Athens Riviera, Greece

Cape Sounio

Price per night from$537.18

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR472.46), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Divine den

Setting

Peering at Poseidon

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Cape Sounio is making waves on the Athenian Riviera, with an enviable setting overlooking the Temple of Poseidon. Rooms are cream-hued canvases framing the resort’s striking views, and pool-adorned villas are your secluded space to settle down. Seasonal cuisine is cast straight from the sea, and at the beachfront pool tipples flow like the Aegean’s tide. There’s an all-ages kids’ club if little Smiths are in tow, and a pine-clad spa for healing sent straight from heaven. 

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A bottle of sparkling wine, a fruit platter and mini pastries on arrival, plus two sunset cocktails at the Panorama Lounge Bar

Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

139, including 42 suites.

Check–Out

11am, and check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates include a buffet breakfast, served daily at Cape Sounio Restaurant.

Also

Unfortunately, this resort isn’t equipped for guests with limited mobility, sight or hearing.

Please note

Some of the hotel’s dining spots — notably the Restaurant and Yali Waterfront Restaurant — open depending on the weather, so it’s worth checking with reception when you arrive.

Hotel closed

Cape Sounio opens for the season between 17 April and 8 November 2025.

At the hotel

Two private beaches, watersports equipment, outdoor and indoor gyms, concierge, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, minibar, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and bespoke bath products.

Our favourite rooms

With Cape Sounio’s prime Poseidon-admiring spot on the Attica peninsula’s edge, it’s only right that first picks come with far-reaching views. And to elevate your resting place further, pair panoramas with your own private pool in the Bungalow Junior Suite, Infinity Suite or Temple Villa. There are family options if you’re bringing the gang, and the Pine Hill Villa, Grand Villa Poseidon and the Estate on the Hill are all set atop the main resort, with expansive alfresco areas and secluded settings.

Poolside

The resort has a trio of pools (open between 10am and 6pm) that welcome all-day lazing and cooling dips. Your central, outdoor soaking spot is a social locus, flanked with sun-lapping loungers and a laidback bar for fresh juices and happy hour tipples. The second sits inside at the spa for a more restorative stint, and the third is reserved for splashing little Smiths.

Spa

Set within the placid pine groves and sprawling across 350 square metres, Ploe Spa is a calming ode to ancient Greek healing methods. Masseurs work their restorative touch across four treatment rooms, bolstered by a heated therapy pool, open-air relaxation room and beauty salon.

Packing tips

A film camera to capture your time-honoured setting.

Also

The hotel has a duo of tricked-out gyms (one indoor, one outdoor), where private training and yoga classes are held throughout the season.

Pet‐friendly

Pups under eight kilogrammes are welcome in the Pine Hill Villa, Grand Villa Poseidon and the Estate on the Hill for free. They can be accommodated in some of the villas and bungalows, too, for €20 a night. See more pet-friendly hotels in Athens Riviera.

Children

Little Smiths are welcomed with open arms at family-friendly Cape Sounio.

Best for

All ages are welcome, but activities are best for little Smiths between four and 12.

Recommended rooms

The Family rooms are your clan-accommodating abodes. Most sleep four with kids on sofa-beds, but the Family Interconnecting options sleep up to six across two bedrooms.

Crèche

The resort’s kids’ club — Grecoland — accepts tots from four and opens six days a week, with an ever-evolving schedule of engaging activities. Alfresco adventures include watersports, treasure hunts, themed events, gardening and team games; and there’s an arts and crafts station for the little ones who’d rather some quiet time.

Activities

Beyond Grecoland’s enticing expeditions, there’s cookie-making classes, laser tag, family movie nights, tennis and football, tailored-to-tots hikes and allotted hours for pampering little Smiths at Ploe Spa.

Swimming pool

There’s an outdoor dedicated-to-kids pool open daily from 10am to 6pm.

Meals

There are free-of-charge snacks at Grecoland between 11am and 5pm, as well as a lunch buffet at their Tasty Corner from 12.30pm to 2pm. All of the resort’s main restaurants have kids’ menus, too.

Babysitting

Prices start from €150 for three hours, and its then an additional €50 for each extra hour. Between midnight and 6am, its €165 for three hours and then €60 an hour.

No need to pack

Anything, this all-welcome resort has thought of everything. Cots, bed rails, monitors, pushchairs, trainer steps and seats, potties, bouncy chairs, changing mats and bottle sterilisers are all to hand here.

Also

All of the resort’s bathrooms are equipped with nappy changing facilities.

Sustainability efforts

You won’t find any single-use plastic at Green-Key-certified Cape Sounio, where rigorous recycling schemes, water conservation and the use of regional produce are top priorities.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Secure a seat with uninterrupted panoramas of Poseidon’s Aegean-admiring temple.

Dress Code

Trunks and ‘kinis are discouraged, but otherwise keep things as casual as you please.

Hotel restaurant

With five eateries to rotate between, mealtimes are an ever-changing affair — not least for their inspired-by-the-season menus. Cape Sounio Restaurant is the resort’s flagship, where breakfast and dinner take cues from the region and are dished against sweeping temple views. With similarly captivating scenes from its rooftop vantage point, the simply named Restaurant plates its taste-tantalising Mediterranean fare during the Riviera’s balmier months. Dine on Aegean-fresh seafood and time-honoured classics the way Poseidon intended at Yali Waterfront Restaurant. At the laidback Aegean Grill and Panorama All Day Restaurant, light but flavour-packed bites are primed for round-the-clock grazing. 

Hotel bar

The clue is in the name at Panorama Lounge Bar, where tipples are poured against conversation-starting views of the temple till 1am. And if moving from your sun-bathed lounger feels too overwhelming a task, the Beach Bar and Pool Bar are your easygoing, all-day watering holes, open between 10am and 6pm.

Last orders

Breakfast at Cape Sounio is 7.30am–10.30am; dinner is 7pm–10pm (6.30pm–9.30pm in low season). The Restaurant opens 7.30pm–10.30pm; Yali serves lunch 12.30pm–4.30pm; dinner 8pm–11pm. Aegean Grill is open 10am–6pm and Panorama is 11am–10pm.

Room service

Available at all hours.

Location

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Address
Cape Sounio
67 km Athens–Sounio Road
Sounio
195 00
Greece

With eyes on the Temple of Poseidon, you’ll find Cape Sounio sitting at the edge of its namesake national park, along the Athenian Riviera’s southernmost coast.

Planes

Staff can arrange private transfers for the 45-minute drive from Athens’ international airport from €75 each way.

Automobiles

Wheels will come in handy if you’re planning on exploring beyond the resort. There’s a free carpark on-site and valet parking is available, too.

Worth getting out of bed for

With the Temple of Poseidon as your stately neighbour, it’s only natural most activities at Cape Sounio are centred around the sea. There’s wakeboarding and waterskiing, kayaking, scuba diving and snorkelling, or take a private catamaran cruise around the surrounding, sun-soaked islands. Additional adrenaline-pumping pursuits include caving, mountain biking, paratriking (and gliding) and coasteering Sounion’s Aegean-lapped margins.

If you’re seeking a slower tempo — we get it, floating through the sky isn’t for everyone — private yachts are on-call to take you up to Astir Marina, where a personal shopper will take you around its abundance of designer stores. Private tours around Athens’ central sights are available, and there are guided visits to Sounion’s sea-honouring temple, too.

Back at base, close-to-home pastimes are a wholesome affair. Salad making sessions include picking produce from the hotel’s organic gardens, and mind-calming pottery classes are a lesson in ancient Greek techniques. There’s yoga and personal training for those who’d rather unwind with a stretch, and wine tastings around local vineyards if a refreshing retsina is more your tonic.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this bells-and-whistles break by Sounio National Park and unpacked their sea legs and swimwear, a full account of their Grecian break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Cape Sounio in Athens Riviera…

It was the Golden Age of Athens when Poseidon’s monument was built at the edge of Sounion, constructed as an honorary reminder of the Greeks’ victory. Times and landscapes may have changed dramatically, but the Doric temple has remained Attica’s constant. And arriving at its side, as the Athens Riviera’s latest striking structure, is Cape Sounio.

Columned exteriors take cues from the neighbouring temple’s taled architecture, and inside, minimalist, cream-toned finishes are a soothing, contemporary contrast. With a trio of pools and duo of private beaches, dips are never far away, and the secluded spa heals with Greek methods as old as the water god himself. Fare throughout the five eateries is rooted in tradition, too, with regional produce celebrated in menus and equally sense-soothing views from their temple-watching tables. There’s a kids’ club for younger Smiths, and private yachts, catamaran cruises and wine tastings to remind parents of their own golden age…

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