Name: Plaka Studios
Address: Karfas - Ag. Ermioni Highway, Chios, Chios, Chios, 82100, Greece
Rating: 9

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We visited Plaka studios in August as a four member family, during the high season. Plaka studios is a beautiful property with stonework facade and excellently furnished and decorated rooms. We had a family room with a double bed and two single sofa beds in separate spaces. The room also had a fully furnished kitchen and a dining table at a higher level, plus a balcony overlooking the sea. It was like a real beach house, with plenty of space (including two closets for cloths). Everything was in excellent condition and immaculately clean (full cleaning took place every three days, a minor cleaning daily). There were also enough materials to prepare breakfast for a couple of days, which considering the time boats arrive in Chios, was extremely convenient. Many restaurants and bakeries will also deliver to Plaka studios if you feel like eating in.

The hotel is around 300 meters from the beach at Karfas, a very long sandy beach, which is surrounded by vacation homes and hotels. There are multiple restaurants, breakfast joints, coffee spots and mini markets within walking distance, and some of them are (justifiably) rated as among the best in Chios. If you don't feel like driving around, you can spend a few days there without repeating anything. There is bus service to Chios town and adjoining villages, but we did not try it. 

If you do bring (or rent a car), you have many more options. You can park outside the hotel, but they also have a parking space a few meters away for the guests. The town of Chios is around 8 km, and very easy to reach (there is a free parking area as you enter town coming from Karfas). You can reach very quickly Kampos village and with some more driving the multiple villages known as Mastichochoria. There are numerous beaches easily accessible by car on your way. So, if you feel like driving, you can see something different every day, and trust me, there are many things in Chios that you will not find on any other island in the Aegean (do visit the Masticha museum and at least one of the fortified masticha villages).

Finally, the people owning Plaka studios will make you feel at home and will help you with everything you need (where to go, what to eat, which beach will have the right weather depending on the wind). As I said, you will feel like you have your own beach house in Karfas, and a great one at that.

Excellent for families

warm welcome, clean rooms, like our own home, nothing missed in kitchen oder bathroom, amenities available, near to the seaside within a few minutes, very nice seaview, good possibility for sunbathing with lounge chairs, near or at the balcony, internet well, TV well, car park about 20 meter near to the studios building.

Family Vacation

We spent one night in this hotel when we were in Chios for vacation. 

The room was clean and comfortable, staff was very friendly and helpful. The location was very good as well. It's just five minutes away from the center of Karfas by walk. Close to the beach, restaurants and bars around the area. 

We booked a room with a land view, but try to get a room with a sea view. The only negative thing about the room was that although there was free Wi-Fi at the hotel, there was no Wi-Fi connection in our second-floor room.

If you are looking for an apartment in a quite neighborhood on the seaside, you will be happy at Plaka Studios.

Good choice for a weekend trip

Chios is a beautiful and the accommodation perfect for visit the whole island. Plaka Studios is a nice place with a really lovely host-family. There you have relaxing holidays with seaview and you're closed to restaurants and the beach.
      
      
      

Visit Chios

The owner of the hotel, Kate, is very nice and polite person. Very talkative and helpful. Very nice atmosphere and lovely small hotel. I advise for accommodation near Karfas. You can park your car in front of the hotel. 

Nice Boutique Hotel in the Area 

We had read so many positive reviews prior to our trip that it really seemed like an ideal place to spend 8 days in Chios. Unfortunately, we were shocked with how dirty our room was as soon as we entered. It had been very poorly cleaned, if at all... (not to mention sanitizing it due to the current pandemic).

(photos attached)
- Towels and sheets had hair from previous customers. We ended up using our own.
- Take a look at the mattress we were sleeping on. Mould? I don't know what it was...
- A/C was rusty and had mould inside. As soon as we turned it on, the air coming out smelled horribly bad. So, we only turned it on for a few minutes during our last days there with the horrible heat wave that hit the island.
- Dead cockroach in one of the kitchen cabinets. Mould around the sink. The sponge for the dishes wasn't new (they probably kept the same one from the previous customers). You could smell the mould as soon as you opened the bottom cabinets. Of course, we never used the kitchen.

We're talking about basic hygiene rules here, regardless of COVID, and not if we liked the room or the view. The photos attached show clearly what I'm talking about. So, my wife and I ended up using our own sheets and towels. We cleaned and sanitized various surfaces that we had to use (night stand, table, chairs, closet). We asked not to have anyone enter our room during our stay there. We cleaned after ourselves, took care of the garbage etc.

I should have given 1 star, but the owner was friendly and she agreed not to let anyone enter our room. She would leave garbage bags, shampoo etc. outside our door.

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