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Greece’s holiday-playground islands have changed a lot over the years, but if you want to time travel, The Beach House Antiparos, an eight-suite stay on the shores of Apantima, is the Hellenic hideaway for you. These rustic but refined huts are steps from the sand, with verandas to sit a while with an ouzo or a pack of cards. Shirley Valentine would approve.
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11am, and check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability.
Rates include a buffet breakfast.
Unfortunately, The Beach House Antiparos is not easily accessible for guests with limited mobility.
The hotel opens for the long Greek summer, from 26 May to 26 September.
Beach with sunloungers, garden with kids’ play area, paddleboards to borrow, outdoor gym (and guests are welcome to use the gym at sister stay The Rooster). In rooms: beach towels, Smeg kettle and fridge, Nespresso coffee machine, bathrobes and slippers.
For a view of the Aegean, you’ll have to go up a level to the top-floor rooms. There are family-friendly rooms with various sleeping arrangements, including two-bedroom suites and some with sofa-beds.
There’s a wellness room with a selection of treatments on offer, including Thai massage and reflexology. For more facilities, head to The Rooster’s House of Healing, which has a sauna, hammam and small pool.
The usual Greek-island-getaway essentials, especially sun hats, floaty dresses and Hellenic-leaning reading material (Lawrence Durrell, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nikos Kazantzakis and co).
All ages are welcome and under-sevens stay for free. For older children, an extra bed can be added for €50 a night. Babysitting can be arranged on request.
The hotel is Greek-owned, with an organic farm on the island run by the same team. There’s no single-use plastic and as much of the produce as possible comes from local suppliers.
A shady spot closest to the sand works best in this breezy open-air space.
Come as you are, and shoes are most definitely optional around here.
Athens hotspot Cookoovaya has made it to the shores of Antiparos and, fortunately for The Beach House guests, it’s mere steps away. Here you can enjoy dazzling seafood lunches on the beach, with some cameos from dry-aged beef, wild mushrooms and organic veggies. Breakfast is served in the Bamboo Room, out on your terrace or in your room. Alongside the usual eggs and pastries, you can enjoy date and cashew granola, Greek pies, oven-baked cardamom ricepudding, and overnight oats with pistachio and blueberries. For lunch and light bites, there’s a straight-to-sunlounger service from the Beach Café.
There’s an honesty bar in the library area (which also goes by the Bamboo Room) for guests to enjoy drinks, or you can crack your own on your veranda. The Rooster’s bar has an incredible sunset perch, so it’s definitely worth making at least one pilgrimage there.
Breakfast is available 8am to 10am (11am if you're having it in your room), the lazy lunch service starts at noon and runs until 8pm; Cookoovaya and the Beach House Bar also open from noon to 8pm (last food orders at 7.15pm).
The Beach House Antiparos is in the Cyclades, on the isle of Antiparos, which sits just adrift of its big sister Paros.
Paros has an airport, which currently only operates domestic services to and from Athens. From here, get to either Parikia or Pounta for the ferry crossing over to Antiparos’s main port town. Hotel transfers take around an hour (price on request).
For ease of exploring the island, bring your car on the ferry across from Paros — there’s free parking at the hotel.
Ferries from other islands dock at Parikia in Paros — from here, you can pick up another vessel bound for Antiparos, or make your way to Pounta on the west coast, which is where the car ferry departs. The crossing from Pounta is less than 10 minutes; it's a half-hour sail from Parikia. Antiparos has a heliport for arrivals by chopper, too.
As you’ll have probably spotted on your way over from Paros, the waters between the two islands are ripe for kitesurfing — it’s a top-scoring place in for the sport, though it’ll take a while to get the hang of it. There’s an area set up on the sand for The Beach House Antiparos guests, with lots of sunloungers and some analogue watersports kit to borrow, including paddleboards. If you’re bored of the beach in front of you (unlikely), other options include Soros Beach and Faneromeni Beach.
As with every Greek island, the chora, or main town, is absurdly attractive, with cute clothing boutiques, interiors stores and lots of bars and restaurants to drop into for an ouzo. If you didn’t spend time there on your way across, head over to neighbouring isle Paros on the ferry — its island capital Parikia is equally lovely to wander around, as is Naoussa, the more chi-chi option. Sister stay The Rooster has its own organic farm, which you’ll be able to visit — there’s a bakery on-site producing sought-after sourdough and focaccia.
Head over to The Rooster, a 15-minute drive away, for cocktails at its sunset-ready bar before dinner at its restaurant in the walled garden. The menu features lots of produce from the farm and various seasonal specials — steaks served sharing-size, lamb patties with green sauce, and sizzling grilled prawns might all feature. For a classic Greek taverna and super-fresh seafood (caught that very day), you can’t go wrong with Captain Pipinos, right at the water’s edge in town.
There are lots of places to pause and be caffeinated along the main drag in town, including Elia Kafenes and, slightly more trendy (and more likely to serve smoothie bowls and avo toast), Blender.
In a field near the chora, Yam started as a smart bar but has pivoted to serve breakfast, lunch and dinner as well, after some of its clientele aged and started to need carbs with their cocktails. Or settle in beneath the bougainvillea over coffee or aperitifs at Loco on the main street.
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 nostalgia-inducing hotel in the Cyclades and unpacked their sand-covered swimwear, a full account of their beachside break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside The Beach House Antiparos…
Greeks excel at the sacred art of hospitality (or philoxenia, which means ‘love of the stranger’), something you’ll feel keenly at The Beach House Antiparos.
Brought to you by the same owner as The Rooster, which is just a short drive away, this is its laid-back, low-key little sister. The former is one of Greece’s greats, and its sibling a super-cute set of eight suites right by the beach. They’ve been bestowed with her magic touch, with a blue and white palette, verandas for sitting and watching the world go by, and an on-the-sand sunlounger with your name on it. Unlike its cosmopolitan neighbouring isle, Antiparos has remained a little off the radar — though Tom Hanks jetting in with his pals (who have included Barack Obama) has added to its A-list allure. But at both of her properties, the owner promises to show you the more authentic side of Antiparos. She spent her childhood summer holidays here and is bringing you along for the ride back in time.
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