The Villa Bellevue lives up to its name with its beautiful view - sitting atop a hill that looks out over two beaches, the main one at Agia Pelagia and the smaller Ligaria. The price you pay for the view is the walk back up from the beach - but it's worth it!

George has added steps and a path as a short-cut down to the Ligaria beach - it's obviously more effort coming back up, but absolutely manageable. When not feeling up to the walk, the pool is great. Good provision of sunbeds, shaded spots are available, lovely and clean.

The apartment was ideal, small kitchenette, beautifully decorated, and with the shutters we were able to keep it cool (early September, day temps between 26 and 30 celcius) during the days without needing to turn on the air conditioning at all.
Breakfast was excellent! Factor the extra €6 in per person per morning, it's totally worth it, a great start to the day.

We hired a car as we took trips out most days. Our favourite was visiting Agios Nikolaos, then driving up the coast to Elounda and taking a boat trip to Spinalonga island fort. Having a car was also perfect for riding down to Agia Pelagia for evening meals - the Tavernas there were just right to keep us entertained for a week, we tried several out and decided that Taverna Mythos was our favourite :)

NB! In hindsight we would have asked the very willing George to sort the car rental out for us. We used an online rental cars booking service, which is usually fine, but the small company at the airport that fulfilled the hire was unpleasant to deal with.

Book with confidence - a lovely place!