My girlfriend and I stayed here for 2 nights and loved it!! It was so beautiful and remote and we felt like we had the world to ourselves. Yet the place makes you feel extremely safe and comfortable.
We took the public KTEL busses and it was extremely easy to get to. You can ask the bus driver to drop you off anywhere along the route. 1 night we got dropped off directly in front of the house and 1 night about 5 mins away. So you don't need a car.
We just walked to the head of Samaria gorge from the place in the morning. Took us maybe 45 minutes - it was a good warm up. We left at 530am and got to see a great sunrise
We even saved goat whose head was stuck in fence down the road, so we felt better when we ate one an hour later at the local exari restaurant (try the local yogurt and honey).
Thanks for everything Mike and we hope to come back to visit Crete one day! Except Heraklion, we hated it. Stay in Omalos and Sougia!!