There were some lovely things about this villa. The view of the sunset was absolutely STUNNING, no need to go all the way into Oia when you can watch it from the hot tub. The villa itself was okay - good sized fridge, a little hob for cooking, coffee machine, comfy bed. Our shower did not support itself on the wall meaning we had to physically remove it from the wall to wash which was a little annoying. Bathroom itself was a little scruffy with mould in the corners and the towel rail hanging off. The village of Finikia is very quaint with restaurants offering incredible food and a well stocked mini market with all you need. The walk into Oia is around 15-20 minutes. A nice added touch would be an outside bbq area for evening cooking but I am not sure if this is allowed for health and safety reasons. We also had a power cut on day 4 to the bedroom and bathroom. George, one of the hosts was great and helpful.
The biggest downfall was our hot tub. The idea itself is lovely, however we had problems. On our first day, we were sunbathing and enjoying the weather when an engineer arrived with his tools and started to work on the hot tub, which took us by surprise as we were not warned one was coming out (it was not filling properly and so we had to keep using the hose to top it up - this was not particularly an issue for us however, and we never once requested ourselves for it to be fixed). Assuming it was fixed after the first visit from the engineer, we then received a text from another host (name beginning with D?) saying further work needed doing, which would take around 3-5 hours and was their a day that suited us. We gave a date that suited us but were told that “engineers are hard to get hold of so they will be coming out tomorrow for 1 hour”. The engineer was here for 1.5 hours from 8am until 9.30am, he then told us another engineer would come out in half an hour for “10 minutes to continue to fix it”. He left all his tools in the garden area in the mean time. The next one arrived and said the work will take 1-2 hours. He worked some more, then left and said he would be back AGAIN in another hour to check the glue had dried and to re-fill the jacuzzi. This interrupted our whole morning and did not take 1 hour like the host suggested. Two days later, he was back in the garden refilling the tub when we woke up as it was clearly still having issues.
Having planned to spend our days enjoying the villa in the mornings and heading out into Oia/Thira in the evenings, this was extremely frustrating as we love getting away to enjoy nice weather. We gave our host more suitable dates when we had beach days/tours planned and these were not taken into consideration.
We then tried to contact the hosts to see if we could be reimbursed some money from our stay but our efforts were ignored.
In summary, the property itself was nice, although probably not worth the almost £2000 we paid for it. Definitely stay here if you are hoping to be close to Oia, but bear in mind there are faults here and you might end up spending a few of your mornings with an engineer trying to fix a broken hot tub you were not told about before arriving for your stay.