We arrived in Greece on 6 October 2016. Manos was an OUTSTANDING host.
The Blue Horizon villa was exactly like the photos on Airbnb! The location was great for getting to all the popular areas like Pefkos and Lindos old town, overlooked the beautiful Vlycha Beach, and is a 5 minute drive from the supermarket. We hired a car (arranged by Manos, for an excellent price) and drove from Rhodes airport to the villa. Manos was there to greet us, and was also on hand to give us directions when we got lost on the way to the villa. Manos arranged a gift basket for us, including a bottle of wine and snacks. We weren't due to leave Greece until late evening on the 9th, so Manos had also agreed to a late check out (for a small, reasonable fee).
The villa was clean and well equipped, even including a BBQ pit that we used on the Friday night. There was 6 of us and we had plenty of room to choose from. All the rooms were spacious and nicely decorated, including the secluded room underneath the pool.
Unfortunately, due to the Greek air traffic control strikes our return flight was cancelled and we were unable to get a home until 3 days later than planned! Manos came to the rescue. He was on hand to help us with transferring and booking another flight. He sorted out extending our hire car and constantly kept us updated with the local news and made several calls to the airport to get more information. We found out the strike was called off through him well before official announcements from the airlines and airports!
The first day of the strike Manos even drove to the beach where we had retreated for the day to inform us that he had another villa for us to stay in while we waited out the extra 3 days. It was much bigger than we needed and just impressive as the first villa but Manos kindly let us rent it for the same rate we had paid for Blue Horizon.
Manos allowed us to check out late on the Wednesday, at no extra charge due to the circumstances of us still being in Greece. His words were, “it's not about the money, I just want you to get home safe”.
Manos was the most amazing host and even though our first experience of Greece wasn't the best (due to the air traffic control strike) we would definitely return, just to see Manos and stay in one of his beautiful villas again! We cannot thank him enough for all his help!