The current Greek National Tourism Organisation cancellation rules apply:

No charge is applied for cancellations made more than 22 days before the expected arrival date. Any advance paid is returned.
50% of the total booking cost is withheld for cancellations made within 21 days of the expected arrival date.

The total cost of the booking is charged in the case of early departure or late arrival.

All rooms have a mini bar.

All rooms have a TV monitor & DVD/CD player. There is no TV signal but we do offer a wide selection of films on DVD and music on CDs. You are, of course, always welcome to bring your own. Or why not spend your holidays by abstaining totally from TV?

The indoor communal areas include a living room with fireplace, the breakfast room and the seating area / games room on the mezzanine floor, while the outdoor communal areas include the front courtyard and the large courtyard between the main house and the outhouse.

Coffee, beverages, spoon sweets and yoghurt with honey or spoon sweets are served in the evening.

Wood for the fireplaces is provided free of charge in winter time.

Guests can check into their rooms at 14:00 hours on the day of arrival and rooms must be vacated by 12:00 hours on the day of departure.

A 50% additional charge applies for holding the room to 18:00 hours. After that time the room is charged at full price.

Bookings can be confirmed by depositing half the cost of the booking in our bank account.

At the AMANITA Guesthouse breakfast forms a key part of the Mt. Pelion Experience that we want our guests to enjoy. That's why:

• Breakfast is available from 08:30 to 12:00.
• Breakfast is served to guests while seated.
• It consists almost exclusively of local products.
• We try to ensure that a large part of the dishes are homemade. The jams, hand-kneaded bread, pies both large and small, cakes and desserts are all our own.
• We prefer local suppliers for our honey, oil and fruit.
• We use the bounty that Mt. Pelion offers us to enrich our breakfast spread by adding local greens such as wild asparagus tips, herbs or wild mushrooms to our omelettes, and by serving mature seasonal fruits such as sloes, plums, damsons, raspberries, pears, apples, persimmons, and others.

The AMANITA Guesthouse consists of two buildings: the three-storey main house and a two-storey outhouse. We offer 6 accommodation options, 5 of which are located in the main house (2 suites consisting of 2 rooms, 1 three-bed room and 2 double rooms), and a self-contained, fully fitted 2-room apartment with its own kitchenette in the outhouse.
The main house has two sitting areas, a breakfast room and a professional kitchen. All rooms come with an authentic Mt. Pelion fireplace apart from the 2 ordinary double rooms..

UPPER FLOOR

Suite "Aigaio"

Features: A 2-bedroom suite. Room "A" has a double bed and sofa and Room "B" has a single bed.
Sleeping Capacity: The suite can sleep a couple or a family of up to 4.
Other information: Room "A" offers a sea view while Room "B" offers a mountain view. The sofa can also be used as bed for a child up to 15 years old. Room "A" has a fireplace. There is no door between the 2 rooms.
Décor: The walls are in the same blue as the Aegean Sea and the decorative items are in off white.

Suite "Io"

Features: Bedroom with a double bed and sofa.
Sleeping Capacity: The room can sleep a couple or 3 people.
Other information: Sea view and fireplace.
Décor: The walls are painted in a romantic shade of pink. The iron bed and bedside tables are antique.

Suite "Didymi"

Features: Bedroom with double bed.
Other information: Sea view.
Sleeping Capacity: The room can sleep a couple or 2 friends.
Décor: The walls are painted Byzantine ochre. The beds, bedside tables and dressing table are antique.

MEZZANINE

Suite "Petrini"

Features: A 2-bedroom suite. Room "A" has a double bed and sofa and Room "B" has two single beds.
Sleeping Capacity: The suite can sleep a couple or a family of up to 4.
Other information: Room "A" offers a sea view while Room "B" offers a mountain view. Room "A" has a fireplace. There is no door between the 2 rooms.
Décor: Stone walls, antique bedside tables, domed passage between the two rooms.

Suite "Koukouli"

Features: Bedroom with double bed.
Sleeping Capacity: The room can sleep one or two people.
Other information: We recommend this room -the guesthouse's smallest- for couples in love.
Décor: Stone walls.

OUTHOUSE

"Vasilomanitaro"

Features: A 2-bedroom apartment. Room "A" has a double bed and Room "B" has two single beds. There is also a kitchenette and living room.
Sleeping Capacity: One couple or a 4-member family.
Other information: Sea view. Self-contained apartment with its own courtyard. There is a door between the rooms.
Decor: Stone walls, wooden roof, large fireplace.

AMANITA: The Name

Mt. Pelion has been famed since antiquity for its wealth of herbs and mushrooms. Generation after generation of locals have learned to identify the edible ones and to avoid the poisonous species. The mushroom genus "Amanita" (a name derived from the Ancient Greek) is well known, and includes some of the world's tastiest mushrooms but also some of the most poisonous that are to be found in forests. We named our guesthouse 'Amanita' in honour of that amazing instinct that man has to seek out food in the forest; an instinct dating back to prehistory, but also in honour of the great sense of companionship that is kindled between folk as they gather around the table to eat mushrooms and drink local wine from Mt. Pelion.

The Discovery

We first encountered Mt. Pelion, and its beauty, at the age of 25. It wasn't long before we became passionate about the mountain and began visiting regularly all year round. On one of our visits we stumbled a ruined 19th mansion (consisting of the main house and an outhouse) in verdant Tsangarada in a location with a truly stunning view. As we peeled back the ivy and the brambles that had taken over the building, what we found were amazing stone walls, marble cornerstones and marble doorways. We decided we had to buy it and restore it.
The three-storey mansion with its two-storey outhouse was clearly visible in an old photograph of the Agios Georgios neighbourhood of Tsangarada taken from the hill opposite. That small neighbourhood in the heart of Tsangarada was built by locals who had become rich in Egypt, which explains why most of the mansions are in the neoclassical style.
Talking with one of the old local property owners we found a document dated 1899 drawn up in Alexandria, Egypt, stating that the Greek-Egyptian Georgios Padarikis gave the house as a wedding present to his niece, Victoria Kapetanopoulou and it was from her grand-daughter that we bought the property.

Construction work

In 2002 we began restoring the old buildings to their original form. Guided by tradition and firmly dedicated to what we were doing, we felt a deep need to use local materials such as chestnut, old stone, and slate roofing tiles, as well as building materials sympathetic to the original structure (cotto tiles, ecological paints). Using the skill of Epirot stonemasons, we rebuilt the house in the traditional style.
We take the view that things are worthless if you can't share them with friends, so from the very outset we designed the property as a small hotel.
We choose a combination of authentic old Greek furniture and modern, minimalist pieces to furnish the place, imbuing it with a sense of comfort and relaxation. The very best products were chosen to fit out the hotel including natural latex mattresses, Guy Laroche bedding, eiderdown quilts, and Baucher crockery.