Cape Sounio

Style

Divine den

Setting

Peering at Poseidon

Cape Sounio, A Resort to Live is making waves on the Athenian Riviera, with an enviable setting overlooking the Temple of Poseidon. Rooms are cream-hued canvases framing the resort’s striking views, and pool-adorned villas are your secluded space to settle down. Seasonal cuisine is cast straight from the sea, and at the beachfront pool tipples flow like the Aegean’s tide. There’s an all-ages kids’ club if little Smiths are in tow, and a pine-clad spa for healing sent straight from heaven.

Facilities

Rooms

139, including 42 suites.

Checkout

11am, and check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More Details

Rates include a buffet breakfast, served daily at Cape Sounio Restaurant.

Also

Unfortunately, this resort isn’t equipped for guests with limited mobility, sight or hearing.

Hotel Closed

Cape Sounio opens for the season between 17 April and 8 November 2025.

Fitness Center

Free Internet Access

Laundry

Pet Friendly

Pool

On-Site Restaurant

Room Service

Spa

At the Hotel

Two private beaches, watersports equipment, outdoor and indoor gyms, concierge, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, minibar, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and bespoke bath products.

Our Favourite Rooms

With Cape Sounio’s prime Poseidon-admiring spot on the Attica peninsula’s edge, it’s only right that first picks come with far-reaching views. And to elevate your resting place further, pair panoramas with your own private pool in the Bungalow Junior Suite, Infinity Suite or Temple Villa. There are family options if you’re bringing the gang, and the Pine Hill Villa, Grand Villa Poseidon and the Estate on the Hill are all set atop the main resort, with expansive alfresco areas and secluded settings.

Poolside

The resort has a trio of pools (open between 10am and 6pm) that welcome all-day lazing and cooling dips. Your central, outdoor soaking spot is a social locus, flanked with sun-lapping loungers and a laidback bar for fresh juices and happy hour tipples. The second sits inside at the spa for a more restorative stint, and the third is reserved for splashing little Smiths.

Spa

Set within the placid pine groves and sprawling across 350 square metres, The Spā is a calming ode to ancient Greek healing methods. Masseurs work their restorative touch across four treatment rooms, bolstered by a heated therapy pool, open-air relaxation room and beauty salon.

Packing Tips

A film camera to capture your time-honoured setting.

Also

The hotel has a duo of tricked-out gyms (one indoor, one outdoor), where private training and yoga classes are held throughout the season.

Children

Little Smiths are welcomed with open arms at family-friendly Cape Sounio.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

Secure a seat with uninterrupted panoramas of Poseidon’s Aegean-admiring temple.

Dress Code

Trunks and ‘kinis are discouraged, but otherwise keep things as casual as you please.

Hotel Restaurant

With five eateries to rotate between, mealtimes are an ever-changing affair — not least for their inspired-by-the-season menus. Cape Sounio Restaurant is the resort’s flagship, where breakfast and dinner take cues from the region and are dished against sweeping temple views. With similarly captivating scenes from its rooftop vantage point, the simply named Restaurant plates its taste-tantalising Mediterranean fare during the Riviera’s balmier months. Dine on Aegean-fresh seafood and time-honoured classics the way Poseidon intended at Yali Waterfront Restaurant. At the laidback Aegean Grill and Panorama All Day Restaurant, light but flavour-packed bites are primed for round-the-clock grazing.

Hotel Bar

The clue is in the name at Panorama Lounge Bar, where tipples are poured against conversation-starting views of the temple till 1am. And if moving from your sun-bathed lounger feels too overwhelming a task, the Beach Bar and Pool Bar are your easygoing, all-day watering holes, open between 10am and 6pm.

Last Orders

Breakfast at Cape Sounio is 7.30am–10.30am; dinner is 7pm–10pm (6.30pm–9.30pm in low season). The Restaurant opens 7.30pm–10.30pm; Yali serves lunch 12.30pm–4.30pm; dinner 8pm–11pm. Aegean Grill is open 10am–6pm and Panorama is 11am–10pm.

Room Service

Available at all hours.

Planes

Staff can arrange private transfers for the 45-minute drive from Athens’ international airport from €75 each way.

Automobiles

Wheels will come in handy if you’re planning on exploring beyond the resort. There’s a free carpark on-site and valet parking is available, too.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

With the Temple of Poseidon as your stately neighbour, it’s only natural most activities at Cape Sounio are centred around the sea. There’s wakeboarding and waterskiing, kayaking, scuba diving and snorkelling, or take a private catamaran cruise around the surrounding, sun-soaked islands. Additional adrenaline-pumping pursuits include caving, mountain biking, paratriking (and gliding) and coasteering Sounion’s Aegean-lapped margins.

If you’re seeking a slower tempo — we get it, floating through the sky isn’t for everyone — private yachts are on-call to take you up to Astir Marina, where a personal shopper will take you around its abundance of designer stores. Private tours around Athens’ central sights are available, and there are guided visits to Sounion’s sea-honouring temple, too.

Back at base, close-to-home pastimes are a wholesome affair. Salad making sessions include picking produce from the hotel’s organic gardens, and mind-calming pottery classes are a lesson in ancient Greek techniques. There’s yoga and personal training for those who’d rather unwind with a stretch, and wine tastings around local vineyards if a refreshing retsina is more your tonic.

Earn or Redeem Points with World of Hyatt

This Mr & Mrs Smith hotel participates in the World of Hyatt loyalty program. As a member, you can earn and redeem points and enjoy exclusive benefits for qualifying nights. .