OUR STORY

Hidden Retreats concept was conceived many years before it opened in 2016, when I first visited the hill on which it is located as a young teenager - a hill which has been ‎part of our family history for many years. Indeed a hill where my father would play hide and seek behind the olive tree perched at its highest point when he too was a young boy. 

 

It is a structure inspired by our love for our island and its unique beauty, our passion for hospitality and for high standards of personalised service, and our desire to showcase those qualities to the soul traveller looking for a secluded destination off the beaten track. Built into the hill, each house blends discreetly into the local landscape, in harmony with the environment, and each provides it's own unique window onto a different aspect - sea, valley, green, blue . The centrepiece theatre  provides a home for local cultural experiences. All the embodiment of goals and ideals which launched the concept in the first place.

 

And yes - the olive tree is still there, the fulcrum around which the whole project has been designed, with its many tales to tell of past lives by generations before, and which will bear witness to the relaxing experiences which we hope to provide in the hill's transfomed state. 

 

It is our privilege to invite you encounter  the seclusion and tranquility, a feeling of belonging and peacefulness  and may your love affair with Kythera begin. 

 

Your host

Penny