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Malmo Historic Hotel is a seven-room character property inside Chania's old town, set in a building whose story runs across five centuries, a short walk from the Old Venetian Harbour.

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.

Pnoe Breathing Life sits above the coast at Karteros, an adults-only resort where every room comes with its own private pool and the service, by all accounts, does the rest.

ADĀMA is an adults-only collection of villas above Matala, on Crete's southern coast, where the design of the buildings themselves is what most guests remember.

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.

The Tanneries Hotel & Spa occupies four conjoined 1800s tannery buildings on the Tabakaria waterfront near Chania, 20 suites strung along the water inside a Design Hotels member.

Aisha Hotel occupies a renovated old building in the heart of Chania's historic quarter, a two-minute walk from the Venetian harbour and its waterfront.

Panorama New Generation is a seven-room house set on the slope above Hora Sfakion, on Crete's south coast, with a pool terrace looking out over the harbour and the Libyan Sea.

O Mikros Kosmos is an adults-only cluster of eleven bungalows in an olive grove above Sívas, in southern Crete, built around a 600-year-old tree that stands as the resort's village square.