PRESS & STORIES

WITH FEW RESTRICTIONS AND AN INCREASING NUMBER OF DIRECT FLIGHTS TO GREECE FROM THE US, THIS COUNTRY, AND PARTICULARLY ITS ISLANDS, ARE ESPECIALLY ATTRACTIVE THIS SUMMER.

SET ON A BOUGAINVILLEA-SCENTED HILLTOP OVERLOOKING ORNOS BAY, THIS SERENE, WHITEWASHED SANCTUARY IS A REFRESHINGLY DISCREET ALTERNATIVE TO MYKONOS’S FLASHY PARTY SCENE.

AS FOR SEASIDE HAVENS, ONE OF THE LATEST HOTSPOTS TO JOIN THE PARTY IS THE KALESMA MYKONOS, WHICH OPENED LAST YEAR. A SLEEK DESIGN AESTHETIC—AND HIGH FASHION CRED—DIFFERENTIATES THIS 27-KEY HOTEL (12 SUITES, 13 VILLAS, TWO GRAND VILLAS) FROM ITS PEERS.

MYKONOS HAS HONED ITS REPUTATION AS A HEDONISTIC NIGHTLIFE CAPITAL SINCE THE 1960S, WHEN BRIGITTE BARDOT AND SOPHIA LOREN PUT THE CYCLADIC ISLAND ON THE A-LIST PARTY MAP. FORTUNATELY, AT KALESMA, TRAVELERS GET ALL OF THE EUROPEAN GLAMOUR WITH NONE OF THE THUMPING HOUSE MUSIC REVERBERATING THROUGH MYKONOS TOWN.

IN MYKONOS, THE PLACE TO BE IS KALESMA MYKONOS, AN INTIMATE ALL-SUITE, ALL PRIVATE POOL RESORT WITH LESS THAN 30 ROOMS AND AN IDEAL HAVEN AFTER BEING AT A BUSTLING BEACH CLUB OR NIGHT CLUB.

THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT WAYS TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE GREEK ISLAND, SAYS HAMISH MACBAIN

WITH JUST 25 SUITES, THE HOTEL, FOUND ON THE NORTH-WEST OF THE ISLAND, FEELS INCREDIBLY INTIMATE. THE ARCHITECTURE, BY GREEK DESIGN COMPANY K-STUDIO, IS BASED ON A TRADITIONAL MYKONOS VILLAGE, WITH MYRIAD REFERENCES TO HISTORIC OR CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE ISLAND

THE FIRST THING YOU’LL NOTICE STEPPING OFF A PLANE IN MYKONOS IS A WELCOMING BREEZE. ALONG WITH THE FAMOUS, WHITEWASHED WINDMILLS OF THE OLD TOWN, ETERNALIZED VIA A WEALTH OF POSTCARDS OVER THE YEARS, IT LEAVES LITTLE DOUBT AS TO WHY THIS PLACE IS LOVINGLY REFERRED TO AS THE ‘ISLAND OF THE WINDS’.

TAKE THE HIGH-SPEED FERRY TO MYKONOS (OR FLY STRAIGHT THERE USING POINTS AND MILES ON A SEASONAL SUMMER FLIGHT) TO NAMMOS MYKONOS BEFORE RETIRING TO TRANQUIL KALESMA MYKONOS.