Best Luxury Hotels in Greece
Six properties across the Cyclades' caldera-edge and beach-club islands and the mainland Peloponnese's quieter coastline. Chosen against the same four criteria throughout, not ranked by price.
Greek luxury hospitality runs largely on the Cyclades’ whitewashed, cubist architecture, but this collection also makes room for the mainland’s quieter alternative, since the two read as genuinely different trips.
For Santorini’s caldera
Canaves Oia Suites and Grace Hotel Santorini both occupy the island’s dramatic cliff edge in Oia and Imerovigli respectively, each cut into or built above the caldera wall with the sunset view functioning as the property’s defining feature.
For Mykonos
Kalesma Mykonos, above Ornos Bay, represents the island’s newer wave of Cycladic-cubist architecture, a quieter register than the island’s beach-club reputation might suggest.
For the Peloponnese and Athens Riviera
Amanzoe’s hilltop temple-inspired pavilions above Porto Heli, Dexamenes’ adaptive reuse of a former beachside wine factory near Kourouta, and One&Only Aesthesis on the Athens Riviera all offer a lower-key, less crowded alternative to the islands, each with considerably more space around it.
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6 hotels in this collection
Porto Heli, Greece
Amanzoe
A hilltop citadel of Doric columns and marble courtyards above Porto Heli, built as a modern-day temple to the Peloponnese coastline it overlooks.
From €1,900 per night
Kourouta, Ilia, Greece
Dexamenes Seaside Hotel
A 1920s currant-wine factory on a Peloponnese beach, its concrete fermentation tanks cut open one by one and turned into 44 suites facing the Ionian Sea.
From €260 per night
Athens Riviera, Vouliagmeni, Greece
One&Only Aesthesis
A midcentury Athenian beach club, reborn as One&Only's first Greek address on the pine-shaded coast between Glyfada and Vouliagmeni.
From €850 per night
Ornos, Mykonos, Greece
Kalesma Mykonos
A whitewashed hillside village above Ornos Bay where every suite has its own heated pool and K-Studio's architecture reads less like a hotel than an extended Cycladic family home.
From €960 per night
Oia, Santorini, Greece
Canaves Oia Suites
Cave suites cut into Oia's caldera cliff by the family that opened the village's first hotel, rebuilt cube by cube for a new generation of guests.
From €900 per night
Imerovigli, Santorini, Greece
Grace Hotel Santorini
A cliffside stack of white cubist volumes in Imerovigli, built around a cascading infinity pool and a caldera view that Santorini's own tourism writers rank among the island's best.
From €850 per night