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Canaves hotels
Family wine caves become white Oia suites, their volcanic setting echoed in newer stone villas.
Canaves grew from the Chaidemenos family’s wine caves in Oia into a collection of Santorini hotels that stays closely tied to the island’s volcanic cliffs. Yiannis and Anna began converting the cellars in the 1980s; their sons Markos and Alexandros later expanded the family business, which took the wider name Canaves Collection in 2026.
6 Canaves hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by the Chaidemenos family
- Worldwide: 5 hotels, all in Santorini, Greece
- On the atlas: 2 Grand Luxury, 2 High Luxury, 2 Core Luxury
History
Yiannis and Anna Chaidemenos began by turning their family’s wine caves into whitewashed guest rooms in Oia. Epitome introduced a different architectural expression in 2018, using earth-colored volcanic stone above the fishing port. Sea and sunset views from the suites connect that newer hotel to the landscape that shaped the original collection.
Timeline
- 1985 — Ioannis and Anna Chaidemenos are already converting 17th-century wine caves in Oia into rooms. Sunday's record dates the collection to this year. Another house record says 1983.
- 1993 — The original Canaves Oia Boutique Hotel opens on the cave site that is now Canaves Ena.
- 1995 — Canaves Oia Suites opens in and along the same cliffs. The hotel file uses 1995. The family's own telling sometimes starts the first rooms earlier.
- 2010 — Markos and Alexandros take over from their parents.
- 2015 — Oia Suites undergoes a full renovation. Common-area work and new pools follow in 2017.
- 2017 — Canaves Sunday's nautical suites are part of this generation of the Oia houses. The eight-suite hotel later takes the Sunday name.
- 2018 — Canaves Oia Epitome opens in May above Ammoudi, in volcanic stone, designed by K-Studio.
- 2023 — Epitome grows to 53 suites. Elefas Villas, formerly Eden Villas, joins from Imerovigli. Sunday is renamed out of Canaves Oia Sunday Suites.
- 2025 — Kapsimalis Architects add five suites with plunge pools at Oia Suites. Sunday receives a MICHELIN One Key.
- 2026 — The family marks about forty years, releases A Family Matter, and uses the name Canaves Collection.
The houses to know
- Canaves Oia Epitome, Santorini, Greece — K-Studio's volcanic-stone hotel above Ammoudi, opened May 2018, sea and sunset from every suite.
- Canaves Oia Suites, Santorini, Greece — Forty-one suites in and along the 17th-century wine caves of Oia.
- Canaves Sunday, Santorini, Greece — Eight suites in the heart of Oia, the smallest hotel in the collection, a MICHELIN One Key in 2025.
- Canaves Ena, Santorini, Greece — Eighteen suites on the original cave site, the 1993 Canaves Oia Boutique Hotel under a later name.
- Canaves Oia Hotel, Oia, Greece — The hotel is in Oia, Greece.
- Canaves Elefas Villas, Santorini, Greece — Three villas in Imerovigli, formerly Eden Villas, in the collection since 2023.
Newest openings
- No new Canaves hotel has opened in the last two years. The 2025 work at Oia Suites is an addition of five suites, told with the renovations. Elefas joined in 2023.
Opening next
- No additional Canaves hotels beyond the five Santorini addresses were confirmed in the sources reviewed.
Every Canaves hotel on the atlas
Greece
- Canaves Oia Epitome — Santorini · Grand Luxury
- Canaves Oia Suites — Santorini · Grand Luxury
- Canaves Ena — Santorini · High Luxury
- Canaves Sunday — Santorini · High Luxury
- Canaves Elefas Villas — Santorini · Core Luxury
- Canaves Oia Hotel — Oia · Core Luxury
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