The range of holiday accommodation options offered in Parga highlights the cosmopolitan style of this delightful coastal town in Greece’s northwest. Parga is surrounded by incredible beaches with turquoise waters and features a mazy town with charming narrow alleys, arcades and blooming gardens, aspects that enhance the quality of the town’s hotels.
Luxury hotels in town, impressive seaside resorts just a few kilometres beyond, small accommodation facilities housed at old buildings, as well as rooms for rent, which no longer play key roles in the local tourism sector but maintain special character, all await visitors to offer Parga’s brand of hospitality. If preferring detachment and serenity, when not in town to enjoy the bars and restaurants, Parga also offers accommodation at lovely villas in nearby villages, which, up until just a few years ago, were completely off the tourism sector’s radar.
Hotels in town
Racconto Boutique Design Hotel
Built on a hill, amid a forest and olive groves, Racconto Boutique Design Hotel offers a superb view of the neigbouring mountains of the Epirus region. The hotel has adopted modern green energy systems. Luxury, refined style (the décor was designed by well-known architect-designer Panos Petridis), white colours all over, Italian brand-name furniture, as well as three two-section suites with work by renowned art photographer Amalia Sotiropoulou, all feature at this hotel.
The in-house boutique at the hotel offers Greece-themed work by prominent artists. Celebrity chef Ettore Botrini is the consultant chef for the hotel’s kitchen, offering continental breakfast with Greek products, served at the pool bar. The hotel also offers a meditation space close to the swimming pool. It is Parga’s only adults-only hotel.
Parga (Alonakia district), +30 26840/32238, www.racconto-hotel.com
Salvator Villas & Spa
This luxury hotel features exquisite décor, created by well-known interior designer Aggelos Aggelopoulos, in shades of green and lime. It is situated on a lush hill with a view of the Paxi islands, the Gulf of Parga and the Venetian castle. The hotel offers spacious rooms, suites with mosaic tiles in the bathrooms, as well as four single-storey stone villas with private pools. The Serenity Spa, with an indoor swimming pool, gym, sauna and hamam, offers beauty therapy and massage services.
The hotel restaurant, situated next to the big, outdoor swimming pool, serves international cuisine, devoting much of its menu to Italian cuisine. Non-guests are also welcome to dine at this hotel restaurant.
Parga, +30 26840/32910, www.salvator.gr
Villa Rosa Area
Villa Rosa Area, an imposing red-coloured hotel directly above the beach, a stone’s throw away from the islet Panagia, is a mansion, from 1903, that served as the residence of a tobacco merchant, Tilemachos Bozios. It offers direct access to the beach as well as a view of the Venetian castle. Original items, including light fittings and furniture, that were part of the hotel’s previous life, as a mansion, were used to decorate the high-ceilinged rooms with large balcony doors. The hotel’s spaces offer all modern amenities. The building next door, formerly the tobacco merchant’s tobacco warehouse, has been transformed into Rosanea – Boutique Studios & Apartments, a colourful accommodation facility with modern design and a lovely garden.
Its Loft Suites, offering modern design and a superb view, are top class. The hotel’s restaurant-café bar, overlooking the sea, is also open to non-guests. It serves homemade breakfast, as well as Greek and Mediterranean cuisine.
A section of the beach has been specially developed to feature beach umbrellas and sunbeds.
Parga, Kryoneri beach, +30 2684031237, +30 2684031532, www.villarossa.gr
Enetiko Resort
Enetiko Resort, an elegant group of Venetian-style buildings on a slope covered with olive trees, offers an amphitheatric view, has spacious rooms of various categories (standard, deluxe, triple) as well as junior suites, maisonettes and a family apartment.
Some of the rooms are equipped with kitchens, while all have private entrances, balconies, and charming décor dominated by wood and eco-friendly materials. The resort also features a lovely swimming pool with a café bar and wooden sunbeds. Breakfast, prepared with local products, is optional.
Parga, +30 2684032900, www.enetikoresort.com
1800 Small Luxury Hotel
Tastefully designed and bioclimatic, 1800 Small Luxury Hotel is a small unit by the castle. It consists of two listed, stone buildings linked by an interior staircase, resulting in five luxury suites that occupy the ground level and two floors, plus fully equipped kitchen space.
The hotel’s simple decoration, wooden ceilings and use of natural materials are key traits. It has a stone-built yard with an old lemon tree, local jasmines, and an old yet functional water well from 1800 that has been preserved. Its interior is decorated with antiques that have belonged to the family running this venture, including wall clocks, old photographs and scales. This hotel is a great choice for a quiet stay.
Parga, Aravantinou & Bizaniou, +30 2684032900, +30 694650274, www.hotel1800.gr
Acropol
Acropol, the very first hotel to be built in Parga, is housed at a listed three-storey stone building from 1884, designed in the region’s popular architectural style. Originally serving as an inn that was run by the current owner’s great-grandfather, the building has been fully revamped with all fundamental aspects preserved.
It features modern décor and amenities in its rooms and suites, as well as high-end furniture. White is the dominant colour at all the interior spaces. Period photographs adorning the walls, along with a big, impressive photo at the entrance, taken by an early 20th century photographer, narrate the building’s long history over the decades. The hotel has a restaurant on the ground floor. It is situated in a traditional old-town alley, within close proximity to the beach, while the hotel’s verandas offer a view of the city.
Parga, 4 Agion Apostolon, +30 2684031833, www.acropol.biz
Ιrida Boutique Hotel
An all-suites hotel, Irida Boutique Hotel is built on a slope to offer a panoramic view of the islet Panagia as well as the Gulf of Parga. It is housed at a modern building featuring a variety of thematic suites, subjects including the land, sea, water and romance, all highlighted by corresponding colour tones.
All the hotel’s suites include discreet kitchens and balconies. The hotel also offers an infinity pool where breakfast, lunch and dinner meals are served. Breakfast may also be delivered to the suites.
Parga, Lithitsa area +30 26840 32562, +30 26840 32564, +30 694 441 4625, https://iridaboutiquehotel.eu
Hotels beyond the city
Lichnos Beach Hotel & Suites
Lichnos Beach Hotel & Suites, a luxury resort at Lichnos, a marvellous sandy beach, is situated on a 2.5-hectare plot of land whose garden is filled with aromatic plants, olive trees and citrus trees. Its various types of rooms, plus suites, occupy the main building as well as a supplementary building by the beach. The suites at this latter building, offering direct access to the beach and an unobstructed view, are the hotel’s standout feature.
Wood and marble elements are harmoniously combined, bright colours create a sense of wellness, and the furniture is modern and stylish at all the room and suites. The view of the sea from the large balconies and verandas is sensational. The resort also offers a seaside restaurant, beach bar, big swimming pool, water sports and a children’s playground.
Regular bus and sea taxi service from the Parga port to Lichnos is provided.
Lichnos (3km from Parga), +30 2684031257, +30 2684031157, www.lichnosbeach.gr
Parga Beach Resort
Parga Beach Resort is situated directly in front of the renowned Valtos beach, amid lush gardens with centuries-old olive trees. Various types of rooms and suites are housed at separate bungalow-style buildings scattered on the property. They either offer views of the garden, swimming pool or sea.
The resort is equipped with modern, pastel-coloured furniture, contrasted by intense colours chosen for the large balcony door frames. Two seaside restaurants serve Greek and Mediterranean cuisine. The resort also offers four swimming pools, a heated children’s swimming pool, indoor and outdoor children’s playgrounds, a spa, wellness spots scattered around the resort’s garden, a gym, and a playroom.
Parga, Valtos beach, +30 2684031410, www.pargabeachresort.gr
Bella Vista
The superb view of the turquoise waters at Lichnos beach, as well as the facility’s location, amidst orchards with orange and lemon trees, are the highlights at Bella Vista.
Bella Vista’s simple and convenient rooms surround the facility’s swimming pool. It has standard hotel-type furniture, fully equipped small kitchens, as well as balconies offering views of the swimming pool and sea.
Lichnos (3km from Parga), +30 2684031457, www.bellavista.com.gr
Topos Villas
A small facility offering small, separate houses (some stone-built and others modern in style) Topos Villas sits on an olive-grove slope offering a view of lush hills. The rooms (studios and maisonettes) offer fully equipped kitchens, modern furniture and bright colours.
The houses have yards with sunbeds and beach umbrellas, wooden decks with tables and chairs under the olive trees, and outdoor jacuzzis. Silence and serenity prevail here.
Anthousa-Parga regional road, +30 2682024913, https://toposvillas.com
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