With so many positive write ups from previous visitors, the pressure was on. Villa Eleonorae did not disappoint.
The view is utterly breath taking. The way the colours, depth and visibility alter with time of day and weather make it an amazing and constantly changing backdrop for your holiday. The villa has many places from which to take in its glory.
The beds are quite firm but comfortable and the bedding is soft and lovely. The cot worked perfectly for our 20-month-old.
The villa has everything you’d want. Anthoula and her sister were helpful, thoughtful and efficient.
Poolside was stunning, the pool clean and crystal clear. There are lots of pool toys to play with (fins, goggles, body boards, flumps etc).
Glossa is a lovely town once you find it ... if you are expecting to be able to drive through you will miss it as we did on the first night. Park by the well stocked and friendly supermarket, walk past the amazing bakery and take a right turn at the taxi rank into the pedestrianised centre of town. We ate at Agnanti, which was quite smart and had great modern Greek cuisine (and the best retsina!), but the place we went back to was Louki, the kebab place in the middle of town. Sit outside, watch the world go by and eat something more traditional and delicious.
Giannis from MagicCars was wonderful and informative, and gave us some more recommendations, including a beach taverna called Korali in Agnontas, where our ferry was unexpectedly diverted to on arrival.
We had two days of stormy weather - proper thunder and lightning which we watched move along the channel between Skopelos and Skiathos from the balcony. The bad weather gave us the opportunity to tour around the island - it’s worth taking a drive across the middle of the island to see the amazing landscape. Signposting is a bit of an issue here and there, so you need to pay attention, but the views are wonderful and not at all what you might expect from a Greek island.
When planning your trip make sure to book your ferry tickets well in advance. We didn’t and ended up on a very early return ferry which made our last day very long. Also check the ferry times will work with your flights. Ferry’s seem to run mostly in the early morning and then from mid afternoon, which doesn’t necessarily fit with tourist flight times.
We were sorry to leave our bit of paradise. Make sure to take time to lie in the hammock on the balcony and soak up the view!