Rocabella Mykonos Art Hotel & Spa

Rocabella Mykonos Art Hotel & Spa

Rocabella sits three hundred meters from Agios Stefanos beach, a five-minute drive from Chora, and close to Mykonos New Port and Tourlos Beach, in a building shaped by Cycladic lines: bright whites, earth tones, natural materials, and views of the Aegean Sea and Chora. Built in 2007 and run as a member of Design Hotels, it holds only twenty-one rooms, and several of its suites and villas come with their own plunge pool or private pool rather than a shared deck, which is not something you find at every boutique hotel this size. A woman traveling with a partner who wants to swim before breakfast without walking past anyone else's sunbed will notice that first. So will anyone booking the Junior Suite or the villa, where the pool sits steps from the bed. The hotel still keeps a shared outdoor pool, an indoor pool, and a spa with sauna, massage, and a doctor on call, along with a gym, diving, sailing, and horse riding for days that need more than lounging. Breakfast comes as a buffet with vegetarian, gluten-free, and diet options, and the restaurant, bar, and poolside bar cover the rest of the day. Families are not left out either, with a playroom, babysitting, and family rooms, though an extra bed runs 100 euros a night, so this suits a couple with one child more comfortably than a full house of relatives. Check-in is at 3pm, checkout at 11am, and an airport transfer can be arranged for 25 euros one way. What stays with you is the water outside your own door, not down a corridor of other doors. Rocabella pairs a twenty-one-room Design Hotels address near Agios Stefanos beach with private plunge pools in many suites and villas, a rarity at this scale. Indoor and outdoor pools, a spa, and diving fill the rest of the day, and extra beds cost 100 euros a night.