Pick one of Santorini's cliff-side hotels with a patio where you can sit and enjoy the view of the caldera and if "comfort and scenic beauty" is your thing, you'll consider yourelf well treated.

We enjoy travel and are antique enough to have done quite a bit of it. We got to Santorini for the first time last year and were really captivated by the place. I like craggy mountains and snow-covered pines best, but there was something about that caldera with its lazy-seeming to-and-fro'ing of boats that really grabbed me. We were there the first week in September, and will be back again this year (27 Aug - 2 Sept - look us up if you decide to go there). We stayed at a place called Homeric Poems and are there again, although I think they're rethinking the name and it's Homeric Studios now. It's in Immeroviglia, far enough from Fira to be quiet, close enough to easily walk.

Aside, if you decide to connect to a domestic flight at ATH, be advised that the OA terminal is on the other side of the runway from everyone else. If you arrive on OA, stay on OA. Anyone else, use Aegean.

John