Agave Santorini Design Boutique Hotel

We booked a room at Agave and honestly, the view was stunning — especially at sunset. For this location and this price, it’s a rare find in Santorini. The room was clean, simple, and quiet. Check-in was smooth with a code, and communication through WhatsApp was fast and helpful. If you’re looking for a great base with an amazing view and no unnecessary extras, this place is perfect. 100% value for money!

OVERWHELMING stench of sewage/clogged pipes in 3x rooms (discussed with neighbouring guests) which was horrific. Manager instantly turned hostile and refused to help when questioned about it - very rude. I tried to block the drains with towels to stop the smell and we had to keep the fan on in the bathroom and keep it all shut up. Otherwise it was clean & basic, breakfast was decent. The younger colleague was very kind and we appreciate his hospitality after our encounter with the manager. Not like the photos at all, wouldn’t recommend.

We had a very similar experience as the previous reviewer ‘sternvil’. It was very disappointing, and the walk to the hotel was littered with garbage, etc. There were always motorbikes coming and going, and parking right outside our room. We were booked for room with breakfast, but there was no breakfast! Our room was tiny, the floors were painted concrete, even the bathroom which always got wet from the shower, which made it very slippery. Would not recommend this hotel.

All I heard was how beautiful Santorini is and how amazing the views are from the hotels. If that’s what you are expecting that’s a big reason to ovoid this place. The pictures on their site and others are false advertising. Let’s start with the walk to the “Boutique” hotel. You are not off the caldera walk. You must walk inside it through a path littered with beer can and garbage. The hotel is directly across from an abandon building which is an eye sore. If you don’t have a room on the top floor you will have no view of the beauty below. We had top floor room 1. We arrive and we’re informed there was no reception personnel for the day! Note we never saw anyone for 4 nights!!!! We were greeted by the cleaning women who very little english! The room wasn’t ready as we were early but that was ok. But when room was ready we entered and were overwhelmed by the smell of raw sewage. Yes raw sewage! The room was so small we would pass each other. The shower doesn’t have hot water until you turn on the heater! The water from both shower and sink was salt water!!!! The first night I put on the electric to heat the water. 5 minutes later all the lights went out. It turned out to be a grid failure for about 2 hours. Yet here’s the thing. All the out door lights were on, and the occupied rooms and reception all had lights! Why is this? They had emergency back up and room 1 did not! We’re we offered anything? Nope! 3 days later I get text saying the power will be done for 2 hours. Ok fine the. I ask did you replace battery in emergency back up again no they didn’t and nothing offered to make us happy! Outside each room are rusted buckets to capture the water from the AC units. Not outside our room! Night one we came back to a puddle outside our door! I had to take a bucket from another room for reminder of stay! As for the view it was ok but obstructed by the power lines and of course that abandoned building below! I’d avoid this place!