CAUTION: You are not booking a specific apartment as shown on the photos as we thought but any of the apartments seemingly randomly allocated on your arrival. We thought we had booked an upper floor apartment with front and side balconies as clearly shown in the photos on the apartment advert. On arrival we were given the ground floor apartment which is at road level offering no privacy on the balcony from passing cars and pedestrians next to a patch of wasteland. We wouldn't have booked if we thought we were booking a ground floor apartment. We pointed this out immediately and the response was 'all the apartments are the same (even though there some with different numbers of bedrooms and different views/ locations in the building) If you scroll through the pictures you will see (eventually) pictures of the ground floor balcony' This is despite all of the first set of photos clearly showing upper floor balconies with views of the sea and the ground floor photos angled so you can't see the road. After much debate, being told there were no other apartments free and pointing out to him that putting incorrect photos next to actual apartments rented is not the AirBNB way and against European law, we were offered another apartment the next night when threatening to walk away and cancel. We also swept up what looked like dog hairs from the floor.
The "bigger" (smaller) upstairs apartment had 2 balconies, one with sea view. It was comfortable, clean, good beds, and fairly well equipped. This was much more like what we expected.
The cleaner came every day and was friendly. We did not see George again.
The walk to the beach was short but a little tricky. It puts you on the far end (nudist) of the beach so expect another 10 minutes walk down the beach to where there are no rocks on the shore unless that's your thing.
We loved Palaiochora as a town. Relaxing, well priced and lots of great places to eat.
Take a torch to walk back to the apartment as it's at the far end of town in a developing housing area with a walk along a fairly busy road in the dark.