Hilton signed Waldorf Astoria Scarlet Bay on 10 November 2025, under a management agreement with Royal Group Holding. The agreement covers 121 rooms and suites and 13 branded villas, with an opening scheduled for 2029 on the coast of the Peloponnese. It does not yet give us a finished resort or a stay to describe.
The setting
Hilton places the project on a beachfront site in Porto Heli, on the eastern Peloponnese. It has not published a travel time, a site area or a building programme, so little can yet be said about access or scale.
An aerial rendering shows a headland with an enclosed bay, existing trees and low buildings spread between the water and higher ground. It shows what the designers intend. The final planting, shoreline works and views will be known only once the resort is built.
The agreement
Royal Group Holding is Hilton’s partner in the management agreement. Under it, Hilton will run the hotel under the Waldorf Astoria name, and the agreement does not make Hilton the owner or the developer. Scarlet Bay will be the brand’s first hotel in Greece.
The agreement gives the project an operator, a brand and an announced plan. Construction progress, detailed room plans and the operating team have not been made public.
The design
Hilton credits the renderings to Georges Batzios Architects. They show low main buildings behind pools and trees, single-storey villas stepped along a rocky shore, and planted roofs across several buildings. Timber pergolas, stone terraces and water recur throughout. The roofs stay below the surrounding trees, a stone breakwater curves around the bay, and a timber boardwalk follows the rocks below the long rows of villas.
None of these images is a photograph. Materials may change, planting will grow differently from a drawing, and the final relationship between the buildings and the coast depends on construction. The renderings show the intended low profile and the separation of the villas. They cannot show privacy, atmosphere or service.
The rooms
The hotel is announced with 121 rooms and suites, all planned to face the sea, and 13 branded villas beside them. Hilton has not published the split between rooms and suites, the number of bedrooms in the villas or any floor areas, so the categories cannot yet be compared.
Even so, the figures show that the villas form a separate group of homes beside a much larger hotel. The renderings place them in long, low rows nearer the rocky edge. Whether the villas will share the resort’s facilities or have their own is not stated.
The restaurants
The announced dining plan names Peacock Alley, a signature restaurant, a beach club restaurant, a lobby lounge and a coffee shop. Peacock Alley is the only named venue so far, and it is a room the brand has in its other hotels. No chefs, concepts or menus have been announced. For now, the clearest fact is the spread: the brand’s own room, a main restaurant and a place by the shore.
The wellness
A Waldorf Astoria spa, indoor and outdoor pools, a tennis court, a fitness centre and a children’s club complete the announced plan. These are parts of a plan, and none can be visited yet. Treatment names, sizes and operating details have not been published.
Who is this for
Waldorf Astoria Scarlet Bay is planned for families and couples who want a resort by the sea on the Peloponnese, the peninsula that is also home to Ancient Olympia, where the Olympic Games began. Hilton says each guest will have a personal concierge. In the renderings, pale linen sofas sit on a timber deck above a small infinity pool, with lavender and dune grasses beyond the rail. A timber pavilion hung with white linen stands between a shallow pool and a pebble beach.
