Villa Nikolas is an extraordinarily wonderful place. The landscape is uniquely beautiful with broad views to the White Mountains (with a little spot of snow even in very hot late July 2017), to the in-between valley and to the sea in the horizon. It is very difficult to keep the eyes away from this view. The house is very well designed, aesthetically and functionally with high quality building craft and good materials, and it is equipped with everything you need, all well functioning. And the pool is really something. Nikolas and his family are wonderful hosts indeed, welcoming, helpful, good-humoured, and efficient, and supplying us with vegetables from the garden of the house and grandfathers wine. We (6 persons) spent one of our best holiday weeks ever there, using the house as basis for trips to Chania, Knossos, Rethymno and beaches, and as an extremely pleasant place for just staying there all day long, in the pool, in the shadow, in the sun, playing and reading, totally undisturbed and still close to the village Plaka and other nearby smaller towns. It was fantastic. We highly recommend Nikolas and his wonderful house.