We were a group of 10 adults and 2 children (age 2 and 5), that stayed at Alonia Villa for one week. This was truly an amazing vacation for all of us! We have rented a house close by a few years ago, also from Valia, so we knew this would be great! All contact with Valia was very smooth as always. Alot of info and help, and fast replys. We got the best welcoming by Antonia and het hole family when we arrived, even though we arrived late at night. We even got an homemade pastalasagne! Really appretiate when you feel welcomed! Reg the house it was super nice! Fresh and clean bedrooms, bathrooms and common spaces. The kitchen had what we needed since we cooked almost every dinner at the house. The bbq area is like a dream come true. With both regular bbq AND oven where we made homemade bread and pizza serveras times. With a table for dining (under roof) just next to the bbq was super nice since we all could hang out during making pizza or bbq:ing. There was both real glass/plates and in plastic for the children. The pool was not so deep, so really suitable if you have bigger children aswell. We used both the big pool and the kids pool alot during the week, when not playing fussball or ping-pong (really nice way of playing in the sun/shade even as adult). Some of us tried the gym which is totally good enough for one weeks vacation. Alot of things to do for everybody! The surroundings is really nice. The view of the mountains is great, and all you can hear is the crickets and the neighbours goats. It's a "big" road just outsider the house, but very few cars on it, and the house have big gates. We walked down to the closest small village where there was a couple of tavernas and small market, we also went for walks/running in the area. For bigger groceryshopping or others we went to Perama just 5-10 minutes away by car. Also Made some small trips to Rethymnon and to the south side of Creta. The Island have really nice nature that looks very different in different places on te Island. And really nice beaches thats also quite different from eachother. Just be careful on the roads, accidents is very common on the serpentine roads. We are all superhappy with the house, our vacation and the contact and help we got both from Valia and from Antonia + family. Got home two days ago and already want to go back!!