Do you love basketball? At this new hotel in Mykonos, guests can actually play on a basketball court carved directly into the rocky landscape.
Fouquet’s Mykonos has opened on Paraga Beach with one of the island’s more unexpected luxury amenities, a basketball court built into a cavernous opening in the rocky hillside.
It is an unusual calling card for a five-star Mykonos hotel, particularly on an island where luxury is more readily associated with infinity pools, beach beds and sunset tables. But the court is also an introduction to the scale of Fouquet’s Mykonos, Barrière’s first hotel in Greece and the fifth address in the Fouquet’s collection after Paris, New York, Courchevel and Saint-Barth.
Opened on June 27, 2026, the hotel occupies a secluded position on the island’s southern coast, between Paraga and Paradise Beach, with direct access to the Aegean.
There are 60 suites and three private villas spread across the rocky site, their architecture drawing on the restrained forms and natural materials of the Cyclades. Depending on the category, rooms open onto private pools, jacuzzis or panoramic terraces, while the villas offer a considerably more private version of the Mykonos experience.
At the upper end is the Cyclades Suite, positioned at the furthest point of the hotel with a pool running along its length towards the sea. The three standalone villas extend the scale further, including the seven-bedroom Paradiso Villa and Delos Villa, which can accommodate up to 14 guests.
The sporting facilities are equally considered. Alongside the basketball court is a dedicated fitness and wellness offering, while the Rock Spa is built into the stone and combines an indoor pool with treatments by Dr Barbara Sturm and Germaine de Capuccini.
There is, inevitably, plenty designed around the water too. A heated pool overlooks the Aegean, guests have access to the beach below, and a private boat shuttle provides another way to move between the hotel and Mykonos’s beach clubs and coastline.
But one of the most significant arrivals within the hotel is ROKA Mykonos.
The contemporary Japanese restaurant and Beach Club occupies a prime position facing the Aegean, combining ROKA’s Japanese cooking with an infinity pool and private stretch of Paraga Beach. Fouquet’s describes it as the “vibrant heart” of the property, and its role goes well beyond that of a conventional hotel restaurant.
ROKA gives the hotel its own day-to-night beach destination, beginning by the water and carrying through to drinks and dinner as the light changes over Paraga. For a property sitting between two of the island’s best-known beaches, it means guests have little reason to leave in search of the Mykonos beach-club experience.
It is joined by Éole, the hotel’s Greek-Mediterranean restaurant and Pool Club, and Le Bar, a cocktail bar with a terrace overlooking Paraga.
Together, they place the hotel firmly within the social rhythm of the island, while its location offers a degree of separation from it. That balance may be Fouquet’s greatest asset. Paraga and Paradise are close at hand, but the hotel occupies its own rocky edge of the coastline, with private pools, terraces, coves and direct access to the sea.
For Barrière, the opening also marks a significant expansion of the Fouquet’s name into Greece, adding Mykonos to a collection that already stretches from its historic Paris address to New York, Courchevel and Saint-Barth.
On an island hardly short of luxury hotels, standing apart is becoming increasingly difficult. Fouquet’s has found a particularly memorable way to do it.
There are the villas, the private beach, ROKA and the requisite pools overlooking the Aegean. But it is difficult to imagine many guests forgetting the moment they discover that, somewhere inside the Mykonian rock, there is also a basketball court.
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First published on Greek City Times.