Uzenie is a 50-suite adults-only resort on the sand at Adelianos Kampos, opened in 2025 and designed to look as if it rises straight from the water — rock, wood, greenery and sea knitted together.
Asterion Suites & Spa spreads 67 suites across three low-rise buildings on the sand at Pyrgos Psilonerou, near Gerani in Chania — an adults-only address facing the Aegean and the Saint Theodore nature reserve.
Altera Cave Villas is a cluster of seven adults-only villas carved into the hillside above the sea in Agios Pavlos, South Crete, built on bioclimatic principles the property calls 'invisible architecture'.
NEMA Design Hotel & Spa is an adults-only five-star on Analipsi Beach Road in Hersonissos, part of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, working a dark, contemporary palette against the Cretan light.
Dyo Beach Suites sits directly on the sand at Misiria, east of Rethymno: a small collection of one-bedroom apartments, several with private pools, breakfast carried to your terrace each morning.
Minos Palace Resort occupies its own peninsula above Agios Nikolaos Bay — an adults-only address on the Cretan coast where a dark-bottom freshwater infinity pool opens onto Mirabello Bay.