As beautiful as the photos! Lovely apt with everything we needed. The beach at Almyrida is really nice - sand and calm sea - you could stay here and not have a car - Jurga and her family do lots of excursions to beautiful places - really good value and expert knowledge. But we had already rented a car so we went off most days exploring on our own, but took her advice about the best times to visit various places and it really helped. We woke up at 5am and drove to see Balos beach and were the first people down there! The mountains are also beautiful and wandering around the back streets of Chania at night was magical. Jurga also does a really good breakfast - the best we had in Crete with fresh fruit from their garden, and ask for a carafe of wine, their friends own a vineyard. It's amazing value for money and you also have the added bonus of expert guides there all day. The views from the balcony are stunning - although it was too hot to sit outside during the day when we were there in August, but we ate breakfast there and watched the sunset in the evenings. I will miss the shady reading hammock. Just lovely. Wonderful place.