The kind of place that gets the balance right

What I loved most was the feeling that everyone could have their own version of doing nothing. There is the main outdoor pool for relaxed family time, and a separate adults-only swim lane for those moments when “Mum, look!” has already happened quite enough for one afternoon. Both are heated in the hotel’s main season, and the pool area is surrounded by beach beds, loungers and olive-tree shade.

The rooms are gorgeous, but not in the overly precious, don’t-touch-anything way. Our room in the main building felt considered, restful and genuinely comfortable—the sort of place where the bed is so good you begin to wonder whether you should take notes for home. Around the property, the little houses, terraces and tucked-away corners give the whole stay a lovely sense of privacy.

Breakfast deserves its own paragraph. It was marvellous: fresh, generous and beautifully presented, with exactly the kind of relaxed, sunlit atmosphere that makes an early plan feel frankly unreasonable. It was not simply fuel for a day of sightseeing; it was one of the small pleasures we looked forward to each morning.

And the food did not stop being good after breakfast. Dining at the hotel was genuinely one of the highlights of our stay. The cooking felt generous, full of flavour and thoughtfully done—the sort of food you are happy to make an evening of, rather than a convenient option because you are already there. The hotel’s food offering moves easily from breakfast to aperitif, dinner and different little places to eat and drink, with a Mediterranean spirit at the centre of it all. 1 We loved that we could keep things simple— an easy lunch after a pool afternoon—or settle in for a proper evening meal with a glass of something cold, without ever feeling that we had compromised by staying in. In fact, more than once, staying put felt like the best plan of all.