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Poseidonion Grand Hotel

Spetses, Greece

Poseidonion Grand Hotel delivers a shot of Continental glamour in sun-soaked Spetses, the Athenian A-list’s coastal playground. Home to a blissful spa, a trio of restaurants and romantic rooms with dazzling Med views, this is island life at its most luxurious.

Need to know

• Rooms 52, including eight suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $182.03 (€141), excluding tax at 8 per cent.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency (€141) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Rates include buffet breakfast and minibar soft drinks.
• Facilities Spa, free WiFi in communal areas. In room: flatscreen TV, wired internet access, minibar, Etro bath products. Some suites have CD/DVD players and kitchenettes.
• Poolside Where the lavender blossoms in the gardens, there’s a grass-green, glass-tiled pool flanked by smart teak decking. Sun worshippers will also enjoy the little plunge pool with sea views beside the spa.
• Children Cots are free for under-fours. In low and mid-season, extra beds are free for four–12 year olds; in high season, they’re 15 per cent of the room rate. Children are welcome in the restaurants, where highchairs are provided; staff will warm up baby food.
• Also Sample the hotel’s berry-rich homemade jam, made with produce from its verdant hilltop organic garden.

Food and drink at Poseidonion Grand Hotel

• Hotel restaurant

  Greek staples get a luxurious rethink – foie gras pastitsio and the ilk – at On The Verandah. Sushi and Greece may not seem like natural bedfellows, but given the rich stock of succulent seafood in the waters beside the hotel, it figures: try avocado rolls and sashimi served on ice at glamorous Freud Oriental (which has a popular sister in Athens). For light snacks – salads, sandwiches and so on – there’s the Library Bar, home to a polished piano, juke box, ancient guestbook and stash of Greek history books.

   

• Dress code Daddy owns a mega-yacht. (Cue nonchalant nauticals: navy, cream and white, in linens and silks.)
• Top table Outside of course, overlooking the piazza and the sea out to the Peloponnese. At breakfast, sit at one of the parasol-topped tables, unfurl your map and plan the day’s adventures. Nurse cocktails at one of the Library Bar’s stone tables, amid the candles.
• Last orders The Library Bar keeps guests refreshed from 10am until 1am. Food is served at On The Verandah between 8pm and 12am; 8pm until 12.30am, at Freud Oriental.
• Room service The 24-hour room service includes the pick of the main menu (until midnight, when a limited selection of light snacks is on offer).
• Hotel bar

  Sit in the Library Bar and pore over guests’ names from the 1900s in the time-worn guestbook. Admire the decorative china artichokes, the intricately patterned floor and your own reflection in the huge mirrors. Spiro, the sommelier, can talk you through the various local wines, grappas and apéritifs.

Poseidonion Grand Hotel Poseidonion, Dapia, Spetses, 18050