Great location for those visiting North Western Crete. Very convenient entry point to the road to Balos. We ate at the two closest Taverns and enjoyed the food and service from both immensely.
It was our first time in Crete and we appreciated Kostas guiding us into the village of Kaliviani. He took ample time to acquaint us with the local amenities and sites. We visited most of the landmarks he suggested and were particularly fond of the Botanical Park, Santa Sofia Caves, Paleochora, and both Kentrodasos and Falassarna (despite the very loud electronic music) beach. Kostas was also very responsive to any issue or concern we shared with him.
We also met the owner who was very kind who came by to tend his many beautiful plants.
The villa is very clean, has a well stocked kitchen, washing machine, lots of toilet tissue. It did take us a couple of days coming from the US to get accustomed to placing toilet tissue in the bin rather than flushing though it wasn’t explicitly explained. For the size and location of the villa we felt it was a very good value and would highly recommend/considering returning.
Also enjoyed the night sky from the roof top in the comfortable reclining chairs.
Please know that we left our sand covered shoes outside and think that they were taken by the dogs that run around the village. We were able to find our 3 year old’s but never recovered my husband’s left flip flop.