Maria's apartment is slightly shabbier than we expected. It has it's own charm, but we felt it was over priced. The charm it has is like "your Greek friend's great grandmother used to live there". The view is beautiful and the location very convenient. Still, I would not stay there again. In fact I would not go to Santorini again as long as it is on the hit list for the huge groups of people coming in busloads. This seems to have made things very expensive and very crowded. Everything from taxis to dinners was higher than most major European cities. I actually would not recommend Santorini over the other islands I know. That said, Oía is still an improvement on Fira, the main town, which is even more overrun with very large groups of tourists. The problem with large groups being they really block things, not dispersing and spreading out as individual travellers do. You feel like you are standing at a bus station where ever you go. We wanted to buy some water and had to leave the only store in town because 50 people were queuing at the cash register in front of us. Maria was very responsive and helped us immediately when we requested bed side reading lamps. But the fact that there weren't any gives you an idea of the simplicity of the apartment. The table and chairs pictured on the listing are not there. Instead a simpler set. I didn't meet Maria but she hired very reliable people to help us with every thing we needed from the transfer to the port, a catamaran tour and dinner reservations for the sunset.