Mykonos

Originally opened 1960 as the island's first international-standard hotel, closed in the 1970s, reopened 2022 after a full restoration that kept the original 1960s architecture (by Aris Konstantinidis, one of mid-century Greece's significant modernist architects). 49 rooms, a pool, walking distance to Mykonos Town. Less famous than the Belvedere or Cavo Tagoo, and more lived-in.

A small Greek-family-run boutique on the Tagoo seafront: 17 rooms, a sea-view pool facing west across the bay toward Delos. An eight-minute coast-path walk into Chora, and close enough to Cavo Tagoo for the design-led traveller who wanted that look without the rate. Open mid-April through late October.

Greek-family-run on the Rohari hill above Mykonos Town: 57 rooms across several low-rise buildings, two pools, and a good kitchen. The Semeli Group also runs Bao's Cocktail Bar in Little Venice. Walking distance to Chora (10 minutes downhill), a cab back up at night. The Mykonos Town stay for travellers who want the design-hotel feel without leaving the Town orbit.

On the hill above Ornos Bay: 58 rooms, adults-only, a recent arrival that's climbed the Ornos shortlist fast. A central pool, two restaurants, a small spa, and a kitchen that takes Mykonian ingredients seriously. Come here if you want Ornos's south-coast convenience without paying for the Luxury Collection wrap at Santa Marina.

On Platis Gialos beach directly: 21 rooms across low whitewashed buildings, a sea-view pool over the sand, and the water taxi to every other south-coast beach (Paradise, Super Paradise, Paraga, Agrari, Elia) leaving from the dock 100m away. Book it if you want one beach base for the whole stay rather than cabbing to a different beach club every day.

A Small Luxury Hotels of the World property on the Tourlos hillside: rooms, suites and maisonettes over the new-port marina, where the ferries from Athens dock and the bigger sailing boats moor. Five minutes by cab into Chora, quieter than Ornos and Tagoo, with a clean sunset view back toward Delos.

A Cycladic landmark above Mykonos Town since 1969, on the School-of-Fine-Arts hillside: the original design-luxury Mykonos Town hotel, the property that defined the boutique-Mykonos category before Cavo Tagoo or Bill & Coo existed. Around 40 rooms across the main hotel and villas, a sunset-side pool, and Matsuhisa Mykonos in the garden (Nobu's outpost, open since 2003, the first open-air Nobu in the world). Member of Design Hotels.

Open above Megali Ammos beach since 2006, when it started with 32 suites, and added to deliberately rather than all at once. The Valmont Spa arrived in 2008 and is still the only one on Mykonos, Beefbar came over from Monaco in 2017, and three villas over the beach followed in 2021. In 2024 the kitchen, bakery and mixology bar were rebuilt and YĒVO opened, which Toques d'Or listed among the best restaurants in Greece in 2025. The Technogym gym runs around the clock and Bill & Coo Beach puts double sunbeds on the sand. Chora is ten minutes on foot when you want it and far enough away when you don't. A Leading Hotels of the World member, barefoot-luxe and laid-back rather than a pool-party scene.

On the Ornos hillside: 35 rooms and suites across whitewashed cube buildings, an open-air spa, and one of the better hotel kitchens on the island. Sister property Kenshō Psarou is on Psarou beach (the Nammos coast); the Ornos original is the calmer, more design-led of the two. Walking distance to Ornos beach, a 7-minute cab to Chora.

Rooms, suites and villas cut into the hillside above Mykonos Town, climbing from a sea-view double through junior suites with outdoor hot tubs to three-bedroom villas, with cave pools set back into the rock in several categories. The Pool & Lounge is where the day happens: an infinity pool with floating beds, cocktails and DJ sets through the afternoon. Meraki is the hotel's own restaurant, Greek and Mediterranean, built around plates meant for sharing. The spa works in Thai massage, there is a small gym beside it, and a hair and nails salon for the evenings out. The concierge desk arranges yacht and helicopter charters. The loud, glossy end of Mykonos, done properly and not pretending otherwise.

K-Studio's 2021 design statement: 25 suites and 2 villas on the Aleomandra hillside above Ornos Bay, facing west across the open Aegean to Delos. Every suite has a private pool, and the architecture works local stone and white plaster into a deliberately Mykonian-vernacular update. Pere Ubu is the in-house dinner, and the bar runs one of the better cocktail lists on the island. A Mykonian luxury reference point of the decade.

On its own private peninsula in Ornos Bay: 117 rooms, suites and villas across several buildings, four dining venues including Buddha-Bar Beach, the island's only private sandy beach, the full Marriott Luxury Collection service standard. Less photographed than Cavo Tagoo or Kalesma, and more comprehensive; it runs more like a small resort than a boutique hotel. Book it if you want the full-service luxury hotel rather than the small design statement.