Not enough words to describe our wonderful experience in Mama's Home and our loveliest ever host Kalliopi (Popi).
My daughter and I flew from the UK and stayed 10 days in Chania/Crete at Mama's Home. My son had his wedding there and friends attended from all around the world.
Popi and her home was a beautiful add-on to the joyous wedding.
When we arrived at night, Popi was waiting for us at the house gate with a big smile and a warm welcome enough to make me feel Waooo this is going to be a home away from home!! ....She served us lemonade, biscuits, etc and explained everything we need about the house. With the island and city maps that is kept in the house, she also guided us where to eat, shop nearby, transportation, etc. She genuinely offered to answer any question anytime during our stay (and she did indeed!).
The house is a beautiful Cretan Architectural style, which I LOVED, spotless clean and bright rooms with large windows and arched terrace. The house is very well maintained and equipped all around. Lovely terrace with chairs overlooking a small colourful garden and beautiful trees. The two double bedrooms are spacious with a comfortable high quality mattress and different sizes and styles of pillows and nice cotton bedspreads and other linen. The sitting and dining area are also convenient family size. The much needed air-condition for the summer was working perfectly,
The kitchen has all what we needed, a fridge, an electric cooker/ oven, filter, espresso coffee makers plus kettle. There was also small jars filled with coffee, sugars, honey, tea and herbal tea, cornflakes, muesli, oat, olive oil, salt, herbs, toast, croissant, etc etc.
All the standard detergents and cleaning tools were in the kitchen plus shampoos, conditioner, towels, etc in the bathroom. We were offered fresh towels every three days.
Popi also has put some food for us in the fridge such as cheese, butter, marmalade, etc.
Overall, the house is charming and very comfortable for short or long stay.
The house is perfectly located in a safe nice residential area, yet within walking distance from the buzzy city center. It's 15 minutes walk to the old harbour and Chania center, and 8-10 minutes walk to the bus and taxi rank.
I must say that during our stay, Popi was an amazingly generous host and always offering us homemade Cretan food and drinks and answering our questions, even calling a cab for us when needed. Icing on the sugar, she and her husband gave us a lift to my Son's wedding venue. She honestly made me feel we are family!
Also, from Popi I learned a lot about life and culture in Crete, which made our Crete experience wonderfully fulfilled.
I will be highly recommending Mama's Home to all my friends and family..... and myself can't wait to go back there!!