Vouliagmeni Marina (Athens)
| Location | Cap Vouliagmeni peninsula, Apollonos 77, 16671 Vouliagmeni, on the Athens Riviera coast of Attica, Greece |
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| Position | approximately 37 48 N, 023 46 E, per the marina's own site and the Greek Marinas Association |
| Operator | Astir Marina Vouliagmeni S.A., part of Astir Palace Vouliagmeni S.A. (Asteras Vouliagmenis), wholly Greek-owned since February 2025 under shipowner George Prokopiou, founder of Dynacom Tankers Management |
| Berths | disputed. The marina's own site states 59 berths for yachts up to 60 m plus one berth to 130+ m; the redevelopment brief quotes 59 berths to 70+ m; the local tourism authority's page still publishes 103 berths to 45 m plus a 60 m jetty berth |
| Draught | disputed and never published by the marina itself. One aggregator lists a 6 m maximum; another lists 4 m on standard berths and 4.5 m on the jetty berth |
| Mooring | rebuilt stern-to piers and breakwater, plus a small set of dedicated 20 m-beam private berths for vessels up to 103.99 m sold on long lease |
| VHF | channel 9 |
| What is included in the berth price | not published. Long-term berths are sold as 30-year leases rather than rented by the night |
| Fuel | an on-site fueling station was installed as part of the 2013-2024 redevelopment |
| Yard and haul-out | none found in any source. This is a berthing and lifestyle marina, not a refit yard |
| Opening hours | marina daily 09:00 to 19:00, retail shops daily 11:00 to 20:00 |
| Accreditation | pursuing La Belle Classe Destinations certification from the Yacht Club de Monaco under a memorandum of understanding signed 17 September 2024; not yet certified |
| Airport | Athens International (ATH), about 22 to 24 km away, roughly 25 to 30 minutes by road |
| Next door | the Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens, awarded 3 Michelin Keys in 2025; Astir Beach; Lake Vouliagmeni; the Nautical Club of Vouliagmeni, founded 1937 |
| History | built in the 1960s as Greece's first marina built exclusively for tourist vessels, on the Asteras tourist zone created in 1955; sold by the Greek state in 2016 for 400 million euros; redeveloped 2013-2024 for a reported 55 million US dollars |
| Distance to Piraeus | about 21 km |
| Port of entry | Vouliagmeni is itself one of Greece's roughly 38 designated customs ports of entry, distinct from and in addition to Piraeus |
Where the marina actually sits
The marina occupies a small, rocky headland at Vouliagmeni, the southernmost of the string of seaside suburbs that make up the Athens Riviera, roughly 18 km south of central Athens by the coast road. It sits inside a 16.3 hectare pine-covered site that has carried the name Asteras since a state tourism authority first zoned it for tourist development in 1955. The marina itself was built in the 1960s as Greece's first marina built exclusively for tourist vessels, decades before Alimos, Flisvos or Zea took on their present form nearby. Today the whole peninsula, hotel, beach club and marina together, operates as a single concession under one corporate owner, which is unusual among Athens Riviera marinas: Flisvos and Zea are municipal or state-adjacent operations, while Vouliagmeni is privately run end to end.
That single-ownership structure shows up in how the place feels on the water. The berths sit directly beneath the hotel's guest wings and the retail promenade, so a yacht here is berthed inside a resort rather than beside a town. Central Athens, the Plaka and the Acropolis are a 30 to 40 minute drive away depending on traffic, and there is no metro or tram connection to Vouliagmeni itself; the nearest heavy rail is well to the north. For an owner who wants to be in the city, that is a real cost. For an owner who wants the Athens Riviera experience of beach clubs, Michelin-listed dining and other superyachts at the next pier, the marina puts all of it inside a single gated site.
A state asset that changed hands twice in a decade
The Astir Palace complex, hotel, beach and marina together, was one of the assets Greece put up for privatization under its second international bailout agreement. In 2016 the Greek state sold it for 400 million euros to Jermyn Street Real Estate Fund, an Arab-Turkish investment vehicle, with the National Bank of Greece receiving 300 million euros of the proceeds and the remainder going to the Greek treasury. Jermyn Street held the asset through the marina's full redevelopment. In February 2025 the shipping magnate George Prokopiou, founder of Dynacom Tankers Management, Sea Traders and Dynagas Holdings, completed a buyout of Jermyn Street's remaining stake, reportedly close to 700 million euros for the 77 percent he did not already own, having previously acquired 33 percent from the Turkish Dogus Group. The complex is now, for the first time since the 2016 sale, back under a single Greek owner.
The numbers behind that handover are unusually public because Astir Palace Vouliagmeni S.A. publishes results. In 2025 the marina alone reported turnover of 18.91 million euros, up from 11.99 million euros in 2024, EBITDA of 10.66 million euros against 6.15 million euros the year before, and a net profit of 2.12 million euros, reversing a 1.92 million euro loss in 2024. Group debt fell from 56.1 million euros to 21.7 million euros over the same period. A new underground car park with 133 spaces opened in 2025, and an underground corridor linking the marina to the hotel is under construction. Whatever one makes of the ownership history, the marina is no longer the loss-making construction site it was through most of the 2013-2024 rebuild.
A 30-metre berth lease here is priced at 2 million euros for thirty years. Nobody publishes what a single night costs, or how many berths are actually left to lease.
Arriving by sea
Astir Marina works VHF channel 9, consistent across every listing Yotters checked. Beyond that single fact, the marina publishes almost nothing about its own approach: no light characteristics, no recommended chart numbers and no written hazard notes of the kind ACI in Croatia or many Turkish marinas print for arriving skippers. The headland itself is exposed on its eastern and southern faces to the open Saronic Gulf, and the rebuilt breakwater system, an L-shaped extension added during the 2013-2024 works, is what now gives the inner basin its shelter. Third-party listings describe the basin as accommodating vessels with up to 8 m beam and around 630 amps of shore power on the superyacht piers, though these figures are not confirmed on the marina's own site.
The Aegean's defining summer wind, the meltemi, blows from the north and northwest through July and August and is the main planning hazard for any yacht approaching from the Cyclades or crossing the open gulf toward Vouliagmeni. It typically builds through the morning and peaks in the afternoon, which argues for timing an arrival for the calmer early hours where possible, standard Aegean practice rather than anything specific to this marina. Because Astir Marina does not publish its own pilot notes, the safer approach for an unfamiliar skipper is to call the marina office well in advance of arrival on VHF 9 or by phone, confirm berth assignment and any local hazards directly, and treat generic Saronic Gulf charts and almanacs as the primary reference rather than marina-published material.
How you actually get a berth
Astir Marina publishes an online application form on its own site for owners seeking a berth, but no published rate card, contract terms or availability calendar sit behind it. The practical route is direct contact: phone +30 210 896 0012 or email [email protected]. Brokerage listings confirm the marina's headline product is not a rental at all but a long lease: Fraser Yachts has marketed individual private berths in the marina's A5 area, including single berths for vessels of 103.99 m, 85 m and 70 m, each with a 20 m beam, sold with price on application, secure private access, dedicated parking and storage, plus direct pedestrian access into the Four Seasons complex.
The clearest public pricing comes from the marina's own launch-era statements rather than its current site. Astir Marina's president and chief executive, Penny Zaglaridou, told GreekReporter in 2023 that berths were being leased for 30 years, quoting 2 million euros for a 30 metre yacht and 4.5 million euros for a 46 to 50 metre yacht, figures that were current at the marina's reopening and have not been publicly updated since. A research note from one of the Big Four accounting firms, cited in the same coverage, predicted the rebuilt marina would rank among the top three in the southeastern Mediterranean. Whether that ranking has since been achieved is not independently verifiable from any source Yotters could find; treat it as the operator's own launch-era ambition rather than a settled fact.
What it costs to keep a boat here
Every figure Yotters could verify for Vouliagmeni Marina is a capital lease price, not a running cost. The 2 million euro and 4.5 million euro numbers above cover thirty years of tenure on a specific berth, which works out to a headline average of roughly 67,000 euros a year for the 30 metre lease and 150,000 euros a year for the 46 to 50 metre lease, before any service charge, utility cost or annual fee the marina may add on top; none of those additions are published. What is not available anywhere Yotters checked is a simple nightly or weekly berth rate of the kind ACI in Croatia, most Spanish marinas or the Turkish D-Marin chain all print openly.
That silence is itself informative. A marina built around 30-year leases and private berth sales to brokers like Fraser Yachts is structured primarily as a real estate product for owners who plan to base a yacht here indefinitely, not as a transient stop on a Mediterranean season. A visiting yacht without an existing lease should expect to negotiate a short stay directly with the marina office rather than book online, and should ask specifically whether shore power, water and waste are bundled into any quoted figure, since the marina's own literature is silent on the point. Given the price gap between the known lease figures and the total absence of a visitor rate, this is not a marina Yotters can recommend budgeting for without a direct quote in hand.
Clearing into Greece, and Vouliagmeni's own customs status
Greece designates specific harbours as ports of entry where an arriving yacht may complete formal clearance, and Vouliagmeni is one of them, serving the southern Athens Riviera as its own entry point separate from Piraeus, which covers Athens and the wider Saronic Gulf. In practice that means a yacht arriving directly from outside Greek waters does not need to divert to Piraeus first. Clearance follows the standard national sequence: port police, immigration for passport and crew list stamping, port police again to counter-stamp the crew list, then customs to register for and pay the E-TEPAI cruising tax and, for non-EU flagged vessels, to issue a transit log, followed by a final port police stamp on the transit log itself.
TEPAI, formally the special duty for recreational vessels, is charged at 8 euros per metre of length overall per calendar month on any vessel over 7 m regardless of flag, billed by the calendar month so a two-week stay spanning a month boundary is charged for two full months. It is paid online after registering at the tax authority's eTEPAI portal, or in person at customs offices, port authorities or banks if online payment is not possible. Non-EU flagged yachts additionally need a transit log, which costs 30 euros for a privately owned vessel and can be applied for online in advance; several Greek ports fine arriving yachts around 300 euros for failing to apply before arrival, so this should be done ahead of time rather than on the dock at Vouliagmeni.
Services on site, and what a superyacht marina here does not offer
The 2013-2024 redevelopment rebuilt the marina's utilities from the ground up: new power and water distribution, a sewage network serving each berth individually, a fuel station, Wi-Fi across the site and automated payment systems, according to the project's own contractors. Above the waterline, the land zone completed in May 2024 added a touch-and-go helipad, more than 350 above and below-ground parking spaces plus the new 133-space underground facility that opened in 2025, and a retail promenade carrying Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Loro Piana, Dior and Bottega Veneta alongside the Italian pasticceria Cova and the restaurant Bagatelle. Security is described as 24 hour by the marina's own materials, though no further detail on access control or CCTV coverage is published.
What the marina does not offer, in any source Yotters could locate, is any form of haul-out capacity: no travel lift, no dry stack, no yard and no refit capability of any kind are mentioned by the marina, by the architects who rebuilt it, or by any third-party listing. That is a deliberate design choice consistent with the marina's 30-year-lease, resort-berth model rather than an oversight: Vouliagmeni is built to keep a yacht afloat and serviced in the water, in the same way the Fraser-marketed private berths are sold with parking and storage on land but nothing describing lifting gear. An owner who needs winter haul-out or refit work will need to plan for a yard elsewhere in Greece or Turkey.
Getting there by land and air
Athens International Airport, Eleftherios Venizelos, lies about 22 km from the marina by the operator's own figure and about 24 km by independent route calculators, a discrepancy that is minor by the standards of some marina distance claims elsewhere in the Aegean. The drive takes roughly 25 to 30 minutes outside peak traffic on the Attiki Odos motorway and the coastal road through Glyfada and Voula. A daytime taxi runs 65 to 75 euros on the fixed airport tariff; ride-hailing and private transfer operators quote broadly similar figures. There is no metro, tram or suburban rail station in Vouliagmeni itself; the nearest tram terminus is well to the north in Voula, so a car, taxi or private transfer is effectively mandatory rather than optional.
By road, Vouliagmeni sits at the southern end of the Athens Riviera coast road that also serves Glyfada, Voula and the other Athens Riviera marinas, with central Athens and Piraeus both about 21 km to the north. For a crew flying in to join a yacht, that means budgeting airport transfer time and cost as a fixed line item rather than assuming a quick taxi hop, and for an owner comparing this marina against Alimos or Flisvos closer to the city, the extra distance from the airport is broadly similar across all of them since Athens' single international airport sits well east of the city rather than favouring any one Riviera marina over another.
What is next door, and the dates that matter
Everything a crew needs without leaving the peninsula sits within the same gated site: the Four Seasons Astir Palace hotel, awarded 3 Michelin Keys in the inaugural 2025 Greece Michelin Guide hotel distinction and ranked 17th on the World's 50 Best Hotels list the same year; Astir Beach, a private Blue Flag beach club a short walk from the marina; and a short drive or walk further on, Lake Vouliagmeni, the brackish, spring-fed lake that holds a near-constant 22 to 29 degree temperature year round. Next door on the adjoining Mikro Kavouri peninsula sits the Nautical Club of Vouliagmeni, a separate sailing and watersports club founded in 1937, older than the marina itself and not part of the Astir Palace concession.
There is no fixed annual regatta or boat show tied to this marina in any source Yotters could verify, unlike some Mediterranean marinas built around a signature autumn event. The dates that do matter here are corporate rather than nautical: the Yacht Club de Monaco memorandum of understanding, signed 17 September 2024 and aimed at the marina eventually earning La Belle Classe Destinations certification, and the planned 2026 opening of an Astir Yacht Club, a members' club for berth-holders that had not opened as of this writing and for which no confirmed opening date has been published. An owner planning a first visit should treat both as aspirations under way rather than services currently available.
Ashore, access and booking
| Getting there | Athens International Airport (ATH) is about 22 to 24 km from the marina, roughly 25 to 30 minutes by road outside peak traffic. A daytime taxi runs about 65 to 75 euros on the fixed airport tariff. There is no metro or tram connection to Vouliagmeni; a car, taxi or private transfer is effectively required. |
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| Arriving by sea | Call the marina on VHF channel 9. The marina publishes no light characteristics, chart references or written hazard notes of its own, unusually thin compared with other Greek and Croatian marinas. The Aegean meltemi, a northerly summer wind peaking in the afternoon through July and August, is the main planning hazard on any approach from the Cyclades or across the open Saronic Gulf. |
| Clearing in | Vouliagmeni is itself one of Greece's roughly 38 designated ports of entry, separate from Piraeus, so a yacht can clear in on arrival without diverting north. TEPAI cruising tax is 8 euros per metre of length per calendar month for vessels over 7 m, paid online via the eTEPAI portal. Non-EU flagged yachts also need a 30 euro transit log, best applied for online before arrival to avoid a roughly 300 euro late-application fine at some ports. |
| How you reserve a berth | No online booking system is published. Apply through the form on the marina's own site, or contact the office directly on +30 210 896 0012 or [email protected]. The marina's headline product is a 30-year berth lease rather than a nightly rental; brokers including Fraser Yachts separately market individual private berths for vessels up to about 104 m. |
| What a berth costs | The only public figures are long-lease prices quoted by the marina's president in 2023: about 2 million euros for a 30-year lease on a 30 metre berth and 4.5 million euros for a 46 to 50 metre berth. No current nightly, monthly or annual visitor tariff is published anywhere Yotters could find. |
| Fuel and haul-out | An on-site fuel station was added in the 2013-2024 redevelopment. No travel lift, dry stack or haul-out yard exists at this marina in any source checked; it is a berthing and lifestyle marina only, with refit and winter storage handled elsewhere. |
| What's next door | The Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens, awarded 3 Michelin Keys in 2025, sits directly above the marina. Astir Beach, a private Blue Flag beach club, and Lake Vouliagmeni, a warm spring-fed lake, are both within walking distance or a short drive. The separate Nautical Club of Vouliagmeni, founded 1937, sits on the neighbouring Mikro Kavouri peninsula. |
| After dark | On-site dining includes the Italian pasticceria Cova and the restaurant Bagatelle, plus Moorings on the promenade. Reviews are mixed: visitors consistently praise the harbour and hotel views but repeatedly report slow, inattentive service and prices reviewers call excessive, including a reported entrance charge to marina parking that one reviewer called unreasonable. |
| The fixed dates | No annual regatta or boat show is tied to this marina. The Yacht Club de Monaco memorandum of understanding was signed 17 September 2024, working toward La Belle Classe Destinations certification. A members' Astir Yacht Club is planned to open in 2026; no confirmed date had been published as of this writing. |
| What is NOT published | A nightly, weekly, monthly or annual visitor berth rate; the marina's actual current berth count, which the marina's own site puts at 59 and the local tourism authority's page still puts at 103; maximum draught, which third parties give as anywhere from 4 m to 6 m; and any haul-out or yard capacity, which appears not to exist. |
What owners and crew report
Visitors without a long-term lease find it isolated and expensive
A visitor review of the marina on Tripadvisor describes anchoring a boat there and finding no practical way to reach central Athens: no public transport and no other option beyond a taxi, calling the marina expensive for what it offers and too far from the city to be useful for a short stay.
TripadvisorThe on-site restaurant's views outshine its service
Reviews of Moorings, the restaurant on the marina promenade, describe a stunning setting with views reviewers call absolutely amazing, set against service reviewers found extremely disappointing, with staff rarely checking on tables between taking the order and clearing the bill.
TripadvisorEven the marina's own cafe draws a value complaint
Reviewers of Pasticceria Cova, the Italian cafe on the marina itself, praise the harbour views of the boats and the clear water, but separately describe the overall quality as average for the price and call the charge to enter the marina's own parking area unreasonable.
TripadvisorThe operator frames the rebuild as a top-tier ambition, not yet independently confirmed
At the marina's 2023 reopening, president and chief executive Penny Zaglaridou called the arrival of the first boat a very important moment in a project becoming reality, and the same coverage cited a Big Four accounting firm research note predicting the rebuilt marina would rank among the top three in the southeastern Mediterranean, a ranking Yotters could not independently verify as achieved.
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What is good, and what to watch
Strong points
- A genuine, expensive rebuild, not a repaintThe 2013-2024 redevelopment reconstructed the piers, deepened the basin, installed permanent mooring anchors, a new substation, a helipad and a fuel station, at a reported cost of 55 million US dollars, verified through the project's own construction manager rather than marina marketing copy alone.
- Financially serious again after a decade of lossThe marina's 2025 published results show turnover of 18.91 million euros, EBITDA of 10.66 million euros and a 2.12 million euro net profit, reversing a 1.92 million euro loss in 2024, with group debt cut from 56.1 million to 21.7 million euros in the same year.
- Its own customs port of entryVouliagmeni is one of Greece's roughly 38 designated ports of entry in its own right, letting an arriving yacht clear in on the spot rather than detouring to Piraeus first.
- A resort address most marinas cannot offerBerths sit directly beneath a hotel awarded 3 Michelin Keys in 2025 and ranked 17th in the World's 50 Best Hotels the same year, with monobrand retail from Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Dior, Loro Piana and Bottega Veneta on the promenade.
- A Monaco-standard partnership already in placeMonaco's Societe Monegasque Internationale Portuaire advised on the marina's berth planning and infrastructure from 2019 onward, formalized into a September 2024 memorandum of understanding with the Yacht Club de Monaco working toward La Belle Classe Destinations certification.
What to watch
- No visitor can get a straight priceEvery published figure is a 30-year lease price, 2 million euros for 30 metres and 4.5 million euros for 46 to 50 metres, both from the marina's 2023 relaunch. No current nightly, weekly or annual visitor rate is published anywhere.
- The marina disagrees with itself on basic capacityIts own site states 59 berths; the local tourism authority's page still states 103 berths to a 45 m limit; maximum draught is quoted anywhere from 4 m to 6 m depending on the source. None of these figures has been reconciled.
- Genuinely isolated from central AthensNo metro or tram serves Vouliagmeni, the drive into central Athens runs 30 to 40 minutes, and at least one visitor review calls the marina too far from the city to be useful for anyone without a long-term reason to be there.
- No haul-out capacity of any kindNo travel lift, dry stack or yard exists at this marina in any source checked. An owner needing winter storage or refit work has to plan for a separate yard elsewhere in Greece or Turkey.
- Service does not yet match the investmentReviews of the marina's own promenade restaurants and cafe consistently praise the setting and the views while criticizing inattentive service, average quality for the price and a marina parking charge more than one reviewer called excessive.
Who it is for: An owner or captain who wants a rebuilt, Monaco-advised superyacht base a short drive from Athens, next to a 3 Michelin Key hotel and inside its own customs port of entry, and who is buying or leasing long-term rather than looking for a cheap overnight stop; not for a visiting cruiser who wants a published nightly tariff, a haul-out yard, or easy public transport into central Athens.