Excellent. Better than the pictures
We really enjoyed our 3 weeks stay in this great apartment in Sellia. We thought that the view from the terrace was even better than the pictures. The view over Plakias, the sea and the hills and mountains was absolutely stunning. The balcony was even bigger than we thought and in the first three weeks in July there was always complete shade on the balcony, partly I guess because the sun is so high at this time of year. It was also sheltered from the north wind, which was a great relief as sometimes the wind was as strong as Beaufort 10. The apartment was quite sizeable, and it was very comfortable. The kitchen was well equipped and there were some nice personal touches, including the raki. The aircon was very effect, however we only used it three times during our stay as it was much cooler at the 281 metres, which Sellia is located at, and we could get a through breeze.
Sellia itself has a very good, reasonably priced supermarket very close to the apartment. Even closer is a takeaway coffee shop. There are three restaurants in the village. We like Panostrati the best. It had great food at great prices.
One cloudy day, we walked down to Souda beach, not on the road, but on a more direct route which can be seen in Google maps. It took us 39 minutes to go down and 44 minutes to come back up the 280 metres.
We drove down to Plakias quite a few times on the little road that starts just outside the village to the east. It is very steep in places, and it takes about 5 minutes. We also made trips to Frangocastello, Chora Sfakion, Loutro, Agia Galini, Matala, Rethymnon, Georgiopoli and Kalyves.
The only downside was that it was very windy on a number of days that we were there, though, as I have said the apartment and the terrace were mostly completely sheltered from it.