My wife and I have loved Crete for many years, but have never stayed at a house so comfortable and conveniently located (all sorts of stores and restaurants within a 7 minute scenic drive – including extremely professional and incredibly inexpensive vets) as this one. We travel with a dog and a cat, and it sometimes is even more demanding than traveling with small children. Yet this house and its garden (yielding various fruits that we are encouraged to pluck by our hosts) allowed us to never worry about our pets on the loose – or be bothered ourselves, as it sits at the very end of the road leading through a village of four or five more homes, and the only motor that is heard here is that of our own car (parked right at the entrance, which is luxury for a hillside village – oftentimes you have to leave the car at a distance and then walk to the house).
The view alone is worth the rent – the entire Kissamos bay with the surrounding mountains, which you enjoy from the patio, always cool even on the hotter days because of the thick vine pergola providing shade all day long and aerated by Mediterranean winds always blowing on the hills.
The house itself has every utensil you need for an extended stay, from kitchen utensils to a remarkably powerful internet (which is often not at all what you should count on when the WiFi block is checked on Airbnb), and can easily sleep two couples or a family with 12 children (slight exaggeration).
Our only complaint is that the wonderful hosts keep bringing us food from their farm, from homemade goat cheese, milk and all sorts of veggies to incredible raki and olive oil, and we are gaining weight instead of losing it, as we had vainly hoped when planning a Cretan summer.