So my best friend is visiting me from Florida. My BF and I have been in Athens for a month getting dental work done… We decided a three night trip to an island and picked Milos. My friend found Elenis place.And after reading reviews we thought it was the perfect place. This was the Time of year when it's off-season… It was mid week in a time and there happened to be three days available. With temperatures in October usually in the low to mid 70s… We didn't think it would be such an issue without air-conditioning. But Let me say first and foremost it was extremely hot… You have to climb a ladder to get up to the two bedrooms… If you leave the doors open you have feral cats inside . We made That mistake night one… They are not Paddle fans up there ... there's one fan up in the corner of each bedroom. Made it bearable but I could not imagine this in the summer! However downstairs in the common area you are able to open those big doors and the water is steps away… However there is no fan down there you're relying on a breeze and it is HOT!!
So after parking In the little restaurant where the free parking is available you must walk down about three minutes…What we Did not expect all the foot traffic… We thought this was a nice quiet place by reading the reviews… There were constantly people going by looking inside… And we're talking about off-season in the middle of week! It never ended! So if you don't mind that sort of thing feeling like you're in a fishbowl this could be an awesome opportunity… However I like privacy and there was none of that here… Also, The barking dog was mentioned in another review and that is an issue… He is two doors down… He leaves his dog chained up outside in the dog barks to high heaven what else can be said it's annoying! Also , the CAT situation is out of control… There isn't one or two little cats like they mention lovingly in the reviews the cat had kittens and cats are literally everywhere… Yeah getting into things… I have a cat I am a cat lover! For the first 24 hours it was cute… Then just got to be downright annoying shoeing them out of the house… All the cats and dogs going by are going to the bathroom in that little piece of sand that's right in front of the house and that is what we were tracking in the house so the house always felt dirty… And we notice a certain kind of bugs kept crawling in from outside. In a lot of cases you could've solve some of these problems by closing those big doors but then you would have roasted… So this was not the quiet relaxing scene that we expected for three days as a matter fact I was not feeling well and went back after two days leaving my best friend and my boyfriend there… Eleni came by the night before REMINDING Them of check out the next day. Now this is in a little fishing village… Not part of her property absolutely would be out of her way! I found that kind of offensive when I heard about it later. Other than that. Clean , fresh beds.. extra linens etc. AND Not a true shower in any sense! IT was a shower head you ran over your body while standing on A piece of slatted wood.. (my Friend suggested putting screens on all the windows therefore you could leave the windows open to hear ocean and catch breeze without the cats getting in but there were no screens on anything so you had to keep everything closed therefore keeping the place very hot!!)
I'm a Little upset about the reviews… I rely on the reviews heavily as to whether I rent a place… And I can't believe that people didn't mention the things that we saw and we are here in off-season… I can't even imagine what it was like when the island was full! Everything that I have said in this review was 100% true… And Eleni very nice herself. As far as greeting us… Wishing us a nice vacation but we didn't appreciate the "checking up"the night before!
Also , my friend came here to spend a month supporting me through the second part of my process and she had just finished chemo her ,last week the week before in Florida… Therefore needs to remain in clean environments. We relied on the reviews and got something completely different… Had Even one person mentioned and all the animals going to the bathroom and all the bugs we wouldn't even considered this considering her situation!! She had to constantly wear her shoes because of the cat poop situation out front. We Were completely turned off about sitting out front and getting any sun. Because of all the traffic walking by on that small piece of sand and because of all the animal excretion ..
We were disappointed to say the least..We weren't interested in hobnobbing over the whole island we were interested in just kicking back for three days… We found out right away that we couldn't do that… We were so interested in finding a place that we could just hear the ocean when we woke up but we realize that we couldn't do that because of the cats. just remember that we are not talking about one or two cats we are talking about 20 cats/ kittens everywhere!! ( and mean!!) .. We WANTED To love this place… But I say look elsewhere!