We stayed at Clive's lovely house for 8 nights in early May.
It is a more traditional house in a tight neighbour hood but extremely close to everything worthwhile seeing in Heraklion, ie the fortress, harbour, lion square, museum etc. Once one gets used to the upstairs/downstairs scenario it is a very pleasant place. Lovely old mosaic tiles on the floors and due to the fact that Clive is an artist also very tastefully and colour co-ordinated furnished. We loved the quirky little accessory touches.
The house was very clean and everything we needed was provided. Even a lot of food items had especially been bought for us including a bottle of wine to welcome us.
Clive who is English and retired to Crete decided to give something back to his community and established a web site www. nowheraklion.com in order for people to find out what is happening culturally in town. He also organizes concerts and charity events, all of which we found very impressive.
After having been to other places in Greece which were extremely touristy we found it very refreshing to be in Heraklion where it is mainly the locals who are out to have a good time and it was easy to fit in. We feel Heraklion to be underrated as it has quite a lot to offer (Knossos Palace etc) and is a very central location to visit the eastern and western parts of Crete by bus.
Despite having other commitments Clive insisted on driving us back to the airport, a very generous host indeed!