Monachus Monachus

We just had a dream holiday in this place. The apartments are spacious, clean, with excellent views to the sea and the castle and equipped to a perfect standard. The family who owns the business is lovely and extremely helpful. The pool is sparkling clean (and being looked after constantly) and a good few meters away from the apartments to allow the hotel guests to enjoy peace (not that it ever gets noisy, but you get the point, it is about being thoughtful in designing the place.) The best thing, in our view, is the tranquillity that we enjoyed there at all times. All this, combined with the beach of Orthia Ammos, which is out of this world, will bring us back next year and hopefully a few more years to come.

Easy access to beach and mountains with lots of local restaurants within walking distance and great bakeries for breakfast. Hosts could not have been kinder. Quiet, air conditioned and although may be seen as basic had everything that’s needed, with pool too!

The hosts were awesome, attentive and caring. Minor issues were sorted mega promptly and we felt that our holiday was the most important thing for them. And we could was our beach towels!

BEWARE. Beautiful house, but beware of owner. Take pictures of everything beforehand. Make sure you get your deposit back right away when you leave. The owner will say he will send the deposit back by wire. After we walked house, he said everything was good and that he would wire us $2,000 deposit. We insited that we get deposit back right away. He made us wait for 1.5 hours to get our deposit back. At that point, the owner says we wrecked a $1,200 chair by sitting in it while wet. There were deep scratches in this chair which we did not put there. Owner was dishonest about that.

I wrote a review a couple of years ago, and we couldnt wait to return here. we love frangokastello and we love monachus monachus too. obviously having been here before, we knew what to expect and that was a warm welcome from nikos and eleni, the lovely couple that run the place. we now regard them as good friends. nothing is too much trouble, nikos keeps the very large pool clean constantly, eleni often brought out home-made biscuits for us to go with our drinks. and i have to mention too, elenis drinks measures are very generous indeed, even by crete standards :-) the rooms are very well kitted out, nikos and eleni have thought of everything. we actually stayed twice here during these 2 weeks. we were due to go back to the north but as the weather was far better down south we asked if there was still any availability to return. on both occasions our rooms were spotless and a pleasure to use. as its frangokastello, most people come for the peace and quietness of the place, we love it here, and it was a joy to spend some evenings on the spacious balcony playing tavli instead of going out to the tavernas each night. nikos and eleni had a few games in the reception and kindly lent us the tavli game. there is also a small oven in the apartments, so you can be totally self-sufficient if you choose to, and we also prepared picnics for the beach. i cannot recommend these apartments enough, and we will definitely come here every time we return to frangokastello.

Monachus monachus è un piccolo gioiello in quell’angolo di paradiso che è la costa sud ovest di Creta. Gli appartamenti sono piccoli e semplici, ma hanno tutto l’indispensabile per trascorrere un ottimo soggiorno. La cucina non è super equipaggiata ma c’è l’essenziale per prepararsi dei piatti semplici, per tutto il resto ci sono gli ottimi ristoranti super economici della zona. I proprietari sono sempre sorridenti e gentili e ci hanno dato dei preziosi consigli. La piscina è una soluzione meravigliosa quando soffia vento forte o quando ci si vuole rinfrescare tornati dal mare. Infine, la location è strategica per visitare la zona e si può arrivare al mare o andare a cena fuori anche a piedi con una breve e piacevole passeggiata.