Family of four on our third Airbnb during a three month European Summer travels. It was a great value! It took us some time to get used to island life from busy metropolitan life, but in the end we had a hard time leaving. The home was comfortable with its clean sheets and towels!
We do wish there was more for the kids to do on the property. Our kids ages 7 and 5 had a hard time really playing since Cristos was always watching what was being done and immediately collecting whatever toys they scattered around the stairs during play time. But he also brought buckets full of Apricots for the kids and that in itself, is quite a wonderful sense of hospitality. Overall, if you can leave the hovering aside, as a family we had a great time on the island and had a wonderfully clean apartment to comeback to after a day of adventure or just simply being at the beach or pool all day. That was the ticket to amazing hospitality, the cleaning service that allows me, as a mom to relax and really enjoy my vacation. Katerina has impeccable cleaning standards.
Naxos is advertised as family friendly, I don’t know if I would call it that per se, there is no infrastructure to keep children safe like sidewalks, slow speeds in town or even shade at bus stops but all in all we enjoyed our time. We recommend renting car for a day or two to see other parts of the island. There is quaint towns and other beaches to admire. We went up to Apollenares and enjoyed a few hours of beach time. We then drove to Filoti and wandered some more.