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Inside the Mykonos Hotel Everyone Is Linking to Emily in Paris

The hotel and the filming location are not the same place. The actual shoot is taking place at a private villa in Tourlos – a nine-bedroom residence with panoramic views over Chora, its own chapel, and a pool renting at around €20,000 a week in high season. That’s where the cameras are rolling. Cavo Tagoo, if the reports hold, is where you go at the end of a shooting day to be somewhere that asks nothing of you. Which, having stayed there, makes complete sense.

The hotel

Cavo Tagoo sits just above Mykonos Town, close enough to walk to the port, far enough that the noise doesn’t follow you back. Built into the cliff face, the architecture does what good Cycladic design always does: looks effortless in a way that requires enormous effort.

I stayed in one of the smaller villas: private pool, a terrace that earns its existence, and a bedroom with a large picture window framing the exact same view. You wake up to the water.

You come back from wherever you’ve been and the water is still there, completely indifferent to how many Instagram posts it has generated.

The pool, the sunset, the vibe

The main pool is the hotel’s signature and it holds up. Wooden sunbeds sit partially submerged in the water – a detail that sounds like a mood board until you’re actually on one at six in the evening with the sun dropping toward the horizon and music at exactly the right volume. The sunset at Cavo Tagoo is not incidental. It is, functionally, the hotel’s best amenity, and the hotel has always known it and arranged everything accordingly.

Twenty years on…

The first time I stayed at Cavo Tagoo it stopped me in my tracks. Jaw-dropping in that specific way that only happens when a place exceeds every expectation you didn’t know you had. It is no longer a secret and it knows it with works of art throughout, real luxury in every material choice, a property that has grown into its own mythology. Some of the surprise has gone. What remains is the quality, the ultra – luxurious pampering and the view, which has not changed and cannot be improved upon.

Should you book it?

If you’re visiting Mykonos this summer half-hoping to absorb some of the Season 6 energy: yes. Cavo Tagoo was never a hidden gem and after this it will be even less of one. Book before the season airs. These things have a way of filling a waitlist the moment people can attach a specific scene to a specific pool and after Mykonos, the production moves to Santorini and then Monaco, so the wave is only getting bigger.

Whether or not Lily Collins is actually ordering breakfast on one of those terraces right now, the instinct that pointed everyone here first makes complete sense. Cavo Tagoo looks like where Emily in Paris would stay. It photographs like a film set. And the sunset, reliably, delivers every single time.

I have stayed at Cavo Tagoo on multiple visits to Mykonos over fifteen years, most recently in a private pool villa. All opinions are firsthand and my own.

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