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Grace Santorini

Santorini, Greece

Grace Santorini  hotel is a gleaming white minimalist marvel, carved out of a clifftop on Greece’s sunset paradise. Tottering up the cliff face, the hotel is steeply spread over different levels, with the chalky restaurant taking up its own floor. The party scene extends to the lengthy infinity pool’s terrace by night, when all that glitters comes to life.

Need to know

• Rooms 20, including 12 suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $496.90 (€397), excluding tax at 7 per cent.
  Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (€397), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
• More details Rates include champagne breakfast.
• Facilities Gym, book/CD/DVD library, laptops on loan (Macs and PCs) and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: Cocomat beds, flatscreen TV, DVD player, iPod dock, minibar and Apivita bath products.
• Poolside Two, including an infinity pool which runs along the front of the hotel, perfect for swimming and Skaros Rock-spotting at the same time. Both have well cushioned double loungers, a bar and an outdoor shower.
• Check-out 12pm, but flexible for 50 per cent of the room rate. Earliest check-in, 2.30pm.
• Children Over-14s are welcome. Extra beds cost €105 in low season, €130 in mid season and €155 in high season.
• Hotel closed Grace Santorini reopens 18 April 2012, and closes for winter on 22 October 2012.

Food and drink at Grace Santorini

• Hotel restaurant The restaurant serves up contemporary Greek cuisine courtesy of accolade-awarded chef, Spiros Agious: grilled calamari with saffron aioli foam, Aegean Sea octopus and balsamic-glazed monkfish on beetroot risotto, and Cretan beef with a pear and celeriac ragu. There’s an open kitchen on show, and more of the same whitewashing and liquid black lava rock.
• Dress code Sparkly and sexy; and no bare legs for gents after dark, please.
• Top table For a snug supper, ask for either of the two cosy alcoves overlooking the infinity pool and caldera bay.
• Last orders Breakfast is on offer from 8am until 11.30am, when lunch service takes over until 7pm. Dinner is then available right up until 11pm.
• Room service Breakfast and an all-day snack menu (salads, pizzas and puddings) can be ordered between 8am and 11pm.
• Hotel bar The bar expands from the restaurant, with half facing inwards to the kitchen and the rest spilling out to the infinity pool. Sit back to the sounds of Greek jazz and sip a speciality cocktail.

Grace Santorini Imerovigli, Santorini, 84700