Four Seasons opened above Kalo Livadi Bay in the summer of 2026 — its second address in Greece, and its first in the Cyclades. The house holds 94 rooms, suites and villas across 6 hectares of the island’s south-east shore, drawn by the Greek architect Nicos Valsamakis not as one building but as a Mykonian village: cubic, white, set low along the slope, with a private beach at the foot of it. For an island that has spent two decades being loud about itself, the gesture is a quiet one.
The setting
Kalo Livadi lies on the south-east coast, a long sheltered bay away from the traffic of the west. The site runs to 6 hectares — 15 acres — falling from the hillside to a private cove, and the address is Karapetis, a 20-minute drive from both the airport and Chora. Two infinity pools hold the middle ground between the rooms and the water. It is close enough to the island’s centre to be reached without ceremony, and far enough from it that the evening belongs to the bay.
The provenance
This is the second Greek house for Four Seasons, joining Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens on the Attic coast; the two stand 3 hours apart by boat, 30 minutes by plane and 20 minutes by helicopter, which makes a mainland arrival and an island week a single, unhurried movement. The Mykonos property was developed with AGC Equity Partners. A third Greek address is to follow at Porto Heli, in Hinitsa Bay.
The design
The architecture is Valsamakis’s, and the village idea is his — narrow ways between white volumes, the sea held in view from most of them. The spa is the work of Wimberly Interiors. The landscape was drawn by Helli Pangalou, whose planting has to reconcile a Cycladic hillside with the wind that crosses it. A selection of the dining rooms were drawn separately again, by the New York practice Rockwell Group. Four hands, four disciplines, one vernacular.
The rooms
There are 94 rooms, suites and villas, many of them with plunge pools of their own. The register inside is pale and restrained — whitewash, minimal line, the local reference kept light rather than laid on.
The table
Four dining rooms hold the table here. Álef is the Mediterranean grill, premium meats and fresh seafood set against Greek and Old World wines. Corbu brings Italian cooking to the island as an all-day table. Kafeneo takes the form of the Greek coffee house and keeps its hours — coffee in the morning, meze and dessert through the day, a cocktail at sunset. The Beach pours handcrafted cocktails at the water, and asks nothing more of the guest than a chair.
The spa
The spa runs to 7 treatment rooms and an outdoor pavilion, with a thermal circuit of sauna, steam room and vitality pool. The pavilion is the point of it: treatment in open air, on a hillside, above a bay that is quiet by the standards of this island.
The address
Chora is 20 minutes away, and the hotel sets its excursions further out than that — a day across to Delos and Rhenia, the ruins and then the water, and a helicopter tour for those who would see the Cyclades in a single afternoon. Mykonos has never wanted for arrivals. What it has wanted for is somewhere to withdraw to afterwards, and Kalo Livadi has now been given one.
The house makes the introduction, for those who ask.
