Sensimar Elounda Village Resort & Spa

Beautiful hotel on the relief

The hotel is really nice. It is located on the slope, and hotel design reflects it in an amazing way with a set of villas overlooking the sea or a garden. Thanks to it the hotel doesn't look like some hotel monster and provides quite a high level of privacy. Beach is rather small, but there are two options: to swim in calm water in the artificial bay or right in the sea, where you can go down with swimming pool style stairs. In the mid of October it was quite windy, but thanks to the water temperature (+23 - +24) one could swim. There are activities arranged by a hotel, but to some of them it was tricky to sign in. There is a tennis court with astro turf, it was almost always availiable. Food is good, though unfortunately there was no lamb. Drinks are a bit expensive, but with quite a good price for the hotel itself it's ok. Most staff are really friendly and helpful, especially Hardimos at the reception. Overall I really enjoyed the trip.

Much-needed holiday

We just got back from our week at Elounda Village. We had booked a sea-view bungalow, and were very happy with the location of our bungalow on site (number 560). Didn’t get the advertised fruit/nougat basket in our room (assume Covid) but we had wine and bath robes which were very welcome! Glass of fizz at arrival too which was a nice touch. Decided against the spa as found prices a little steep (the pool, sauna etc were unavailable- again assuming Covid), but took a trip to Spinalonga (great tour guide!) and also went snorkelling at Olous sunken city. Both reasonable in price. Can’t recommend Mirabello restaurant enough- we ate lunch there 3 times and also booked for Lobster Night (set menu- lots of food). Great food and lovely wait staff. My fiancé loved the seafood pasta! Good choice of cocktails in the bars, perhaps too much choice of wine! Culinarium and Fire Pit restaurants weren’t open (Covid? Or end of season?) so can’t comment on them, but we had a choice of the buffet, Mirabello or Beach Bar. Buffet is quite expensive for lunch if you’re on half board so we only used it for breakfast and some dinners. Outside the hotel, Elounda is about half an hour walk away. We visited 3 restaurants (Megaro, Kalidon, Vritomartes) and a couple of bars by the port and would recommend all. Taxis are easily found near the port if you’d rather avoid the walk back. We found the weather at the beginning of October warm but quite windy. Best sun until early afternoon is down on the decking near the beach, and then was blocked by the cliffs, so perhaps the top pool is better for sun a little later. I rated 4 out of 5 as we would have liked to sample the other restaurants but were unable.

Very Relax

This was our second visit and it was so nice to be back. I will definately recommend this resort for anyone looking for a relaxing week away should visit this resort. We will be returning againg. Great service, excellent and well co-ordinated staff service and very clean rooms. My wife and I are strong coffee lovers and to have a Nespresso coffee meching with constant supply of coffee capsols and well stocked mini bar. Since it was our Minimoon as stated by my wife, Our room over-looked the sea to the right and hills to the left.The weather was great.