Peloponnese, Greece

Monolithoi

Price per night from$366.09

Price information

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 (EUR348.94), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Easy, breezy, Peloponnese-y

Setting

Mountainous Mani perch

Set in the Peloponnese hills, Monolithoi’s two sleek stone villas make quite the duo. The indoor-outdoor casas each flaunt three pool-facing bedrooms, view-framing picture windows and polished, coastal interiors (though we imagine most of your time will be spent alfresco). A local, homemade breakfast is served chez vous each morning, and Matina and her team are on-hand to arrange outings and transfers. And if one villa isn’t enough, you can book both — which connect via the organic garden — for the coolest double act.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Two villas.

Check–Out

11am. Check-in, 3pm.

More details

Rates at Monolithoi include a local breakfast, which is prepared and served in your villa each morning.

Also

Villa Two has step-free access and both villas have bedrooms on the ground floor, but unfortunately these rural retreats are not suitable for wheelchair users.

Hotel closed

For 2025, the villas open from 21 March to 30 November.

At the hotel

In villas: free WiFi, smart TV, air-conditioning, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, free bottled water, slippers and organic bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Monolithoi’s two villas have given local materials and heritage a contemporary makeover: the clean-lined residences are a modern take on the region’s stone tower houses. The indoors and outdoors seamlessly blend thanks to vast picture windows, floor-to-ceiling glass doors and bedrooms that open onto the poolside terrace. Villa One is slightly more spacious, but Villa Two has a second, breeze-tickled terrace that overlooks the pool and gardens. Big family clans and coteries of friends can book both villas together to create one super-villa, connected by a door in the garden.

Poolside

Each villa has its own pool, which overlooks the distant sapphire sea and nearby terracotta-hued villages. You’ll find sunloungers dotting the terrace; Villa Two also has a separate day-bed area for any lunch-induced siestas. The two ground-floor bedrooms in each villa also open up to the pool, which means you’ll have easy access for any day-starting dips if you bag one of these rooms. The pool can be heated in certain months for an additional charge.

Packing tips

Stunning scenery wraps the villas, so ditch the screens in favour of more wholesome pursuits: poolside card games, sketches of the sea, or that book you’ve always meant to read but haven’t gotten around to (yet).

Also

Staff can arrange in-villa yoga classes and spa treatments; just let them know in advance if you’d like to book in a wellness session.

Children

Welcome. Each villa has three bedrooms and a sofa-bed in the living room, sleeping up to seven guests in total. Baby cots and high chairs can be provided on request; babysitting can be booked with advance notice.

Sustainability efforts

In a bid to protect the local landscape, Monolithoi villas rely on solar panels and energy-saving devices, and single-use plastic is eschewed in favour of biodegradable alternatives. The houses are built using traditional techniques and local stone, which is naturally cooling, and their organic gardens grow herbs and fresh produce.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

The shaded dining table on the pool terrace is primed for languorous lunches and lively dinners.

Dress Code

It’s su casa, so whatever you’re most comfortable in.

Hotel restaurant

The villas are kitted out with fully equipped kitchens — an induction hob, oven, fridge-freezer and shiny worktops are your tools for cheffing up market-sourced fish and olive oil-doused salads for poolside meals (and at ease, KPs, there’s a dishwasher, too). However, you can put your feet up for breakfast, which is included with your stay: your hosts will prepare and deliver a fresh, locally inspired feast each morning, with made-to-order eggs, homemade treats and Matina’s marmalade. Your hosts can also stock your fridge ahead of your arrival and pick up any groceries for you during your stay.

Hotel bar

There’s no bar on-site but you’re welcome to stock your fridge as you choose, and there’s a supermarket a 10-minute drive from the villas. 

Location

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Address
Monolithoi
Eparchiaki Odos Kalamatas - Areopolis
Mani
240 24
Greece

You’ll find Monolithoi in the quiet, village-studded hilltops overlooking the sea in the Peloponnese on Greece's Mani peninsula.

Planes

Kalamata International Airport is under 90 minutes’ drive from the villas; staff can arrange one-way transfers for up to three guests from €169 (from €235, for up to eight).

Automobiles

You’ll want a set of wheels to tour local villages and seaside towns, plus to pick-up any produce you might fancy at home. Your nearest supermarket is a 10-minute drive, or staff can pre-stock your fridge with your favourites on request and for an extra charge. There’s free parking outside of the villas.

Other

Staff can arrange helicopter transfers on request.

Worth getting out of bed for

Settling into a slower pace comes easy in the Continent’s southerly stretches, particularly so at peaceful Monolithoi. Snoozes by the pool and long lunches will rank high on your daily agenda — if you even have one — as might trips to seaside hotspots such as Stoupa beach or fishing village Agios Nikolaos. Get a taste for local life with a pootle around hilltop villages Platsa and Pigi, which has views of hiking-trail-crossed Taygetos Mountain; marvel at stalactite-strewn Caves of Diros, or soak up the sunset from Cape Tainaron Lighthouse. Matina and her team from Monolithoi are happy to arrange tours and transfers by boat or helicopter, as well as at-home massages and alfresco yoga; just let them know ahead of your arrival if you feel like booking anything in.

Local restaurants

The village-surveying terrace at Old Kardamili Traditional Restaurant is shaded by leafy trees, which cast dappled shadows on simple but delicious regional favourites. Stathi’s Tavern is similarly laidback, with its courtyard tables, hilltop setting and traditional Greek plates. Waterfront Medikon delivers on blue views, top wines and seafood specials.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

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 these honey-hued villas in Greece and unpacked their olive oil and loose linens, a full account of their secluded break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Monolithoi in the Peloponnese…

Designed by Athens-based Desypri & Misiaris Architecture, Monolithoi’s two contemporary, monolithic residences take cues from local stone buildings. The main source of inspiration was the away-from-it-all Ksemonia houses — translating to ‘the one who has been left alone’ — that served as shelters or observation points.

Taking shelter at one of Monolithoi’s three-bedroom villas is notably more luxurious: nature-referencing interiors are a peaceful continuation of the outdoors, with a handful of hosting spaces and plenty of solace-seeking corners. There’s much to observe, too: calming bedrooms overlook the pool terrace and you can glimpse the horizon-blurring sea from every floor-to-ceiling window.

Breakfast is included and each morning a local spread is whipped up in-villa, so you can spend more time admiring the architecture and view (or having a lie-in). The concierge can also arrange boat charters, poolside yoga sessions or at-home spa treatments. As much as you’ll feel left alone, Matina and her team are never far away...

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Price per night from $363.99