 rooms, renovated deluxe family categories the newest |
| Dining | Main restaurant plus the Mediterranean a la carte |
| History | Built 1987, the founding Stella Hotels property |
| Nearest airport | Heraklion (HER), about 19 km |
| Booking.com rating | 9.2/10 (1,210 reviews) |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.3/5 (2,279 reviews) |
| CreteLocals score | 8.2/10 · read the verdict |
Booking.com and Tripadvisor scores checked on September 19, 2026.
Location
Stella Village Seaside Hotel is located at Analipsi Hersonissos. The map below shows the exact spot; Google Maps and Waze give turn-by-turn directions.
Who Stella Village suits, and who should skip it
Stella Village suits families who want the Stella formula, generous inclusions, real sand, slides, at its friendliest prices, and its review chips read like a child’s holiday diary: mini disco, chicken nuggets, gyros, aqua gym, fussy eater solved. The lists below come from recurring themes in the hotel’s 2,279 Tripadvisor reviews and 1,210 Booking.com reviews.
Advantages
- Beach at 10 metres, private and sandy on the Aposelemis shore
- Stella Water Park included for guests, 500 metres up the road
- Booking.com score of 9.2 across 1,210 reviews, the family market’s endorsement
- Animation team, kids club, 2 children’s pools, and the nightly mini disco
- The Mediterranean a la carte lifting dinners beyond the buffet
- Renovated deluxe family rooms leading the refreshed stock
Disadvantages
- Unrenovated rooms read dated, with rooms and location the low subratings at 4.1
- Evening entertainment and pool parties carry into the nearer blocks
- Air conditioning misbehaves in some rooms
- All-inclusive repeats across a fortnight, with extras at its edges
The rooms: deluxe family first among 277
Stella Village spreads 277 rooms through its garden blocks, with the newly renovated deluxe family rooms the generation to book and the older stock carrying the 4.1 average.
Name the renovated categories at booking, ask for distance from the stage if bedtimes rule, and let the older garden rooms carry the bargain end knowingly. Families of 4 should confirm layouts rather than assume, the standing rule of veteran stock.
The sand, the slides and the daily sheet
The beach is the house’s founding asset, private sand 10 metres from the nearest rooms, with the 2 pools and their bars behind it.
The Stella Water Park up the road folds into the wristband, the animation team fills the sheet from aqua gym to the mini disco, and dinner runs the main buffet with the Mediterranean a la carte as the change of pace. Analipsi village sits 500 metres inland for the taverna nights, with Hersonissos 3 km east when the teens outgrow the programme.
How to get there
Stella Village sits on the Aposelemis shore at Analipsi, about 19 km from Heraklion airport (HER), a drive of roughly 22 minutes, with its sister Stella Palace minutes away.
Three transport options cover the trip, and each fits a different stay. A pre-booked transfer or taxi is the family-simple arrival; our guide to taxi and airport transfer services in Crete lists the operators and typical prices. A hire car adds Knossos and Heraklion, and our car rental in Crete page compares local rates. The north-coast bus stops on the main road above Analipsi.
The Crete Locals review
Stella Village is the group’s origin story still trading, and reading its file beside its siblings’ is watching a family business grow up in public: the 1987 original taught the lessons, Stella Palace industrialised them, Stella Island gilded them. What the original keeps is the unbeatable arithmetic, sand at 10 metres, slides in the wristband, at rates the younger sisters cannot reach, and a 9.2 from 1,210 Booking families says the mathematics still lands.
The Stella service culture runs recognisably here, animation staff named in reviews, fussy eaters catered into the chips, and the rolling renovation shows the group has not orphaned its firstborn: the deluxe family rooms match anything at this price on the coast.
The age shows where the file says it does. Rooms at 4.1 is the unrenovated stock voting, the AC gremlins are real, the stage’s volume reaches the nearer windows nightly, and a fortnight meets the buffet’s full rotation twice. These are the veteran’s terms, priced into the rate, and the reviews that accept them read happily.
Book Stella Village as the budget-smart Stella: a renovated deluxe family room away from the stage, the water park on day 2 before the novelty fades, Analipsi’s tavernas for the escape nights. June and September give the original its gentlest form, and the sand its 10-metre promise all day.
