Julies Studios in Chania Town

Avis julies studio For years, we visit Greek islands with a group of 10 friends. We always had good to excellent housing experiences in each of the places we visited, until we arrived in Julie's Studios on September 6th for 9 nights. That was an horrific experience. We had to call the police and only solved the issue with the owner at Chania police headquarters. We booked 5 rooms in Spring, and made a deposit of 500 euros by bank transfer. One hour before arriving in Chania, we called the host to inform her of our arrival time. When we arrived, no-one was there to give us the rooms keys. We had to phone her again and then wait for 40 minutes in the street (there is no lobby; the "front desk" is a table and two chairs at the bottom of the stairs). Once there, the host refused to show us the rooms before we first pay in advance the remainder of the bill (2500 euros) in cash (BTW this is totally illegal: the European laws specify that any transaction beyond 1000 euros must be paid by electronic means). This request was of course not specified at the time we booked the room, and we had not such an amount of cash. After a long discussion, we finally had our keys after an extra paiement of 500 euros cash. On the next day, since the host insisted for being paid in advance and in cash, and threatened to throw us out of the studios after one night even though we had already paid for three nights, we ended up calling the police to settle the issue. Apart from the very aggressive and unfriendly behavior of the host, we can add that the studios are not too clean. The mugs contained dried leftovers of coffee and the pans were greasy, so we preferred to clean all the mugs, glasses, forks, spoons... before using them . We cannot say whether the grayish color of the bathroom towels is their original color or is due to remaining dirt. Some of the balconies was so dirty we did not even dare using them. And I could continue with many other examples.... Regarding the building itself, although it is much younger, it is in a poorer state than many of the fourteenth century Venetian buildings of Chania: rusty pillars, cracks in walls coatings and balconies concrete,.... Our vacation went well: after two nights in this poor place, we left and found housing in very nice apartments with charming owners, for a 20% lower price. In conclusion, if you ever consider booking a room in Julie's Studio, look for something else. You cannot find worse for the same price. Anything else you'll find will be better.

The worst place to spend your holiday in Greece.. Room #1 was in bad condition: a bug, broken bath curtains, wet floor, cardboard under the mattress, someone left a condom (not used). By the way I couldn’t pay because an owner went somewhere, only before leaving I was able to do it, I had to contact her additionally.
Advantages: the Internet speed was good enough, close to sea.
I don’t recommend😅