Unfortunately my first unpleasant Airbnb experience after countless positive experiences around the world over past few years.
Santorini is a beautiful island but this Airbnb did let down my experience - absolutely DO NOT recommend this place to anyone at all!
1) location - it is about a 15 minute uphill walk to to the immerovgli town, there is a bus stop right outside but buses are not frequent and only go to Oia (not return). If the bus is full (almost every bus!), they just drive past. You would definitely need a car/ Atv to explore the island. No supermarkets near the house either (closest in town) so be mindful. You also barely have caldera view - it is not on the caldera strip - you have to cross the road to see the view.
2) Check in- please note this is not a warm/ friendly check in process. You deal with an agent who just sent me a very generic message - my welcome message actually said ‘Dear Jeff’ - simply a copy and paste - didn’t even take 2 seconds to update my name. You never meet the host, collect keys yourself.
There is no option of early/ late checkout if your flight / ferry is early or late so please be mindful( we did ask and he said we could not).
In fact checkout was in the morning and a couple of hours before the cleaners started making noise outside and loitering outside the house, making us feel rushed to leave before checkout and not giving us privacy.
3) jacquizi - quite a nice touch although unfortunately too hot in 25degrees hot day already + constant bugs/ flies in the water
4) house itself - cosy, quite basic. No real ambience. Quite dated, and lots of flies around!
We also had an issue with the the fuse blowing out, cutting out the fridge electricity, lights and WiFi. We did contact host who sent someone to fix it, but since this day it happened daily and so we had to do the fix ourselves, highly annoying.
5) money hungry agents - please be mindful the agents will try to squeeze every last euro from you, despite this average place being so overpriced to start with.
We had 1 extra guest stay with us for the last night who joined us towards the end of the trip before we carry on island hopping around other islands. The host stated on checkout through a phone call that I need to pay for this which was no problem, but when he billed on Airbnb he was adamant that the guest was there for all 3 nights and tried to bill me for the entire stay (stating that the neighbours had seen the extra guest for the entire day which was a lie). Highly false and inaccurate, clearly a money hungry scam.
Luckily after Airbnb looked at it, they could see no evidence for the agents claims and I could rightly pay for just the 1 additional night. BE VERY CAREFUL!
Overall this Airbnb left a sour taste! Santorini is an expensive island as is, but this place didn’t live up to basic expectations/ value for money.
Lots of accommodations in santorini, I would highly recommend to look elsewhere to have a better experience! Thanks