Villa Mary

Very Good
Traveller Type: Family with Young Children
  : we have stayed in Villa Mary before, last time though was 7 years ago! We found it to be as before... comfortable, clean, well equipped and in a lovely setting on the hillside above the village.Efi and Manolis are perfect hosts. Efi greeted us shortly after our arrival late at night. There was a very handy welcome pack, including home made cake and some raki... and a further cake and veggie Briam (stew)provided midweek.... delicious! Manolis helped very promptly with a minor issue in the villa midweek.The village is lovely, the people very friendly... and all patient with my attempts at speaking some Greek ....very little really, and it always seems to surprise Greeks that anyone would want to learn!As the weather wasnt great for the first 5 days of our holiday, we enjoyed walking to the village, having delicious cretan breakfasts in Maxis, walking to the bay to watch the crashing sea and walking uphill to the next village ..., about 6 miles round trip but enjoyable... . Beer and mezes in the village ! A taxi to Rethymnon was only 15 euros, and as always Rethymnon is a very interesting place to visit. A bus is also available but not when we wanted to visit.Despite the very unusual weather at first, we had a great time and after our week in Gerani we stayed for 4 days in Chania so did manage to see many places in the sunshine too.
  : our week was over as the weather improved so we missed the opportunity to use the pool .