Domes Miramare, a Luxury Collection Resort, Corfu

Domes Miramare keeps an olive tree in its lobby, said to be 400 years old, which makes it older than the building by more than three centuries. The building is the younger party: modernist, designed by the Greek architect Charalambos Sfaellos for the Onassis family in the late 1960s, and set on Miramare Beach at Moraitika, south of Corfu Town. Centuries-old olive trees fill about 25 acres of garden beside the private beach, so the one in the lobby has company. In 2018 Kristina Zanic's practice redid the interiors without quarrelling with the decade: white marble floors and cream furniture, with the blue of the sea in small doses. The Blu Bar takes its blue much further, under ornate lights. The King of Greece threw parties there in the Sixties.

Recommended for couples and friends who want a beach hotel with some history to it and no children in it: nobody under sixteen can stay. The room to book is a Pavilion on the waterfront, with a pool or a jacuzzi on its own deck and the sea just beyond, and a guest can moor a boat outside the door. Most mornings a class is held out among the olive trees. Of the four restaurants, Makris is the serious one: contemporary Greek, and Michelin-starred by the hotel's own account. Corfu Town is about half an hour away by road, or twenty minutes on the Miramaretta, the hotel's black cruiser, and only one of those comes with a lacquered wooden deck.