What a fantastic stay. Maria made us feel welcome from the moment we arrived and her daughter Debbie provided all the details we needed and answered any questions we had pre arrival. This place is legit right on the beach and Maria has sun beds and umbrellas for her guests to use. We split our time between the mountain view and the ocean view studios and both were fantastic. This room has a view of the sunset and a nice olive grove right across the street. The windows have screens if you like to sleep with the windows open as we do or nice modern A/C units if that is more to your liking. The room is well equipped with everything needed to make basic meals and very comfortably fits 2 adults.Makry Gialos is a beautiful quiet beach town. Very clean soft sand beach and many fantastic shops ( I recommend the premium butcher shop for meats and many traditional Cretan goods, the large bakery with fantastic coffee and amazing sweets and bread and the nice little fruit market all located pretty much in a row less than 5 minutes walking from Maria’s heading east) Maria was such an amazing host and made us feel like we were staying with family. If you are going to Makry Gialos and this place is available just book it you won’t regret it!