The pictures are absolutely accurate and it is as beautiful as portraied! The village Voulismeni is hard to find on a map, one can consider him or herself to live in Neapoli - it is really that close. There are almost no tourists and the place was wonderfully greek. I had doubts about the distances to other places, as we wanted to see as much as possible of the Island. After 10 days, we have seen Chania, Réthimno, Sitia, Agios Nikolaos, Iraklio, Kissamos, Elfanoisi and Paleochora including Knossos, Vai Beach, The Lassithi Plateau, Kato Zakros Beach and many others. Our favourite Beach was Voulisma (Golden) Beach which is a treasure close to the house (10 min. by car). I would not advise to go without a car, but with a car the island is all yours. From Voulismeni you can go to the east in one day and come back in the evening (the highway is not finished, so it takes more time than expected). To the very west you can easily go too, but we decided to spend one night down in Paleochora before returning as we were tired from travelling. Paleochora is a beautiful village to spend one night too! Looking back the apartment in Voulismeni was the most perfect choice - and not only because this greek shower turns any man in a greek Adonis! The (greek) neighbours love to meet you as soon as you go through the "trouble" of greeting them in greek. After this ice is broken they are very friendly.
Manolis helped us to settle in and found as right away even though we arrived rather late in Neapoli - the work they have done with the house is amazing and I am very grateful for this first Airbnb experience.