You could get away with never leaving your suite or villa. Why would you? The pool, the view, the loveliness… But – quite apart from needing to get into town to do the traditional tour of Elysium for sunset cocktails and drag, Portas, dinner, Portas, Lola’s and finally Jackie O – there’s no reason we can think of not to come out and enjoy the rest of what Kalesma has to offer.
Be sociable around the wrap-around pool with stepping stones so you can cross it and which, at dipping level, melts into the Med beyond; have breakfast, lunch and/or dinner in the almost monastically simple Pere Ubu restaurant or outside it under the dappled shade of the al fresco area as you enjoy the house DJ; sit up at the pool bar and order yourself wines as the sun sets over the sea into golden hour, all that Cycladic blue that people lose their schizz over; or wait until the sun has gone and move over to the fire-pit area fringed by olive trees. There are even very glamorous retail opportunities in the bijou boutique just off reception and you could even work out, if that doesn’t go against your ‘I’m on my holidays!’ resolutions.
