Description
Located in the port of Vathy, a focal point, close to famous beaches and attractions of Ithaca, Hotel Familia is entirely renovated from a historic 1890’s Olive Press to a unique bed & breakfast boutique hotel, combining a traditional homely ambient with a luxury feel.
A genuinely original building of stone and wood, nuzzled into a small garden with plants and flowers, transformed into a small formidable seven room Hotel, each room uniquely named after the patriarch of Hotel Familia, Alexandros, and his six great-granddaughters. Every room is distinctively decorated and embellished with all modern amenities and the welcome from the family and staff is warm and heartfelt.
DIGGING UP HISTORY
A Protected Building in Mythical Ithaca
The building that houses Hotel Familia was characterized in 1982 as a “Protected Building” by the Greek Ministry of the Environment, Physical Planning & Public Work, due to its unique architectural characteristics and structure. The building is made of stone and has renaissance details like arched window aprons and double tiled roof. From 1890 until 1967, the building was used as an olive press, running on steam and later on oil fuel. In 1967 the olive press stopped its function, and up till 2002, the building remained empty and unexploited. In 2002 our family bought the old olive press in order to reconstruct and ultimately convert it to a small hotel.
In 2006 the building entered a special program by the Ministry of Agriculture and received funding to be transformed into a “B category hotel within a protected building”. Thus, our journey began, always keeping in mind the importance of rescuing and maintaining all those elements that carry the history of our homeland.
Hotel Captain Yiannis
Captain Yiannis Hotel is located on the bay road on the eastern bayside of Ithaki’s capital - Vathy, in a picturesque area which overlooks the bay toward the town center and up to Perahori village in the mountains behind Vathy.
