Sky Park, Rethymno

Kalimera! 

The SkyPark web site is just 13 years old but already needs to be renovated again, for the fourth time now. 

In particular because more and more guests come to the SkyPark who found it on the Internet and then get slightly astonished as the old description does not any more meet reality: There meanwhile are just too many changes.

Indeed, the SkyPark is not quite an ordinary pub but somehow out of the common. 

Most of the people from North, West and Middle Europe who settled down at Rethymnon meet here, and they unobtrusively mingle among the tourists and enjoy their times. 

Nobody can exactly say why they visit exactly the SkyPark (a.k.a. "The Bar").

After all, the SkyPark at  Platanias near Rethymnon on the island of  Crete looks rather plain from outside. One has surely to go inside in order to really discover it. 

Passing the bar and going further to the rear one comes into the garden - or rather the restaurant. 

That is why they call it the SkyPark: Gardens in the open air.


This makes sense because there are as good as no clouds over Rethymnon from early June until late September and therefore it virtually never rains. Whoever wants to shovel snow during wintertime has to go for an excursion to the mountains.


The menu includes all essential things ranging from typical Greek dishes up to the international cuisine. 

Very pleasant is that the innkeeper has ingeniously adapted some Cretan dishes to foreign taste. During wintertime he uses to travel to other countries for some weeks in order to collect new ideas. 

And of course he himself supervises the kitchen.


http://www.skypark-creta.com/photos/

The SkyPark roughly divides into 4 parts: The Restaurant (in the garden), the Bar, the Grilleion and the Internet Cafe "Senses".


http://www.skypark-creta.com/taverna/

Next is the 2^nd department which is the bar - in the innkeeper's opinion the SkyPark's heart.

http://www.skypark-creta.com/thebar/

The kafeneion (pronounced as ka-fai-NEE-on) was the SkyPark's basic unit years ago. 

Then they changed it into a grill, so now it is a Gril-LEE-on. 

During the season, it also provides the restaurant with the Greek grill specialties such as Gyros (one of the best on the scene), Souvlaki, Bifteki etc.

http://www.skypark-creta.com/grill/

Since 2008, the SkyPark includes the Internet Cafe "Senses" as well. 

Each of the 5 workstations has a 19 inch flat screen in 16 x 9 shape, a camera and a microphone as well as DSL connection. 

Furthermore, you can connect your laptop to the wireless LAN, inside as well as outside on the terrace.

http://www.skypark-creta.com/netcafe/