#17 in Top 20 Santorini for A Honeymoon · ★★★★
Honeymoon Petra Villas
Two pools, sunset bar, adults-only Imerovigli architecture.
Two pools, sunset bar, adults-only Imerovigli architecture.
"Two pools, sunset bar, adults-only Imerovigli architecture."
Honeymoon Petra Villas is the property that says, in its own name, what it is. The hotel was built in 2003 specifically as a honeymoon-only property in Imerovigli; it has been adults-only ever since and the staff has run roughly a thousand honeymoons by now. Twenty suites, two communal pools (one heated, one ambient), a sunset bar that is the hotel's social hub, and a guest-only beach club at Vlychada (the south-coast black-sand beach) twenty minutes by hotel shuttle. The suites are simpler than the higher-tier Imerovigli properties, fewer have private plunge pools, the architecture is conventional Cycladic rather than designed, but the price is two-thirds of the equivalent Grace or Cavo Tagoo room. Honeymoon Petra is the value Imerovigli pick for couples who want the cliff-side view, the adults-only property, and the honeymoon programming, without the spa-and-Michelin-star tier of the brand-name properties. It is also one of the most-recommended hotels by repeat-visit honeymoon couples, the staff is the asset, not the architecture.
Honeymoon Suite with private plunge pool, only four of these, book early. Or a Junior Honeymoon Suite for the cliff view without the suite plunge pool.
The Vlychada black-sand beach club is a real benefit, go on day three. The sunset bar at the hotel is the social space; sit at the cliff-edge two-top from 7pm.
Honeymoon Petra Villas sits within our broader Top 20 Hotels in Santorini for a Honeymoon list. It scored an aggregate 9.2/10 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.
With dates settled, the booking window that works is about twelve weeks ahead. Expect the best-positioned suites to go early; in the busy season the lead time is months, not weeks. Top-category rooms with private pools or terraces, the reason this hotel ranks here, are routinely the first gone.
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