We had a lovely 11 days in Crete in late July 22. We where 4 adults, and 6 kids, ranging from 9 to 15.
The Mill is lovely and provided a very spacious frame for our holiday. The fact the Mill has 4 rooms with bathrooms, is awesome. They have done a good job in restoring the Mill and making it into a cosy place.
Upon arrival the hosts hat provided bread/food, and drinks for us when we arrived late a night, that was nice.
We loved the location of the Mill, located 7 minutes from the local town with Bakery and supermarket, so every morning we had a trip to the backery for fresh bread. It is also located perfect for day trips to Balos beach, Elafoniso beach, Falasarna beach and the shopping/games/mini-golf, and Chania, etc. There is no noicy nabours, only the thousands of grasshoppers making a quite loud noice :-)
There was good space for food and drinks in the fridge and freezer and good dining tables both indoor and outside.
The pool area was nice, with light in the evening and good size and sunbeds.
A review without the critics is not a good review, so a few points for improvements:
1) In july during the hottest time of the day there was wasps around the pool sides. I guess the wasps is drinking of the water. We was provided with some insects spray by the team leader, and we killed around 30-40 wasps, but they just keep coming. Some of the kids got stinged 2-3 times and made the pool some what less popular during the day. Being in the water was ok, but as adults we need to clean wasps out of the water, since they kept falling in the water. During night and early morning there was no wasps.
2) When we where there the parasols/umbrellas where in bad shape. Only 2-3 worked and need to manual work to get them standing. Have noted that to the teamleaders.
3) Finally it should be noted that when we where there in July it was hot - 31-33 degrees during daytime and the bedrooms got really hot even at nighttime. There are ventiators, but it is still pretty hot, which made the sleeeping a bit hard. A/C could be installed due to limitations on the old building they say. But that is a thing to consider.
All in all it was a great place and we had a LOVELY holiday. The host was quick in replying to our requests. Love CRETE!