Villa La Stella - Luxlike Home - Unnamed Road

This is a luxury villa with plenty of space indoors and outdoors, a nice pool and in general with nice everything. We were four adults and two children and we stayed for eight nights in mid July. The place is indeed luxurious, we felt pampered. Given that it can host ten people I think the price was fair: 550 euros/day through booking.com. The owner said he would have given us better prices if we booked direct. I would recommend and I plan to be back one day. I subtracted one star because there are some problems (read below) which don't fit with the word "lux" in their name. The Good - The pool is excellent. The pool water was not heated, but that was not a problem except for a couple of colder, cloudy days. - There is enough parking space on the property for five cars. - There are plenty of nicely arranged areas to sit around, eat, or work outside. - There is a large lawn area where kids can play games - no shade though. - The owner was very accommodating. When we needed a hairdryer (somehow it was missing) he showed up right away with a new one. - The owner did not care about the AC being on while the door to the terrace was wide open. - Quality equipment in the kitchens, fridge, stove, all Miele. - There is a dishwasher in the kitchen. Lifesaver when you have kids or when many people drink. - Quality air conditioning, Daikin. We ran all of them all of the time. - Quality materials and finishing. One can tell they spent money and effort. - Quality baths. No bad odors, the water would not linger in the shower area, as it happens in many places in Greece (due to clogged sinks). - The cleaning lady came four days into our eight nights stay. It was really nice to have a clean villa again. Especially the outdoor area, which gets messy from going in and out of the pool, plus just nature doing its job. - Both backyard (and pool) doors had netted doors, against mosquitoes and flies, a life saver. The not so Good - Hot water was so so. We could take quick showers. But if you wanted more it becomes complicated. The girls wanted to wash their hair. The hot water ran out before they were done. The water temperature fluctuates. The pressure is low. I don't think two people could shower at the same time. Fortunately we were just four adults, I can't imagine ten adults would be able to shower quickly. - Bedrooms had outside blinds, useful to make it dark in the room. But there were two other small windows with no blinds, defeating the purpose. The Bad - We were forbidden to throw anything in the toilet. Not even toilet paper. Do the math. - All showers had one missing door in the middle of the cabin. The water was on one side and there was one panel on the other side, so I would have to shower in a complicated stance. - In order to have hot water we would have to turn on the system. After showering we had to turn off the system. - No microwave oven. - Very spotty net. Would pause for minutes. The net is practically unusable. Forget about YouTube. Whatsapp is all you can do. Besides the bad service from the ISP, there is only one router in the living room, which would cover parts of the outside area, by the pool. Anywhere else you simply don't have wifi signal. Careful: - There are mosquitoes. Take mosquito repellent creams or burning sticks. - There are wasps. Not a big deal, they would leave us alone, but if you're afraid of them, there are many of them around, mostly attracted by the shallow hot water around the pool. We found wasp nests around, hidden by the plants.