PROS
- Faye organised a taxi to pick us up from the port. We also asked her to look into an ATV hire for us and she organised this for 45 euros per day (which is considered a lower price for Milos).
- On arrival, Phanis talked us through a map of Milos and gave lots of great recommendations which we found super useful
- The room was lovely: spacious, clean, fast and free wifi, smart TV (netflix) - absolutely perfect for the two of us.
- Dedicated sunbed and shaded area means that you always have a place to chill by the lovely pool
- The location is perfect; close enough to everything but far away enough to enjoy some quiet. Although the description does say the beach is however many metres away, this isn’t walkable (about a 30 min walk into Adamas where the nearest beach is)
CONS
- On arrival, it was made very clear that the surfaces in the apartment stain easily - to the point we felt a bit awkward and worried that anything would leave a mark. We have stayed in apartments like this before and of course always ensure they are left how we found them, but never been made to feel awkward before.
- the safe in the room isn’t bolted and is really small - we could only fit our passports, cash & watches so the rest of our stuff was left in the room.
- We booked an Airbnb as we wanted to be able to self cater. As we were travelling the Cyclades for a month, we couldn’t afford to eat out every day. After cooking on the first night, we came home on our second day to find that Phanis and Spiros had opened our window and door completely, to “air out” the room and asked us not to cook such heavy foods going forward, only light breakfasts (we had cooked tomato pasta). We came back on our third day, by which time there was absolutely no smell in the room, to the window being fully opened too (we had left it on a latch but it has then been fully opened while we were out). This made us feel awkward about using the kitchen, which is why we chose an air bnb over a hotel, and also concerned for our belongings as our apartment was essentially left open to anyone with the majority of our valuables having to be left outside of a safe.
- Jo and Spiros (Faye’s parents I believe) stay in the apartment above room 3 (and perhaps room 2) and we were woken up on a few occasions by the dog barking and walking around in the night.