We booked our stay at Anastasis based on the reviews we read on Tripadvisor - and it was truly the best hotel we stayed in during our Honeymoon in Greece. The view was SPECTACULAR and the rooms were large, meticulously clean and very comfortable. We did the cliff hike to Ia the first day and it was actually a bit more rugged than we anticipated. But still beautiful and worth it! We also visited Santo Winery at the recommendation of Despina, and it was a relaxing and fun activity with a great view and unique wines. We had the breakfast one morning at the hotel and it was delicious! they set it up in our room and it was such a treat! Despina and her staff are wonderful hosts - full of restaurant recommendations to make the most of your stay. Their help and service was great! Although you're supposed to make reservations for the hot tub, they allowed us to use it right at sunset at the last minute and brought us wine and stuffed grape leaves and olives to enjoy while relaxing in the beautiful environment!
Since we were on our honeymoon, being outside the town was a perfect location - private, relaxing and romantic. However, if you're looking for convenience over romance, I would recommend staying in Fira.

I’ve just read that Anastasis Apartments features four times in the Trip Advisor 2008 Awards (#2 in Top 10 Best Hidden Gems – World; #2 in Top 10 Best Hidden Gems – Europe; #4 in Top 10 Best for Romance – World; #1 in Top 10 Best for Romance – Europe). A lot of people quite clearly think a great deal of the place. (And I’m one of them.)
Four of us - two couples - stayed there for five nights in October last year. It was just fabulous. The service was outstanding (genuinely welcoming and friendly and never over-familiar or cloying); the location was wonderful (there were beautiful, uninterrupted views of the caldera and it was a scenic (about 45-minute) clifftop walk to Fira; the apartments were well equipped and all the hotel’s facilities were impeccably maintained. We stayed in two apartments on the ground floor: we had spacious bathrooms (with nice towels which were regularly changed), small but perfectly adequate kitchen areas with all the stuff we needed and more, sitting areas and sleeping areas. There were also small personal ‘garden’ areas outside each of our apartments (each with two chairs and a table) which faced the caldera (the apartments above had balconies). We made full use of the infinity pool (cold in October, but still OK) and the hot tub at sunset. There was a large, comfortable communal lounge which had a small library of books (general reading books as well as books on Santorini), a large flatscreen TV (which nobody seemed interested in watching: over the days we were there it was never on) and a PC with (free) internet access.
We ate in Fira on three of the nights we were there and got taxis back to the apartments (the journeys took about ten minutes: one taxi cost five euros, the other cost seven). We hired a car for the last two full days we were there (with Drossos Car Hire – organised by Despina) and dropped it off at the airport.
Whether the Anastasis Apartments is right for you will obviously depend on what you’re looking for: it’s not right in the centre of things, it’s not right by the beach and I don’t really think it’s suitable for families with young children. However, if you are a couple (or, like us, two couples travelling together) who want an away-from-it all place that’s both beautiful and consummately well-run then I just don’t think it's possible to do better. I warmly and unreservedly recommend it.

I apologize for not writing this review sooner. My wife and I went to Santorini in May 2007 for our Honeymoon, and this was one of the places we stayed. I was a little unsure after reading all of the "wonderful" reviews, but let me assure you, this place is TOP NOTCH for a honeymoon. The pictures speak for themselves, but honestly, you could eat off of the floor it is so clean. The service is wonderful, and Despina was a great host. I would stay here again in a heartbeat, and I would recommend it to any couple on honeymoon, anniversary, or just a holiday. Definitely not a singles or kids place though.

My wife and I planned to stay on the island of Santorini (late October 2006) for several nights during our honeymoon. We heard that Oia was lovely, and Fira was too. TripAdvisor had good reviews on Anastasis, and it was our final choice!

I found the accommodations comfortable (mattresses were just the right firmness for me, the accomodations looked clean). Our stay granted us a free use of the hot-tub, and wine and hors d'ouvres were waiting by the pool, with romantic music playing nearby. The family was always available for questions, and I really owe Despina and her husband special thanks, after having gotten lost , and her husband drove their car down, and picked me up. Now that's hospitality!

I'd like to think we got the best of the solitude and peace of Imerovigli and the convenience of being among many of Santorini's sights: a short walk to Fira, being right on the lip of the caldera (our room even had a view over their infinity pool, which would continue into the blue of the Aegean), the trail walk to Oia was just beyond the poolside.

The bus stop into Fira or Oia was only a short walk away from the Anastasis. My wife and I got to see much of what we wanted to see. My only regrets are that we could have stayed longer...