We can't say enough about our trip to Santorini and our stay at Sotris' place. It was amazing.

There were 4 of us - two adults and two teens. We took our daughter and her friend to Santorini for our daughter's 16th birthday, so we wanted it to be a special experience. The location was perfect. The cave house is about 60 steps down from the busy main street in Oia. It takes about 3 minutes to walk the steps, but it instantly gets you from the crazy streets and shops above to a quiet, beautiful view down below. There is the occasional tourist that walks by, but they tend to stay up above more. It was very quiet at night, which is good, because we were often pretty tired by the end of the day from walking up and down in the heat. That being said, we all lost about 5 lbs on the trip.., so bonus.

The house is very close to restaurants, bars, tavernas and a grocery store. Also very handy to the bus stop where you can grab buses into Fira and other places. Defintely everything is walkable. The A/C was crucial and it worked great, as did the wifi. All the comforts of home, but with in an incredible location. The pictures are very accurate, and actually don't do the place justice. The view of the Caldera is beyond incredible. Everybody loved it. The girls even "adopted" one of the many stray cats that roam around Oia. She was a thin calico one, that they named Medusa. They fell in love with her. If you happen to see her, please be kind. She can be moody, but she stayed outside on the veranda for most of our trip and became one of the family for that week.

Sotris was a perfect host and helped arrange a car to pick us up and set us up with a great catamaran tour. Giannis manages this place and others and is amazing. He picked us up at the post office the first day and brought us to the house. He made himself available at all times and visited most evenings to make sure that we had all we needed. It was great to know that we had access to Giannis if there was ever an issue (which there wasn't). On the last day, he arranged for our pick-up back to the airport and saw us off. We appreciated all that he did.

This was a special trip for us and the cave house really helped make it. We defintely recommend and will be back.