Historical Background

1977
Aldemar is founded.

1985-1987
Aldemar Cretan Village ****, the company's first hotel unit is designed and constructed on a 60,000-sq.m. property at Limenas Hersonissou, Crete.

1989-1991
Aldemar Knossos Royal Village *****, the second hotel unit is designed and constructed on an 85,000-sq.m. property at Limenas Hersonissou, Crete.

1992
Knossos Royal Village Conference Centre, a conference facility that caters up to 900 people, is completed on the grounds of Knossos Royal Village. Construction of 49 luxurious villas on the hotel premises.

1995-97
Design andConstruction of Aldemar Royal Mare Village, a de luxe hotel unit, and Aldemar Royal Mare Thalasso, the first Thalasso spa centre in Greece, completed both on a 96,000-sq.m. property adjacent to Aldemar Cretan Village. In June 1997, the new units are inaugurated by the then Minister of Development Ms. V. Papandreou.

1999
In May 1999, a refurbishment project at the newly acquired Paradise Beach & Paradise Village in Kallithea, Rhodes is completed. The two fully renovated first-class hotel units welcome their first guests under the new names Aldemar Paradise Royal Mare and Aldemar Paradise Village.

1998-99
Within a nine months’ period takes place the complete design and refurbishment of the newly acquired unit (formerly, Miramare) on a 740,000-sq.m. property at Skafidia, West Peloponnese. Under a new name, the first-class hotel Aldemar Olympian Village welcomes its first guests in May 1999.

2000
In July 2000, the Greek Tourist Organization - state agency- classifies Aldemar Paradise Royal Mare under the ‘de luxe’ category.

2001
In January 2001, the Greek Tourist Organization classifies Aldemar Olympian Village under the ‘de luxe’ category.

2004
Creation of the Royal Olympian Spa Τhalasso at the Olympian Village *****, a new dimension to thalassotherapy.