Well-designed luxurious comfort.
Privacy is a given here, the generously sized terrace and pool area gets plenty of sun up until 15:00 (staying during April) and is completely private with a stunning unobstructed view out over the hills and water and across to the Heraklion city scape. We choose to pay the extra surcharge to heat the pool and did not regret it. The day bed on terrace which overhangs the pool is lovely feature and so much more comfortable than sun loungers. The outdoor rain shower has hot and cold water; so can even be used as a second main shower if you wish shower outdoors. The pool is a decent size for a one bed villa and the jets in the seating area give a nice back message.
Indoors the kitchen is modern with excellent new Bosch appliances and even includes a separate wine cooler. A Nespresso machine, kettle, toaster and electric citrus juicer were our main appliances for preparing breakfast to enjoy on the terrace dining table. Afterwards through everything in the dishwasher and you needed do anymore cleaning than that. The cleaning service comes every third day (at 11am) and was so friendly and professional. We lay out by pool and she went about her work. There’s decent WiFi and you can mirror your phone to the living and bedroom TVs so you use your own Netflix account etc. The bed is very comfortable and faces out to the pool and you can watch the night lights of Heraklion from bed through the open sliding doors and still be bug free thanks to the sliding net panels.
The bathroom is excellent with double vanity and separate shower and toilet areas. Note this villa requires that toilet paper be disposed in the bin, no paper is allowed to be flushed. The living room TV is connected to a ceiling speaker in the bathroom, nice feature for playing music, you can also use the TV as Bluetooth sound system for your phone.
The drive into Heraklion is about 20 mins and is an easy direct highway, it’s not much further to the airport. Coming from Heraklion you’re not permitted to turn left off the highway to get onto the small step mountain road to access the villas. Instead google maps will direct you a few mins further up the highway where you can make a safe U turn at an underpass. Drivers can be erratic so recommend to take this detour for your own safety, don’t risk the illegal left turn (you can see small shrines Set along the highway to people who lost their lives in accidents).
The welcome basket contained a nice bottle of local red wine, fresh fruit and some Cretan traditional sweet pastries. Very hard to find any critical points about this villa. Every detail of the design is well thought out; the daily pool maintenance is done via a separate staff access so you are not disturbed. The air-conditioning can be controlled separately for the living and bedroom and works great as heating too (which we needed in the evenings in April).