Although the villa itself was gorgeous and we all thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Ios overall, we had a few points we'd like to make.
Firstly, we were told the villa was situated a 15 minute walk away from the main town, which we stated we would be visiting everyday - and we did - however the walk is 40+ minutes, which is also made longer in the heat etc. In addition, there are only 5 taxis on the entire island meaning it made it very difficult for us to get around seeing as we are students and don't have our full drivers licenses to rent a car.
Aswell as this, it stated that there was wifi access throughout the villa which wasn't completely true. Although there was internet access at the pool area, there was absolutely none in the villa itself, which made things very difficult re. Checking into flights home, contacting family etc.
Also, while we were booking the villa, we were told that the villa along with the attached apartment sleeps 10 people, which it definitely doesn't. 4 beds were cramped into the kitchen area, one bedroom upstairs with one double bed, and three beds completely cramped on top of each other in the attached apartment.
The cleaner, although very nice, did very little work which was shocking to us as we were told that we couldn't flush the toilet paper down the toilet and instead had to put it in the bin. The bins were not emptied for the entire week which was unpleasant to say the least.
Also, one towel was admittedly made quite dirty by us, however we were then told we would be charged €10 each to replace this towel - meaning €100 altogether as there were 10 guests - which is extremely unreasonable and impossible on a student budget.
Finally, once we tried to politely approach the owners of the villa to raise our concerns (40+ min walk to village, lack of wifi), two of the girls were threatened to be kicked out of the villa which we thought was highly unprofessional.
However, we do appreciate the effort made by Catherine and Ken to please us, with the complimentary barbecue and the €50 for the transfers to and from the villa and the port (although they arrived 35 minutes late to pick us up to bring us to the port)
Also the views from the villa itself were stunning and the pool/barbecue area was very pleasant during the daytime.
Overall, I would recommend this villa for those who have plenty of money to spend, don't mind long walks and lack of internet or for those with full drivers licences.
Unfortunately it was not appropriate for us as students, which wasn't clearly stated to us.