The apartment is located in the underground floor of a 3-story-high house in the middle of olive trees. There are small high windows that allow for ventilation but offers no view to the exterior. That gives an unfortunate confinement feeling. We were more tempted by the upper-level-apartments. Since we had 3 young children age 1, 3 and 5 (going to bed early), we could not enjoy the view of the area from our apartement. As the weather was bad (wind, rain and cold) nor could we enjoy the nice outdoor dining area nor the pool (great assets of this house). The interior is decorated with tradition, we really feel the tipical Cretian family house. The kitchen and bathroom areas have home-made repairs that still need fixing (toilet cap that slips, unfinished shower wall on which children can get hurt). If you are sensitive to noise: there are loud water-pipe-pumps noise in the room on the right. White beach and Elafonisi beach are very close by car, they are gorgeous and not to miss!