Mariella Sea

10 reviews

• D

  Darren

  GB · couple · Sep 2026

  8/10

  The villa stands on its own in private gardens. It is only about 50 metres from the beach. The patio is fantastic with beautiful bougainvilleas on a pergola overhead. The patio is private and is sheltered from the sun and the Meltemi. The ground floor bedroom is very nice but the upstairs is more basic. The main bathroom is upstairs. The kitchen has all sorts of useful things. It has a homely rustic feel, rather than a clinical modern approach I.e. you will find plenty of knives, forks, spoons, glasses, but they will not necessarily be exactly the same. Batsi is a nice resort with plenty of restaurants. Cavo d’Orro taverna, near to the villa is fantastic (turn right at the beach). Watch out for Andy and Nandy, the two local cats who will love you whilst you are there if you feed them (and water).

  The main drawback is nothing to do with the accommodation, but the bars that seem to be competing in the harbour. The harbour is maybe 400 metres away, but at times the noise is quite loud to early in the morning (they advertise that it goes on to 4am). The main culprit is 105 degrees east, which is below Taverna Stamatis. Unfortunately the bar has an 80s disco with an dodgy DJ and points across the bay towards the area of the villa. We were there at the end of the season (September) and it was fairly noisy until very late.

• C

  Claire

  GB · family_with_children · Aug 2026

  9/10

  We had a really great time, thank you!

  This lovely villa was perfectly located for our teenagers to wander to the beach and to the corner shop about 100m away independently. It turned out to be the same house I had walked past many years before and admired - covered in lovely bouganvillea flowers. the outside space was great, with plenty of shade to sit at the table or lounge on the sofas. We didn't seem to have much of a problem with mosquitoes but there are screens on all the doors should you wish to use them. The facilities are good and fairly modern. The villa is quite 'Greek' and homely in style, rather than a shiny international, curated experience but we loved that. It's close to the centre of the resort but is relatively quiet and has some nice back streets you can wander around. Close to the outdoor cinema but couldn't hear it at all - we recommend a visit to that. Also very close is a pharmacy and a small shop for snacks/ice creams/inflatable rubber rings etc. Also a couple of nice, more traditional restaurants suitable for families with kids away from the more crowded town centre ones. Useful to know is that it's easy to take the bus from the port to get here - the bus stopped just for us and dropped us at the bottom of the road, about 30m from the villa. We did do a return to the port by taxi as the stop for the return journey is much further away up a hill.

  Nothing really. Would happily stay here again. Of note (and this is not related to the accommodation but is worth knowing) is that the beach closest to this end of town has been affected by the construction of a large pier at the other end of the bay. I last came to Batsi about 15 years ago and the low key, 'free' no-sunbed area of the beach by the house was at that time much bigger. The beach is now very 'skinny' as sand is being washed away due to changes in water movements created by the presence of the pier, and there is now bedrock to walk over in order to get out to the sandy bottom beyond. None of this put us off and it was still big enough in July to accommodate everyone and one massive bonus is that the wall behind shelters you from the strong Meltemi winds.

• M

  MICHELE

  IT · couple · Aug 2026

  9/10
• NG

  Nicolas Gielen

  BE · solo_traveller · Jul 2026

  10/10

  Super séjour dans cette magnifique maison fleurie

  La maison est magnifique, très confortable, super bien localisée (commerces, plage, restaurants). Nous avons été très bien accueillis, communication très facile avec la personne de contact sur place.

• M

  Michael

  AU · extended_group · Jul 2026

  9/10