6 of us went to Maria’s beautiful villa for a week and had the best time. The whole villa was spotless and the pool was a perfect place to spend the day. It gets a nice breeze all day - bring clips to attach your towel to the sunbed! Maria leaves essentials like oil, salt, pepper, breadsticks for you on arrival. The villa also comes equipped with great air con, beach towels for all guests as well as a small and large towel for showering and two small hairdryers.
The villa is in a fantastic location. It is rural and not particularly touristy but is just 5mins walk from a lovely local bakery, pharmacy and a couple of supermarkets and restaurants all along the main road. You can also walk 5mins into the centre of Pitsidia where there are more restaurants. I recommend eating at Bougainvillea, a restaurant about 7mins walk from the villa. It is in the middle of a beautiful square and all of the small plates are delicious - get the red peppers stuffed with cheese!
We also got taxis to Matala which has some more high end restaurants and cocktail bars. We used Taxi Giorgios Matala to take us there and back, and to the near by town Agia Galinia. He was extremely helpful. If you plan to come back from Matala late, then I recommend pre-booking the taxi back as there is no taxi rank there.
On our way home our flight was at 11:35pm and we needed to check out the villa to let the cleaning happen before the next arrivals. Maria was extremely helpful, offering us an apartment she owns in Matala to use for the day. As it happens we had already booked A Paradise Beach Club for our last day. It is 7mins from the airport and stored our luggage for us. It is extremely reasonably priced and was a brilliant way to spend our last day.
We loved our stay at Villa Eurycleia and would love to return!