We were seven of us staying in the house including children of different ages starting up from 4 years. Everything was just perfect and we really enjoyed our stay. The beach next to the house is really beautiful and offers great view to the waves. With the smallest ones it was fun even to bath in a tiny gap between rocks directly down to the beach. But the beach lagoon less than 1km from the place with swallow waters being just perfect for kids to take their first steps to learn to swim. For adults the closest spot to comfortably go swimming is some 100 meters from the house.
But we drove also to the spectacular Balos Beach and to Elafonissi on another day. These are indeed wonderful places and certainly worth a visit. For our elder kids the real highlight was the Seitan limania beach due to its rocks on sides to perform jumps. Though the climb down there turned out too complicated with the smallest ones without proper shoes and some of us had to turn back. In the end the best compromise was Kalathas beach half way drive to Chania with its swallow waters and a rocky islet for practicing jumps into the water.
With the city of Chania being just 30 minutes drive from the house we all found that staying at Μανώλης’s place was just a wonderful experience and we certainly would return there on another occasion.