What I liked most, was to see how proud the owners are of this villa they built themselves. Because I can completely understand why:
- The pictures don't do justice to how spectacular the view from the garden actually is. You can see snowy mountains, the blue sea and a gorge. There's countless of birds flying around (hawks, swallows, sparrows) and sometimes you'll see a flock of sheep on the other side of the gorge.
- The rooms are large, and have plenty of privacy. Soms of my fellow travelers like to get up early. Me not so much, and I was glad the rooms were not right next to eachother. This way I could sleep in late.
- There's a lot of space. The garden is huge and their are no neighboors, so you won't get disturbed.
- It's clean. The house was spotless when we arrived and during our stay 2-3 times a week cleaners made sure to keep it that way.
- There's great local taverna's closeby. We went to the ones in Amnatos and Arkadi, two villages closeby. These are really affordable and I can recommend the quality of the food not highly enough.
- Plenty of amenities. Fireplace for if it's cold in the evening. Pool for when it's warm during the day. BBQ. Fully equipped kitchen. Garage. Window nets that keep the mosquito's out.
Amalia and Haris are the friendliests host I've met. When we arrived (exhausted after a long flight), they welcomed us with a lunch, homemade wine and raki. During our stay Haris even brought us more bottles of his homemade wine and raki.
They also gave us a lot of recommendations for what to do in the surrounding and even helped us organize some (I recommend going on a scooter trip to mount Ida, which is a fun drive through the countryside and mountains and can be done in half a day).
I had an absolutely wonderfull stay and am very happy we went here instead of other villa's. Would love to stay there again.
Thanks Amalia and Haris!