When you stay at Merovigli Studios you will love the location. It is perched at the top of the island and when you take just a few steps off of the property to get to the walking path to Fira, you will see why. Alex and Mariathe were a great resource with ideas of where to go and what to see, and almost always available at the office, and if not at the office they were around the property. It was a very clean and well maintained property, everything worked very well. I found the mattress very stiff and the pillows a bit too firm, but that is a personal preference.