Elounda Bay Palace, a Member of the Leading Hotels of the World

We chose to stay at Elounda to celebrate our mother's 80th birthday. The rooms were wonderful. We had 4 interconnecting rooms with balconies and really good facilities. We chose a half board package which allowed us to take breakfast and dinner on site. The food was good and a reasonable choice was available in all of the restaurants. It became clear that many of the guests were regulars and returned to Elounda each year to enjoy the facilities. I can fully understand why. The beaches are clean and the hotel offers an excellent option for family holidays.

Rather run down hotel, restaurant service is organized chaos. Was very surprised it was part of the Leading Hotels of the World with a 5 star rating. If you are used to luxury, don’t go there.

This hotel was absolutely excellent. I was a little taken back that the taxi ride was €110 one way. Once we got to the hotel it was worth every euro. We had a beautiful room facing the ocean everything about the room was Great Especially the view facing the ocean. The only thing better than the room was the food offerings. My wife is vegan and they made sure every meal she had all the large selection and she couldn’t believe the variety involved. Each night was a different celebration so there was no repetition in the dinner or the breakfast. This beach is the best beach we’ve experienced in our month-long stay in Greece. Powder sand beach, low winds , Plenty of area to find shade. The beach chairs were great and the water was crystal clear very low waves. We cried when we had to leave this hotel the experience was so good. If you are looking for the perfect hotel on Crete this is the location and the hotel you could not do better if you had to.

Excellent holiday in a magical place

Beautiful beach, elegant resort, excellent food in the buffet, very pleasant staff, pretty gardens, coffee machine in room, nice little touches throughout - fresh roses in room, waiter push button call from sun loungers.

Hotel was great, food offer is extremely generous and good. you are forced to pay for water as they not offer tap water. in addition the WiFi is very weak and was impossible to connect. Taxi offered by the hotel is 40% higher then regular price

was just great from any perspective.

Great setting in the beach . Rooms were dated , half board option was restricted to dinner buffet only so not worth going half board . No entertainment in the evening even in peak season. One night they had Greek night which was 65op. WiFi is dreadful so bring your own

The staff are excellent, and make everybody feel part of something special.

The setting is exquisite and it is a perfect venue for a one week holiday with more than enough to do. The beaches and sea are fabulous, food in the buffet and lunch time restaurants is really excellent. There is a sushi restaurant that offered super expensive food that wasn’t very good, but otherwise great. They messed up one of our room bookings (forgot about one of our sons) but eventually sorted it all out. Strongly recommend for family holiday - we were 7 and it worked well for everyone