We stayed at Harry's place for a month and had a great time. For our family of four, it was perfect. Comfortable beds, plenty of space to spread out, a nice desk area (I work online), plenty of outlets, a good sized kitchen...
Internet access is very important to me in my work - we were told that we'd have the best possible internet available in this area of Athens (Mets)...which is great, but the best available here is going to be on the low side of tolerable for anyone needing to do anything bandwidth intensive.
Internet speed was pretty consistent for us, with occasional noticeable slowdowns in the evenings:
- Many speedtest results averaged:Ping: 18 Download: 6.5(ish) Upload: 0.75
Some positives and negatives we noticed during our time:
-- Easy 10 minute walk to the Plaka area of town
-- Breezy and very comfortable, even on hot days
-- Grocery and convenience stores are 2 minutes walk away
-- 6 minute walk to Indian Havelli (Amazing Indian food)
-- Acropolis area is 10 minutes or less walk...tons of things to see, do, eat...
-- Quick responses from Harry & Giannis...very friendly and helpful
-- Poor lighting in the kitchen
-- Unending big city traffic noise (evidence of apparent endless road rage)
-- With the open windows come mosquitoes. (Not tons of them, but enough to be a nearly constant irritation. We opted for AC a few days to get a break from itching...but having all the windows open was sooooo nice we tolerated them more often than not).
-- No AC in one of the bedrooms made it hot and uncomfortable a few nights, but as soon as we mentioned this to Harry, he brought a nice fan over right away that solved the issue (GREAT communication and experience with Harry and Giannis).
All in all, this has been one of the very best AirBNB experiences we've had (and we've had A LOT). Our opinion is that this can't be beat for the price. The level of comfort and "homey" feel this gave us was better than almost anywhere we've stayed around the world.
We've lived out of AirBNBs for the past 6 months straight, across 3 countries :)