This has been one of our best holidays in Greece and we don’t say this as amateur travellers in this country. We have a spent a lifetime optimising our holidays among traditional villages, beaches, sunrises and sunsets in this country.
The house is very comfortable cool and just perfect for a family. It has three spacious bedrooms all airconditioned and an enormous kitchen, dinner and living room area. The external space is fabulous. There is a private parking space, a terraced garden and, in front, an olive grove which gently unfolds on a gentle slope towards the bay of Kissamos. During the sunrise and sunset the sky and countryside are painted with beautiful shades of orange and mauve.
The location is excellent and gives opportunities for perfecting your day. We would typically have breakfast at the house (the are well-supplied supermarkets in Kissamos, a few minutes by car and several minimarkets on the road), then head for Falassarna, Balos or Elafonisi beaches and end up having sunset dinner at Falassarna. The sunset at Falassarna in all its incarnations is truly mighty and one of the best in Greece. The beaches are spectacular, all crystal clear turquoise waters, and I rate Elafonisi, especially the external side of the island (you can reach this by crossing the lagoon by foot) as one of the best in the world. The colours of the waters are mint green and turquoise in a protected biotope of sand dunes where you can find the same sand lilies depicted in some of the bronze age frescos of Knossos palace. The taverns of falassarna serve high quality local food, with Alikia (at far-left end of Falassarna, may be marked as Kritiko Paramithi in Google maps) as simply the best, right on the sea, tables on pebbles under sea-pines and serving exquisite fresh food at great value.
The owners of the house (Vaso, Yannis and Cleo) are a wonderful and very generous family. We stayed there for three weeks so they had a few nice surprises for us, but I won’t get into details because it would be unfair to raise expectations 😊