Where you'll wake up on Symi

A family-run hotel in a seafront mansion built in 1895, a few metres from the water on the harbour of Gialos, with traditional details in every room. The sea-view rooms look straight out over the boats.

A cluster of traditional-style houses around a pool and a large garden, about 50 m from the main square of Gialos and 200 m from the port, reached without climbing a single step. Suites, studios, maisonettes and double rooms.

Renovated rooms and suites in traditional style in the lanes behind the harbour, with a pool, a small spa and its own waterside restaurant, Kavos, by the clock tower.

A listed, centuries-old building on the Kali Strata turned into a small luxury hotel, with stone walls, four-poster beds, harbour views, a cocktail terrace for sunset and the fine-dining restaurant Agora.

A small hotel up in Chorio with sea-view rooms perched high above Gialos harbour, a good base for the lanes, the museum and the castle.

A low hotel on the shore of Pedi Bay with its own stretch of beach, a seaside restaurant, sea-view rooms, a garden chapel and yoga with a view of the water.

Simple, roomy apartments with kitchens near the sea at Nimborios, west of Gialos, with a terrace over the Aegean and Greek breakfast. A quiet base away from the harbour crowds.