Super-hospitable hosts, very responsive. However, be warned: the Azzurro houses are not really very suitable for people without their own transport. There are buses, which are not entirely reliable and often very full, and you MUST get tickets in advance at the bus station near to the port because you cannot pay on the buses. The walk into town takes a good half an hour, partly along a very dangerous road. The nearest shop is a good 15 minutes walk away, again along the same busy road which has no pavement. Sadly, you can’t really easily walk to any good beach. The surfing place seems to be private and is pretty scruffy.
Internally, the house is nice but awkward, with the charming garden terrace leading into the only room where you can eat and relax in the house which has a table, chair and two sofas. Next, after an awkward marble step and a lockable door comes a room with two single beds and a steep flight of stairs down to a double bedroom which adjoins a very small kitchen and beyond a small bathroom. This means that everything you cook or prepare in the kitchen, which is short of surfaces, has to be transported upstairs through the two bedrooms out into the top room or terrace. Since you cannot drink the water, there was a lot of water-lugging down the stairs and, of course, from town. It would be nice to have the opportunity to buy large bottles from the hosts and for them to supply, say, a six-pack at the start of a stay. This place would be very difficult for the infirm or families, and makes food preparation tricky. The bathroom is adequate, there are plenty of towels, the air-con works well as does wi-fi. You have to live out of a suitcase for lack of storage and we were glad to be two people not four renting the house! However, if you have transport, Apostolis’s house would make a great base for exploring this beautiful island - and there’s space to store a vehicle too. We sadly found the terrace garden unusable because of a pesky kitten who constantly tried to get into the house or onto the table outside, so eating there or having the door open proved impossible - but fine for cat-lovers, of course!
All that being said, we found a good solution to both transport and shopping which was to always ask on the bus from the Chora station to be dropped off at Naxos camping. From there you have to negotiate a rather dangerous Y-junction crossing, but there’s a pedestrian island to use and then it’s a short off-road walk to the house. We bought all our food from an excellent supermarket just a couple of minutes’ walk from the port/bus station along the road. It has a great display of fruit and vegetables, lots of local produce and stocks just about everything with large bottles of water for 70 cents, very friendly, and there’s some English speakers to ask. Try the local olives, served by weight from the deli counter!