A hillside above Coral Bay

Fifteen villas and a small boutique hotel. A place shaped around one idea: that the best kind of time is time spent together.

Our story

Named after a flower that grows wild

Lantana is named after a flower that grows wild across the western coast of Cyprus — vivid, unhurried, spreading quietly across hillsides without asking permission.

It blooms in clusters: small individual flowers that together make something larger and more alive than any one of them alone. That felt like the right name for what we were building.

A place where people come together — families, couples, close friends — and find that simply being in the same space, with time and no particular agenda, produces something that couldn't have happened anywhere else.

We built Lantana around that possibility.

Built the way you build something for yourself

The family behind Lantana has lived in Cyprus long enough to know it not as visitors but as people who have watched its seasons turn — the February almonds, the long light of October evenings, the way the western coast quiets down as you move north toward Akamas.

They started not with a brief or a market position, but with a feeling. The feeling of a week when nobody is checking the time. Of a table long enough for everyone. Of children running between rooms while the adults linger over a second glass and the evening refuses to end.

Everything that followed — the scale of the villas, the discretion of the service, the single named host who stays with you from first message to last morning — came from that original feeling. Not from a formula, but from a family asking themselves: what would we actually want?

Cyprus reveals itself slowly to those who stay. Lantana is an invitation to do exactly that.

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Who Lantana is for

Different people find different things here.

A family travelling together

A family travelling together (Three generations)

Space to actually be together — a long table, a private pool, enough bedrooms for everyone, and a single named host who knows your party and anticipates what you need before you ask. The villas are built at a scale that makes three generations under one roof feel natural rather than crowded.

A week of stillness

A week of stillness (Two people)

Something smaller and more contained: a boutique hotel of ten rooms on a hillside above the sea. Days with nothing scheduled, and nothing competing for attention.

Friends, reunited

Friends, reunited (Old friends)

What a succession of dinners and weekend trips can't quite replicate: five days of being genuinely in the same place, with a kitchen and a pool and a rooftop and nowhere in particular to be.

The villas

Choosing your villa

Each of the fifteen villas sits differently on the hillside, and the right choice is really a question of what kind of week you are after.

Some face west across open water — built around the long Cypriot sunset that begins in the afternoon and takes its time finishing, the horizon wide and uninterrupted.

Others sit lower on the hillside, wrapped in gardens and planted courtyards, with deep shade in the afternoon and a more private, enclosed feeling — less about the view outward, more about the life within. A more inward kind of week, equally good.

Food & wine

The tastes of the island

One of the quieter pleasures of Cyprus is how much there is to taste — and how little of it finds its way to a typical hotel table.

The on-site restaurant — opening January 2027 — will be the easy starting point: a kitchen that follows what the island offers in season, a wine list weighted toward Cypriot producers, and a pace calibrated to long evenings rather than efficient service.

Beyond the property, the island rewards exploration. A bottle of wine from the Troodos foothills. A jar of something from a Saturday market. An oil you tasted at dinner and didn’t want to leave behind — through the shop, we surface the producers and makers whose work appears throughout your stay.

The spa

A different kind of morning

Some mornings here are for the trails and the sea. The spa is for the others: treatments built around materials from the island — herbs, sea minerals, volcanic stone.

A lap pool, a sauna, and space to spend two hours or an entire day. The spa opens alongside the restaurant in January 2027.

The island

Beyond the hillside

The hillside above Coral Bay is where Lantana begins. The island is where it opens up.

Thirty minutes north, the Akamas Peninsula stretches into the sea — one of the last untouched coastlines in the Mediterranean, with trails that move through thyme and rock and silence. Inland, the Troodos foothills hold the island's wine country.

In Latchi, the fishing boats go out early. In Lemba, a potter has been shaping clay from this earth for decades. On Saturday mornings, Ktima market fills with the week’s harvest.

Some of this you find on your own, at your own pace. Some of it we can help arrange — a boat, a guided walk, a morning in a winery, an afternoon in someone's studio.

Capture memories in Lantana

Arts and Crafts

Arts and Crafts

€50 per person

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2-4 hours

Paphos Sightseeing Tours

Paphos Sightseeing Tours

€120 per person

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4 hours

Cycling Route Discovery

Cycling Route Discovery

€30 per person

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3 hours

Tailored Sea Escapes

Tailored Sea Escapes

€1,500 per group

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4 hours

The journal

Cyprus, at length

Most of what makes Cyprus worth knowing doesn't fit in a caption — and the more you know before you arrive, the more you find once you are here.

The journal is where we write about the island at length: the seasons, the trails, the food, the villages, the coastline, the things that don't appear in a guidebook.

Where new family stories begin