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Domes Resorts hotels

Cretan village rooflines inspire coastal resorts that give Greek island life a contemporary setting.

Domes began on a Cretan hillside, translating the domed roofline of a traditional village into a resort and carrying that attention to place into other coastal settings. The Greek family company now includes the adults-focused Noruz hotels, all-inclusive Aulūs retreats, and smaller Finds addresses, while some properties also belong to Marriott or Hilton collections.

11 Domes Resorts hotels in 2 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

• Owned by the Spanos family's Ledra Hotels & Villas
• Worldwide: Close to 20 operating hotels concentrated in Crete, Corfu, Santorini, Milos, Zakynthos, the Athens Riviera, and Halkidiki, with a first Portuguese address in the Algarve and a first Spanish address in Tenerife
• On the atlas: 6 Core Luxury, 5 Accessible Luxury

History

Panagiotis Spanos asked architect Stefanos Skandalis to bring the domed roofs of Cretan villages into his first Elounda hotel in 2008. The name became the company’s identity, and later projects carried a similarly local design approach into other coastal buildings. Domes Originals, Noruz, Aulūs, and The Finds now give that family different expressions.

Timeline

• 2008 — Panagiotis Spanos and his son, Dr. George P. Spanos, open Domes of Elounda on Crete's Mirabello Bay, opposite the fortress island of Spinalonga; the domed suites and villas, designed by architect Stefanos Skandalis, give the entire company its name.
• 2015 — Domes of Elounda, after a multi-million-pound expansion that added 28 Domes Luxury Residences, becomes the first hotel in Greece and the Mediterranean to join Marriott's Autograph Collection.
• 2016 — Domes Noruz Chania opens at Agioi Apostoloi beach, its sandstone walls and domed ceilings borrowed from the Venetian quarter of old Chania across the bay.
• 2018 — Domes reopens the 1960s Miramare Beach resort, once built for the Onassis family, as Domes Miramare; within weeks it becomes Corfu's first Marriott Luxury Collection property.
• 2020 — Domes White Coast Milos opens on Mytakas beach, architect Giorgos Tsolakis's stark white cubes echoing the lunar rock of nearby Sarakiniko.
• 2021 — Not a Number Architects redesigns the arrival hall, lounge and restaurant at Domes of Elounda around its original domed ceilings; the same year, Domes converts the 1972 Grand Hotel Corfu on Glyfada Beach into Domes of Corfu, Autograph Collection's first hotel in Greece.
• 2022 — The group makes its first move outside Greece, taking over a Vilamoura resort in Portugal's Algarve as Domes Lake Algarve; back home, a €13.5 million renovation turns the old Zante Beach Hotel into Domes Aulūs Zante, beside a protected loggerhead turtle nesting beach.
• 2023 — Domes Aulūs Elounda, converted from the long-running Elounda Blu, and Domes Noruz Kassandra, rebuilt from a 1972 property in Halkidiki, both open; Domes Lake Algarve joins Autograph Collection; Domes opens Makris Athens by Domes, its Michelin-starred restaurant, in a neoclassical building in Thiseio.
• 2024 — The busiest year yet: Domes Novos Santorini opens in April with volcanic-plaster walls by architect Kiros Pagkalidis, Domes Zeen Chania relaunches from the collapsed Casa Cook brand under Marriott's Luxury Collection, Domes Aulūs Elounda joins Hilton's Curio Collection, and 91 Athens Riviera opens in June with Grivalia Hospitality as Greece's first hybrid private-members-club-and-glamping resort.
• 2025 — Domes Zeen Chania and Domes White Coast Milos are both awarded MICHELIN Keys, with seven further Domes hotels named in the MICHELIN Guide; the group launches The Finds, its collection of small boutique maisons, starting with Agali Hotel Paxos and Neema Maison Finikia Santorini.
• 2026 — Domes relaunches Aulūs as a standalone ultra all-inclusive concept with a new-build resort in Stavros, Crete, and a rebadged property in Lindos, Rhodes; Domes Baobab Suites in Tenerife becomes the group's first hotel in Spain; a boutique hotel is announced for a listed 19th-century building near Athens' Metropolis cathedral.

The houses to know

1. Domes White Coast Milos, Milos, Greece — Stark white cubes on Mytakas beach, echoing the lunar rock formations at nearby Sarakiniko.
2. Domes Zeen Chania, a Luxury Collection Resort, Chania, Greece — The barefoot-style resort became part of Domes following the departure of its original parent brand.
3. Domes Noruz Kassandra, Kassandra, Greece — An all-white lifestyle resort rebuilt from a 1972 building on a Blue Flag beach.
4. Agali Hotel Paxos, Paxos, Greece — A family-owned stone-bungalow hotel and the other founding house of The Finds.
5. 91 Athens Riviera, Athens Riviera, Greece — Greece's first hybrid private-members-club and glamping resort.
6. Domes Novos Santorini, Santorini, Greece — Single-story rooms follow the site’s slope, with volcanic-tinted plaster connecting the design to Santorini.
7. Domes Baobab Suites, Tenerife, Spain — The hotel is in Tenerife, Spain.
8. Pleiades Blossomhill Houses, Agios Nikolaos, Greece — The hotel is in Agios Nikolaos, Greece.
9. Domes Aulūs Elounda, Curio Collection by Hilton, Elounda, Greece — The Elounda hotel has changed affiliations three times in four years while retaining its resort setting on the cove.
10. Makris Athens, Athens, Greece — The hotel is in Athens, Greece.

Newest openings

• 91 Athens Riviera — Voula, Athens Riviera, Greece — opened June 2024 — Built with Grivalia Hospitality as Greece's first hybrid private-members-club-and-glamping resort, with canvas "Luxent" tents fitted with private plunge pools and Roland Garros-style clay tennis courts, the group's first project in Athens.
• Domes Novos Santorini, Autograph Collection — Oia, Santorini, Greece — opened April 2024 — 52 single-story rooms, suites and villas by architect Kiros Pagkalidis, their walls finished in plaster tinted with local volcanic soil so the resort's angular geometry reads red-ochre against the caldera.
• Neema Maison Finikia Santorini — Finikia, Santorini, Greece — opened July 2025 — A 16-suite founding property of The Finds, Domes' new small-maison line, with cave suites styled as backstage dressing rooms and a two-kilometer caldera walk that keeps its stone lanes quiet at sunset.
• Aulūs Chania Resort, Curio Collection by Hilton — Stavros, Crete, Greece — opened April 2026 — A ground-up, 200-room, adults-only relaunch of the Aulūs concept near Katholiko Bay, with three pools and a floating sea deck built into the coastline.

Opening next

• Domes Makris Athens — central Athens, Greece — announced October 2024 — A boutique hotel of fewer than 40 rooms planned inside a listed, roughly 3,000-square-metre building near the Metropolis cathedral off Ermou Street, once home to the Elliniki Eriourgia (Greek Wool Industry) and later a National Bank of Greece branch, developed with Prodea Investments and carrying the name of Domes' Michelin-starred Makris restaurant nearby.

Every Domes Resorts hotel on the atlas

Greece

• 91 Athens Riviera — Athens Riviera · Core Luxury
• Agali Hotel Paxos — Paxos · Core Luxury
• Domes Noruz Kassandra — Kassandra · Core Luxury
• Domes Novos Santorini — Santorini · Core Luxury
• Domes White Coast Milos — Milos · Core Luxury
• Domes Zeen Chania, a Luxury Collection Resort — Chania · Core Luxury
• Domes Aulūs Elounda, Curio Collection by Hilton — Elounda · Accessible Luxury
• Makris Athens — Athens · Accessible Luxury
• Neema Maison Finikia Santorini — Santorini · Accessible Luxury
• Pleiades Blossomhill Houses — Agios Nikolaos · Accessible Luxury

Spain

• Domes Baobab Suites — Tenerife · Accessible Luxury

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