Our host Δεσποινα emailed, texted, and phoned us before we arrived to offer assistance in finding her beautiful apartments. She offered a choice of apartment and also offered to meet us and bring us to her apartment. She could not have done more to help, when we arrived she showed us around the amazing apartment, there was a welcoming basket of Cretan goodies including some olive oils, herbs and Raki.
Each of her three apartments are named after different herbs and our one was called mint.
The apartment was five star spacious well deigned, spotlessly clean as was the whole building including the exterior.
The furniture and fittings were superb, from the modern beautiful polished granite floors and excellent two balconies one off the kitchen to sit out and enjoy your breakfast to the one off the bedroom for watching the sunset.
The bathroom fittings were first class and give an amazing shower, as you would expect in Five star there are bath robes and bath slippers supplied. Although the photos of the apartment are very good and accurate there is an awful more included in this apartment the are not shown in the photos.
Δεσποινα lives in the ground floor apartment and was always cheerful and helpful although we didn't need much help as we had everything.
The location is excellent a short walk to the centre of the village and the beach , the apartment is in a nice quiet part of the village.
A short walk down from the apartment is a fantastic local bar with a raised deck outside and an old olive tree growing in the middle, to give nice natural shade. We met many friendly locals there and every time we ordered a drink a plate of fantastic Cretan food arrived free of charge such as olives, chicken wings and rabbit in sauce, or cheese covered in local honey or stuffed vine leaves.
We were there in Spring so a lot of restaurants were not open but we found local restaurant recommended by the bar which was very good.
We cannot recommend Δεσποινα apartments highly enough only to say that at Cretan prices ( which are all very reasonable) her apartment is worth double what she's asking and it would still be great value.