This apartment is hosted by a lovely attentive person, he actually lives in the aprtment underneath and so is close by and willing to help with anything you have issues with. He phoned cabs for us, he found pools for us and he was on hand to show us how to get to various places. He even brought us homemade wine and cheese and honey. The apartment is big and spacious which is not made clear in the description, the lift opens into the apartment which is great, there is a large bacony on the living area one on the bedroom and a massive one on the roof with a dining table and chairs and a huge brick barbecue. The apartment was very well equipped and was super clean, Marios provided towels, extra bedding, shampoo, shower gel, toilet rolls and welcome food, milk, water, juice etc. The large smart TV has netflix built in which is a bonus. The outlook from the apartment is residential, you can see the sea through the buildings, the sun sets are amazing from the balcony. There is a cafe and a 24 hour kiosk over the road and a supermarket that is less than 10 mins walk away. But after that you need to walk down to the beach or into town which depending on the route you take takes anything from 30 mins to 1.5 hrs. You go to the sort of roundabout with the palm trees and you can either go downhill to the left and keep walking past platinum and a lovely orange villa and you come to the main road go right to Rhodes town and old town (about a 2hr walk) or go left and walk for about 20 mins to Villa Da Mare this is a wonderful hotel where non-residents can use the pool and there is access to the wonderful beach and the sea. It is well worth a visit, great food and drinks, really clean pool and sunbeds, go to reception and they provide you with towels. There is a restaraunt just past here called Sirtaki where the food is amazing! if you take the second exit off the roundabout you can walk along the road which is above the beach, its high up with amazing views and there are benches along the way to sit and look out to sea, this road again takes you into town (about 1.5hr walk), the third exit off the roundabout is about a 35 min walk to town, head down to the traffic lights, turn left go past Cream Doughnuts (good coffee) keep going and eventually turn left at a shoe shop beginning with 'B' walk on til you come to a large childrens play area walk down the side of here and you will come to the town . Places that are great to eat are Il Forno for the best italian food and the best baklava, Jannis restaraunt, the old town has the best ice cream place and the knights castle wine place. It is worth going to Symi on the ferry as it is beautiful and looks like a typical greek village.
My only piece of advice would be to speak to Marios about check out times as he told us the day before we checked out that we could not stay after 12.30 on our last day and we did not fly home until 9.20pm. He did offer to look after our cases but we ended up having to pay for a room at Villa Da Mare so we had somewhere to spend the day and have a shower before we left for home. The shower did not attach to the wall so check he has fixed this.
All in all if you like a walk to get to places this is a great comfy clean apartment but it is not in the centre of town.
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