My wife and I stayed 4 nights at Ellinon Thea in early September. Great view of the Caldera, sunsets. Jacuzzi was just the ticket after a hot day visiting the volcano (a must-see!). Good location, breakfast. Very courteous service (Nia is great). We would certainly visit again, and recommend to our friends

Ellinon Thea is a great place with well appointed rooms and very nice balconies, each with their own jacuzzi and a spectacular view of the cadera. the rooms are spotless and well decorated, each morning a very nice continental breakfast is served to your room at will. The staff members are wonderful, and anything you might ask for is done happily. Upon arrival we were not really happy to find that our beautiful rooms and balcony with a private jacuzzi were at street level, meaning that between your room and the spectacular view was a road (mainly pedestrian) and a few cars and mopeds passing by, can actually look directly into your room and certainly a full view of the balcony and the jacuzzi. The up side is that the pedestrian and automobile traffic is quite light in firostefani, so by day two the few curious stares were overcome by the beautiful view we had. I also noticed a room that is regarded as having a garden view, I can only hope that it is deeply discounted, mainly because it is aview of a flat dirt surface with no plant life that could easily be out done by a walmart parking lot. We were very happy we had the rooms we did, and enjoyed our stay.

Ok, we stayed for 4 nights in a Maisonette room with jacuzzi with Agean View......
Firstly - the positives were the Breakfast, the location in the heart of Firastefani 6 min walk to Fira, and the room was nice enough particularly having TV in bedroom was nice.
NOW onto the negatives....
This was NOT a hotel....its more like a guesthouse. The Maisonettes design isnt great. The Ensuite bathroom is at the top of MARBLE steps and going to bathroom from bed, you could easily fall down the stairs as the ballistrade ends short!
Also... there is no shower curtain in the Ensuite which means water EVERYwhere... and no cleaning up by staff afterwards.... so you use all your towels to soak up the floor so you dont slip until the next morning when after brekky the cleaner comes...
the price - RIDICULOUSLY overpriced.. however this is the average roughly for the area.
The staff leave every afternoon etc which means no one at reception should you need something. albeit they leave a phonenumber...but hey, when your International phone runs out of credit???? what to do....
- not once in 4 nights were our toiletries replaced.
- And when you turn the Jacuzzi bubbles, all the (marble) flooring gets flooded!!!

BUT - the worst is how this holiday ended (the short version)... and it was all due to the staff - one girl in particular ......who basically got into A FIGHT WITH US when we were checking out OVER the Aircon unit which we said never worked for the 4 nights, and she basically called us LIERS and said it worked when she checked it out for us and constantly talked over us in Greek, wouldnt let us finsih our sentences (when we werent as agressive trying to tell her) etc etc it was sooo uncomfortable and should NOT have happened .....

So the long of it (for those who want to read a good ole rant!) - Throughout our stay we mentioned the Aircon didnt work. (We live in the UAE, so we know how Aircon units work!) ....we mentioned it to the said receptionist one morning and she said "yes of course we'll check it out..." fine!
That late afternoon/night we returned and of course, all the staff have gone home as per usual. We get to our room, and there is no note to say the Aircon works..... no note nothing to tell us that that staff member checked out the Aircon for is. And it gets hot particularly in the top floor of a maisonette when its roughly mid 20's - early 30's heat at night. So when we went to check out in the morning, the SAME staff member was there to check us out. I mentioned "The aircon still didnt work... we tried everything over the last 4 nights, it doesnt work?" and ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE.... it started off ok... but she proceeded to tell us it did work... after she checked it, it worked. I was like, no it doesnt or at least, it didnt work for us? I said "Unless there is some special trick to get it working, then pressing the ON bottom pointing at the machine over and over again does not work" My husband meanwhile was already getting very agitated by her agressive manner, including her WALKING back up the stairs to our room, checking it again, coming down and telling us to "COME.... it works .. come let me show you" and we were like???? WTF.... there is no point checking it now... we are leaving!!!!!!.... she was basically calling us liars.....
And i was trying to be the calmer one and say to her "Listen, did you check it?" she said yes, and i said " ok, so why didnt you leave us a note to tell us listen it works, if you have trouble please contact us and we'll be over" ??? Do you not think this is pretty reasonable for a hotel to do so? and everytime i tried to reason with her, she continually spoke over us in Greek.... she was THE RUDEST woman i've ever come across in a hotel and beliveve you me i've stayed in quite a few....

So apologies for the long rant.. thinking back on it gets me annoyed again.. she was so rude. Apart from her, stay there fine.. but i personally think there is SOOO much better for the same price!!!!!!

Delightful boutique hotel in a fantastic location. We had a view of both seas from our room. Staff was very friendly and helpful. Clean, classy, and a fabulous breakfast brought to room. I would stay again in a heartbeat. Loved it.