Four Seasons is Giving Athens the Beach Hotel it Needed
Set on the glittering Athenian Riviera, the 303-room Astir Palace hotel captures everything good about Greece.
Athens, rightly, is the jumping-off point for most Greek adventures. The ancient city is a great place to tap into the pulse of modern Greece?evidenced by it?s thriving fine-jewelry industry?and offers a crash course in all of those sepia-toned granite and marble ruins you?ll see speckled throughout the isles as you make your way towards hotspots like Mykonos (where we?d suggest checking into the new Katikies hotel) or Santorini. Its only real shortcoming has been that there wasn?t a plush hotel that took full advantage of the rugged beaches that ring the city. Until now, that is. This spring will see the opening of the highly anticipated Four Seasons Hotel Astir Palace on those very beaches, giving well-heeled guests a chance to immerse themselves in the very best Greece has to offer. The property, which is currently taking reservations for stays starting on March 29, 2019, is a revival of the iconic Athenian Riviera Hotel?a midcentury-modern answer to the city?s stately Hotel Grande Bretagne that had since fallen into disrepair. Though located just 30 minutes from the city center (a journey made even faster should you choose to hail a helicopter to whisk you into Athens from the hotel?s helipad), the hotel?the first for Four Seasons in Greece?feels a world away. This sense of isolation is thanks in part to the thick forest of pines that envelop the peninsula t...
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