What a wonderful villa and great holiday we had, this was our first time to Crete and we all enjoyed it immensely. We flew into Heraklion airport, hired a car and drove to the villa, a word of advice please follow the owners directions to the villa. I thought I knew better and used google maps and unfortunately for us it took us twice as long as it should have to reach the villa.
Once we finally arrived the owner was there to greet us and show us around, the driveway to the villa is quite steep and there was absolutely no way our small under powered hire car was getting up the drive so we ended parking outside the villa which was no problem.
The location is rural and remote with fantastic views of the mountains from the seating area outside. Rethymnon is about 35 minutes away by car but the bus service is regular as clockwork and we used it to travel into Rethymno several times
Photos on the website do not convey the size of the villa it’s much larger than you think, the seating area outside was perfect for enjoying breakfast and whiling away several hours in the evening. Wi-Fi is great we were even able to match our local football games on the iPad in the seating arear outside.
The pool area was great, plenty of sun shades and loungers, however I would say that the pool depth took us by surprise as it doesn’t slope it is the same depth all the way round. One or two of our party were on the slightly shorter side so did struggle not being able to touch the floor but other than that it excellent and most importantly cool.
During our stay we found our neighbours kept chickens which also meant they had a cockerel, we fondly named him “Frank” he certainly gave us our early morning wake-up call!
We spent several days of the holiday on the beach in Episkopi, we can highly recommend it, plenty of space, taverna’s on the beach and free sunbeds!
Can highly recommend the local restaurants we tried several but the outstanding restaurant I would say is called Tavern Androulidakis in Gonia, fantastic food, very friendly hosts the only downside is we found this restaurant on our last night!
The Stone Family
August 2019