Wonderful stay at Dream Home. It literally is, the views are breathtaking even though not of the caldera. Beautiful villa, spacious and pretty much well equipped. Had a really lovely lady called Ela coming to clean twice during our stay and fortunately saw her again on leaving!
Kostas is very helpful and nothing is a problem, advice on anything! On day 2 we did have powercut for about 6hrs so was a little inconvenient. It happened again but for little while.
The location is a little farther, about 25mins walk from the main part of Imerovigli, a car is probably handy but we enjoyed the walk by cutting along the path and enjoyed the scenery of the caldera!
The pool is fantastic, goes pretty deep but very refreshing for the summer! Not heated so wouldn't be much use outwith summer! It was a tad cold but my kids LOVED it! We also had a fantastic time, again great to keep cool during the heat!!
Great little restaurant called Tou Steki, 10mins from the villa which was a hidden gem! Amazing traditional/authentic greek food and very reasonable. There are no other shops nearby so Kostas arranged us a transfer to do a big shop in Fira. The transfer cost €50 for an hour so was a tad steep but that's how the island runs. Taxis are pretty much not viable unless you are in Fira or Oia.
The villa is on the main bus route to Oia and Fira which is great. A 5min walk and you can hop on a bus!
The only "major" issue we had was the WiFi. It was pretty bad and Kostas informed us it was the Island. It's just like that unfortunately. We couldn't watch any TV in the evenings apart from 5/6 channels in greek. No netflix/amazon etc available on the TV or on any devices. So this is the only bugbear, even though I was happy without it to switch off! The kids did get a little frustrated in the evenings. It would have been nice to sit and relax with a movie bit unfortunately not this instance.
Overall, an amazing holiday with great hosts and happy to arrange many things. Also available whenever you have any questions! Brilliant stay and definitely recommend the villa for a relaxing holiday with pretty much everything you need for a luxury holiday stay!
Thankyou Kostas, Grigoris and Ela for a fab stay. We would absolutely love to come back one day!