San Francisco, From $108 a Night
This festive hotel package is valid over the holidays and includes ice-skating at Union Square.
Guests can walk five minutes to the beach or hitch a ride with the innkeepers to swimming spots farther away.
The eight studios and six larger apartments are sparely furnished, but all have sea views.
Each room has a terrace and deftly combines old-world charm with modern conveniences.
Oliaros is the ancient Greek name for Antiparos, so it's appropriate that the eight rooms here are very traditional.
Stay near swimming spots like Kolymbithres, a series of shallow bays created by volcanic-rock deposits.