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Features
Medical Assistance
Transportation
Magazine
This is Kokkini Hani's on-line magazine, providing you with useful information about the area, as well as tips and pointers from previous visitors.
From time to time there will also be features of general interest to visitors to Crete.
If you have any information or experiences you would like to share, please send an e-mail to:
Feature - Niros Minoan villa
As you enter Kokkini Hani from the direction of Heraklion, on your right is the archaeological site of
Niros ...
Pharmacies
The Kokkini Hani Pharmacy is on the main road towards the east end of the village. Multilingual staff. Open Monday to Saturday: 09:00-14:30, 17:00-22:00
Telephone: 2810 761785.
If the pharmacy in Kokkini is closed, you will find another one open in Gouves, five kilometres along the coast to the east, just off to the right of the main road as you enter the town.
| In Gouves, five kilometres along the coast to the east, there is a Cretan Medi-Help centre staffed by trained medical professionals. The centre is open twenty-four hours a day during the holiday season (April to November) and provides a full range of services, including: |
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Telephone: 28970 43010, Fax: 28970 43011
Heraklion city has two general hospitals that provide a full range of medical care, the University Hospital and the Venizeleio-Pananio Hospital. Both are some way outside the city centre. They are on call for emergency cases on alternate days. Ask at your hotel reception or at the pharmacy to find out which hospital is on call on a particular day.
Bus services
Kokkini Hani is served by regular bus routes connecting Heraklion city with towns in the east of Crete. Timetables vary with the season, but buses run between Kokkini Hani and Heraklion at least every half hour throughout the day. Petrol stations
There are two petrol stations in Gournes, about one kilometre along the main road to the east of Kokkini Hani.
In the direction of Heraklion, the first petrol stations are in Karteros, about 6 kilometres distant. Car repairs
Close to the Shell petrol station on the main road in Gournes is a car repair shop run by a lone but talented mechanic called Spiros Horafakis. Spiros speaks English and will carry out expert mechanical repairs.
For tyres and electrical repairs you will need to go to Heraklion. (Note that this separation of types of car repair is standard throughout Greece.)
