Mykonos Town, Greece · Five-Star · #1 in Mykonos
Cavo Tagoo Mykonos
An aquarium bar inside the infinity pool. The view is the hotel — and everything else is built to match it.
An aquarium bar inside the infinity pool. The view is the hotel — and everything else is built to match it.
"An aquarium bar inside the infinity pool. The view is the hotel — and everything else is built to match it."
Cavo Tagoo is the hotel that defined what luxury in Mykonos could look like. Carved into the clifftop above Mykonos Town — close enough to hear the island breathe, elevated enough to be above it — it opened in the early 2000s with a proposition that remains unrepeated: an infinity pool with an underwater aquarium bar built into its floor. It is, by most accounts, the single most instagrammed hotel image in the Greek islands. It is also, less expectedly, a genuinely well-run hotel.
The architecture is emphatically Cycladic — whitewashed, cave-carved, low to the cliff — but executed with a precision that moves it beyond pastiche. Eighty-six rooms and suites spread across the hillside, each with a terrace or private pool and unobstructed views of the Aegean. The cave suites are exactly what they sound like: rooms excavated from the rock face, dark and cool in the Mykonos heat, with their own plunge pools that seem to hang over the sea. The standard rooms are not an afterthought.
The Meraki Restaurant serves Greek and Mediterranean cuisine at the level the setting demands — local fish, Cycladic cheeses, desserts that understand restraint. The pool bar runs from morning to well past midnight. The spa covers the full programme: thermal suite, hammam, massage, beauty. Service is the quietly excellent kind that anticipates rather than hovers.
Cavo Tagoo is genuinely difficult to leave. This is not accidental. The hotel was designed so that every amenity you need exists within it — sun, sea view, food, drink, treatment — and the distance between your room and the town below is just far enough to make staying feel like the smarter choice. For most guests, it is.
The cave pool suites were designed for this. Two of you, an infinity plunge pool, no visible horizon where the water ends and the sea begins — it is extravagant in precisely the right way. Cavo Tagoo is adults-only, which removes the ambient chaos of family hotels. Ask for a suite on the upper cliff level when booking: the elevation adds another ten meters of Aegean.
The pool terrace at Cavo Tagoo is the best pre-drinks venue on the island. Groups of six to twelve work particularly well here — the pool is large enough to host, the bar is built into it, and the sunset view makes the whole enterprise feel justified. Mykonos Town is a nine-minute walk down the hill. Most nights, nobody needs a taxi.
The combination of destination glamour and genuine comfort makes Cavo Tagoo well-suited to milestone celebrations. The hotel handles special requests — arrival champagne, room decoration, private dinner arrangements — with professionalism rather than theatre. Tell them at booking.
Tagoo, Mykonos Town
Mykonos 846 00, Greece
500m from Mykonos Town centre
86 rooms and suites
Premium Rooms from €482/night
Cave Pool Suites from €950/night
Villas from €2,200/night
Check-in: 3:00 PM
Check-out: 12:00 PM
Early/late available on request
High-speed WiFi throughout
Strong signal on pool terrace
International power sockets
Open: late April – late October
Peak season: July–August
Minimum stay: 3–5 nights in peak
Aquarium infinity pool bar
Meraki Restaurant
Full-service spa with indoor pool
Adults-only property
Rates from €482/night. Peak season books out months in advance.
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