Boutique Hotels

Greece

Greece does not need to be sold. What it needs is to be navigated. The country that most visitors experience: Santorini at sunset, Mykonos in August, the Acropolis at noon — is real and worth experiencing. But it sits alongside another Greece that is quieter, less photographed and in many ways more rewarding: the smaller Cycladic islands where the ferry schedule still governs the day, the Cretan villages where a meal can last three hours without anyone thinking anything of it, the corners of Athens that have been building something interesting and unhurried for the past decade. The boutique hotels in this guide are spread across all of it. Some are on the islands everyone knows. Others are on islands that most travellers have never considered. What they share is a sense that someone thought carefully about what they were building and why: which in Greece, where hospitality is taken seriously as a matter of character rather than industry, is not as rare as it might be elsewhere.

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