Wow! This apartment is advertised as “cozy,” but to us it was delightfully spacious. It’s on the third floor (by UK count), or 4th floor (by U.S. count), but the elevator takes you to your floor. (You will have to negotiate a few steps to get from street level to the elevator.) The elevator itself is truly cozy, so you may have to make 2-3 trips if you’re traveling as more than one person and luggage, but it’s worth the climb. You have a beautiful suite of rooms: bedroom, 1.5 bathrooms (nice touch for a couple), and big room encompassing kitchen, dinette and living room, the latter including a couch for a third sleeper. There are two balconies, one small, the other with table and two chairs for outdoor eating. Everything seems new, and spotlessly clean. There is solar heating for the shower, but the host explained that if the hot water had cooled, there was a switch to turn on fast electric water heating. That worked just fine.
When we arrived we called the host, and her son was there in less than five minutes to let us in. If we had given more fair warning, we would have had no wait, but we took the city bus from Diagones Airport—Euro 2.50 per person—and noticed that the bus stopped just two minutes away from the apartment address, so we didn’t have to walk the longer distance (maybe 7 minutes) from the bus station. We didn’t call the host until we were standing at the building door. The place is less than five minutes from some of the best restaurants in Rhodes town (the host had great recommendations), and it’s 10-15 minutes from the old city. Proximity does have its trade-offs: there’s a fair amount of traffic on one of the streets at the intersection where the building stands, so we did have traffic sounds, at least during the day, though you’re high enough to be mostly above the fray (night wasn’t bad at all). In sum, a wonderful place to stay in Rhodes!