Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens

A 5-star seaside resort on a private, pine-covered peninsula in Vouliagmeni, on the Athens Riviera, run by Four Seasons since March 2019. The official site gives 30 hectares, 3 private beaches and more than 300 accommodations: 200 rooms, 42 suites and 61 bungalows, in 3 settings called Arion, Nafsika and the Bungalows. The hotel’s fact sheet counts 303.

The resort dates from the early 1960s: the fact sheet says it first opened in August 1960, the accommodation page that the bungalows came first, in 1961. The MICHELIN Guide gives it 3 Keys, and a hotel press release of 15 September 2026 reports No. 27 in The 50 Best Hotels 2026 and 5 stars from Forbes Travel Guide. Figures vary elsewhere: Expedia writes of 181 rooms, and one official page gives the estate 40 hectares where the others say 30.

There are 21 types on the accommodation page, each with a balcony, terrace or garden. Arion has rooms of 40 m² facing the pines or the sea, Executive Suites of 52 m² and a one-bedroom suite of 75 m². Nafsika’s rooms measure 44 m² and all face the sea, the ground-floor ones opening onto a garden; its suites are 88 m², one with a private plunge pool.

The bungalows are 42 m², towards the garden or the sea, and the Bungalow Suites 80 m²; 3 of those 6 types have a private pool. The specialty suites run from the 132 m² terrace suite in Nafsika, with its glass plunge pool, to the 450 m² Arion Riviera Suite, listed with others on the private pools page. Bathrooms are marble, most with a deep bath and a separate shower.

At 40 Apollonos Street in Vouliagmeni, a seaside suburb on the coast south of Athens, at the end of a wooded peninsula it shares with Astir Marina, the Astir Beach club and 2 independent restaurants, Matsuhisa Athens and Beefbar Athens. The Acropolis Museum is 20 km away: 27 minutes by car without traffic on OpenStreetMap’s roads, 30 by the hotel’s reckoning.

It is quiet in the way of a resort, with no through traffic and the sea on 3 sides. In the evening the music is the resort’s own: the hotel hosts weddings of up to 1,000 guests and Avra has a DJ at weekends; anyone after more calm, or travelling without children, should ask for Arion, beside the spa and the adults’ pool.

Measured on OpenStreetMap’s roads on 8 October 2026, from the hotel’s map pin and without traffic. On foot: Astir Marina 9 minutes (694 metres), Astir Beach 10 minutes, the sanctuary of Apollo Zoster 11, the public beach of Akti Vouliagmenis 27 minutes (2.0 km) and Lake Vouliagmeni 37 minutes (2.8 km), or 7 minutes by car.

By car: Glyfada 12 minutes (8 km), the metro at Elliniko 16, the Stavros Niarchos cultural centre 27, the Acropolis Museum 27 (20 km), Syntagma Square 29 and the temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion 64 (45 km). A second router gives 37 minutes to the museum and 38 to Syntagma. The hotel’s own attractions page gives 5 minutes by car to the lake and about 50 km to Cape Sounion; the MICHELIN Guide’s page places the hotel 30 miles from the city centre, more than double the road distance.

By car. The hotel’s location page gives 25 km and 25 minutes from Athens International Airport, or 15 minutes by helicopter to its own helipad. On OpenStreetMap’s roads the drive is 24 km and 34 minutes without traffic, 39 by a second router.

The concierge books limousine transfers and hire cars; the page prints no fare. Google’s listing mentions a free airport shuttle, which none of the official pages read offers. The port of Piraeus, gate E7, is 24 km and 33 minutes away. The metro station of Elliniko is 11 km up the coast.

Yes. The official room pages list valet parking among the services, and Booking.com states that free private parking is available at the hotel. Expedia says self-parking is free and valet parking carries a surcharge; the MICHELIN Guide lists free parking and valet parking and, in the same list, self-service parking with charges; Google shows parking, self-parking and valet all as free, with charging points for electric cars.

The official pages read print no tariff, so the surcharge Expedia mentions has no published figure. A wedding guest in June 2026 found plenty of spaces right by the entrance.

Yes: 3 private sandy beaches inside the grounds, steps from the rooms and free for hotel guests, with sunbeds, towels, water and sunscreen provided, says the beaches page. A boardwalk of 300 metres lined with loungers follows the water, and the water-sports centre works from it between 9am and 7pm.

The beaches and boardwalk operate from April to October, according to the amenities page, from 10am to 8pm. The 3 beaches are Zolotas, below the bungalows, Nafsika and Arion, as both the beaches page and the family page name them, read on 15 October 2026. Guests call the coves beautiful and small. People not staying at the hotel pay a daily rate, which the site does not print.

2 outdoor pools, both beside the sea. The Nafsika pool is the free-form family pool, with the Kyma bar and its gelato stand; the Arion pool is a long infinity pool for adults only, the pools page says. A third, indoor pool belongs to the spa, and several suites and bungalows have a private plunge or infinity pool.

Google’s listing adds a hot tub and a lifeguard, neither of which appears on the official pages read. Cabanas by the pools and beaches are reserved through the hotel, with snacks, drinks and sunscreen; a guest in July 2024 wrote of cabanas at €300.

The 2 outdoor pools operate from March to October, the amenities page says, between 10am and 8pm. The official pages do not state whether they are heated. The spa’s indoor pool is heated and open all year: from 9am to 2pm for families with children of 7 to 15, from 2pm to 9pm for adults only, on the spa page. A guest who stayed in February 2025 found many outdoor facilities shut, as expected, and still rated the stay highly.

Pelagos, with one MICHELIN star, serves seafood at dinner from Tuesday to Saturday, 7pm to 10pm. Mercato, the Italian restaurant in Nafsika, does breakfast from 7am to 11am, lunch from 1pm to 5pm, dinner from 7pm to 10.30pm and a Sunday brunch from 1pm to 5.30pm. Taverna 37, Greek and by the water, serves breakfast too, then runs from 1pm to 10.30pm; Helios, Latin American, from 1pm to 9.30pm.

For drinks there are Avra, from noon to 1am; Astron, Arion’s lounge, from 9am to 10.30pm; the Kyma pool and beach bar, from 10am to 7pm; and Aristotle’s, the cigar lounge. Room service runs round the clock. On the menus read on 8 October 2026 fried calamari at Taverna 37 cost €24 and half a grilled chicken €36, a calzone at Mercato €23 and grilled sea bass €36, an avocado toast at Avra €21.

The site counts its restaurants and bars as 8, 9 or 10 depending on the page. The dining page also lists Matsuhisa Athens and Beefbar Athens, on the same peninsula and open in the evening. Taverna 37 is described as open seasonally, yet it hosts the Christmas and New Year lunches; on 8 October the summer pop-up on Zolotas beach was marked temporarily closed. Tables at Pelagos are reserved online or by telephone, and none of the restaurant pages read prints a dress code.

It depends on the rate. The Bed and Breakfast offer includes daily breakfast for 2, and a second offer takes 20% off that rate for stays of 2 to 10 nights on selected dates until 31 March 2027. Breakfast is served at Mercato and at Taverna 37 until 11am.

The pages read print no price for breakfast taken separately, and Google’s listing marks it as an extra charge. No half-board or full-board plan is published. Guests write warmly of the buffet at Mercato, the pastries and the terrace over the sea.

Large, and open all year: 1,300 m² according to a hotel press release of 27 January 2026, with 10 treatment rooms, a heated indoor pool, a relaxation lounge and the Fountain House, an adults-only hydrotherapy area with an aroma steam grotto, cold showers, a sauna and a hammam, as the spa page lists them. There is a couples’ suite with its own bath and outdoor deck, a boutique and a hair salon.

The fitness centre is open 24 hours and staffed from 7am to 10pm, with free classes such as yoga, Pilates and Tabata. The spa page, read on 15 October 2026, counts 10 treatment rooms and gives the spa daily hours of 9am to 9pm, with no season attached.

Treatments are charged and the fitness classes are complimentary; the official pages do not spell out whether hotel guests pay for the indoor pool and the Fountain House. What the spa page does say is that the hydrotherapy area is open to any guest with a day pass, and the pools page that external guests reach those facilities with one.

The price of the day pass is not published. The seasonal page adds that spa experiences are open to people not staying, by reservation. For the outdoor pools and beaches a separate daily rate applies to non-residents; a caller in August 2026 was quoted €300.

The spa and its boutique open from 9am to 9pm, and the hair salon from 11am to 7pm. The indoor pool keeps family hours in the morning and adult hours from 2pm. Treatments are booked ahead through the spa page: guests must be 16 or over, and those of 7 to 15 can have family treatments with a parent, every day until 3pm.

On the spa menu read on 8 October 2026: body massages from €275, among them the signature Yi, a detox massage, the deep-tissue Entasi and a prenatal one, with a shorter massage from €155; the 80-minute Storgi ritual from €390 and a ritual for 2 from €610; facials from €185, Omorovicza and Biologique Recherche facials from €360 and a HydraFacial from €380.

Body polishes start at €195 and a family treatment at €460. For every Yi massage the hotel funds the planting of 3 trees in Attica. At the salon a blow-dry starts at €130, a haircut for women at €180 and a manicure at €80.

Yes, within age limits. Kids For All Seasons, the supervised club, is free, runs all year and takes children of 4 to 12; teenagers from 12 have their own programme, from a DJ class to an augmented-reality game, and babysitting is arranged with notice, says the family page. Nafsika has the family pool, and children of 18 and under share their parents’ room at no charge, space permitting.

Under 4 there is no club: for younger children there is babysitting. Pelagos takes children from 12, the Arion pool is for adults and spa treatments begin at 16. Most rooms sleep 2 adults with an infant or one child; the Bungalow Suites take 2 children of 10 or under, and the 2-bedroom suites 4 adults and 2 children.

The hotel’s site does not publish a pet policy or fee, as read on 15 October 2026. Booking.com: pets are allowed on request and charges may apply. Expedia: pets allowed, up to 22 lb (10 kg) each, with service animals exempt from fees. The MICHELIN Guide: pets allowed, charges apply. Google’s listing: dogs and cats allowed, free.

3 floodlit hard tennis courts and a padel court, open from 8am to 10pm: an hour of court is free for hotel guests, a private lesson costs €110 and the padel court €60 for 90 minutes, on the tennis page. There are also a basketball court and a five-a-side pitch, jogging trails through the pines and water sports from wake-surfing to sea kayaking.

Boats come alongside at Nafsika’s jetty and helicopters at the helipad. Astir Marina, 9 minutes away on foot, has boutiques and berths for 59 yachts, and the hotel sells day cruises to Hydra and Spetses from €4,200.

3 on the offers page on 8 October 2026. «Bed and Breakfast» adds daily breakfast for 2. «Athens Riviera Escape» takes 20% off that rate, with a minimum of 2 nights. «Experience More» gives guests in a suite a spending credit of €450 a stay, on stays of 3 nights or longer, for the hotel’s own extras. All 3 are subject to availability and blackout dates, and the pages note that offer rates exclude taxes.

Yes: the weddings page describes celebrations from 10 guests to 1,000, with an in-house planner, banquet menus and room blocks. The largest setting is the Plateia Terrace on Nafsika’s fifth floor, 1,163 m², for 500 at a banquet or 1,000 standing; the Nafsika Terrace takes 500 seated, the Nafsika Ballroom 300 and the Arion Ballroom 100, on the venues page.

No prices are published. The hotel’s fact sheet gives a lower ceiling: 2,119 m² of event space for 12 to 560 people. Weddings are frequent enough for other guests to notice them in their reviews.

Yes, in several rooms. The seasonal page, which on 8 October 2026 still showed the programme that welcomed 2026, lists a 7-course dinner at Pelagos, a dinner at Mercato with seafood, black truffle and wagyu, and a party at Avra with DJs, a live band and fireworks, sold as 2 packages, with unlimited cocktails or unlimited Champagne. The hotel’s press release for that season adds a 6-course dinner at Taverna 37.

New Year’s Day brings a brunch at Mercato and a lunch at Taverna 37. No prices are printed; the page recommends booking early and says the dinners are open to people not staying. The programme for 31 December 2026 had not appeared when we read the page. On Google Hotels that night stood at €767 for 2, taxes included.

No: the official pages offer none. The amenities page lists Glyfada Golf Club as nearby; it is 10 km and 14 minutes away by car on OpenStreetMap’s roads, 22 by a second router.

Yes. The seasonal page calls it a year-round retreat and carries a festive programme through December, and on Google Hotels, read on 8 October 2026, 111 of the 115 nights to 31 January 2027 had a price. Parts of the resort are seasonal: the beaches and boardwalk from April to October, the outdoor pools from March to October. The spa, its indoor pool and the kids’ club stay open.

Winter may also mean fewer buildings. On the cards for 31 December 2026 and 12 January 2027 every room offered, by the hotel’s own site as by the agencies, was in Nafsika, while the card for 10 November still offered Arion rooms and bungalows. Google’s description speaks of a seasonal annex and seasonal bungalows; the official pages read do not say which buildings close, or when.

Google Hotels, read on 8 October 2026, 2 adults, one night, taxes and fees included: €1,209 on 14 October 2026, €2,625 on 21 October, €1,050 on Saturday 24 October, €743 on 10 November, €800 on Saturday 14 November, €663 on 6 December, €664 on 24 December, €760 on 31 December, €954 on 1 January 2027 and €664 on 12 January.

The calendar gives each night’s lowest price from any seller and names no room. On the nights read one by one the hotel’s own site was within €1 of it: €1,210 for a Garden-View Bungalow on 14 October, €744 for an Arion Pine-View Room on 10 November and €761 for a Nafsika Sea-View Room on New Year’s Eve. Of the 115 nights to 31 January 2027, 111 had a price, from €663 to €2,625; the peak fell on 21 October, and the calendar does not say why.

On 8 October 2026 Google showed 4.8/5 from 3,564 ratings, 91% of them 5 stars; Tripadvisor 4.4/5 from 599, with location, cleanliness and sleep quality at 4.8 and value at 4.3; Booking.com 9.3/10 from 816, with value for money at 8.5; Expedia 8.8/10 from 78.

Guests praise the setting, the sea views, the beaches, the staff and breakfast. Bar and restaurant prices also recur in the reviews, with cabanas at a charge, waits for service on the beach and by the pool, and the half-hour drive to Athens.

On Google Hotels the amounts already include them. For 14 October 2026 the official site’s link on the card carried a total of €1,210.38, of which €160.38 was tax; for 10 November €744.00 with €94.00; for 31 December €761.06 with €96.06. Booking.com’s and Expedia’s links carried the same totals, to within a few cents. None of them breaks the tax down.

The hotel’s own offer pages quote rates that exclude taxes, service charges and levies unless noted, and its group offer names 13% VAT and a 0.75% city tax on the room rate. Restaurant menus state that their prices include all applicable taxes.

Check-in from 3pm and check-out by 11am, on the accommodation page; Google shows the same times and Expedia says check-out before noon. For an early arrival or a late departure the hotel suggests booking the extra night; otherwise it stores luggage and opens the fitness centre for a shower.