Wonderful hosts. They monitor the territory and the numbers. A garden with flowers and fruits. Beauty! The location is right on the sea, 3 steps from the garden to the beach. It is very beautiful, quiet, the sea is clean. There are breakwaters from which children used nets to catch fish, and crabs run around. They collected mussels right there. The center of Mount Athos is 5 minutes away by car or minibus. There are decent canteens nearby where you can eat inexpensively. I recommend it!
A good location, excellent value for money / quality / amenities provided, everything corresponds to the information stated on the website. The rooms are perfectly clean upon check-in. The sea is a 1-minute walk away, the common areas are always cleaned, and the beach is also kept clean. The cafe is a 5-minute walk above the road, the portions for this price are quite decent, the food is homemade in quality, we ate only there. The staff of the cafe and the living room are very friendly and adequate. There is a kitchen on site for self-cooking, there is enough space and utensils for everyone. I liked the silence mode after 23:00 - the music turns off, if anything, noisy vacationers are asked to observe it or go down to the shore and have fun away from the rooms.
What I would like to improve: organize a smoking area for vacationers (let's say, upstairs to the right of the descent to the sea) so that in the rest of the living room - on the veranda of the 2nd floor, in the common kitchen area and the veranda by the sea you can fully breathe and enjoy the fresh sea air.
Thank you, the hosts, for the good reception!
I also visited this holiday home in 2023. There is noticeable work to improve the environment for vacationers - concreted areas for cars and finished floors/passages between buildings, tables appeared in suites on the 1st floor and balusters were made in each room. What upset me was that the electric stove was removed in the kitchen, there was only one gas stove with 3 burners. Still, normal lighting should be done in the kitchen: at least hang an ordinary lamp next to the sink or a longitudinal lamp, and the water is not necessarily straight hot, you can just mix it in advance into a well-warm one and put it on the tap. Otherwise, washing dishes in cold water and managing the kitchen in the dark is quite uncomfortable. After all, sometimes you just want to cook and eat your usual homemade food in the evening.
So far, everything has not been regulated in smoking areas. But this time there were much fewer vacationers who smoked, and some deliberately went to the beginning of the veranda to let others enjoy the clean sea air. Thank them for their conscientiousness!
I had a rest in 2024.
The exit from the gate is concreted. There is a second floor on the houses, as well as a new kitchen set and a gas/electric stove. More order, kitchen utensils and accessories have been added. And now there is a backlight for cooking and washing areas. It has become much more convenient to cook.
The hosts are well done for reading reviews and working to improve the quality of tourists' holidays!
We had a family vacation in this guest house many times, made new friends, and plan to visit in the future. I recommend the hotel to those who prefer peace and quiet, if you need to put your nerves and thoughts in order, while you are not disconnected from the "mainland" Wi-Fi is working here. When choosing, please note that there are no noisy animations and standard beach cheesecakes with ATVs, screaming touts and boiled corn. But at any time, leaving the room you will be free to swim in the clear sea with mountain views, the hotel is located right on the shore. Location - the suburb of N.Athos, if you are not by car, then the grocery market and pharmacy are 3 km away, and you can get to the center to the waterfall and swan park by going to the Dry highway stop (passage through the railway tracks) to catch a taxi or a local bus, because it is far on foot. There is a grocery store and a canteen next to the highway stop. They also pick up paid excursions and jeeping from the bus stop there. The owners of the hotel are very decent and adequate people, Karina tries to pay attention to everyone, she is interested in whether everything is in order, Arsen, if possible, will take her to the city or on an excursion. Regular guests are very warmly welcomed, Karina treats them with her own delicious sweet pastries, the feeling that she has come to her relatives. Rooms from economy to individual houses with all amenities, you will fall asleep and wake up to the sound of the surf and birdsong, the description of the rooms on the website is fully consistent, read. Cleaning on your own, if you need frequent change of towels / linen - the advice is to negotiate individually, everything is solved. Silence mode is from 23.00, until that time, music is turned on in the evening, you can dance. There is a hydrogen sulfide clinic in Primorsky within a 15-minute drive, we are treated there, then we need full rest / sleep and it is here that we need it. At the hotel you can buy water, lemonade and local beer, homemade wine/chacha, tangerine juice, feijoa jam. There is a regular kitchen with self-cooking utensils, a barbecue, refrigerators. There are a lot of guests sometimes in the evening, not everyone has enough appliances. A cafe across the house from the hotel, a passage along the shore, there are breakfasts and lunches, in the evening you can order khinkali, salad, shish kebab, khachapuri, you can have dinner at your place on the embankment. There are a lot of flowers, blooming tangerines, rosemary, the air here is a bomb. The shore is medium and large pebbles, deep in a couple of meters, there are no sun beds, umbrellas, foot showers, rental of subs where there is a cafe. There are power outages, it does not depend on the hotel. Parking is closed on the territory, the entrance to the hotel is steep under the bridge over a mountain river - just be careful on low cars. Steadily every year there are some improvements in the hotel, there is a special spiritual flavor, an atmosphere of slowing down and unity with nature, helps to reset from the hustle and bustle of work and a complete reboot. I honestly described all the nuances that can affect the choice, I recommend you to visit!