Villa Marina was a wonderful place to stay in Santorini! It is in the town of Oia, about 20 minutes by bus or car from the main town of Fira. The photos are a true representation of how beautiful the view is; we spent hours sitting outside on the private patio watching the ocean! (There are many tourists who walk by and take pictures on the foot path up above the villa, so there is background noise and they can be seen from the patio, but we found all the people taking pictures to be part of the entertainment! The patio still felt private.)

There are two rooms with separate entrances (off the same patio) included in this villa. The larger space includes the living area, with two twin beds and a queen downstairs and two twin beds plus a child-size sleeping nook up in the loft (with a steep ladder up.) There is one full bath in that space. The other bedroom, through a separate door from the patio (so it was very private from the main part of the villa), had a kitchenette and queen size bed. There is also a second full bath (through a third door that opens on to the same patio.) The accommodations were comfortable (although the beds were definitely firm, as seems to be the case in Greece) and the air conditioning worked beautifully.

Maria, the host for this property, was simply wonderful. She arranged a rental car for us, had someone meet us in Oia to show us to the villa, checked in on us to make sure we had everything we needed, and offered suggestions about what to do on the island. Most impressively, when I accidentally left a wallet in a restaurant, she immediately got on the phone, tracked down the wallet, and even asked a friend of hers to go to the restaurant to pick it up! She went above and beyond and I cannot say enough about how much I appreciated it!

There were only two small downsides to this property:
- It would have been nice to have wireless internet.
- There is a faint unpleasant smell that tends to waft up the hillside on the morning breeze; it was only noticeable right at the edge of the patio when the breeze blew a certain way, and I'm not sure there's much the property owners could do about it, but it was something we remarked on.

We really loved staying at Villa Marina and would highly recommend it to anyone who wanted to stay in Oia!