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Villa Freedom, Argaka, Cyprus.

We were a family of 5 staying for 2 weeks at Freedom villa. This is a large 4 bed spacious exceptionally well maintained villa in a very quiet location. We've visited the area on many occasions and stayed in different properties each time so feel experienced enough to give our honest viewpoint.The villa has an amazing view of the argaka, yialia, latchi and akamas coastline with countryside all around. It is very peaceful with just one other villa at a short distance in front but not overlooked or noise intruded in any way. There's a lovely pool area with plenty of shade and seating areas and a barbecue at the side which we put to use a couple of times. The surrounding gardens are pretty and well maintained, watch out for a couple of rather spikey shrubs at the back of the villa if you have little children though. A nice touch is the new hot tub (at an extra cost), but great for a relaxing hour or two with a glass of something!Inside is a large lounge area with a very comfortable leather sofa and tv (hardly used) with some books and games for entertainment. A very well equipped kitchen with plentiful crockery and utensils and a great size fridge. We did have a bit of a kitchen ant infestation which we've experienced in villas before, but discovered their entry point, blocked it up and that seemed to sort them out!! This is probably the only villa that we've stayed in that provided us with bathroom towels and also a large supply of pool towels, which was great as in my opinion you can never have enough towels. Bedrooms and bathrooms are all very spacious large doubles with lots of wardrobe, drawer and hanger space, no complaints there. However the mattresses are quite hard, as are the pillows which was an issue for us, softer pillows really would be a huge improvement even if the mattresses might suit some guests.The only other issue that we felt should be addressed is the access road to the villa, it is very much an off-road track, very bumpy and not suitable for hire cars that aren't 4x4's, we had 2 cars that were kia stonics and had to drive it very carefully. The owners were friendly, visited us a couple of times enquiring as to whether we were happy or needed anything which was very kind but not intrusive at all.During our holiday we visited the Kykkos Monastery (quite a drive), a donkey farm in kathikas (bit distressing to see these poor guys to be honest), hired some quads & buggies and went on our own Akamas adventure (great fun as always), visited Omoodos which is such a pretty little village and found the monastery there extremely interesting, made the usual trip to Paphos and The Arches in Polis (lovely little shop) for souvenirs and then did plenty of relaxing by the pool. This is a great villa for peace and quiet that we would highly recommend but a bit of a drive (20 mins) if like us you dine out most evenings on holiday and want to get in to Polis or Latchi, but nevertheless very nice indeed.We've not used Solmar before but we would have no hesitation in using them again. All communications with them were simple, prompt, friendly, plenty of info and they've been a great company to use for our first experience with them.

Date of experience: Aug 24, 2025