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Holidays in Elounda

Crete's chic north-coast enclave is a pocket paradise. Home to some of the most upscale places to stay in Greece – with a healthy mix of affordable hotels thrown in, too – this sun-kissed stretch is the perfect postcard image of a Mediterranean holiday.

Lapped by the mirror-calm turquoise waters of the Gulf of Mirabella, holidays in Elounda are less about throbbing nightlife and more about kicking back. Stay poolside with a cold drink in hand, meander down to a laid-back taverna for a lazy lunch or take a sunset boat trip before dinner – this is a place to wind down and forget the outside world.

Elounda is no sleepy backwater, though. After dark, its waterfront comes to life, with plenty of lively local bars and fish tavernas along its quayside and tucked away in the lanes of the old town. You'll find even more choice in Agios Nikolaos, a 20-minute taxi ride from Elounda, where's there's no shortage of spots to drink and dance to old favourites, latest hits and Greek traditional rhythms.

The toughest thing about an Elounda holiday is dragging yourself away from your pampered playground, but when you do, you'll find lots to amuse you, from quayside restaurants beside quaint fishing harbours to boat trips to historic island fortresses.

Outside the resort, day trips can take you high up into the mountains, to spooky caverns where bronze-age people worshipped ancient gods or deep into secret valleys hidden by treeless peaks.

Lovers of hidden histories and lost civilisations don't have go far to unpeel the multiple layers of Crete's deep past, either. There’s 4,000-year-old relics of one of Europe's oldest civilisations in ancient Knossos, formidable Venetian and Ottoman strongholds and the fabulous treasures of Heraklion's Archaeological Museum just a hop away from your base in Elounda.

For a bit of retail therapy, you'll find markets and shopping streets where you can browse for hand-made leather wear and accessories, artisan jewellery and ceramics, and herbs gathered from mountain meadows high above Elounda's sunny beaches.

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Elounda Bay Palace

9

Excellent

Elounda, Crete, Greece
  • 18 Oct 2026
  • 7 nights
  • Half board
  • From Gatwick

Prices from

£697 pp

Elounda Waterpark Residence Hotel

8.7

Excellent

Elounda, Crete, Greece
  • 18 Oct 2026
  • 7 nights
  • Bed & breakfast
  • From Gatwick

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£519 pp

Elounda Beach Hotel & Villas

9.5

Excellent

Elounda, Crete, Greece
  • 5 Oct 2026
  • 7 nights
  • Bed & breakfast
  • From Stansted

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£724 pp

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Elounda Waterpark Residence Hotel

8.7

Excellent

Elounda, Crete, Greece
  • 18 Oct 2026
  • 7 nights
  • All-inclusive
  • From Gatwick

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£592 pp

Elounda Breeze Resort

8.8

Excellent

Elounda, Crete, Greece
  • 4 May 2027
  • 7 nights
  • All-inclusive
  • From Manchester

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£696 pp

Domes Aulus Elounda All-Inclusive Resort, Curio Collection by Hilton

9.2

Excellent

Elounda, Crete, Greece
  • 8 Oct 2026
  • 4 nights
  • All-inclusive
  • From Manchester

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£728 pp

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Elounda Bay Palace

9

Excellent

Elounda, Crete, Greece
  • 18 Oct 2026
  • 7 nights
  • Half board
  • From Gatwick

Prices from

£697 pp

Elounda Beach Hotel & Villas

9.5

Excellent

Elounda, Crete, Greece
  • 23 Oct 2026
  • 7 nights
  • Bed & breakfast
  • From Gatwick

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£1,661 pp

Domes Aulus Elounda All-Inclusive Resort, Curio Collection by Hilton

9.2

Excellent

Elounda, Crete, Greece
  • 24 Sept 2026
  • 7 nights
  • Room only
  • From Manchester

Prices from

£1,192 pp

What to do in Elounda

With its privileged position on a postcard-pretty bay ringed by misty mountains, Elounda is more than just a space to laze – it's a fabulous pace for day trips and adventures on land and sea.

Beaches

Elounda isn't all about idling by the pool. The calm Gulf of Mirabello is perfect for water-skiing, windsurfing and all sorts of inflatable rides.

Rent a skipper-yourself motorboat – you don't need a licence if it’s under 30HP. Or if you prefer to sit back and let someone else steer, you can hire a boat and skipper for a morning's fishing or a day-long swimming and snorkelling trip.

Spinalonga

The boat ride to Spinalonga is the top excursion from Elounda. Just offshore, Venetian and Turkish fortifications dominate this tiny island in the Gulf of Mirabello, where people living with leprosy were quarantined until less than a century ago.

Agios Nikolaos

A 20-minute drive from Elounda, Agios Nikolaos is a blissfully scenic small harbour town. It was one of the first holiday spots on Crete, but tourism has moved on and today, 'Ag Nik' is pleasantly laid-back, with attractive shopping streets and a plethora of quayside tavernas around its serene inner lagoon.

Ancient Knossos and Heraklion

With a rental car, you can combine a morning at ancient Knossos, with its colourfully restored palace columns and wall paintings of dolphins and bull-dancers, and a visit to nearby Heraklion's lively street markets and Archaeological Museum, a treasury of incredibly ancient relics.

Both are around 75 minutes' drive from Elounda.

Lasithi Plateau

Tzermiado is the gateway to the hidden world of Lasithi, a high plateau that is hemmed in by a ring of treeless grey mountains like a lost kingdom from a fantasy movie.

Only a few of its famous windmills are left, but the one-hour drive through the mountains from Elounda is spectacular. Underground, the Dikteon Cave is an eerie grotto of spooky rock formations.

Good to know

Flight time

4h

(from London)

Currency

Euros (€)

Language

Greek

Things to know about Elounda

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Typical stay7 nights
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    £743

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    24.1°C

  • Average rainfall

    0.3mm

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