The architect's penthouse

Entire apartment in Rethymno, Greece

  1. 6 guests
  2. 3 bedrooms
  3. 6 beds
  4. 2 bathrooms
Hosted by VanGos
  1. Superhost
  2. 13 years hosting

Listing highlights

Exceptional check-in experience

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Unbeatable location

100% of guests in the past year gave this location a 5-star rating.

City view

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A modern, luxury, penthouse apartment 300m away from the vast sandy beach of Rethymno with breathtaking 180 degrees sea views over the rooftops of the town and its Venetian castle. Its artworks, design furniture, facilities and roof garden terrace make it unique

The space
This 140m2 apartement is on the 5th floor (the highest you can get in Rethymno) of a block of flats mostly inhabited by young families and some university students. Therefor it enjoys a vast roof garden terrace with 180° breathtaking seaviews.

Its living room has direct access to the roof garden terrace. It's been decorated using mostly white colours in order not to abstract the eye from its breathtaking seaviews. Most of its furniture is made out of inox and leather and it was designed by famous architects in the early 20th century such as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. This design furniture is nicely mixed and matched with a 200 years old carved, wooden dining table and the details made out of local white marble on the bookcase and the fireplace, designed by the owner.

The kitchen is fully equiped with electric oven, cooker and barbeque, coffee machines etc. It has also a dining area with breathtaking seaviews over the Venetian castle and the roof tops of the town of Rethymno.

The apartment has three bedrooms. The master bedroom, has a twin/double bed and an en suite bathroom with two washing basins and a big shower cabin. The other two bedrooms have one single bed each. But, in case that 5 people need to stay in the apartment, one of the single beds can be turned to twin. Those two bedrooms share a second bathroom with another two washing basins and a bathtub.

The kitchen and the bedrooms are either seaview or partially seaview and they all have direct access to a 2m wide balcony that surrounds them. This balcony is full of pots planted with any kind of mediterranean aromatic herbs one might need for cooking.

Guest access
The guests have access to the whole apartment and its terrace, the books (most of them about travelling, arts and architecture) and the CDs of the owner, the household equipment and the laundry and partial access to the wardrobes situated in the bedrooms and the entrance hall

Registration details
00000272981

Where you'll sleep

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What this place offers

Sea view
City skyline view
Shared beach access
Kitchen
Wifi – 46 Mbps
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Rated 4.96 out of 5 from 47 reviews.

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Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars for location

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars for value

Where you’ll be

Rethymno, Rethymno / Crete, Greece
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Neighbourhood highlights

The area where my penthouse apartment is situated is a residence area in the modern part of the town of Rethymno 300m away from its vast sandy beach and a 15min walk away of its old town. Therefore this area has several supermarkets, butcher shops, bakeries etc to service the locals but at the same time, being so close to the beach, it has many 5* and 4* hotels and the shops, banks, restaurants and cafes that their guests often use.

The road where the apartment is situated is a dead end so you practically you don't have any traffic noise. Also at the east of the block of flats, just next to it, there is a stream with canes and local cypress trees that goes all the way back to the pine forest covered hills at the south of Rethymnon. So one can often instead of the expected town noise listen to frogs croaking or birds twitting often even on the branches of the roof garden trees.

Meet your host

Superhost
259 reviews
4.96 out of 5 average rating
13 years of hosting
My work: Business engineer in the administration of a hotel chain, architect
Most useless skill: Recognizing many plant species
I love nature and living close to it but I also love traveling to big cities for enjoying the cultural events and spaces one can find there. I love food of good quality and I enjoy cooking it. I love seeing but also creating art. One of my listings was awarded with the Unique Listing award (one of the two globally) in the 1st Airbnb Open in San Fran, in 2014. Host educator in the 3d AirbnbOpen I’ve been Airbnb SuperHost for the last 11 years.
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House rules

6 guests maximum
No pets
No parties or events

Safety & property

No smoke alarm
Carbon monoxide detector not required
No parking on property

Cancellation policy

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