We really liked our stay at Villa Pavlos. You have the whole ground floor to yourself. Great location half way up the Kali Strata (close to Chorio and also Yialos). Be aware of the steps, around 160-180 steps depending on your route. Beautiful view from the balcony and one of the bed rooms. The location is quiet overall. Friendly host, and very quiet living upstairs, also changing sheets and towels and trashbins, and let us leave our bags early on check-in, so we could enjoy the day. Effective aircon, but the rooms were not hot even without aircon. Beautiful big rooms with high ceilings. Great beds and pillows. Thank you Maroula 🇬🇷

The only thing we can think about is the balcony being upgraded even more by using the room below the balcony, and adding more plants/flowers and cozy lights ☺️ Also maybe adding showergel/shampoo would be a nice touch.

Spacious, lot of character, great views of Symi. Kind and attentive host 😍

Lack of sockets in the bedroom. Bathrooms a big dated yet v clean.

Beautiful views of the harbour, old world charm

In the middle of the hill, not accessible by car, over 100 steps with suitcases!

A/c in the rooms (the place is not overly hot but, despite being a very small island, nightlife is incredibly noisy up to very late - you can't really sleep with windows open).

When booking, I was captured by a picture with frescos on the ceiling, just to discover upon arrival that it is in another apartment (unaccessible to guests). You don't get the villa but just the lower floor (the landlors live upstairs). While you can infer the house is uphill, you might not be prepared to over 200 steps (there's no other way in) with lugagge (or to go any directions afterwards), as there is no indication of this on the listing. In this context, not to offer guests with basics (water -on the island is not drinkable-, kitchen paper or napkins, shampoo or similar, some fruit or juices) means an additional 400 steps of back & forth and this is something I wouldn't do to my guests (especially as the landlords keep entering the apartment unannounced repeatedly, when you're in or out alike; update: we left early morning for breakfast on the last day, upon return, ahead of check out time, we found the cleaner inside, and she had already removed our items, such as sheets, and cleaned the rooms). Kitchen excepted, the apartment and the furniture are quaint, and there is no living area (the small terrace is overwhelmed with sun from 10am to 7.30pm). Also, cheap the request of 4 euro extra to use the washing machine (not that we needed that). In sum, the overwhelming positive reviews are incomprehensible to me (but this is not the first time, unfortunately). I would simply not have chosen this apartment, had description and reviews been more realistic.