Astypalea’s jewel is Chora, the traditional town clinging onto the slopes below the Venetian castle. Imagine a traditional Cycladic town full of white houses in a maze of narrow streets, that’s Chora. Tholos House is in the middle of it all.
It’s been renovated by Μιχάλης (Mixalhs, Michalis, Michael, Mike) with very very good taste and attention to detail, probably recently as it’s in perfect condition. It’s on two levels, it’s objectively small, but it doesn’t feel like it; we actually found it to be bigger than it looked in the Airbnb pictures.
Mixalhs was away when we arrived, but he organised a taxi to pick us up at the port, and had the mother of his partner show us the house; it all went without a hitch. The only glitch (no hot water in the kitchen, but OK in the bathroom) was fixed within hours; Mixalhs was very reactive.
We enjoyed a great vacation in Tholos House (12 days), thanks to the beauty of Astypalea, the elegance of Tholos House, and the welcome by Mixalhs, his sister, and his family.