#3 in Top 20 Santorini for A Honeymoon · ★★★★★
Perivolas Hotel
Restored cave dwellings, the most cinematic infinity pool on the island, no children — engineered for the honeymoon.
Restored cave dwellings, the most cinematic infinity pool on the island, no children — engineered for the honeymoon.
"Restored cave dwellings, the most cinematic infinity pool on the island, no children — engineered for the honeymoon."
Perivolas is the most architecturally precise hotel in Oia. Costis Psychas spent twenty years restoring a row of 18th-century cave dwellings into twenty suites; the result is the hotel that feels most like staying inside a sculpture. Every surface is hand-finished plaster; every doorway is a curve; every suite is different from the next. The infinity pool — long, narrow, lined in pale stone — is the single most photographed pool in the Cyclades, and the photograph is not exaggerated. Perivolas is adults-only, no exceptions. The Perivolas Suite (the largest, with private cave plunge pool) and the new Perivolas Lifestyle Villas (the full-villa annex on the Pyrgos hill) are the honeymoon assets; couples typically book the Lifestyle Villa for the first half of the trip and the Oia main hotel for the second. The trade-off is price — Perivolas is the most expensive Oia hotel — but for the honeymoon that is built around the architecture of the room as much as the view from it, this is the answer.
Perivolas Suite — the cave plunge pool suite. Or the Perivolas Lifestyle Villa for a private-villa half of the trip.
Time the infinity-pool photograph for 7pm in summer — twenty minutes before sunset. The hotel keeps a long-lens Polaroid at reception and the manager will photograph couples at the pool's edge for free. Schedule the villa night first; the surprise is the second-half upgrade.
Perivolas Hotel 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 Oia, north Santorini and adjacent. For a different city entirely, see the related lists below.
If you have already chosen the dates, our editor recommends booking the room twelve weeks ahead. The best suites with the right view orientation go first, and inventory for the popular months is quoted in 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.