Casa Mediterraneo

Style

Sunset-hued homestead

Setting

Dinky Dodecanese isle

Three things put speck of a Greek isle Kastellorizo prominently on the map: Pink Floyd homage Castellorizon, Oscar-winning film Mediterraneo, and owner of Casa Mediterraneo Marie Rivalant-Lazarakis. The architect and hotelier has revamped many historic buildings here, including the trio of mansions that make up this homey bed and breakfast, which rejects the typical Grecian palette in favour of Asia Minor-inspired spice hues and rainbow-coloured glass. She may be a powerful friend to have here, but the hotel’s personal touches and warm service will make her feel like an old one you’re crashing with.

Facilities

Habitaciones

Five suites, each taking up a whole floor of the Casa’s three restored mansions, and one room.

Checkout

11am. The earliest check-in is at 2pm. Both are flexible, subject to availability and on request.

Más detalles

Rates include a typically hearty breakfast of homemade and local treats. A two-night minimum stay is required.

Also

The hotel has a rocky hillside setting and steep stone steps leading up to the entrance, so it’s not ideal for guests with reduced mobility; however, there is a drive-up entrance to one of the levels further back.

Hotel Closed

The casa is open for the summer season, from the beginning of May to the end of October.

Acceso gratis a internet

Lavandería

Aceptamos mascotas

At the Hotel

Terraces for dining and drinks; lounge; charged laundry service; and free WiFi. In rooms: Nespresso coffee machine (tea-making kit available on request), minibar (with the first round of drinks free), beach hats and bags, flip-flops, free bottled water, and Olive Era bath products.

Our Favourite Rooms

We chose the most colourful characters for our favourite rooms: Suite Bleue for its private terrace and elegant shuttered windows all around, and Suite Hamra (‘red’ in Arabic) for its especially warm ambience, sitting area with a slouchy cushioned couch and on-high views.

Packing Tips

Bring shoes fit for clambering about rocky terrain and a few gentle pastimes: doorstop novels, travel Scrabble…

Also

If you’re taken with the hotel’s hemp linens, you can get your own at the Papilio shop in Kaş over in mainland Turkey, if you’re coming or going that way.

Niños

Children of all ages welcome. Under fours can stay for free and children aged 4 to 13 can stay for €50 per night. A baby cot can be added to the Family Suite and a baby cot or extra bed can be added to Hamra or Bleue suites.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

Start and end your day on the main terrace, which is a peaceful, scenic spot for breakfasting and a prime sundowner perch at ‘magic hour’.

Código de vestimenta

Breezy and bohemian with a hint of spice.

Hotel Restaurant

Breakfast is very much the most important meal of the day in the Greek isles, and often a measure of your host’s hospitality. And there’s no slipping here, with Eastern-Mediterranean feasts of freshly baked breads, olive oil, feta cheese, salads, a still life’s worth of fresh seasonal fruit, yoghurt, honey, nuts, fresh juices, flavoured waters and more.

Hotel Bar

There’s no set bar (after all, how much breakfast drinking will you be doing?), but the leafy, pergola-shaded terrace makes a magical watch-the-world-sail-by spot for sipping ouzo.

Last Orders

Breakfast is from 9am till 11am (earlier on request). Drinks flow from 6pm to 11pm.

Planes

Teeny Kastellorizo Airport (really more of a landing strip…) is just a 10-minute drive from the casa, and the shared shuttle, which will drop you at the hotel on request, is just €7 a person (for up to seven guests). Staff will meet you on arrival at the hotel to help you with your luggage up the 20 steps to the reception. Flights only arrive here from Rhodes, which has connections across Europe. Or it’s possible to touch down in Dalaman or Antalya in Turkey and ride the ferry over (a 30-minute crossing), but both airports are a two- to three-hour drive from the port in Kaş.

Automobiles

Kastellorizo might have been known as ‘the great one’ in a past life, but perhaps trading standards got a whiff of that, because it’s only around 12 square kilometres in size. So, while local parking is available, it’ll be more hassle than it’s worth to have a car on the island.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

Dodecanese isle Kastellorizo is a bit of a sleeper hit, garnering renown as David Gilmour’s inspiration for Pink Floyd instrumental Castellorizon, and starring as the backdrop to Oscar-winning film Mediterraneo (in which a group of soldiers sent on duty end up discovering the simpler joys of love, friendship and folk-dancing – the second part of which may mirror your experience here…), while being quite a sleepy place. At the hotel, staff can help to arrange yoga sessions, but there are few other distractions. To keep things snoozy, hire a day-bed at Faros beach club or sail out to peaceful, sand-dusted Saint George Island. Keep your Instagram followers happy, snapping the brightly coloured mansions from the harbour; delve into the island’s history (a pass the parcel between the Greeks, Ottomans, French, Italians, and then Greeks again) at the museum in the 18th-century mosque; and see Castello Rosso, a castle built by the Knights Hospitaller of the Order of St John atop a red-rock hill, which gave the island its modern name. Below it there’s a Lycian tomb dating back to the 4th century. Keep your eyes peeled for the curious sculptures by resident artist Alekos Zygouris in the hills and remnants of rugged Cyclopean masonry; and hop in a boat to visit the mystical Blue Cave – you may need to lie flat to squeeze through its tiny opening, but within it’s a cavernous spectacle of sapphire light.

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