Half dayMay–October
Sailing to the caves
Our boat leaves the cove at ten for the sea caves to the south, with lunch at anchor.
Where the pines meet the sea
The estate
38°46′ N · 9°29′ W
Ostrelle began as a lighthouse keeper's farm. Ninety years on it is still a quiet place: no lobby, no queue, just a key on a linen cord and the sound of the sea through the pines.
The keeper's family farmed this headland for four generations. We have restored their house, their garden and their lighthouse, and added a handful of rooms made from the same stone.
There are never more than seventy guests on forty hectares. Most days you will meet more pines than people, and that is rather the point.
Stay
Suites and villas,
set apart
Every room looks at the sea or the forest, and most at both. None of them looks at another.
All rooms and villas
Suites
Pine Suite
52 m²Sleeps 2Forest and sea
From €890 a night
Suites
Cliff Suite
68 m²Sleeps 2Open sea
From €1,150 a night
Suites
Lantern Suite
74 m²Sleeps 3Lighthouse and sea
From €1,280 a night
Villas
Tide Villa
140 m²Sleeps 4Pines and garden
From €2,600 a night
Villas
Headland Villa
210 m²Sleeps 6Sea on three sides
From €3,900 a night
Residences
The Keeper's House
320 m²Sleeps 8Garden, pines and lighthouse
From €6,800 a night
and villa
Slow tides
The day here is set by the water: a swim at low tide, lunch when the boats come in, a fire on the point when the light goes.
Dining
Four tables,
one coast
01 · Restaurant
Dinner · 7–11pm
Salt
A tasting menu cooked over pine and cork oak, from the morning's catch and the keeper's garden.
02 · Breakfast and lunch
8am–4pm
The Terrace
Long tables above the sea, bread from our own wheat and whatever the garden gave up that morning.
03 · Wine
By appointment
The Cellar
Four thousand bottles in the old cistern, and a sommelier who prefers small growers to famous names.
04 · Bar
5pm until late
Lantern Bar
Low light, a fire, and a short list of drinks made with herbs from the cliff top.
A day at Ostrelle
From first light
to the last fire
06:40
06:40
A swim before sunrise
The cove is still in shadow and the water is clear to the bottom. The sauna on the rocks is already warm.
09:30
Breakfast on the terrace
Figs from the old wall, eggs from the farm, coffee for as long as you like.
13:00
Lunch by the water
Grilled fish, a cold white wine and the afternoon ahead of you, with nothing in it.
16:30
The stone spa
Basalt stones from the beach, oils pressed from the garden, a treatment room that faces the pines.
20:00
Dinner by candlelight
Salt's tasting menu follows the day's catch. The dining room is lit by nothing but candles.
23:00
Stars over the headland
The lighthouse is the only light for miles. On a clear night the Milky Way reaches the sea.
The estate
Forty hectares
of pine and cliff
Everything is within a short walk of the house, and the house is a short walk from everything. Tap a place to find it.
01 · Arrival
The House
Reception, the library, the terrace and Salt, in the keeper's old farmhouse.
02 · 2 min walk
Cliff Suites
Cut into the headland below the house, facing straight out to sea.
03 · 4 min walk
The Stone Spa
Treatment rooms, the wood-fired sauna and a pool under the pines.
04 · 6 min walk
The Cove
A stair in the rock to a pebble beach, with a jetty for the boat.
05 · 10 min walk
Tide Villas
Six stone villas in the forest, each with a garden and a pool.
06 · 3 min walk
Kitchen Garden
The walled garden behind every plate at Salt. Guests are welcome at seven.
Experiences
Days shaped
by the coast
Our guides grew up on this coast. Tell them what you like and they will find the day for it.
Two hoursAll year
Riding at low tide
Ride the five-kilometre beach below the estate when the tide is out and the sand is hard.
A dayAll year
The cliff path
Eleven kilometres north to the fishing village, with a picnic, and the car to bring you home.
Three hoursJune–September
Under the water
Snorkel the kelp forest and the reef off the point with our marine guide.
MorningAll year
Bread and the garden
Bake with our baker and pick the day's vegetables with the gardeners.
EveningClear nights
Night sky
Blankets, a telescope and an astronomer on the darkest point of the estate.
EveningAll year
Fire on the point
A fire, a long table and grilled fish where the cliff meets the sea.
Ostrelle in numbers
Small by design
- Suites and villas
- 34
- Of pine forest and cliff
- 40 ha
- Of private coastline
- 3.2 km
- Years of welcome
- 95
Seasonal stays
Reasons to
stay a little longer
November to March
Three nights
Winter Light
The coast at its most dramatic, a fire in your room and the spa nearly to yourself.
- Third night on us
- A ninety-minute treatment each
- Dinner at Salt on one evening
- Late check-out
From €2,640
EnquireJune to September
Seven nights or more
The Long Summer
Stay a week in a villa and let the days arrange themselves around the tide.
- One night in seven on us
- A day's sailing along the coast
- Weekly dinner cooked in your villa
- Airport transfers
From €7,900
Enquire
All year, Sunday to Thursday
Two nights
The Quiet Weekend
Two nights, no plans. We'll take your phone at the door if you ask.
- Breakfast in bed both mornings
- Sauna and cold plunge at dusk
- A picnic for the cliff path
- Signed copy of our coastal walks
From €1,980
EnquireGuest words
We have stayed in a great many beautiful hotels. Ostrelle is the only one where we forgot, for a whole week, that we were in a hotel at all.
The lamps lit at dusk, the bread still warm at breakfast, the silence. Every detail had been thought about, and none of it was ever announced.
Our children still talk about the cove at low tide and the boat to the caves. We have booked the same week for next year.
I came to write and did more of it in five days than in the previous five months. It's the quiet. And the window seat.
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As written about in
Voyageur
“The most quietly beautiful hotel on the Atlantic coast.”
Coastline
“A lighthouse estate that has learned the art of doing very little, perfectly.”
Atlas & Oak
“Book the Cliff Suite and don't tell anyone.”
Quiet Hotels
“Ninety years of welcome, worn lightly.”
