We chose Ambelos Estate on the third (and last) leg of our Greek journey. We'd stayed in an early 1900's Athens house right in the Plaka on the first leg--amazing; visited the island beauty of Crete on the second, staying in a new perfectly appointed modern villa-fantastic; and in a quest to research my husband's Greek ancestry picked this property near Akarta- awesome. The property was quaint, this was another old house, a Greek farmhouse right out of the movies, with an amazing view. We rarely ate out, choosing instead to cook ourselves, light candles and eat around the beautiful table shown in the picture, it was truly magical. The sunrises were spectacular! There are chickens on the property, a pair of friendly dogs, and several sweet cats. There are fruit trees all around the wonderful patios and the rest of the yard. The house was nicely appointed with nearly everything we needed.
I have only one complaint, and a reminder to my fellow American travellers: The bedroom that would be considered the master has a funky/moldy smelling bathroom. I believe part of the reason is because the house is so old, and this particular bathroom has been fashioned from a cavelike room with little ventilation. The first morning there I took a bath, and when I stepped out, several inches of bathwater covered the floor, with water bubbling up from a drain in the floor of the bathroom. I called the owner Roula, and later that morning she arrived to assess the situation. She asked if we'd put toilet paper into the toilet. We hadn't, having already been warned at every property we'd visited that Greeks, like many, many others around the world, don't flush toilet paper down the toilet, their plumbing systems just can't take it. For the rest of the trip the bathroom smelled terrible, not a sewage smell, just this intense moldy, funky smell as the room dried out. Sometimes it was hard to sleep. Interestingly enough, about four days later, the day we left, the bathroom dried out, and finally smelled basically normal (just that slight moody smell) again.
Roula was on it and did her best to make the stay as pleasant as possible, and I'm not sure what the actual problem was, but American travelers, be forewarned, don't put toilet paper down Greek toilets.