Grace Hotel Santorini

"Auberge minimalism, caldera-edge architecture, the wine list that won the island."

Why Grace Hotel Santorini for a honeymoon

Grace Hotel Santorini, an Auberge Resorts property, is the contemporary alternative to the Oia cave-hotel form. The hotel sits on the Imerovigli cliffside, the highest village on the caldera, two hundred metres above the sea, and the architecture is intentionally pared back: white plaster, pale wood, none of the blue-domed nostalgia of Oia. Twenty rooms and suites, all caldera-facing, the upper tiers with private plunge pools. The Champagne Lounge, open-air, on the cliff edge, is one of the most-recommended sunset bars in Greece. The wine list is the strongest in Imerovigli (over six hundred labels, run by a Master of Wine since 2018). Grace is the honeymoon hotel for couples who find Oia too photographed and want the Imerovigli height instead. The walk down to Skaros Rock, the cliff promontory directly below the hotel, is one of the great fifteen-minute Santorini walks, and the view of Imerovigli from the rock back is the inverse photograph of the Oia sunset.

Best room to request

Wine Infinity Pool Villa or Grace Pool Villa, private heated plunge pools cut into the cliff.

The wider context

Grace Hotel Santorini sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Santorini for a Honeymoon list. It scored an aggregate 9.7/10 across the three editorial criteria, competitive against the field but, on a honeymoon-specific factors, the angle above is what earned its rank. For the alternatives in the same Santorini neighbourhood, see Imerovigli, central Santorini and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.

Have firm dates? Our editor's advice is to book roughly twelve weeks in advance. The view-facing suites disappear earliest, and high-season inventory moves on a timescale of months, not weeks. Suite-level rooms with private plunge pools or terraces, the ones that earn this rank, are typically the first to sell out.

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