Block722 laid this 2024 Marriott across 100 coastal acres near Chania, working in marble, wood, olive and carob trees with green roofs that let the buildings settle into the Cretan shoreline.
KYMANI is an eleven-room boutique hotel in Plakias, opened in May 2022, whose name — from a word meaning "the adventurous sea traveller" — nods to prehistoric voyagers who first landed on southern Crete.
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.
Six seafront suites on the edge of Rethymno, family-run by owners Mike and his wife, with an infinity pool, an on-site art gallery and direct access to a long sandy beach.
Acro Suites is a 50-room, adults-only wellbeing resort above Mononaftis Bay in Crete, its cave suites and infinity pools cut into the hillside a few steps from the water.
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'.
Domus Ariadne is a six-room town house on a quiet street directly behind Heraklion's Archaeological Museum, its interiors keyed to the metaphysical paintings of Giorgio de Chirico.
SanSal is a 23-room boutique hotel built beside the Venetian walls of Chania's old city, one block from the San Salvador Bastion, with a seasonal rooftop pool above the rooftops.
Monastery Estate Retreat is a converted monastery estate in the mountains above Sougia, in southwest Crete: eleven rooms, most with their own private pool, facing the White Mountains and olive terraces.
The Syntopia is an adults-only hotel in Adelianos Kampos, reworked in 2019 across two buildings, with a rooftop pool and a garden of sun terraces a short walk from a sandy Cretan beach.