You booked a whole house, not a hotel with a programme. Most days you will cook, swim and go to the beach on your own. But a few things are worth arranging before you come, and they all start with a message to Argyris.
Nothing on this page is booked or paid here. Argyris checks it for your dates and you agree it in writing before you travel.
A cook comes to the villa and cooks for your group in the kitchen or at the wood-fired oven. Usually one dinner during the stay: a birthday, the first night, the evening nobody wants to drive.
Tell Argyris: your dates, how many adults and children, which evening, and anything nobody eats.
Send Argyris a shopping list and it can be in the kitchen when you open the door, so your first evening does not start in a supermarket. The final list is confirmed at least two days before you arrive.
Tell Argyris: your arrival time and the list — coffee, milk, water, wine, baby food, whatever you need on the first morning.
Cretan extra virgin olive oils tasted side by side, with local bites, at the villa. It changes how you read a label for the rest of the trip.
Tell Argyris: your dates and how many of you, and whether children are joining.
A guided tasting of Cretan wines from local grapes, with small plates, in the garden or by the pool. Adults only, and nobody should be driving afterwards.
Tell Argyris: your dates, how many adults, and whether you would like something to eat with it.
A cooking session at the villa: Cretan dishes, hands in the dough, then you eat what you made. It suits families with children and groups who want one afternoon that is not a beach.
Tell Argyris: your dates, how many of you, the ages of the children and whether anyone has a food allergy.
Every one of them is arranged for your dates. Duration, group size and cost are confirmed with you before anything is agreed, because they change with the season, the group and the villa.
There is no basket and no payment on this site for any of it. You ask, Argyris checks, and you agree it in writing before you arrive.
The cook, the wine, the person who runs the tasting. They set their own availability, their price and their terms, and Argyris can only pass on what they confirm.
Unless it is written in your booking, an experience is extra and separate. The Cretan Breakfast Basket is the one thing that comes with every direct booking.
Tell us before you book anything with food in it. The provider answers about ingredients and cross-contamination; we do not answer for them, and we do not promise a kitchen free of anything.
Some of this is easy in June and difficult in January. Ask early, especially for a specific evening or a large group.
Wine tasting is for adults, at the villa, and we will say so again when you book it.
The Cretan Breakfast Basket comes with every direct booking, at every villa and for all dates, without a separate request or a minimum stay: olive oil, cheese, olives, bread, paximadi, jam, fruit and herbs from small Cretan producers. Contents and quantities vary with the season.
You do not book it here. Send Argyris your dates and what interests you, through the contact page or WhatsApp, and he will tell you whether it is possible for those dates and what it involves. He usually replies within 12 hours.
It depends on the experience, the number of guests, the season and the provider, so no price is published on this page. You get the cost in writing before you agree to anything.
As early as you can, and certainly not on the day. A private chef for a specific evening, or anything for a large group, needs the most notice. There is no fixed deadline that guarantees availability.
No. The one thing that comes with every direct booking is the Cretan Breakfast Basket. Everything on this page is arranged separately and paid separately.
Tell Argyris before anything is arranged and he will put the question to the provider. The answer comes from the person cooking, not from us, and no kitchen can be promised free of an ingredient.
For the chef and the cooking session, yes — tell us their ages. Wine tasting is for adults.
Yes. The private chef evening and the olive oil tasting take place at all four villas. For anything else, ask for the villa you have booked: Argyris will tell you straight if a villa is not right for it.
Sometimes, but nothing away from the villa is promised: it depends on the people who run the place, their opening times and how you would get there and back. Ask and we will tell you honestly what is realistic for your week.
Your dates, how many of you, the ages of the children and the thing you would like. He will tell you what is possible that week, what it involves and what it costs — or that it is not realistic, which is just as useful.
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