Ferieboliger i Ano Vouves

Only 35 minutes from Chania, Crete we found this villa for our summer holiday and stayed for a week. The villa is extremely easy to get to at the e corner of the small alley. The house has a very nice and clean pool surrounded by a well-kept garden that includes sunbeds, barbeque, dinner table and nice sofas. Upon arrival we were greeted by Ria, the host and she explained the practicalities of the house. During our stay we coordinated house cleaning and had small chats as she dropped by with fresh cretan cake. If you like a quite holiday away from a ton of tourist we highly recommend this location for your stay. There’s some of Greece most beautiful beaches here and the one 35 meters walk from the house is very clean without rocks, seashells, seaweed and other not so nice stuff from the water. There’s a few restaurants nearby with good food, and each morning the local baker parks outside the house for fresh bread and pastery to buy. We had a lovely relaxing time here and will miss the sunset view from the master bedroom balcony Best Regards Kim Nielsen

House (Konchily-by-the-sea) is directly on the beach. It is part of 2 adjoining houses. The house is relatively new and built with very good materials and style. The host (Ria) is very friendly and made us very welcome. She lives with her family nearby and it was reassuring to know you could contact her. Before we came to Crete I had some questions and all questions were answered within hours - impressive! Back to the house. It is a large house with a open plan set up on 2 floors. Both bedrooms (1 on each floor) have a wonderful ocean view. The beach is in a quiet bay, narrow and mainly pebbles so I would advise some beach shoes. The sea coming right up to the house and the sunsets every evening were fantastic and as we ate at "home" many times we felt we had the best restaurant in Crete! The house is in Nopigea. There are 3 tavern's (OK but not great food but great views), 20 or so houses and at the other end of the beach a discreet camping place. Beyond this is a beautiful walk besides the coastal road. There is almost no traffic in the area so t feels very relaxed. Western Crete has everything. We were there in July so the beaches were busy (Elafonisi too busy) but Balos was wonderful, Samaria gorge (a whole day 16km hiking trip) and the wonderful Botanical gardens were 2 other must-dos. The house itself is well equipped and has almost everything. We would have loved a gas grill and we grill a lot on holiday and a dishwasher would have been a nice to have. However, these are small things compared to the overall experience we had. A wonderful location, host, area and holiday!