We enjoyed our stay at Venetiko, a beautiful 400 year old converted house appointed to a near hotel standard of amenities. It had all you would need including AC, morning coffee amenities, good ambient interior lighting, towels for the beach, slippers, shampoos, hairdryer and thoughtful touches of home made jam, wine and little chocolates to help us feel at home. It was well located in the old town, nestled deep in the maze lanes close to the port and near some quaint little restaurants and local grocery store. Vaggelis thankfully met us at the port even with cancellations and delays to our ferry due to weather and provided an unusual yet entertaining introduction to the town on our way to the property. This was enormously appreciated, although finding the property would be impossible without this service.
A few elements for improvement were:
1. Communication with Vaggelis prior to the stay was difficult and required Airbnb intervention to determine if we were able to reserve an additional night. We were able to, but there were consistent misunderstandings and forgetting of agreed terms upon meeting.
2. The bedroom floor was sandy under bare feet from the day we arrived. The winds were heavy for many days prior, but the floor was not well cleaned.
3. The shower, as we experienced in other places in Greece, was a hand held shower rather than overhead. This combined with the shower curtain sticking to your wet body when showering was annoying and ultimately used more water than necessary when careful water consumption is important on the island.
4. The room was small yet well appointed but did not really equate to the amount we ended up paying for it. The bathroom could be updated to be more user friendly and although the room was refreshed daily, the floors were left unswept.
All in all we enjoyed our stay very much, especially for the artefacts and story of the original house site, family and island and the care that has gone into telling that story in the room. We would consider an easier accomodation process if we were visiting Naxos again, mostly due to communication and local host organisation.