DK Travel : Crete : Bars & Nightclubs

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Agia Galini

A small resort (see Agia Galini) that has made catering to the party crowd its specialism. Things get lively by 11pm in a cluster of bars and dance clubs around the harbour, where you can club-hop until the early hours.
Agios Nikolaos

Agios Nikolaos has a surprisingly lively after-dark scene, compared with its day-time placidity. The town’s nightlife hot spot is Odos 25 Martiou (running uphill from the southeast corner of the harbour), where there are half a dozen or more music bars, with as many again around the harbour. The town’s dance club scene is more limited, with only one or two full-on clubs (see Agios Nikolaos).
Amnesia, Kato Zakros

The place to go after dark if you are looking for more than a quiet brandy, if only for the fact that this is the resort’s sole gesture towards an upbeat nightlife.
Anna Bei 1900, Ierapetra

In an old house which has been imaginatively refurbished to create bars, a café and a restaurant, this is the most attractive place for a drink in Ierapetra.
Armida Boat Club, Agios Nikolaos

This café-bar, on a 1920s freighter in the outer harbour, makes a wonderfully serene spot for after dinner drinks.
Bar Piscina, Kastelli

While waiting for your bus or ferry in Kastelli, consider popping into Bar Piscina. It has a small swimming pool and a reasonable choice of drinks, ice cream and light meals.
Barbarossa, Chania

Barbarossa has tables inside an old Venetian-Turkish quayside building, though it happily spills out onto the pier as well. Ice creams, fresh juices and snacks from mid-morning until late at night.
Café du Lac, Agios Nikolaos

Ices, cocktails, soft drinks, freshly squeezed orange juice and milk shakes. Also has an internet café area where you can pick up your e-mail.
Café Zygos, Agios Nikolaos

Bar with a lake view and garden terrace shaded by greenery – a romantic place to laze away an afternoon or enjoy a pre-dinner cocktail or after-dinner digestif.
Chania

Music blasts out from most of the cafés and bars along the harbour front at Chania on summer evenings, and if you prefer an evening of bar-hopping and café-crawling to a night in the dance clubs there are few better places in the whole of Crete. Most younger Chaniots, however, desert the cafés for the clubs of Platanias after the toll of midnight (see Chania).