Accessible holidays in Greece tend to mean a large resort hotel. Villas on the islands are built into hillsides, reached by steps, and almost none of them say a word about access — so planning a trip becomes a series of emails asking strangers to measure their own doorways.
We host two houses on the south-east coast of Lefkada. One of them, Cavos Villa, has a genuinely step-free ground floor — and the bay below it is one of a small number of beaches in Greece with a ramp that takes a wheelchair user into the sea. That combination is rare enough to be worth a page of its own.
What follows is what we actually know, and what we don't. We would rather answer a specific question honestly than have you arrive to a surprise.
Kitchen, the triple-aspect lounge with the sea on three sides, and a twin en-suite bedroom with wide doors — all on one level, no internal steps between them. You can live entirely on this floor.
The ground-floor en-suite is fitted for wheelchair use, so the bedroom and its bathroom work together rather than sending you across the house.
The 30-metre infinity pool and the terraces that wrap it are reached from the same level — so the view, the water and the long lunch under the pergola are not upstairs.
The upper and lower floors — the master double and a self-contained en-suite double with its own terrace — are reached by stairs. The house sleeps eight in total across four en-suite bedrooms, which means a family or group can travel together with one member using the ground floor entirely independently, rather than everyone compromising on a hotel.
A step-free house is not much use if the sea is out of reach. The bay below this one has a SEATRAC ramp.
If you have not come across one, SEATRAC is a solar-powered seat that runs on a fixed rail from the shore down into the water and back, operated by the swimmer with a remote control. A wheelchair user gets into the sea and out again independently, without being lifted or carried. It is free to use.
The installation at Mikros Gialos was announced by the Regional Unit of Lefkada in June 2026, in the first group of three on the island. There is parking, a shower, a WC and a changing room at the same end of the beach, and the bay is sheltered — it faces east into a bowl of hills, so the water is calm on days when the exposed west-coast beaches are unswimmable.
The beach is about five minutes below the house. Almost nothing written in English about this coast mentions the ramp at all, which is why we are spelling it out here.
We are not going to describe this house as fully adapted, because that word means different things to different people and getting it wrong ruins a holiday.
What we have not published here — because we have not measured it rather than because the answer is bad — includes exact door widths, the approach from the parking area, turning space in the bathroom, and how the pool itself is entered. If any of those decide your trip, ask us the specific question. We will go and measure it, take a photograph, and tell you plainly whether the house works for you. If it does not, we will say so.
Two practical notes that apply to everyone. Lefkada is joined to the mainland by a causeway, so there is no ferry to negotiate — it is about an hour and a quarter by road from Aktion airport (PVK). And a hire car is not optional on this coast; there is no useful bus.
Tell us what you need and we will check it. Send us the measurement or the detail that matters — the one that usually nobody answers — and we will go to the house and find out. It is a ten-minute drive for us.
No booking pressure and no vague reassurance — just the answer, with a photograph if that helps.
Ask us about access