Handpicked boutique hotels Symi, beautiful guest houses and holiday homes

Symi, the tiny island once richer and more populous than Rhodes thanks to sponge fishing and shipbuilding, now feels quietly refined and unhurried. An elegant amphitheatre of cream and white houses spills down the rocky hillside into a near-perfect harbour where yachts share the quay with fishing boats.
Symi town naturally divides into Gialos, the waterfront, and Chorio above, linked by long stone steps and narrow lanes. You wander past pastel neoclassical façades, little churches, old cisterns and cafés where life still moves at island pace. One road crosses the island to the monastery of Panormitis, while around the coast boats shuttle to pebbly coves with clear water and simple tavernas by the sea.
Our Symi collection brings together boutique hotels, charming villas and apartments with sea view, many set in lovingly restored traditional buildings. In the list that follow you will find our regularly updated selection of small boutique hotels and charming villas in Symi, handpicked for their character, setting and quiet sense of place.