We really enjoyed our stay in the villa. It is very remote with views over the mountains and olive groves. The sun rise is over the mountains and the sunset is at the front of the house in the distance to the road and both of these are beautiful views. It really is in the middle of nowhere after a very small little village of about 200 people. There is a working olive grove with pickers to the back of the property but the other properties are several hundred meters away. You definitely need a rental car staying here. Nearest supermarket is about 15 min drive but easy to get to. Opposite the house is a road (few cars but rare) and a farm with horses and dogs. The dogs free roam and often came to the gates of the house but the house is secure with a sliding electronic gate and fencing so they could not get in to the grounds. The dogs bark like mad at sunrise and sunset but you cannot hear them from inside the house so they will not wake you as very good double glazing and also roll down shutters on the windows. You will hear the cicadas singing and chirping all day until dusk but you get that anywhere in Greece so get used to it. Once you get accustomed to the noise you don’t even notice it.
Air con in the downstairs bedroom and upstairs double room which was a bonus and the lounge and single room has a large fan which was adequate.
The sun loungers outside were plentiful and very comfortable. We enjoyed the pool every day. Must so though that there is no shallow end so my youngest struggled a bit but there was floats and inflatable rings for her to use in the laundry room, along with some toys and buckets and spades for trips to the beach.
When we arrived there was fresh bread, water, butter, fruit, biscuits, Greek yogurt, honey and some other foods in the cupboards like cereals, pasta and jams and some cornetto ice creams in the freezer for the children which they were happy about after a long hot journey from our other hotel!
We spent 10 nights in elounda before hand so the quiet and peaceful location was a welcome change to the tourist town the week before, although we had enjoyed that too.
Owner came and cleaned the pool and fixed a few kitchen handles with his mum after 2-3 days and was very helpful and we spoke to him and he allowed us a late checkout until 5pm as we had a late flight which was again an added bonus. Thank you for our lovely stay!! :-) x