Perantzada Hotel

Rooms

The sea views from most of the rooms are hypnotic, but it’s the design that takes the breath away. Rooms come in shiny white: white four-posters, glossy white wooden floors, pristine walls to soak up the light, the crispest of Egyptian linen. But there are splashes of colour everywhere. Yellow silk drapes hang from a four-poster, plump green and orange scatter cushions are piled high. One room is part-lit in bubblegum pink, others have padded headboards. The odd verse of poetry is inscribed on the walls, huge mirrors lean against the walls.

Head into the bathroom and find excellent black-and-white tiled rooms with powerful overhead showers. Bamboo ladders serve as towel rails, smart bath robes and top-of-the-range Korres lotions and potions await. Of twelve rooms, three don’t have a terrace or balcony and four don’t have a sea view. Those on the upper floors at the front have doors onto big terraces with imperious views across the harbour. Those to one side open onto a wide terrace, which is sprinkled with wicker chairs and sofas, a great place to curl up and read.

Features include:

• Air conditioning
• Bathrobes
• Central heating
• Cots available
• DVD player
• Hairdryer
• Safe box
• Toiletries
• TV
• WiFi

Eating

The hotel serves breakfast only, but you get the full works. You can scoff caviar and salmon, or stick to more pedestrian delicacies such as home-baked croissants hot from the oven or utterly irresistible cakes. Platters of hams and cheeses are left for you to help yourself; coffees and teas are brought to the table. You’ll also find freshly-squeezed juice, island yoghurts, homemade jams and cereals.

You can eat in the airy dining room on 1960s white designer plastic chairs, with an old Ithaca portrait stencilled onto the wall, or out on the terrace with harbour views (though if you’d like breakfast in bed, they’ll bring it to your room). There are bowls of fruit all over the place and cakes are left out in the dining room all day; if you’re hungry, you help yourself (everyone does).

For lunch and dinner, a 5-minute stroll will get you to the other side of the harbour for restaurants in the square, on the lanes or by the water. Staff will happily advise and book tables in high season.

Features include:

• Bar
• Breakfast
• Restaurants nearby

Activities

• In Greek myth, Ithaca was the island Odysseus spent his life trying to come home to. You can walk 2.5km south to the cave where, on his eventual return, he hid his treasure; or follow the stony path to the spring of Aretousa where, under the distinctive crag of Korax, he met his swineherd Eumaeus to discuss his rivals for Penelope's affections.
  
  
• A short drive around the northern lobe of the island shows why it exerted such a pull on him: explore the beautiful mountainscape around Agios Ioannis monastery; follow the coastal path at Lefki, which allied soldiers used as an escape route in WWII, to tiny coves and sea-washed rocks; take in Stavros, the second town, with great views to Kefalonia, and the ghostly mountain village of Exogi; then stop for coffee at Kioni, an impossibly pretty waterside village.
  
  
• Back in Vathi (population 3000), lie low on the beaches, or jump on a caique – a wooden fishing boat – and chug south in search of remote beaches.

Activities on site or nearby include:

• Fishing
• Hiking
• Sailing
• Scuba diving

Kids

The stylish interiors and tranquil ambiance are not ideal for children, but having said that, the Modern Two-Level Premium Art Suite is split over 2 levels, with double bed upstairs and sofabed downstairs, so would suit a couple + 1 or 2 kids. Children are free up to the age of 6 and there is no charge for baby cots.

Family friendly accommodation:

Cots Available, Family Rooms

For more family-friendly places, see our Kids Collection

Location

Perantzada is located in the port of Vathy on the island of Ithaca, off the western coast of Greece.

By Air
Ithaca - mercifully, you might say - has no airport, so you have three options:

Fly to Preveza (daily flights via Athens throughout the year, or direct charter flights in summer), drive or taxi south to the small port of Astakos (1 hour) and catch a daily ferry from there to Vathi (1-2 hours).

By Boat
You should check ferry sailings with the hotel before booking flights/transfers or with GTP. And you should be prepared for bad weather to delay crossings - though this is much rarer in the Ionian islands than in the Cyclades and other Aegean groups.

By Car
If you wish to hire a car to explore the island see our car rental recommendations.

More on getting to Greece and getting around.

Airports:

• Kefalonia 60.0 km EFL

Other:

• Beach 1.0 km
• Shops 0.2 km
• Restaurant 0.2 km