We spent just over a week at Rira and Idomeneas’ place and it was lovely.
The flat is very clean and spacious, there’s a balcony for each bedroom plus a common one with gorgeous sea views. Flat is on the top floor and you have direct access to the shared terrace (there was rarely anyone on it so it felt like our private terrace as well). Spacious apartment with a cozy kitchen which had all we needed to prepare breakfast or a snack. The air conditioning is in the living room and we initially thought it would be quite hot at night in the bedrooms, but it worked perfectly with the doors open.
The hotel next door has parking and a pool which we could use for a fee whenever we did not feel like going to the beach. The place is around 7-8 min away from the Elounda beach which is very clean and has amazing and calm water, 7 min from the supermarket and 5 min away from restaurants. Clearly it’s good to have a car in Crete to explore the island, but due to the very good location you could spend a few days just in Elounda without any issues.
Best part was the hospitality of the hosts - Rira gave us great recommendations for restaurants in the area, made some delicious cakes and sweets during our stay and was always very responsive to our questions.
FYI for those who need a covid test to return home - there is no PCR testing in Elounda so you need to do it in Agios Nikolaos which is 20min away.
All in all an amazing stay and would 100% be back if ever in Crete.