It was a good size villa for 2 people. Nikolaos was very quick to respond to all our messages. He picked us up from the airport and gave some useful advices on the way to the accommodation. Since the villa is about 15 minutes walk from the town centre, especially if you are planning to shop for some groceries to cook, renting a vehicle is essential ! In our departure, we were going to call a cab, but he offered to drop us off to the port with the same price as a cab which is £15. Since, we could not find any available cab at that moment( It was very last minute. Otherwise, it is super easy to find a cab anytime ) we accepted his offer. As soon as we arrived the port, a civil police officer approached us; wanted to see our passports and asked some questions about our transfer, and our host. We were asked if our host charged us for providing this transfer, and indeed we were charged at a standard taxi rate.
And that is barred, legally! So, the police explained us that if you provide a service in return of some monetary compensation, you must have a registration and a license for driving commercial vehicle. As soon as the police left, I called Nikolaos to let him know about what happened. He sounded a bit rude on the phone as obviously he did not like that the police involved. Since he did not even surprise at all, and even before I started to give any detail about the conversation with the police, he interrupted me and spoke over me that he is familiar with the situation.
So in my opinion, should just call a cab and paying the same fee to the people who are really actually taxi drivers and they earn money from that job. I am aware that the host does not have to provide this drop off service. To be very honest, I could’ve somehow understood , if we were asked small fee just for the gas perhaps, but charging the guests at taxi fare without any license etc. is illegal and unethical.