Sifnos, Greece

Stamna Sifnos

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Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR201.20), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Sun worshipping sanctuary

Setting

Apollo’s earthly realm

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Legend has it that the ancient Greek deities often descended from the heavens, and we think Stamna Sifnos would appeal to Apollo himself. Cradled within the juniper-covered hills of Sifnos, the hotel’s stone-hewn rooms and suites extend onto olive-scented terraces and pergola-shaded gardens. Plates from the land and sea make their way to your poolside lounger, the Aegean glitters in the distance, and island capital Apollonia is only a wander away.


 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

20, including five suites.

Check–Out

11am, but flexible, subject to availability. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

More details

Rates include an organic breakfast spread of fresh fruit, yoghurt and homebaked pastries.

Also

All common areas are wheelchair accessible, and one Superior Room with Sea View is adapted for wheelchair use.

Hotel closed

The hotel opens for the Greek summer season, from 1 May to 15 October 2025.

At the hotel

Kitchen garden, bicycles to rent, beach bags and towels to borrow, plug adaptors, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, smart TV, minibar, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, pool towels, bathrobes, slippers and Olive Era bath products.

Our favourite rooms

You can spy the sea from every single room and suite at Stamna Sifnos, and each has a Mediterranean garden to unwind in too. For secluded swims, the Suite with Private Pool and Sea View comes with its own infinity-edged oasis. The Friends & Family Two-Bedroom Suite with Sea View has been designed with groups in mind, sleeping up to five across stylishly stripped back suites.

Poolside

Fringed by olive trees and hemmed in along one side by the restaurant’s roughly hewn stone walls, the saltwater pool at Stamna Sifnos is the definition of a sun trap. White marble slabs around the lounger-dotted terrace reflect the rays, and the hazy blue views stretch all the way to the Aegean in the distance. Swimming hours are 8.30am to 7pm.

Spa

There’s currently no spa, but yoga, pilates, and meditation instructors are on hand for group and private sessions in the sleek fitness studio which extends to an outdoor workout zone.

Packing tips

Draw on Mount Olympus’ dress code (the neighbouring village of Apollonia is named after the ancient sun god, after all), and lean into light, flowing linens paired with strappy footwear. Sifnos is known as the ‘island of poets’ so it’s also worth packing some of Kleanthis Triantafyllos’s satirical musings.

Also

An early bird breakfast is available on request for those who like to start the day watching the sunrise over the Aegean.

Children

All ages are welcome. There’s ample space to stay and play across the Supreme Family Room with Sea View and Friends & Family Two-Bedroom Suite with Sea View.

Sustainability efforts

Resourceful from the ground up, Stamna Sifnos is built with rainwater collecting tanks under each thermally insulated room to irrigate the rest of the property, including the hotel’s organic garden, which supplies the kitchen with just-picked produce, alongside island farmers and fishers. Natural, refillable bath products made from Greek olive oil are stocked in the rooms and suites; solar panels provide renewable energy throughout, and hotel staff lend a hand with beach clean-ups around Sifnos.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Some of the outdoor tables teeter so close to the pool that you can dip your feet in the cooling water at dinner, while drinking in yet more Aegean views.

Dress Code

Resortwear from Greek brand Zeus+Dione (or something of that divine ilk) will effortlessly take you from day to night.

Hotel restaurant

At Pilós, vegetables and aromatic herbs are gathered from the garden, seafood is brought in fresh off the boats, and local farmers offer up delectable cuts of meat. Chef Gikas Xenakis of Athens’ celebrated Aleria Restaurant oversees the menu, tapping into his family recipes and childhood memories from the Greek countryside. The glass-fronted restaurant is flooded with natural light, and wooden tables spill out onto the Aegean-facing pool terrace.

Hotel bar

Jutting out from Pilós onto the pool’s edge, the hotel bar is a laidback spot for chilled glasses of Cycladic wine, cocktails garnished with Greek olives, and light snacks from 11.30am to 11.30pm.

Last orders

Breakfast is served from 8am until 11am; for lunch, it's 12.30pm until 5.30pm, and dinner hours are 7pm until 11pm.

Room service

Heaven-sent nibbles can be enjoyed on your terrace during kitchen hours.

Location

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Address
Stamna Sifnos
Apollonia
Sifnos
84003
Greece

Hugging the hills on the outskirts of Apollonia, Stamna Sifnos sits at the heart of the tiny Cycladic island of Sifnos.

Planes

There’s no airport on Sifnos, so you’ll need to fly into neighbouring islands like Mykonos, Milos, and Paros, which are connected to Athens by domestic flight, or take a ferry. From Mykonos, the fastest ferries transport you to Sifnos’ Kamares in just under two hours (it’s then a 15-minute drive from the port to the hotel and one-way private transfer through the hotel start at €40).

Automobiles

Dinky Sifnos can be traversed in 90 minutes by car from one side of the island to the other, so driving to beaches, cliff-clinging villages and monasteries doesn’t eat into your sunbathing. There’s free parking at the hotel.

Other

If the ferry isn’t going to cut it, ask the hotel about private catamarans and helicopter transfers ahead of your stay.

Worth getting out of bed for

Sifnos might just be a 29-square-mile isle, but this Cycladic outpost is criss-crossed with walking trails which take you over rocky outcrops towards remote beaches (Vathi, Faros, and Fasolou are our favourites), with blue domed churches and whitewashed fishing villages to admire en route. Stamna Sifnos is a 10-minute walk from Apollonia, the island’s capital, home to the Folklore Museum on pretty Heroon Square. Its exhibitions are filled with old farming tools, traditional earthenware, embroidery and wood-carved objects which offer a glimpse into the Sifnian way of life. Over the centuries, Sifnian ceramicists travelled far and wide to share their expertise of turning clay into fire resistant cooking utensils, which you can peruse at pottery workshops such as family-run Apostolidis. Just before sunset, head along the cliffside path from Katavati to the eighth-century Profiti Ilias monastery, which cuts a dramatic figure atop Sifnos’ highest point and promises panoramic views of the island and glittering Aegean.

Local restaurants

Traditional Sifnian fare is baked in generations-old terracotta dishes in wooden ovens, and its food scene only continues to sizzle centuries on. Seafood from the ever bountiful Aegean is served as ceviche, tempura, and sashimi under the sun-dappled shade of a pergola at Omega3, headed up by local chef Giorgos Samoilis who’s also behind zero-waste restaurant, Cantina. A smattering of tables is set on the rocks, and the menu is reliant on the local fishing fleet. Farm-to-table Nus is rooted in island-grown produce, elevating everything from octopus carpaccio and wood-oven smoked goat shoulder to hand-rolled pasta stuffed with soft shell crab. 

Local cafés

Easy-going Drakakis is an old coffee house in the heart of Apollonia, which attracts a local crowd for its Greek brews, homemade sweets and traditional meze. 

Local bars

Loggia Wine Bar in Kastro is a good-time blend of Greek biodynamic bottles and musician-curated Spotify playlists, with by-the-glass options to sip your way through overlooking Seralia beach.

Reviews

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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 ruggedly handsome hotel in Sifnos and unpacked their traditional ceramics and candied fruit, a full account of their castaway break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Stamna Sifnos in the Cyclades…

The siren call of Sifnos seems to steadily be growing stronger, as sunseekers castaway to lesser-trodden shores (that is, compared with Cycladic neighbours Mykonos and Santorini). If all you want is peace, privacy, and a pool, Stamna Sifnos readily delivers on all counts — and more. Every room and suite is thoughtfully angled to face the Aegean Sea, and sprawling gardens fragrant with citrus and sage root your downtime in the island’s countryside. Snack on fresh figs and pillowy yoghurt drizzled in local honey as you alternate between the pergola’s shade and sun-soaked pool terrace, sitting and soaking up the silence which is broken only by the buzz of cicadas. 

Everything feels deliciously remote, and yet the hotel is just a 10-minute meander to Apollonia, the island’s capital. Potter around ceramics workshops, traditional sweet stalls, and seaside tavernas, sampling produce that’s praised all over Greece. There’s no telling who you’ll rub bronzed shoulders with here, from returning fishermen to A-listers abroad.

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