Our stay in Villa Marina was amazing. We would have stayed another week if it had been possible! The house is really comfortable. It has everything you need, especially if you have kids: toys, tricycles. The garden is safe for kids to play around. The view from the terrace is breathtaking. You are only an hour from Chania and from Heraklion if you really want to go to big towns but Rethymno is pleasant to have a stroll around the old city and port in the evening. Mixalis was a really nice host, gave us a lot of tips on where to go. His kids kept bringing toys for our son. The grandfather kept bringing us cherry tomatoes picked from the garden and our son could go play with the bunnies. Very generous people who always left some home-made stuff at our door step. We would definitely go there again.