Elisa Apartments

We stayed in Elisa at the beginning of Sept.  For Greek apartments, we found them to be very clean, well maintained and more than adequate.  The grounds are especially nice.  In contrary to the posting below we found Lucia (the owner) to be friendly and entertaining once you build a rapport and talk to her.....a bit of a character!!  It is probably better for couples as there is no pool facilities or bar, which is great for proper peace and wonderful unspoilt views (see picture - get a top floor room for this)....you can use any of the pool bars, which are very nice too, just 5 mins walk away...try Makis who's staff are great.  It is a 15 min walk to nearest supplies, but plenty of restaurants on the way.

We have just got back for our stay in Skala and stayed at the Elisa apartments, I would not recommend it if you have any trouble with walking as it is up a short but steep hill. However when you get to the apartments the views are fantastic. Rooms clean and of ok size (I have stayed in smaller) no kettle so do take one as I do like my coffee in the morning. We stayed in room 4 which is downstairs facing the well kept gardens, we never had a problem we Elisa in fact if we was sitting outside and she was tending to her garden we would often get fresh tomatoes and preaches from her which was nice.

But I must say these rooms would be better if they had air con or shutters on the mains doors as it can really get hot in the evenings. Another plus point to these rooms is that you are only a 5min walk to the beach and free pools and if you are after the quiet holiday at least 10 mins from the main part of Skala.

Me and a friend stayed at Elisa apartments in May 2005, the apartment was spacious and kept very clean, it was all you would need for a very pleasant base and cooking for ourselves wasn't impossible but there was only two rings. I would recommend going for a second level up apartment as the balconies aren't as private below. We were in room 12 which had an upstairs double bedroom and downstairs two single beds with a lovely balcony with sea view and views over the gardens. I can agree that Lucia (the owner) is pretty noisy but not overly so, its quite authentic to hear her rattling on but we did have a couple of runins with her, she shouted at me for looking at the chickens and insisted that we had lost a butter knife and made us pay, this was all quite tricky as she doesn't speak English and seems to get agitated if you don't understand her. If it wasn't for her I would say the place is perfect, its only 3-5 minutes walk to the beach and 5-10 mins into the centre of Skala, it is partly uphill but you don't need to be very fit to make it up there with no problems. Skala is really lovely but we discovered Poros while we were there which seemed far more beautiful and Greek, we will stay in Poros next time as Kefalonia is certainly worth a revisit, its gorgeous, hire a car you won't be disapointed.