Tourlos Hotels with an Outdoor Pool
Tourlos has far fewer hotels than Chóra, and Croco Mykonos is the property to know here: a 5-star hotel with a year-round outdoor pool, genuinely unusual on an island where most pools close for the winter months entirely. The pool sits within a short walk of the new port's marina, so guests arriving or leaving by ferry get an actual swim on either end of the trip rather than treating the pool as an afterthought squeezed between packing and a taxi ride. Sea-view balconies and a fitness room round out a property built around convenience for ferry travellers as much as leisure time by the water.
Tourlos runs at a genuinely different pace than Chóra: no crowds of shoppers along Matoyianni, no queue for a Little Venice sunset table, just the marina, a handful of hotels, and ferries coming and going steadily at the Neo Limani throughout the day. A pool that stays open year-round fits that quieter identity well, since Tourlos was never really built around a bustling old town the way Chóra was over the centuries. That contrast is precisely what makes Tourlos worth considering on its own terms rather than as a mere afterthought before or after the ferry, especially for travellers who value quiet over constant activity nearby.
Outdoor pool · Tourlos in numbers
Where to stay
Croco Mykonos' year-round pool, the exception in Tourlos
An outdoor pool matters more in Tourlos than in most parts of Mykonos, since the village itself has little beyond the marina and a handful of hotels along the water. No old town lanes to wander here, no beach directly on hand within walking distance. Croco Mykonos' pool becomes the actual centre of a Tourlos stay by necessity as much as by design, which is exactly why its year-round operation is worth knowing about if your travel dates fall outside peak summer months.
Croco Mykonos runs its outdoor pool every single month of the year, a genuine exception on an island where the outdoor-pool combo for Mýkonos City lists several properties that close from autumn straight through to spring. That makes Tourlos worth considering specifically for shoulder-season or even winter trips where a working pool would otherwise rule out most of the wider island entirely. Because so few other hotels in Tourlos advertise a comparable amenity, Croco Mykonos effectively sets the benchmark for what an outdoor pool stay here actually looks like for most visitors.
The hotel's rooms come with sea views, private bathrooms and balconies, and the restaurant and bar on site mean a full day, breakfast, pool, dinner, can genuinely happen without ever leaving the property, useful given how little else sits within walking distance in Tourlos itself compared with central Chóra just up the coast. Housekeeping and daily turndown continue through the off-season months alongside the pool, so travellers booking outside July and August are not trading service quality for the lower-season availability. That continuity matters more here than it might elsewhere, since Tourlos offers few alternative distractions if a maintenance issue or staffing gap were to affect the property during a stay.
A fitness room, 24-hour front desk and concierge service round out Croco Mykonos' amenities, aimed squarely at guests who value convenience around the pool rather than nightlife right on the doorstep. The concierge is genuinely worth using for booking a Delos boat or arranging transport into Chóra, since Tourlos itself has no equivalent of the Old Port's excursion boats or ticket counters. The marina view from many rooms adds a different rhythm to the stay than a Chóra hotel would, with yachts and ferries passing rather than the foot traffic of a busy old-town lane.
Because Croco Mykonos is effectively the outdoor-pool option in Tourlos rather than one of several competing choices, travellers who want more pools to pick between should weigh a two-kilometre move into Chóra against the quieter, ferry-convenient position offered here. Both are genuinely valid depending on whether the trip centres more on the old town or on easy port access instead. Guests planning a Delos excursion should still base it from the Old Port in Chóra rather than Tourlos, since the smaller boats used for that specific trip do not depart from the new port.
A traveler's takeWe booked Croco Mykonos for an October trip specifically because the pool was still running when most Chóra hotels had already closed theirs for the season entirely. The sea-view balcony and short walk to the new port made our early ferry departure genuinely painless, and the on-site restaurant covered dinner both nights without needing a taxi into town at all. For a peak-August trip where nightlife matters more than a quiet pool, I would book in Chóra instead and treat Tourlos purely as a port stop on arrival.
Local tips
- 1Book Croco Mykonos specifically if travelling outside July-August, when its year-round pool is a real advantage over closed Chóra properties nearby.
- 2Use the concierge service to arrange a Delos boat or transport into Chóra, since Tourlos itself has limited excursion options directly on hand.
- 3Request a sea-view balcony room if watching the marina and passing ferries genuinely matters to how you spend your stay.
- 4Plan on a short taxi or the local bus for Matoyianni's restaurants and nightlife rather than walking there after dark.
- 5Pack for wind at the pool terrace; the port area catches more of the meltemi than sheltered spots in central Chóra do.
- 6Confirm your ferry departure time against the hotel's distance to the Neo Limani when booking, since it is a genuine convenience for early departures.