If you are looking for a great place to stay in Santorini, the Boat House Hotel in Kamari Beach is your best bet. If you are looking for the Ritz, this is not it. BUT, the rooms are a nice size, sparkling clean, have refrigerators, blow dryers, and balconies that overlook different areas of the island. The hotel also has a beautiful terraced pool area with palm trees and a bar. The Boat House is steps away from the beach, three blocks from the bus stop that can take you to different parts of the island (Fira, Oia, Ancient Thira) and about a 10 minute ride to/from the airport. Along the beach front cobblestone walkway there are tons of small restaurants and tavernas which serve breakfast lunch and dinner. There are many small grocery shops within steps from the hotel as well. Most importantly, the owners of the hotel are friendly, speak English -- which is really helpful) and do everything to make your stay comfortable and fun. Diane and Spiros please don't change a thing!

This is a lovely, friendly hotel that is ideally placed on Kamari Beach. It is surrounded by some lovely tavernas, bars and shops but is not noisy. The breakfast is nice, simple buffet style. The room was clean and spacious. The owers Spiros and Dianne are very helpful as is Angie on reception. Their taverna next door but one serves lovely, fresh, good value food.

We (husband and wife) stayed at the Boathouse for 4 nights. The room we had was on the second floor facing the Sea. The room was spacious, clean and had a balcony. It contained 1 double bed and 2 singles. Breakfast consisted of hard and soft boiled eggs, juice, jam, hams, cheese, cornflakes, coffee, tea and fruit salad. It did not vary. The pool was good size and clean. The Hotel is well situated on Kamari Beach. The room did not have TV. We enjoyed our stay and highly recommend the Hotel.

Stayed in Athens a few days then took a ferry to Santorini. Spyros (owner of hotel) picked us up at the port (which is at the bottom of a winding cliff)-- if we hadn't arranged for him to pick us up, i'm not sure how we would have gotten to the hotel. When we arrived at the Boathouse our room wasn't ready but Diane (Spyros' wife) brought us 2 glasses of white wine and we waited by the pool (not so bad!).

Kamari Beach is the less expensive (yet beautiful) part of the island and we loved it. The hotel is situated on a black-sand beach and there are plenty of places to eat/go out on the beach strip. During the day we relaxed by the pool at the Boathouse or at the beach.

Complimentary breakfast was nice - nothing too heavy and it was a great way to start the day. We had dinner at the hotel's restaurant one night-- nice setting (and service) but the food wasn't so great.

We also rented a dune buggy (4-wheeled go-cart type vehicle) for 2 days to get around the island and got to see the typical white houses on the cliffs in Ia (the famous part of Santorini). We stuck around one night to watch the sunset-- absolutely beautiful.

We couldn't have wanted more from Santorini!