Stavros Beach Chania is, without question, one of the most relaxed and genuinely family-friendly beaches on the entire Akrotiri Peninsula. A near-perfect circular lagoon, protected on three sides by a dramatic limestone headland. The water is shallow, clear and almost…
Tersanas Beach Chania is one of those places that most tourists drive straight past on their way to Stavros. That is their mistake. Tersanas is a small coastal village located 13km northeast of Chania, hidden in a small cove on…
Kedrodasos Beach Chania is one of the most genuinely untouched beaches left in western Crete. It sits just one kilometre east of the famous Elafonisi lagoon, yet most of the people who go to Elafonisi never make it here. That…
Chrissoskalitissa Monastery Chania sits on the far southwestern edge of Crete, perched on a rock face 35 metres above the Libyan Sea. Most visitors only notice it because it sits on the road to Elafonisi beach. That is a shame,…
Balos Beach Chania is the image that sold half of northern Europe on booking a holiday in Crete. You have seen the photograph a hundred times before you ever arrive: a wide, shallow lagoon, water somewhere between turquoise and white,…
Falassarna Beach Chania is one of the genuinely great beaches of the Mediterranean. Not in the way that phrase gets used about every sandy strip on every Greek island, but in the way that people who have been to hundreds…