Me and my friend stayed at Maria's green apartment in Paleochora for a week and from there traveled to different places on the west of the Island by car.
Crete is an AWESOME place, and Paleochora is a cute village. I totaly recommend it if you are looking for a quite enough place which is at the same time alive and not boring. Maria is a very nice and friendly host ( it sometimes took a little while until we recieved answers to our messages, but no worries - everything went really smooth at the end :)
The apartment is bright, spacious, clean and neat. Each day a cleaning lady/guy comes. The kitchen is equiped with the most basic stuff and the balkony is oriented so nicely that when it happens to be wind - it is calm there, in the same time it gives you a nice shadow in a hot day.
We fell in love with Crete and defenetly want to come back. Then we would stay at Maria's again. I totaly recommend her place.
Thank you Maria! :)