The Fisherman's House Santorini

We cannot thank the owner enough for her hospitality, friendship, support and exceptional customer care. We highly recommend Fisherman's House to visit, it is clean, well maintained, lovely breakfasts and a loving and caring environment to enjoy your stay.

another wonderful stay with you at Fishermans House. The second stay for my wife and the 1st for me. I have travelled extensively on business and have come to appreciate the detail in accomodation and the personal touch that is so often missing. Your endeavours to provide spotless, well serviced accommodation, an amazing breakfast platter and the warmest welcome we have ever experienced are not wasted on us. Your personality and commitment to excellence shone through our entire stay and the availability of the thoughtful extras you made available to us made us very happy. It s rare, in this climate, to find yourself experiencing this level of friendliness, service and helpfullness- and we are gratefull for all your endeavours!

The reviews we read prior to coming to Santorini convinced us to make “The Fisherman's House” our headquarters while on this beautiful island. We’re so glad we did! Our hostess Vana, was wonderful- helped us in any way she could from arranging dinner reservations, a rental car and transfer from the airport. As you have already read, the breakfasts are wonderful, something we looked forward to every day. The pool was a lovely oasis and a nice place to relax with a glass of wine after a day of sightseeing. Akrotiri is a charming peaceful village and “The Fisherman’s House” helped make our visit to Santorini truly memorable.

If you are used to 5* large chain hotels then this may not be for you, however you will miss meeting a wonderful woman named Vana, a force of nature, a modern-day Greta Garbo , who runs the hotel and heads up a small, friendly team of staff. We found the facilities to be exactly what we needed, balcony and veranda, all with a fabulous sea view. It is a small hotel with a very decent-sized swimming pool, so there was never any concern about seating and, in any case, each room has designated loungers by the pool. A delicious breakfast was brought to the table of our veranda each morning, at which point Vana would discuss our plans for sight-seeing and offer really useful suggestions on the best places to go in terms of authentic Santorini (sometimes not easy to find). Across the road from the hotel is a country road leading down to the sea inside the caldera, the views are stunning and if you have an interest in geology then you can get very close to 100s of millions of years of rock formations. Santorini has become over-crowded with tourists and so many of the more famous parts of this small island are really to be avoided, especially as the noise from silencer-free quad bikes can be quite over-whelming. But The Fisherman's House is situated in a much quieter area of the island and we felt we had reached sanctuary when getting back there each evening. But I cannot emphasise enough how important Vana was to the pleasure of our stay - as an example, we had problems with our car hire at one point and Vana was straight in there, fighting our corner in Greek as if defending the Alamo.

This deserves to be number 1 in santorini. The hotel was lovely. A good mix with old and new. The rooms had everything that you needed and the breakfast was excellent, good variety served right to your veranda at a time suitable for you. The pool was a lovely size where you could do laps or just float around in the beautiful sunshine to cool off. It was close to a bus stop and a mini market with a few restaurants. The manager vana couldn't have been more helpful arranged where to eat for 2 nights and also arranged a transfer back to the port. Gave us information on the bus timetable. A true asset. There was plentiful parking. Very friendly cats !

Honestly, I can’t say enough about this guesthouse! It was the best thing about our week in Santorini. Vana and her staff were so friendly and accommodating. She organised us dinner reservations for the first few nights and transport to the restaurants. She was very helpful when asking for recommendations, she always had a good place in mind. Which was especially helpful as I’m Vegetarian and so needed to know that the place we were going would have good options for me. The rooms are comfortable and clean and all have a private patio area and air conditioning! We stayed in one of the smaller rooms and really liked how it opened straight out onto the pool and how it caught the evening sun. But we were super lucky and Vana moved us to one of the larger rooms for a couple of nights and that was also lovely! The pool is beautiful, and reading my book on the sun lounger looking over the pool onto the tops of Olive and fig trees was something out of this world!! But the real showstopper was the breakfast! Prepared by Vana and her team in the morning and brought directly to the patio at a time that suits you. We asked for the vegetarian breakfast and it was so nice, and a very good way to start the day! We cannot say thank you enough to Vana and her team.