What a great holiday. I have to admit on the photos, the villa looked a little pimped up and I wasn't convinced that it really would be so beautiful, but good news - it is! This villa is definitely a luxury holiday home. The house and garden is exactly like on the photos: beautiful and very clean! The pool looks bigger on the photos, but it is there and great to have. We enjoyed it thorougly. I have read other comments concerning the traffic. It is true that the villa is situated directly next to the express highway and traffic can be heard, but it is mainly early in the mornings when people go to work and tourist normally sleed :). I didn't find it disturbing at all. In the contrary, there are so many different kind of birds singing in the garden and neighbouring olive tree plantations, and even at times sheep and goats, that distract your attention from traffic. The house is very spacious and the garden as well. My children spent a lot of time playing ping-pong and in the pool, even though the water was rather cool in April. The cleaning lady came 3 times in the 12 days that we were there, and the garderner came once to mow the lawn. Eva, the landlady, an ever so sweet, young, charming and dynamic person, ensured every 2-3 days that we were alright and enquired if we needed anything special - what a service! I have never seen this before. She even spoilt us twice with a lovely meal. Once she cooked a huge portion of Moussaka (sufficient for a football team) and a lovely lamb chops and potatoes platter from the oven. She really gave us a very warm welcome. What more could you ask for? Anyway, the house is quite well situated. Within a few minutes you can reach Panormo or Perama, where you can find several little Supermarkets where you can buy the essentials. In about 20 minutes drive you can reach the Supermarket Lidl or Carefour, in the outskirts from Rethymno, where you can buy everything (meat and charcoal for the BBQ). We visited quite a few places and really drove across the island. What you need to bear in mind is the low speed limitation (mostly only 80 kmh) in Crete (and radars all over the place), so you actually need to calculate a lot more time per km than you would do at home. Nevertheless, the Villa Eva is a perferct place to stay to enjoy a fabulous holiday and explore the lovely island of Crete. Oh and I almost forgot to say how extremely friendly Greek people are. Most speak english. Thank you Eva and Valia for a great holiday :)