Boutique and Luxury Hotels Ios

Ios is the small Cycladic island that sits between Mykonos and Santorini and has, until very recently, been overlooked by both crowds. Eighteen square miles, granite ridges falling into the Aegean, a single whitewashed chora on the central hill, twelve monasteries scattered across the interior, the tomb that local legend places as Homer's at the island's northern tip. The beaches are the volcanic-island variety — Mylopotas, Maganari, Agia Theodoti — long arcs of dark sand that empty out by mid-afternoon even in August.

The reputation of Ios as a backpacker party island, earned in the 1980s and 90s, has been steadily replaced over the last decade by something quieter and more deliberate. The Calilo development on the eastern coast — a privately-funded estate of beach, pine forest and luxury suites — has changed the island's gravitational centre. The chora itself, walked at sunset along its narrow stepped lanes between bougainvillea-covered houses, is one of the most cinematic small towns in the Aegean.
Agalia Luxury Suites sits above the port at Yialos: nineteen hillside suites, five with private pools, looking toward the chora and the open Aegean. The walk down to the village takes ten minutes; the boat to Mykonos or Santorini, an hour either direction.

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