Jutting out into the relentlessly turquoise Aegean Sea, Elounda Peninsula is as chic as a night spent sipping honey raki with Maria Callas. An ‘all-suite’ resort hotel, each lavish room has its own private infinity pool, as well as access to not one, but two private beaches, both within stumbling distance from a selection of cottages and presidential bungalows.
Time Out tip
Fancy a day trip with a difference? Take a boat to nearby Spinalonga, a former leper colony where Victoria Hislop’s bestselling 2005 novel The Island is set.