The house itself (property) is undeniably beautiful! The layout is perfect and very ideal for a family of four. Seperate rooms, bathrooms etc.
You get the most amazing sunsets as people have highlighted in most reviews.
HOWEVER it really ends there!
It is on the very very very end of the island, it takes around 25 min drive from the port, which isn’t a bad thing however….
a four wheel drive car is needed to reach the property. It has a long narrow rocky pebbled broken path (4 minute drive from top of main road) that you need to drive down. When we arrived by ferry (late afternoon) from Santorini, there were no suitable cars for this property for hire on the island and we had to find a way to get a family of 4 and all our luggage to the property (4 huge suitcases as we are here in Greece for 1 month)!
It took a long time to organise this - however a special mention of Kosta - he was very nice and helped us.
Once we got to the property we were stranded there until the following day because we had to wait for someone to drop suitable vehicle to the property next day.
Wi-fi didn’t work for our entire duration at the house - it is advertised as having it! Reception/service is non-existent in that location. (E service). My teenagers were moaning and groaning about this the entire time we were on the property, and my husband was unable to do any work from the house. A way to make you DISCONNECT from civilisation! If it’s essential for your business it’s not a good choice to stay here at all!
He had to walk 5 minutes up the hill to get slight service to make calls. Which my husband found frustrating as he runs his own business and people rely on him.
The house is also advertised with AIR-CONDTIONING. There is NO air conditioning, it only produces hot heat for the winter months. Admittedly, opening all the windows produces a nice breeze throughout the house however if you want air conditioning - this property does not have it (even though it’s advertised as it does)!
We love coming back from a hot day out and being cool indoors.
The place provides all the appliances, however the toaster did not plug into any of the ports. It’s not with a Greek plug. When I asked about this - Luca (host) responded with “please try to find somewhere in the house an adaptor, to fit in the plug. I don't know exactly where this could be…..” unfortunately, we didn’t locate it and I was unable to make toast for my family the entire time we were there. Why would one provide a toaster suitable for another country? That was odd.
Another thing to note: If you like hot showers, approach this property with caution! Their is very little warmth as the house is producing heated water via solar panels and it runs out very quickly and sometimes its not even hot! We all had many cold showers! Where we jumped in and out as it was not a comfortable experience!
The washing machine was in another language, difficult to understand, I can read Greek but this was possibly in Italian.
Overall, we enjoyed the island however I would not recommend this property for friends to stay at.
The vista/view in my opinion does not surpass the negatives.