Our stay at La Casa Nove was nothing less than spectacular. Vardis responded very quickly to any questions or special requests. He was polite and detailed in his responses.
The apartment’s location in the Old Town cannot be beat. It’s a minute walk from your front door to the port. Along the way there are charming stores, restaurants, and cafes. It’s also not far from Nea Chora, a neighborhood in Chania with fabulous seafood restaurants and a slightly more local vibe than the harbor itself.
The entire apartment and building at La Casa Nove has been gut-renovated without losing the charm of its origins in the typical Old Chania Venetian architecture. You select a key code prior to your arrival and don’t have to hassle with downloading any software or worrying that your phone is charged after a long flight. You just enter your code and, voila, you walk in. No keys to worry about losing!
The apartment has two air conditioners which are brand new. They cool the space instantly, an important feature of you’re staying in the hot summer months. The bedroom is large and even though it overlooks the street it is pin-drop quiet in the apartment. There is plenty of storage underneath the bed in the drawers. There are reading lights nearby both sides of the bed that are dimmable.
The balcony is the star of the show as you can see the town, port, sea, and mountains of Crete while sipping your morning coffee or drinking a glass of wine at sunset. After a day sightseeing and sweating in the heat, we often used the balcony to dry our clothes after washing them in the balcony sink, which made us feel more like the locals whom we saw from our space doing the same, or yoga, or simply sunbathing.
The kitchen in the apartment itself is small but functional. We didn’t try using the toaster oven or stove — who wants to cook when you’re in a Mediterranean gastronomic wonderland? — but we have no doubt they are usable if you wish to cook while staying in the apartment.
The bathroom has a rain shower head as well as a shower wand. There is plenty of hot water generated by the solar-powered water heater. Vardis emailed us on the one day it was cloudy and gave us instructions for how to use the electric water heater just in case we ran out. But there was no need to use it. For two of us, there was plenty of hot water on even the rare cloudy day we had while staying in Chania.
Thank you, Vardis, for a stellar AirBNB experience.