Dennis’s Airbnb was a lovely place with stunning views. He is a really great and attentive host with well kept amenities and daily cleaning service. It’s in the middle of the action just steps to restaurants and a beautiful terrace looking out into the caldera.
We were really looking forward to enjoying the hot tub but ran into quite a few issues.
(1) Whenever we would go into the water it would burn our eyes (we never submerged our head). It was like the pain of cutting an onion making it a little unbearable to stay in for longer than a few minutes.
(2) When we came out of the hot tub, both of our swimsuits were bleached and discolored. We we were a little alarmed by this wondering what *exactly* was in the water that was doing this (perhaps a really high concentration of chlorine?).
(3) The hot tub also was not hot, just lukewarm. Perhaps this is to be expected as it’s hot during the day in santorini. However at night it tends to be chilly. We requested the temperature to be turned up however we were informed it could not go any higher.
(4) This is definitely out of Dennis’s control, but we had thought we would be able to watch the sunset from our terrace. 1.5 hours before sunset the sun disappears behind the island and you can’t actually see it set.
All in all, Dennis was really polite. But we were really disappointed with the hot tub situation as that is what we were willing to pay the premium price for. Otherwise it would’ve been a 10/10 stay. Perhaps it was just a one time imbalance of chlorine or something but we felt a little cheated of the entire experience that was advertised to us.