Six Senses is building into the hillside of a private bay at Porto Heli

Porto Heli will have a Six Senses in 2028. The group gives that year on its own pages for the house, which will stand in a private bay on the Ermionida coast of the Peloponnese, 200 kilometres from Athens and in sight of Spetses and Hydra. Around 60 rooms and suites, most with a private plunge pool and a terrace or garden of their own, will be woven into the fall of the land, the buildings stepping down through pine, cypress, lavender and olive to the water. One three-bedroom retreat villa, plus 12 branded residences of five to eight bedrooms, will stand apart from them, the residences for sale.

The work converts the existing Costa Perla hotel at Kouverta, Perle and Bourloto, in the municipality of Ermionida, into a five-star composite tourist accommodation with a spa and furnished tourist residences. The owner is Costa Perla S.A., and the builder is the listed Athens contractor EKTER S.A., which signed the original construction agreement on 26 September 2025. On 17 July 2026 the contractor announced that it had taken the second phase of the work: the hotel itself and 12 luxury villas, priced at 68,565,632.52 euros plus VAT. The total contract price now stands at 101,073,558.43 euros plus VAT, and the same announcement puts completion, in stages, at March 2028.

Dining and leisure will run to a beachfront restaurant, a sunset bar and a traditional Greek kafeneio, the coffee house of every Greek village, with outdoor event spaces and an organic garden. The restaurants, cafés and bars will serve Greek and international cooking from sunrise to sunset. A beach club and jetty will carry the water sports, with dining and drinks at the shore.

A spa of 1,600 square metres

The Six Senses Spa will run to 1,600 square metres, a short walk from the hotel’s main facilities, and will hold thermal areas, a sea-view indoor swimming pool, a Biohacking Lounge, herbal gardens, forest yoga and seven treatment rooms. Among the therapies will be mud baths drawn from the mineral-rich earth of the Peloponnese. Elsewhere on the estate there will be an indoor and outdoor gym, a pool and a yoga studio, padel and tennis courts, a Biohacking Recovery Lounge and meditation gardens.

The 12 residences

The 12 homes will follow the contours of a pine-fringed peninsula, cut into the hillside in a hollowed form that holds them inside the slope. Each will be built from local materials, with walls of glass, living roofs, interior patio gardens, and baths and showers set below external lightwells. The interior palette is renders, stone and metal in neutral tones. Each house will have its own infinity pool looking at the horizon, and Spetses and Hydra are a short ride away on complimentary daily sea transfers from the property. The residences are targeting LEED Gold certification, and the hotel will be LEED-certified. The house will be reached by helicopter, by private boat charter to the jetty, or by road from Athens.

Ownership of the homes sits apart from the hotel brand. Golden Land Goutos, the Greek developer founded by Evangelos and Constantinos Goutos, owns and sells them, and uses the Six Senses name and marks under licence from Sustainable Luxury UK Limited.

The architects and the operating venture

The architecture is by Delogu Architecture of Rome with Arch Group of Athens, and the interiors are by MuzaLab of London. Six Senses will operate the house for a joint venture of CBE Capital, Golden Land Goutos, Taconic Capital Advisors and Cedar Capital Partners.

The announcement came in August 2023, when Six Senses chief executive Neil Jacobs said the house would create “a haven of wellness and emotional hospitality along the captivating shores of Ermioni”.

Who is this for

Travellers who plan years out and want the spa to shape the stay, and buyers weighing a house on the Peloponnesian mainland rather than an island. Porto Heli was a fishing village and is now a yachting harbour, its peninsula lined with villas and an international community that values its privacy. Days run to calm water, hidden coves, family-run tavernas and the morning catch, with producers nearby working olive oil, honey, figs and citrus. Siga, siga, as the Greek goes: slowly, slowly.