The road reaches Chora at the top of the cliff, so that is where you arrive. Everything else is below you: where you sleep, where you eat, the pool, and at the bottom a wooden deck with a ladder into the water.
Rooms and suites
Levels, and one lift
From the road to the sea
Steps, if you would rather walk
Levels 3 and 4
Rooms on three, suites on four.
With every room
Nothing here is added to the bill later. Dinner, the spa and boat trips are the only extras.
Breakfast at the table, until eleven
The port transfer, both ways
The pool and the swimming deck
Morning yoga on the roof
A carafe of the house wine on arrival
Linen changed when you ask, not before
In pictures
Going down, coming up.
1
Pool and spa
Twenty-two metres, unheated from June, in sun until four. Two treatment rooms are cut into the rock behind it.
0
The sea
A wooden deck, six loungers and a steel ladder. Lunch comes down in the lift if you ask before noon.
Level 2
One long table, and a few small ones.
Breakfast runs until eleven because nobody here is in a hurry. Dinner is one set menu, cooked over vine wood, built on what the boats and the two farms above the village brought that day.
Tonight, on two
From the cove below the deck
Fava from Ano Meria
Seven hours, then the fire
The honey is the island’s own
Five courses €85, with wines €130
Breakfast 8.00–11.00 · Lunch on the deck 13.00–16.00 · Dinner 20.00–23.00
A day here
The day runs downhill.
Nobody plans it this way. You start where the light is and end where the water is, and the lift does the rest.
Yoga, before the roof gets warm
Roof
5
Breakfast, for as long as you like
Table
2
The pool is in sun until four
Pool
1
Lunch comes down to the deck
Sea
0
Treatments, by appointment
Spa
1
Sunset, give or take a minute
Roof
5
Dinner, one sitting
Table
2
The guest book
Left in the book on level five.
We took the lift down before breakfast every morning and had the sea to ourselves until nine.
Ines Carvalho
Lisbon ·
The corner room, June
Nobody told us where to be or when. The table was simply laid when we came up from the water.
Tomas Lindqvist
Gothenburg ·
The cave suite, September
Five levels and I never once looked at a map. You go down until you are wet, then up until you are fed.
Hannah Okafor
London ·
The terrace suite, May
Getting here
The road ends at level five.
There is no airport on Folegandros, which is most of the reason it looks the way it does. You come by sea, and we are on the quay when you do.
36.63° N, 24.92° E · Chora, Folegandros 840 11
Journal
Notes from the house and the island.
Getting here ·
The ferry is part of it
Three hours fifty from Piraeus on the fast boat, and why we tell guests not to fly to Santorini first.
The island ·
What the potter leaves at the door
Every jug on the table is thrown eleven kilometres away, in Ano Meria. A visit to the workshop.
The house ·
Level five at half past seven
The roof is at its best for about forty minutes a day. A note on timing your first evening.
Questions
Before you write to us.
If yours is not here, the desk answers every day between eight and eight.
How do I get to Folegandros?
By sea. The fast boat from Piraeus takes three hours fifty, and there are daily boats from Santorini and Milos in season. We meet every ferry at the port.
Can I stay if I cannot manage stairs?
Yes. The lift serves all six levels, including the swimming deck, and every room is reached without a step. Two rooms on level 3 are fully adapted.
When are you open?
From the middle of April to the end of October. The sea is warm enough to swim from late May.
Do you take children?
Children of all ages are welcome in the family suite. The other rooms take guests of twelve and over, mostly because of the terraces.
What is included in the rate?
Breakfast at the table, the port transfer, the pool and the swimming deck, and morning yoga on the roof. Dinner, the spa and boat trips are extra.
Level 0