Villa Mare Apartments
(Apartments in Lourdas)
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My boyfriend and I stay at Villa Mare end of June 2008 for a week. We were in a nice room on the bottom floor. The room was a good size for a basic apartment in Greece, with a good kitchen that had a cooker, fridge and lots of cups and mugs. I was impressed to find a kettle. The bathroom was ok too. The apartment and room was cleaned once in the week that we stayed there, including having the bed changed! We were glad that we could hire a fan for the week. 
Villa Mare had a pool that was just up the hill a little from the apartments. This was lovely, it was cleaned regularly, and there was many sunbeads, all had umbrellas except one for real sun worshippers! The pool was shared with other apartments but it was rare on our holiday that there were no sun beds free.Under the pool there was a room where you could bags on your departure day and there was 2 showers rooms with toliets in.
The beach was just a very short walk from our apartment, we enjoyed walking along the beach at the waters edge. I would recommend shoes that velcro on or something as i took slip on jelly shoes and flip flops which would have fallen of my feet had a gone much deeper. The beach is quite pebbly so i would recommend you wear shoes of somekind. | |
| Sarah Wilde (Monday, July 07, 2008) | View 2 posts by Sarah Wilde | |
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| 10/10 |
Just returned from Villa Mare after a 1 week stay. Lovely clean apartments in a beautiful location, overlooking the sea. Kitchen small but adequate (even had a kettle and mugs!!) Apartment cleaned and bins emptied 2 or 3 times during the week. Behind the apartments is a gorgeous pool and sunbathing area which didn't get busy, some days myself and my husband had the pool to ourselves!!! On the day of departure there's even a room to keep your cases in which has two bathrooms for your use, both with toilets and showers. There's a mini-market about 5 mins away up the hill (owned by Dennis who's really friendly), go to this one as the one on the beach is slightly dearer!! Make sure you visit Dimitris bar on the beach either for something to eat at lunchtime or a drink in the evening. The staff are first rate and if you want to know anything about the island they are the people to speak to!! All in all an excellent holiday and would definately return to Villa Mare without any hesitation at all!!! | |
| Mel West (Saturday, September 01, 2007) | View 2 posts by Mel West | |
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Just come back from a 2 week stay here and it was brilliant. Wonderful location, gorgeous pool and it was basic but all you really need if you plan on eating out. We especially loved our local bar Dimitris, great for snacks in the day and drinks at night. We cannot praise enough the wonderful service and friendly welcome we got in there, missing the place already. | ||||||||||
| Diane McVey (Tuesday, August 22, 2006) | View 5 posts by Diane McVey | |
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Basic but clean apartements with the most beautiful pool, must be the best in Lourdas! | ||||||||||
| sarah Cunliffe (Wednesday, July 19, 2006) | View 2 posts by sarah Cunliffe | |
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This is the most peaceful and relaxing place in Lourdas. Accommodation good albeit hot and stuffy, but that's Greece. Hire a fan Be back next year. | ||||||||||
| john bailey (Tuesday, July 04, 2006) | View 2 posts by john bailey | |
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| As has been said before the room did get quite stuffy even with the balcony doors open,which people may not be keen on doing overnight,but really nice pool,friendly owner,(Gerry) and in a good spot. | ||||||||||
| Alan Shaw (Tuesday, June 27, 2006) | 1 post by Alan Shaw | |
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| This is the 4th year to kefo and the second time at these apartments, they could do with ceiling fans as it can get a bit warm and stuffy at night or you could pop down to Dimitries Taverna (which is the friendliest in kefo) for a drink or two this might help you sleep. It is not as quiet now as the have put a dirt road between the beach and dimitries tavern because of this they have also lost half the beach due to this road. but it is still worth a visit | ||||||||||
| martin wirth (Tuesday, September 13, 2005) | View 12 posts by martin wirth | |
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We stayed at Villa Mare for a fortnight from 24/07/05 to 07/08/05. We had a ground floor studio, which we thought was perfect for what we needed. It was clean and tidy on arrival, we were able to sleep at night - we didn't think fans were particularly necessary, and we thought the cleaners were a little on the obssessive side, they tried to get in on several occasions whilst we were still in bed, and we couldn't predict what days or times they would turn up. I suppose it depends on your expectations of an apartment, but this isn't a five star hotel and doesn't claim to be. I think people complaining about the levels of cleanliness are being a little unfair. As far as I am aware, the Greeks pretty much live outside their houses, and we spent most of our holiday outside too. All you need from your accomodation is somewhere comfortable to sleep and shower..... or am I trying too hard to fit into local ways here???? | ||||||||||
| Sarah (Monday, August 15, 2005) | View 3 posts by Sarah | |
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Just come back from a week of scorching hot weather. We had a ground floor studio apartment which was ok ish, a bit dark and very very hot, especially at night with no fan and no air circulation at all. As others have said it was basic but adequate, and could have done with cleaning a bit more than just the once in the week.
Mosquitos were a problem. If you have sweet blood the Greek repellants will not be sufficient, take something from the UK! Another minor glitch was a slight amount of late night/early hours revellry from the locals who tended to use the road outside as a bit of a moped race track.
The pool is fantastic and the eating out was excellent. Only one cat seen all week! | ||||||||||
| Julia Thomas (Sunday, August 14, 2005) | View 2 posts by Julia Thomas | |
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| Stayed at Villa Mare twice,location is excellent,apartments are very basic but clean,top floors are better,could do with more maid service, towels and bedding only changed once late in the week.It is worth going ther just to be close to Dimitrius beach bar(friendlies guy on the island)definately need a fan in the room after June,although we did have a lizard running around for 3 nights which provided some air conditioning,the apartments behind look a much higher standard but I dont think Kosmar do them.Lourdas beach isnt the prettiest but it has a sort of charm and if us Brits had tougher feet it would be ok. | ||||||||||
| john wilson (Tuesday, July 12, 2005) | View 4 posts by john wilson | |
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Just got back from 2 weeks at villa mare.Lovely relaxing holiday. The apartments are typical greek but I'm not complaining, nice views and sounds of the sea and birds. The only thing to complain about was that our apartment was only cleaned 3 times in 2 weeks. I don't expect the beds to be changed more often but surely the bins should be emptied more often ( especially the one in the bathroom)! | ||||||||||
| jean savage (Tuesday, June 14, 2005) | View 2 posts by jean savage | |
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