Ifigenia's house was a perfect choice for us. We are active family of two adults and teenagers with age of 15 year old daughter and 13 year old son. We did our morning walks and running when kids were still in bed and then enjoyed breakfast all together in a spacy and bright dining room with absolutely gorgeous sea and mountain view. Then we went to explore various beaches where we did snorkling. Two best places for snorkling we liked were a small and quiet Foteinari beach on the way to Souda beach and the Schinaria beach. Foteinari is the closer smaller one and the Schinaria is the really nice with more to see but be there early enough since parking gets problematic at least on Sunday when we were there with mostly local people. Also the driving to Schinaria is a bit interesting since the road is pretty small. Preveli Beach with the palm forest with the river is defeniately worth visiting. Fascinating tropical experience. What else... one day we visited Réthymnon which was a nice tourist city just opposite to Plakias. Nice to visit... not for us to stay. Plakias was just perfect small town with all basic services needed and lots of restaurants and some small shops. One special restaurant to visit is taverna Mario a little way up the hills. Defeniately worth visiting due to good food, excellent service and the spectacular view. By the beach you may try e.g restaurant Kpi Kpi. The Ifigenia's house itself was so spacy and nicely and located just walk distance away from all the services but still in a very quiet area. We met Ifigenia and her husband and they were just lovely and ready to help or advice if needed. That is very shortly about our 6 day stay in Plakias. We had a car all the time to get around. Now we are at the more crouded northern part of the island and already missing Plakias and the Ifigenia's house.