100 Rizes Luxury Seaside Resort by Small Luxury Hotels of The World

100 Rizes Luxury Seaside Resort by Small Luxury Hotels of The World

Four low tower-house buildings stand above a beachfront in Anatoliki Mani, ringed by a hundred olive groves that have grown there for a century, eighteen kilometres from Gytheion and 266 kilometres from Athens. This is 100 Rizes Luxury Seaside Resort, a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, raised in the stone tower style the region is known for but fitted out with air conditioning, a lift, and fireplaces built into the rooms for the cooler months. There are only thirty rooms, so nobody disappears into a crowd, and each one can take a cot for a small child on request. Down the coast in Vathy Bay, the area's other beachfront hotel offers an outdoor pool and tennis courts; 100 Rizes adds an indoor pool, a sauna, a gym and a spa to its outdoor pool. Lupino restaurant works local ingredients into a Mediterranean menu, with a bar and pool-side snacks for guests who prefer to eat by the pool or beach. A concierge handles transfers and car hire, reception runs around the clock, common areas are built for wheelchair access, pets are welcome with prior arrangement, and a business centre and event space cover the rare traveller mixing work with the coastline. None of this suits anyone chasing nightlife or wanting to land at an airport and be at the pool within the hour, Kalamata is over an hour's drive off and Mani asks for patience rather than convenience. It suits a couple or a small family after an old stone building, an actual olive grove, and quiet that nobody manufactured for a brochure. Four tower-house buildings above a Mani beachfront, ringed by century-old olive groves, with an indoor pool, sauna, gym and spa the area's other beachfront hotel lacks. Thirty rooms, a Mediterranean menu at Lupino, and over an hour past Kalamata airport. It rewards an old stone building over a fast transfer.