Melian Boutique Hotel & Spa

“A place where serenity meets beauty”

Melian boutique hotel & spa meets all the expectations one could have. Location wise, it is in walking distance to Pollania center as well as to the pier where daily boat rentals are parked. Hotel’s patio provides a hot tub along with loungechairs and facing the exquisite view of sunset. The gastro… more

Melian boutique hotel & spa meets all the expectations one could have. Location wise, it is in walking distance to Pollania center as well as to the pier where daily boat rentals are parked. Hotel’s patio provides a hot tub along with loungechairs and facing the exquisite view of sunset. The gastronomy is utterly exceptional. It can easily compete with the very best croissants and cafe americains with various Parisien cafes. Lunch and dinner menus although some might find a little bit limitted in terms of variety, are so creative and delicious. Seabass Carpacio and Shrimp Ceviche are so tasteful. The rooms ( we have stayed both in superior and penthouse rooms) very comfortable and accommodating. My only comment would be in regards to decoration. The furnitures could have been more modern, updated and resembling the nature of the island. Special thanks to Dora, Tania, Sergio, Nikos and other valuable friendly and helpful staff who made our stay extremely pleasant. I highly reccomend this Hotel.

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“Gem of a find🩵💙”

I was a bit nervous not knowing what to expect as we had never been to Milos - my family of 4 all loved it! The property had a super cool aesthetic & vibe! Sergio & Dora really stood out - giving us great service. Do not hesitate to book this hotel - we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!

“Magical Milos!”

Exceptional service and location. Really brilliant break from fast pace of life. All the staff are absolutely amazing and accommodating. The shrimp ceviche may be the best I have ever had. We only had two nights - highly recommend you at least stay three or more nights to explore the entire islan… more

Exceptional service and location. Really brilliant break from fast pace of life. All the staff are absolutely amazing and accommodating. The shrimp ceviche may be the best I have ever had. We only had two nights - highly recommend you at least stay three or more nights to explore the entire island. Definitely do not sleep with the doors/windows open - I got eaten alive by mosquitoes!

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“Severely overpriced”

Four of us visited Hotel Melian from England for three nights, paying 560 euros a night (per room). Milos is generally pretty overpriced (and in my view overrated) but even so, for this amount of money we were still expecting high standards across the board, not to say a bit of luxury. So the good … more

Four of us visited Hotel Melian from England for three nights, paying 560 euros a night (per room). Milos is generally pretty overpriced (and in my view overrated) but even so, for this amount of money we were still expecting high standards across the board, not to say a bit of luxury. So the good points first. The location of the hotel is wonderful: it sits on one side of a cove or inlet which is largely unspoiled (as yet) and had a nice bathing platform down on the edge of the water, the shoreline being quite rocky. Another plus was the quality of the food: breakfast, served either on the terrace or on your room balcony, was excellent. The staff - and particularly Sergio the chef - were very nice. So the location and the catering was excellent. But a lot of things didn't - to my mind - remotely live up to the price. A minor complaint, but one which seemed to reflect the wider attitude of the hotel, was bottled water. We arrived during Greece's first June heatwave and it was blisteringly hot: the rocks were literally shimmering in the sun. We immediately asked whether water was provided in the rooms and were told that it wasn't: we'd have to use what was in the minibar, at, of course, the usual extortionate rates. In all of the other Greek hotels we'd been to, you'd at least get a bottle or two of water a day and in some cases (e.g. the nice Nos hotel on Sifnos) the staff took great care to keep everyone well supplied. We then asked whether we could fill our bottles with the tap water, but were told that it was unsuitable for drinking. Later, when we headed out to the supermarket, we discovered that bottled water was 0.35 euros a bottle - we did feel that with the whole island roasting like a furnace, we could at least have had some cold drinkable water laid on in return for e560 a night. That parsimony was reflected in the rooms. The rooms were much smaller than we expected and the double beds were also quite small: again, for the price, we expected spacious comfortable rooms and big double king-size beds with all the usual nice linen and so on. The bathrooms were also pretty small and my wife complained that there was nowhere to put all of her things, which remained in bags on the floor. I also live off tea and enjoy the usual little kettle that you get in almost every hotel: here, there was not kettle and no tea, although there was the usual coffee capsule machine. So generally speaking, if we'd have been paying 180 or 200 euros a night, all of this might all have been OK, but given the stratospheric price, we felt ripped off. On settling the bill, I was asked if I wanted to leave a tip for the staff. I had to think hard about this because the quality-price equation at the hotel was hardly the fault of the staff, who were extremely nice, but having (in my view) grossly overpaid for the quality of the accommodation, I declined to do so, and explained why. I don't know whether Hotel Melian is an outlier on Milos, and there are a lot of other hotels on Milos that are value for money in a way that it isn't, or whether they are all as overpriced as each other (which may be possible). But if I went back to Milos again (and I wouldn't, because it didn't impress me any more than the nicer bits of Andalusia) I'd shop around the AirBnBs rather than get hammered in the same way.

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