Elena Apartments - (Accommodation in Paleokastritsa)

Ruth P          8/10

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I struggled to find recent reviews for the Elena apartments so having literally just come back from two weeks (August 2008) I thought I would add my thoughts.

The apartments are clean, although basic (but then Greece is always basic so no surprises there!) and are pretty well equiped. The living area is tiny, just enough room for a table and chairs, although the balcony's are huge so most of the living is done outside of the apartment. The bedroms are both big and lots of space for clothes and suitcases. The kitchen is adequate, but I was glad we took our electric kettle (and I'd recommend a couple of mugs if you are coffee/tea drinkers as all the cups are tiny) as the kettle on the hob would have taken a age to boil!
 
The air conditioning is extra to the cost of the rooms, at 10 Euros a day per unit (there is a unit in each bedroom) and even though we were on holiday during a heatwave we were kept nice a cool when we needed to be!
 
The new swimming pool is not fancy, but a corner of the pool is very shallow and our two children loved it to play in, and it's cleaned each evening by the owner.
 
We had hired a car for the two weeks as we love to get out and about, and to be honest I'm glad we did a the apartments are a little away from the harbour. Having said that the tavernas local to the apartment are very nice and we ate there most evenings.
 
All in all a lovely place to visit and although the apartments aren't a luxury, they do the job very well indeed! I would recommend.