We spend a wonderful spring week at Crete at Stela’s apartment in the center of Mires, this is a local town that is less touristic, and it doesn’t have any hotels or tourist shops in it so you may feel the real local life here, the Nautilus apartment is one street from the heart of the town a walking distance from all the grocery and other shops and restaurants (and Taverns).
Mires is located an hour distance from Heraklion and 1.5 hours from Rethimnon, 2:20 from Chania and about the same to Ag. NiKolas – so it’s right in the middle of Crete, but the drives are long and the roads are not of the best quality so don’t expect to do 120Km/h (more like 60-80Km/h (100Km/h) max), there are nice places around mires as well, Stela was very helpful finding us locations to see and enjoy our stay ( a tip, some of the roads are simply dirt roads, with streams crossing... so a jeep or a tall car will be better for crossing them then a small car…).
But the main factor in this successful trip was the great hospitality we enjoyed from Stela and her mother (that lives right next to us), she made us feel very welcomed and showered us with fresh fruits and eggs, and her own olive oil from her garden (that was great), the apartment itself is designed very well and we lacked nothing during our stay, the kitchen was well equipped including some ingredients we didn’t expected, Stela’s mother also made us a great egg with potatoes pie – all in all we felt vary welcomed and enjoyed our stay, Stela is a warm hostess that visited us once a day to make sure we lack nothing.
We highly recommend the place .