Here comes the review of my life for the BEST Airbnb of my life (and I’ve stayed in many)! Elefteria is like your Airbnb FAIRY from Crete I swear without any exaggeration. The first shock was the amazing gift basket! Never in my life my lord. It was overflowing with local products: rusks, homemade honey liquor, sesame bars, mountain tea, a box with a pretty handmade ceramic flower (handmade by the host herself! OMG) a big yummy melon. And if that were not enough, later when I opened the fridge my mouth dropped. The welcome gift basket had literally exploded into the fridge which was filled with fruits and a container full of cherry tomatoes from her garden! I’m so lucky I came in tomato season in Crete! It was too much and too generous. This was like a 5-star hotel VIP gift basket but better because they were all Cretan products so they obviously all tasted so good that they put their equivalents in any country to horrible shame. Immaculately clean and I’m talking Japanese clean maniac, high-level clean. I’ve never seen such perfection in my Airbnb history. This time when the host said “the apartment is being disinfected” I truly believed it for once and I trusted her and saw it with my eyes. I have OCD so if I feel safe it’s beyond perfect. She even had Dettol wipes (antibacterial), gel and mini gel. I felt like at home. There is nothing in this apartment that you could ever need that Elefteria has not considered and provided. Kitchen drawers full of clean cloths, Tupperware, tinfoil wrap, oven mits, garbage bags. Kitchen cabinets: her olive oil because she has trees, and all the basics you might need to cook. The other cabinets had everything: Q-tips, make-up remover towelettes (seriously?), mosquito repellent plug, a beach towel (see I told you FAIRY), the list goes on forever. The apartment is so luminous and decorated with pretty art that the host created herself. The bed was enormous and so high it was like a princess bed. So comfortable that I melted every night. The pillows were so perfect. The shower pressure was amazing. The apartment was in the centre but not smack in the middle of the narrow street chaos, and in a building occupied with offices so it was new, clean exterior, and super quiet at night. No bars or restaurants on the street, only a nice quiet hotel in front. The biggest supermarket Sklavenitis was a 1 min walk, the other supermarket was around the corner, another tiny bio supermarket around the other corner. The location was marvelous. Oh, and there’s a lockbox on the wall outside of the apartment with a 2nd pair of keys and the hosts phone number. Why? Just in case you lock yourself out and forget your keys. I’ve never seen that in any Airbnb. Genius. The air conditioner is super efficient and it only works if all the windows are shut. Smarty pants. I think I covered everything. She is the nicest, sweetest lady. She is the epitome of Cretan generosity and thoughtfulness. I felt at home, I felt so welcomed, and I felt so cared for. I felt like even though the city was touristy and sometimes you had to look harder to find truly Cretan authenticity during the high season, I felt it as soon as I arrived in Chania meeting Elefteria and I was reminded of her kindness when I met other welcoming and incredibly friendly Cretans during my stay. I’m so grateful to her and I feel so lucky I chose her place out of all the choices. I’ll be back in April and there’s no where else I would rather stay than with Elefteria. I don’t care what other new thing pops up, not even going to look.