Hotels in Greece

Not every trip wants a villa. For a couple, a short stay or a first visit, a small hotel with breakfast on the terrace and someone at reception is the better choice. Our villas are hand-picked across Greece: Halkidiki and its three peninsulas an hour from Thessaloniki, Crete from Chania to Heraklion, Santorini and Mykonos in the Cyclades, the Ionian islands and the mainland coast. Every listing is one we have visited or vetted, booked directly with the owner and backed by a local concierge.

The hotels on this page are ones we work with directly: family-run boutique hotels and suites in Halkidiki, Crete, Santorini, Mykonos, Rhodes, Corfu and the Athens Riviera, near the shallow bays of Halkidiki, the west coast of Crete, the caldera of Santorini and the Ionian coves. We book at the hotel’s own rate, add our concierge (transfers, boats, restaurant tables, a car) and stay your contact for the whole trip. No platform fees, and a person to call if the room is not what you expected.

What to check: whether breakfast is included; distance to the beach and whether it is walkable; parking, which in old village centres can be scarce; and the pool, which in small hotels is usually shared with a dozen rooms, not a hundred. For groups we can hold several rooms in one hotel, or combine a hotel for the grandparents with a villa for the rest.

The islands run from May to October; Halkidiki peaks in July and August; Crete and Rhodes stay warm into late October. Hotels in Greece are easier to find at short notice than villas, so this is also the page for a spontaneous week in June or September.