Villa Dionysos - Villa Dionysos

Great position and stunning views. Definitely worth hiring a car for the time you are there otherwise you will do a lot of walking! We found Europcar to be good value. The nearest town is Sidari but it is worth driving a bit further along to Kassiopi which is more authentic and has lots of pretty shops and restaurants around the marina. Uncle Simos is a great restaurant here! There is a beautiful little beach if you drive up the steep one way system, it’s a bit hard to find but well worth it! Another place worth visiting is Palaiokastritsa, great scenery and the water is crystal clear! If you are into fishing / Spearfishing there are a few bays with good visibility, just watch out for all the hire boats! Unfortunately the Ionian Sea seems to be quite overfished and therefore there wasn’t a great deal of big fish - you can pay to go out on a boat and there you’re more likely to see bigger fish such as grouper etc. I was lucky enough to get up close to a big flying gurnard buried in the sand with stunning blue pectoral fins! Another highlight was a black and yellow moray eel which was trying to get at my catch ? It would have been good to have received some sort of ‘welcome pack’ on arrival with the basics in it such as washing up liquid, soap etc. as there was absolutely nothing other than towels when we arrived. When you get there at 10pm this is a little frustrating! All in all though we had a great 2 week stay here and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this villa to others!