My wife and I had an absolutely great time at the villa. We came for a romantic getaway for 4 nights, Greg told us that we don’t know it yet but we are headed to paradise - and so it was!
The villa is well equipped with almost anything you can think of, and if we had special requests, Greg was happy to accomodate us. Some of the days we stayed in and cooked, the kitchen is modern and spacious and everything works well and is self explanatory. During our stay our only communications with Greg were requests for recommendations for quality local restaurants for our dinners, which he gave with pleasure making our stay in Rhodes even more special and unique.
The villa is a two story building but the upper floor is sealed and not in use so you will be alone on the ground. There is a private driveway which you can lock behind you. There is a bordering villa on one side, there was a family that stayed there while we were there but they were quiet and didn’t bother us.
The beach is an amazing pebble beach which we found absolutely magical, the pebbles are like beautiful clean stone marbles, and as a result the water is a beautiful clear turquoise. The slope is quite steppe so in 20 steps you are fully submerged and don’t need the long knee deep wading it sometimes takes to start swimming. Water was flat calm during our entire stay.
The adjacent beach is the one that services the next door hotels Mitsis and Andriana, so there is a considerable amount of people there and also a motor ski, jet ski and speed boat service that spans to the beach area of the villa, so if you are a swimmer take into account that there is some risk involved ( one time I swam towards the buoy listening to music, and a jet ski came near me with two operators who warned me to keep close to the shore).
The descent from the villa to the beach is through a small gardeb gate Greg installed, and on your way back there is a very handy beach shower to wash off sand and pebbles before you go inside. The distance to the waterline from the gate is about 70 meters, easy walk. The beach is of course part of the public beaches of Kiotari, so people do tend to wander around the shore (sometimes horseback trips) and most of the time you will not be alone there. Greg installed two lovely fixed parasoles and two beach beds for your use which are awesome and we spent long hours there. (Sometime other people use them when we were’nt there, but if one time we came and mentioned it was private and belonged to the villa and would like to sit there, there were no problems the other people just moved a few meters to the side and we had our beach beds).
The area is pretty quiet, yet conveniently there are shops and restaurants ( and a good supermarket) on the road behind the villa, for everything you might need from sunscreen to bread). A couple of blocks away there is apparently some club orr taverna which lights the sky with dancing spotlights, and sometimes plays music loud enough to hear, but not really loud enough to bother. (Only on Friday night did it persist into the early morning, but didn’t bother us too much)
Remember to bring your own portable music speaker/ player from home! There was no audio system when we came, and luckily we had our own little bluetooth speaker with us and it worked non stop, streaming music for us while we were at the villa. We didn’t try to use the TV, but if you’d want to screen something (for yourself or if you come with kids) then you should probably bring your own content as it isn’t really connected to any service at least as far as we could see).
To sum up, it was an amazing romantic experience for us, a getaway from life, kids, and also from the resort/hotel scene which we didn’t want. The villa is absolutely great, goegeous and spacious, the beach is amazing. Greg is very professional, friendly, and responds quickly. I hope we can come back soon!
Thank you Greg!