Firstly let me say the Yianni and his father were easy to communicate with responding quickly. Sunsets were spectacular, exactly as described.
I have thought long and hard about this review, mainly because I booked the villa based solely on the volume of 5 Star reviews.
We stayed from 2nd to 16th October. On arrival the kids wanted to go into the pool, however I took a look and could not see the bottom of the pool, due to it being so cloudy. I contacted Yianni and the pool guy attended first thing. I had to ask him to return again later for the same issue. I checked the pool afterwards and couldn’t help but notice the scum lines in the pool ( where the water meets the upper tile ) being bright yellow/ orange from sun oil, body fat etc. These areas need cleaned regularly, I would argue not done for an extended period of time ( I was a life guard for 6 years and i am confident in this assessment ). These were not cleaned during our stay, I did draw this to Yianni’s attention. The pool needs maintenance, bottom hoovered using pool hoover to keep it free from organic debris. Further, two of our children suffered cut toes in the pool due to sharp tiles.
Pool shower was also held together using silver gaffa tape, sun brolly in the garden was barely holding together. I feel like a right moan but when you spend nearly four and a half grand you do have a certain expectation.
However, by far and away the biggest issue was mosquitos and lots of them. I had myself easily in excess of 80 bites and this was repeated across our group of seven. My mother needed medical attention on return as her leg was so swollen. We couldn’t use the pool or bbq at night to any great extent due to the mosquitos. I put this down to time of year etc. However, when eating out in Coral Bay, Paphos etc I have to say I did not see anyone else with similar bites /issues. I do think there is something specific to the villa location and again this needs attention as it overshadowed our stay. Evenings became a continual search for mosquitos, they would be in all the rooms, cupboards etc. Villa needs window nets, door nets to combat this issue. I did feel I was being unfair in this assessment, however once we left we had some time at a nearby hotel and never saw any further mosquitos and suffered no more bites. I’m not saying this is anyone’s fault, but measures need to be taken to address this issue for future guests.