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Our favourite rooms: All the rooms are lovely, but our favourite is the Captain’s Suite, the largest suite on the courtyard level, with cathedral-high ceilings, wood floors and dark-wood furniture, including a four-poster king-size antique bed.
Also: Guests enjoy 10 per cent savings at the Caldera Massage Studio and at nearby Ambrosia and Nectar restaurants.

Santorini hotels: Sea Captain’s House, need to know

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Santorini hotels: Sea Captain’s House, food and drink

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1864 The Sea Captain’s House & Spa

Santorini, Greece[view map]

Style: White with a classical whisper
Setting: Pumice cliffs over the Aegean Sea

1864 The Sea Captain's House & Spa lets you step back in time to the elegance of 1864 (while also providing the comforts of a modern luxury home). The House is positioned at the clifftop, just 12 steps down from the main path that runs through the village of Oia. Your views will be dazzling by day and star-scattered by night, taking in the ocean and the amazing Santorini volcanoes with their surrounding multi-layered caldera cliffs.

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Rooms: Three suites.
Rates: Low season, $223–$310; high season, $455–$527, including taxes and a full American-style champagne breakfast served until late into the day.
Check-out: Midday.
Facilities: Massage studio, beauty treatments, mini-library, sauna, WiFi and LAN Internet connections in the rooms and throughout the House, DVD and CD library.
Poolside: There is a rooftop terrace with Jacuzzi.
Hotel closed: 1 December 2009 to 15 March 2010.
Also: There’s a Peugeot 206 automatic convertible and a Jeep you can rent for the day. Catamaran sailing in the caldera can be arranged, including an onboard barbecue.

Food & drink

Hotel restaurant: With wonderful views, the two Sea Captain’s restaurants, Ambrosia and Ambrosia & Nectar, are separate from the hotel; guests get a ten per cent discount. Private dining at the House on request. The ‘Lazy Breakfast’ is served when you like.
Dress code: Casual night-time attire.
Top table: On the sea-view side.
Last orders: Food: midnight. Drinks: 24-hour honesty bar.
Room service: The hotel owns two restaurants nearby, which can deliver meals to your terrace or room on request.
Hotel bar: The Captain's Bar is an honesty bar available only to house guests.

Also worth knowing

Children: This hotel is better suited to couples - leave the children at home!

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