It was great to meet Paolo, who was super nice and cool. The flat is simple but the perfect location for anyone who wants to stay on the beach (literally 20 metres away) and have everything on your doorstep including shops and restaurants.
If you want authentic Kos, we felt Kardemeina was quite disappointing. The town is not so impressive. But if you’re just interested in sun, bars and beach, then it’s great.
For us, even though Paolo was clearly very quick, attentive and easily reachable, communication was generally a little bit chaotic / stressful. I think it’s Paolo’s huge Italian energy. ;) But it meant that we were forced to rush to checkin earlier than we wished (even though there’s a key box and, in the end, he wasn’t there to give us the key). He also surprised us with a request to copy our ID, which wasn’t mentioned on the listing, because he has the flat registered as tourist accommodation rather than short term (latter is common with private hosts in Greece) and threatened a 15€ fine if we don’t send it by a particular time. He didn’t mean any malice but it just felt a bit stressful. I’m sure most guests are not so affected by that, though.