In June 2025, Kalesma added new rooms and junior suites on Mykonos, along with a shared pool and an all-day taverna called Kuveda. The work changed the proportions of a hotel that had opened in 2021 with 25 suites, each with its own pool, and two larger villas. Published figures for the number of new rooms differ, 19 in one and 21 in another, so the exact count is unclear. The change in scale is plain to see.
The setting
The hotel covers 2 hectares at Aleomandra, between the bays of Ornos and Agios Ioannis. Mykonos Town is 3.8 kilometres away, close enough for an evening there and far enough to keep the hotel out of its crowded centre. White buildings step down both sides of the ridge among olive trees, lavender, vines and bougainvillea. The site reads as a series of small levels, with no single resort frontage.
That slope made the first rooms unusually secluded. Each suite stood on its own step, with the sea beyond a low wall or past the far edge of its pool. The 2025 additions bring more shared space into that layout. A second shared pool now sits beside the new rooms and gives the hotel a social centre that the older rooms did not need.
The history
Aby Saltiel and Makis Kousathanas opened the hotel in 2021. At first it deliberately offered few kinds of room: 25 suites with private pools, followed by two villas for larger groups. The low buildings made it read as a village. Its sense of privacy came from more than white walls. The rooms were spread out, and guests spent much of the day in their own outdoor space.
The addition changes that balance and keeps the original. The first suites and villas are still there, and the smaller rooms, junior suites and shared spaces widen the ways guests use the hotel. That is a real change for a hotel known partly for how little of it guests had to share.
The design
Studio Bonarchi designed the interiors of the new rooms and junior suites, within the style that the architects K-Studio set for the hotel. Dark timber ceilings, cane panels and full-height glass doors carry on the materials of the older rooms. The rooms are smaller, so the outdoor space does more of the work. The photographs show the addition stepping across the same hillside, with its shared pool on a long terrace below the rooms.
The new wing follows the old one closely, but it works differently. The original suites were built around a private pool and generous outdoor space. In the new rooms, a balcony or a jetted tub, a bath with water jets, is the main outdoor feature, and the shared pool takes the place of a pool of your own.
The rooms
The hotel gives both new room types 27 square metres inside and 16 square metres outside. Deluxe Rooms open onto a balcony facing the sea. Junior Suites add a jetted tub on the terrace. With the sizes the same, the choice comes down to that outdoor feature.
By comparison, one of the original suite types measures 63 square metres inside and has a private pool. The difference is large enough to make two ways of staying at one hotel. The larger suites keep privacy and a pool of their own. The new wing has smaller rooms beside shared spaces. The uncertain room count matters, because it decides how far the shared side of the hotel has grown.
The table
Kuveda opened in 2025 beside the new pool, with a long oak table at its centre. It joins Pere Ubu, the original restaurant, set in a courtyard. Kuveda gives the larger hotel a second place for breakfast, lunch and dinner, which more guests need. The open question is whether the newer, more sociable pattern can share the ridge without crowding out the proportions that set the first hotel apart.
Who is this for
Kalesma suits couples who want a suite with its own pool, and guests who would rather share a pool and a long table. From the ridge, the hotel looks towards Delos and catches both sunrise and sunset. A local myth the hotel retells holds that Aleomandra kept the stables of the horses of the god Apollo. In the evening, lanterns hang over the courtyard at Pere Ubu, and the olive trees are lit from below.
