Need to know
Rooms
Eight rooms, including three suites.
Check–Out
12pm, earliest check-in, 3pm.
More details
Rates include breakfast, served in the 3.3 restaurant and prepared using local goat milk, cheese and yoghurt, garden-fresh fruit and veg, breads and pastries.
Also
The common areas and rooms are located on one level and are accessible for wheelchair users, but note that there are some steps to negotiate down to the pool.
Hotel closed
1 November to 31 March
At the hotel
Garden, free WiFi, laundry service, cigar lounge, smoking terrace, boutique. In rooms: air conditioning, TV, minibar, coffee machine with Segafredo coffee, Dammann Frères tea, kettle, free bottled water, safe, beach bag with flip flops and beach towels, Diptyque bath products.
Our favourite rooms
If you’d only shown us the ‘room’ category at Villa Nai 3.3, we would have rated it at suite-level for spaciousness, especially when taking into account the terrace leading out through floor-to-ceiling glass doors. But then we saw the suites, with their canopied four posters, fireplaces and glam living rooms and we were hooked. The rooms are individually decorated, but all keep to the same idea: natural pinks, beiges and terracottas, exposed stone evoking an upscale grotto hideaway, Italian furniture courtesy of Giorgetti injecting some mid-century-modern flair, and super-soft Frette towels and linens. Generously sized bathrooms all come with large soaking tubs and walk-in showers plus thoughtful extra touches, such as adjustable mirrors to suit guests of all heights.
Poolside
There’s a 23-metre saltwater infinity pool with sun loungers outside, easily accessible from the guest room terraces. There’s a smaller indoor saltwater pool in the spa. There’s also a private section of beach with a little jetty.
Spa
Inside the light-filled spa, you can choose a scent for your Finnish-style sauna session, then relax in the sunken saltwater pool or take a breather in the outdoor relaxation area. There’s a treatment room for all sorts of wellbeing-boosting treats, where your skin can feel the benefits of the famous olive oil and paste made from the fruits of the grove outside. Choose from Balinese and Thai massages, cold plasma skin treatments, and more. There’s a small outdoor gym area with stationary bike, elliptical machine and yoga mats for your open-air sun salutations, plus one clay tennis court.
Packing tips
A travel telescope for some night-sky ogling, or a stargazing app to help you pick out constellations.
Children
Villa Nai 3.3 is an adults-only affair.
Sustainability efforts
Much of the stone used to build the hotel was excavated from the site itself (significantly reducing carbon dioxide emissions), creating a residence that’s deftly integrated into the natural landscape. There’s a desalination plant on site to process saltwater, and composted food waste is put to good use as fertiliser for the garden. In turn, the garden grows organic produce that is then used, along with locally sourced farm- and sea-fresh produce, to create the flavoursome Dalmatian dishes in the kitchen. Your room is polished up and readied for your arrival using products free of harsh chemicals. The hotel has an A+ energy rating.
