This is a really special house. There are beautiful views over the sea and mountains from the lovely terrace which leads down to a super pool area. The accommodation flows really well: there's a ground floor suite which we found fine for my mobility impaired father (there are six easy steps up to the house and one step between this suite and the rest of the ground floor); an upstairs suite with its own terrace overlooking the sea which our 20 year-old daughter loved; and two further comfortable bedrooms and a bathroom downstairs, one of which has a lovely door onto the terrace. Proper aircon meant we could escape the heat in our bedrooms and sleep well. The beach is a ten minute stroll away through olive groves and there's a perfectly fine and good value restaurant overlooking the sea just there. Or a very short drive to Stavros takes you to another set of lovely beaches and a rather good restaurant (with a windmill) overlooking the sea and the hills. The local Agia Triada monastery was a find with a lovely museum and attached shop selling wine, honey, oil and other produce made there. Other highlights were a boat trip from Chania to swim around a couple of islands (there are several operators from the Venetian Harbour), and a trip across the mountains to Frangocastello on the south coast where there's a beautiful beach and fortress and the impossibly beautifully located Flisvos Seaside Restaurant. You can fly direct from Heathrow and it's an easy twenty minute drive from Chania Airport.