Villa Ismini

Our stay was absolutely wonderful! The place was very clean, comfortable, and had everything we needed. What made our trip truly special was the warm hospitality – we felt very welcome and at home from the very first moment. We would definitely love to come back and can highly recommend staying here to anyone visiting Greece.

The location was really good, walking distance to beaches, restaurants and supermarket. Our host was extremely kind and helpful and wanted us to have a nice holiday. The villa had everything we needed and felt like home (nice coffee machine too :)). For 3 ladies, we felt very safe and secure and a really nice area to be in. We got the bus into Chania centre (bus stop just outside the villa) and very easy to get taxi back to villa (€10).

Great place to stay and great host Helen, who met us with treats and was very helpful throughout our stay. Villa is in perfect condition, very modern and definitely better than most of luxurious hotels. Lot of beaches and restaurants nearby. You would definitely need a car to see all the palaces and since we were too late to hire any in high season we will definitely be back to Villa Ismini again to explore Crete.

To be honest, i am really surprised that none of the comments posted online for this villa fail to mention the following: 1. You have no privacy! It is a semi-detached house connected with 2 other houses and (in total) 3 basements. So if you are a group who like your privacy, know that there is a shared garage gate, shared garden just marked to ensure you know where your boundaries are (see point 3 below), shared veranda - with a glass divider, and a shared back veranda and yard. 2. Villa is not on the beach It might be 80m away from the sea but it is nowhere mentioned that you need to cross a busy road and an old man's junkyard to reach the sea. The photos with sea view are taken from the top floor attic room. 3. Garden is only for walking You cannot sit in and enjoy the beautiful garden you see in the photos as it is a thin strip of land which mostly serves as a pathway from the parking spot to the house door. The rest of the garden is for the other 2 houses 4. Better be out by 11 am The owner (who by the way lives in the basement below) she came into the house at 11:05 and started tidying up and checking around if we forgot anything to make sure that we no longer delay our departure. Considering that we had 3 kids with us, this was of course done in order to assist. Of course! To cut a long story short, it wasn't the comfortable villa on the beach with a beautiful garden for the kids to play in that we expected to find as we were mislead by the photos and the description available online. So just wanted to warn the other like-minded people that this is what they will be booking.