Originally Posted by
jpdx
I’m able to like some posts in this thread but not all (trust me, it’s known to management, but the moderators don’t know more than the rest of you — bottom line is, the forum software is old and clunky, and FT’s owners no longer invest much into the site). Therefore: thanks for the information! I have a trip planned in early May (is that a good time to go?) and was thinking of renting a car. Haven’t been to Crete in 20 years, but don't remember traffic as particularly bad. It seems to me that if one wishes to do some daytrips, a car would make things a lot easier, wouldn’t it?
Strange, I was looking at rooms for daughter No.3 and her tribe for that month and it was amazing value I thought. And they were 'understanding' about use of RA within the family :-) .... Weather I believe would good. From memory we went just a tad later but I would not think May would be a bad time.
There are a lot of car rental places there. Indeed on the very same street as the IC. I think this is something done by many. I didn't but I can imagine that to be a good call. Our aim on that trip was small trips out and a lot of lazing about which is unusual for us. But the scenary and island that I saw from the hotel taxis were rather nice for sure. If we went back again I think I would do exactly as you say jpdx.