Constantinos was a perfect host - easy to reach ahead of our stay, met us the day we arrived and drove us to the villa. His mom made us cookies, he provided snacks and drinks, gave us a million excellent ideas about where to go and what to see, helped us when we had a small medical problem, took us to a farmer's market and taught us so much about Cretan food, helped us find a place to fix a light bulb on our rental van.
The villa was excellent for our family of six, including kids between the ages of 27 and 11 - they were thrilled to have a bedroom and washroom each. The pool was perfect after long hot days of sight seeing. Kavousi village has no services, but has a quiet charm, we really enjoyed saying hi to the neighbours, walking on the near by E4 trail, etc. The drive into Rethymnon takes 25 to 30 minutes through fantastic scenery. For us this was a plus. We learned that in general it takes longer to get places than the number of kilometres might indicate. We stayed for 8 nights, and felt like we only experienced a tiny part of what the area has to offer.