Best Spa & Wellness Hotels in Greece

Offering a glamorous wellness retreat, Amirandes Crete Elixir is located on Crete‘s northern coast, just east of Heraklion, right on a long, sandy beach. It’s built around a vast, palm-fringed lagoon with an Olympic-sized main pool, but there’s another indoor pool at the Elixir Spa for soothing hydrotherapy. Here you can enjoy bespoke treatments inspired by ancient Greek rituals, like the massage based on the techniques of Hippocrates. All feature locally sourced extracts and essential oils, with favorites including the Pinot Noir body scrub using grape seed and raffle powder. There are couples’ treatments too- the highlight combines the benefits of chocolate for skin detoxification and a mood boost, concluding with strawberries and chocolate.

Location: Kato Gouve, Heraklion, Crete

A leading wellness destination spa hotel for longevity and vitality, Euphoria is nestled in the hillside beneath 13th-century Mystras. Surrounded by aromatic lemon and pine trees amidst a landscape of Olympian gods and mythical heroes, its programs blend mysticism, fitness science, and natural medicine for body and mind. A place for total well-being, every aspect is addressed: mental, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual. Enjoy nutritious gourmet fare and transformative workshops with everything from releasing negative emotions to relieving stress through breathwork, meditation, dance, and even laughter yoga. Signature treatments include Watsu, an aquatic shiatsu massage, and the Euphoria Byzantine Hammam Ritual. Don’t miss a dip in the indoor pool leading to an outdoor pool, surrounded by fragrant flowers.

Location: Mystras, The Peloponnese

While it’s just steps from bustling Oia village, Santo Pure offers an oasis of tranquility and wellness. The Anassa Spa is a highlight, frequently honored as the world’s best resort spa at the annual World Spa Awards. Designed to enhance body and mind for total revitalization through unique sensory experiences, only natural, sustainable ingredients are used in everything from facials and scrubs that support skin health and beauty, to pampering massages for the ultimate in relaxation. Tucked around Mediterranean-style gardens and infinity pools, accommodation is in traditional whitewashed architecture with suites featuring private pools or Jacuzzis. The two-bedroom villas have private pools, Jacuzzis, saunas, and gyms.

Location: Oia, Santorini

The 5-star Myconian Ambassador overlooks picturesque Platis Gialos beach, just a few miles from Mykonos Town. Guests enjoy easy access to the island’s powdery sands, a beautiful infinity pool surrounded by comfortable loungers, and an expansive spa. Its series of thalassotherapy pools and treatment rooms is accessed by a futuristic-looking tunnel, as if you’re entering an entirely new world of bliss. Here, the benefits of thalassotherapy are combined with spa treatments based on the ancient Greek therapies of Hippocrates, customized to your needs using Elemis and Augustinus Bader products. You’ll also find a yoga and Pilates studio with personal training sessions available, and a gym that’s well-equipped with high-end equipment.

Location: Platys Gialos, Mykonos

Often named among the country’s best resorts, the multi-award-winning Westin Costa Navarino feels more like a seaside town. Boasting a prime location between the Ionian Sea and the Peloponnese mountains in Messinia, it has its own long, spectacular stretch of golden sands, outdoor pools, and a water park, but the Anazoe Spa is a definite standout. A unique, over 43,000-square-foot wellness sanctuary, it offers nearly 100 indoor and outdoor treatments based on the beauty and health practices of ancient Greece using local ingredients like olive oil and herbs. There are also herbal saunas, ice-grotto rooms, light therapies, heat experiences, and various thalassotherapy and kinesiotherapy treatments.

Location: Messinia, The Peloponnese

Nestled on a hillside in a peaceful sea-view Imerovigli location, Andronis Concept Wellness Resort offers an intimate stay in one of 28 pool suites and villas winding around the sparkling infinity pool and lavish spa. Health and beauty treatments are tailored to specific needs using luxury ESPA skincare products and enjoyed with a magnificent sea view. The leaves, roots, and petals of plants distilled into essential oils are sourced from an organic farm in Crete, used in rituals with benefits ranging from calming and balancing to energizing. For the ultimate stress-melting experience, take advantage of the relaxation programs, two generously-sized pools, and hammam area, concluding with a stroll along the cobbled path to a candlelit relaxation area.

Location: Imerovigli, Santorini

Perched atop a cliff overlooking the turquoise Ionian, surrounded by mountainous landscape, the Angsana Corfu combines authentic Greek hospitality with Asian influences. It hosts indoor and outdoor pools, including a heated indoor pool at the world-class gym, which also has a large sea-view deck for sunrise yoga sessions. Polish up at the Beauty and Hair Salon offering stylish haircuts and luxurious manis and pedis, but don’t miss the award-winning Angsana Spa. Treatments are based on centuries-old Asian rituals and organic, locally-sourced ingredients, including herbs, flowers, and fruit – some are grown right on the hotel’s rooftop garden. The spa cabins include cabins for two and options with private baths and steam rooms, all featuring sea views, enhancing the blissful experience.

Location: Benitses, Corfu

Located in the Peloponnese’s mountainous coastal region, the Mandarin Oriental Navarino offers a long stretch of sandy beachfront with calm water for swimming. The spa, inspired by traditional Eastern roots, hosts an indoor-outdoor pool overlooking the bay, the Olive Sauna, Mineral and Floral Steam Room, a hydrotherapy tub, and treatment rooms for indulging in various therapies like the signature chi massage, based around meridian lines. In the Fitness & Wellness Centre, you’ll find modern indoor and outdoor equipment along with a range of fitness classes and coaching sessions, while free yoga classes are hosted on the outdoor wellness deck. The property also has a central pool with a swim-up bar flanked by high-end boutiques and restaurants helmed by top-name chefs.

Location: Messinia, The Peloponesse

Nestled in the northeast of Paros Island, Parocks offers a relaxed vibe among landscapes that seem practically untouched, with lush rolling hills, vineyards, and mountains, while the scent of wild thyme wafts throughout. A cliffside dream overlooking a turquoise sea, it’s a sanctuary for wellness seekers with a Zen atmosphere, noticed from the moment you step onto the property and are handed an herbal welcome drink. At the hotel’s heart is a pool surrounded by Greek herbs, including thyme and lavender, while the spa features an indoor pool, sauna, hammam, and treatment rooms for indulging in therapies that combine science, nature, and ancient rituals in everything from facials to massages.

Location: Ambelas Beach, Paros

A luxurious boutique hotel overlooking Livadia’s unspoiled beach and sapphire bay, The Rooster takes wellness seriously. More of a retreat than a resort, start your day by diving, swimming, paddleboarding, or hiking, and then find your inner peace at the House of Healing. Here, guests enjoy personalized wellness consultations to address specific needs based on individual lifestyle, from nutrition to exercise and various therapies. You might enjoy everything from guided breathwork to Reiki sessions and a range of Ayurvedic treatments. There are some unique therapies, such as kundalini using singing bowls and the ancient practice of Kiko (Qigong). It blends meditation and movement with traditional Japanese acupuncture and okyu, in which the herb yomogi is burned to stimulate energy flow.

Location: Livadia, Antiparos