Review: Katikies Mykonos Hotel

I stayed at Katikies Hotel in Santorini twice. Paid 950 a night. Is any hotel worth 950 a night? No. But the hotel was very nice. Service excellent..I knew it was nice when a person with a mop would constantly wipe the floor whenever anyone got out of the pool. Or someone would come with ice to freshen your drink every 10 minutes because it’s hot...every room a suite. I like Katikies a lot..

The aesthetics of that honeymoon suite are great: the colors, the shapes.

And I really like that they have a daybed out by the pool!

Thanks for this trip report. We are definitely small independent hotel fans, so your recommendations are helpful. Taking notes on your trip for our tentatively planned 2022 Greece trip!

"In Greece I sometimes get up earlier than Ford"

This is a country-specific phenomenon?

I cant help but notice all of the power lines

Chain hotels always cost more than comparable independent hotels of the same tier. I can justify it when the chain hotel provides their elite benefits and have a decent points program, but in the case of Marriott (where elite benefits are rarely honoured beyond the free breakfast, and where they constantly devalue their program), we're probably better off looking at Virtuoso/FHR/FSPP over loyalty to the chains.

Power lines that, interestingly enough, seem to be “missing” from their photos on the property website and LHW website.

For all the grief you gave Aegon for the exact same thing (granted, 95% of your criticism was beyond called for), I don’t see how you can overlook that so blindly here.

Once you gain reading comprehension, you will see the difference. Until then, keep at it. Start with colors and numbers.

So you can’t earn any hotel points
Not affiliated with a chain hotel?

This feels like a prelude to something out of "The Birdcage."

Is it just me, or does that honeymoon suite look like the room at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey?

Perhaps I am not the target market, but I cannot understand the value of paying $600 per night in Mykonos when so many other greek islands (and parts of Turkey) offer comparable value for $100-150 a night, max.

Nick beat me to it... I cracked up when I saw the very first photo with the very prominent power line 🙂 Having a quick look at their website it doesn't appear they have photoshopped any of them out, they just framed shots to avoid them as in the pool view. The real difference sounds it has a lot to do with the staff. I myself have run into the same radical differences service/attitude while travelling in Greece.

The photos of this hotel don't look great. The style is weird and it looks dated. I'm glad the service made up for it.

Sushi in Mykonos, people in the comments of this article complaining about power lines and the hotels architecture, pools on the terrace in Greece - I've seen it all now. Please stay in Santorini and Mykonos and we enjoy the real Greece with real travelers (not tourists)

When you say they’re “missing”, do you mean that the photos were taken at *highly* strategic angles that happened to miss them, or that the photos were digitally altered?