I would not recommend this airbnb to any young women, Black people/people of color, or anyone that cares about their personal safety and dignity.
The host, the housekeeper, and the host’s mom(?) was very rude and disrespectful since very first initial contact. When we first arrived, we mentioned that we were dissatisfied with the misleading information about the actual distance that the villa was from the city center. The housekeeper berated us, implied that we had problems with reading comprehension, and asked us aggressively if we wanted to go back down the mountain and go home. She then called the actual owner of the villa who is Alexandros’ (the host) mom. She also began to berate us and told us that we didn’t know how to read simple information even though the information that they gave on airbnb and through messages were half-truths and not complete. After we were talked to so aggressively by those two women, Alexandros then messaged me to continue to be rude and, again, implied that we could not read and didn’t follow instructions. This was the beginning of rude, bullying behavior from all three of those people. I have screenshots from texts and the Airbnb app to corroborate what is being said here.
Additionally, this is a separate safety issue but the “transportation company” that Alexandros requires people to use is not an actual company. It is a friend of the family who hikes up the usual taxi prices and drives people from the villa around in a personal car. We have screenshots of the taxi driver saying that he was delayed by over an hour because Greek police pulled him over and asked for his permit papers (to drive/operate a taxi service). When he finally arrived he said that he had to “draw up some papers” to be able to come get us. We also learned that Alexandros and Lena (housekeeper) were being dishonest about the typical prices of taxis in Mykonos because after a mishap with the “transportation service” Lena was forced to call an actual taxi company to take us to the port. The taxi from the villa to the port should only have been €20 but Lena told the man to charge us €40 to keep up appearances and so that we would not realize that we had been overcharged from transportation during our entire stay. We have this information because the taxi driver who took us to the port told us. As a young woman traveling internationally with only one other female companion that’s a very dangerous scam. Pretending to be a professional taxi company when in reality they’re just a local family doing whatever they want in their personal vehicles could turn bad at any moment.
Alexandros also has no understanding of what is actually happening at the villa. He lives in a completely different country and has no physical ties to the airbnb. This would be fine if he conducted himself in a professional manner. However, whenever we told him about an issue we had at the villa (unusable wifi, taxi service being unreachable, the housekeeper being unimaginably rude) he would delusionally insist that we were misunderstanding something or that we were straight up lying. He even went as far as to call us liars when we said that the wifi had been basically unusable the entire time we were at the villa even though he had not stepped foot on the property to check it himself and the tech people that he himself had called to fix the wifi admitted to him AND US that the wifi problem would be a recurring issue and that they weren’t sure how to fully resolve the problem.
Additionally, Alexandros made several rude and racially motivated comments implying that me and my companion (we are both Black women) are stupid and can’t read which he attributed most of our unsatisfactorily experience to. Alexandros is unprofessional, rude, not bright enough to successfully run an airbnb, and also racist. I would highly suggest that any Black women choose another airbnb to stay at. The only reason we even gave this place a chance is because it was the last airbnb available for our chosen dates (and now we see why. It’s a crap-show.)