The House:
Just as lovely and nice as the images and description. Here is nice, clean and almost Scandinavian in the décor. Beds are good, toilet and shower spacious. Indoor seating is limited to a dining table, but you probably doesn’t come here to be indoors very much.
The pool is really nice and there are many good places to sit outdoors. Here is very calm - the pulse can come down completely! BUT - only one out of three aircons worked (and this is very important to us) and the problem I can see from previous reviews has been going on for at least a month. It had been easy to inform us long before our arrival.
(We understand that a power surge has smashed the PCB in the defective devices, and that new ones cannot be sourced in the difficult situation the world is in right now.)
However, we got a reduction on the rent, but only after we had arrived and found out! We would much rather have had what we had ordered.
The surrounding area:
The residential area itself is "well up the mountain". Here is beautiful, but the drive from the highway, which is only a few km. away in direct line, is 9 km. long and takes about 20 min....if you dare to drive fast!
It's hairpin turns on hairpin turns, and especially the last stretch from Sayalonga is also a bit nerve-wracking. The roads up here are miserable, super narrow, rise "vertically" and even the driveway to the house is STEEP and NARROW - especially in a rental car you are not used to (and yes, I have driven many cars, and many km. in my life - up here neither my wife nor daughter dared to drive).
We recommend that you have a car with an automatic transmission, and not too big (We drove a Ford Puma, and it should not be larger) and with a good suspension (not the Ford).
That said - It IS beautiful and peaceful, but since we like to get around and see / experience, we will probably not choose a house that is "hidden away" another time.
If, on the other hand, you are going to have a "relaxation holiday", and only away from the plot a few times, it is a super choice.
All this is not criticism, but something to know and relate to.
We did love the house - but has learned what WE are looking for in the future.
Thanks for letting us stay at the house.
Thomas, Vinnie & Nanna