Booked a week in the Villa Nicolis (one of the three bedroom properties in the group of villas).

There are a few important things to note. The views that you see on the website / brochure whilst accurate, are carefully taken. The villa was perfectly comfortable, but the views from Nicolis are quite badly restricted because of the awful roof of the villa below. The same must also be true of the villas above.

The second problem is the pool. Someone must have told the designer that you get more money for a villa with a private pool, so he shoe-horned one in. Better still, to make one pool work as a "private pool" for two villas, he constructed a glass brick partition in the middle of the pool area, leaving you with two bath tubs.

And another thing - normally the pool machinery is sufficiently distant from the house itself for you not to notice the pump - but with the whole site being squashed together so much, you get the noise from the pump LITERALLY all day, like a fan in your ears.

The space around the villa is quite cramped - unusual for a Greek villa where you get plenty of space.

Conclusion - not well designed and not really very pleasant - although fine in a kind of "barratt home" terrace clinicalness. In short, I asked whether we could move after 2 nights there (the noise from the pool will drive you quite nuts after 30 mns) , and the agent helpfully found me the Fiscardo view villas - which was absolutely superb by comparison.

A word about Asos and Fiscardo. Asos is absolutely charming (the views ruined only by the villas themselves which rather dominate the view of the bay and are rather an ugly site). However it is quite small, with three or four restaurants in the eveing - everything else being 6 or 7 km away.

Fiscardo, is a larger village, very attractive round the little sea harbour, with lots of sailing boats and a very charming air. Plenty of places to eat, but still with a very peaceful and charming lay out- really worth a look.