Aquila Elounda Village Resort, Suites & Spa

From arrival to departure a great holiday .The Hotel building and the grounds are well tended and the sea view from our room.The spa with its indoor pool and friendly staff Marina and Joanna is a must.The pillow choice was a nice touch.The main restaurant was exceptional providing a wide choice of dishes.There are two other a la carte restaurants available.The beach bar is also well worth a visit.The lobby bar in the main building with its outside space is a very welcoming area.We have visited this adult only hotel on five occasions over recent years and will be returning next year.Our thanks to Tito and Maria in the dining room and Eleni in the Lobby Bar.And special thanks to Alexandra (Front of House Manager) for her kindness and attention.

A great holiday - lovely staff and management , everything was amazing . Food and drinks just right. Our room was brilliant, especially the large private pool . If you can book room 6 for the big pool .. Breakfast - brilliant Lunch - main restaurant - brilliant Dinner - main restaurant - brilliant Marbilo restaurant for lunch and dinner - brilliant Greek night - brilliant We didn’t use the curiculum or the grill restaurant, but heard good reviews from other guests. Great choice of drinks , great coffee not this substandard like in most hotels .. Spa - small indoor pool, but relaxing . Saunas, steam rooms and more. Had a great massage while here .

Great hotel Friendly staff. They will go out of their way to be helpful. Thank you to Alexandra from front of house ...we loved chatting to you and Viola, our sociable TUI Blue representative.... so knowledgeable Very efficient Spa staff excellent so professional. In particular Helen who explained the different massages and Johanna who did my Cretan massage. Thank you !

A return visit as Mythica guests. The hotel is much the same as we remembered. Staff were friendly and helpful as before and some we remembered and they remembered us. Food at the buffet restuarant was good, varied and plentiful as were drinks at the bar services. The main bar does not open until 18:00 (it used to be 16:00) so if you want a drink coffee or otherwise before that you will have to go to the beach bar. At 35 degrees that can be quite a walk. The air conditioning in our room was too noisy to be on at night so we left the patio door open. One problem the hotel shares with its sister Rithymna beach hotel invasive and overloud, not very good, canned 'muzak' played too loud in the buffet etc. at meal times, especially so at breakfast. That comment from someone who has Jerry Lee Lewis, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin and the like in his collection.

We cannot recommend this hotel highly enough. A jewel in the crown that is hospitality. We were made so welcome on arrival and it just got better from there. Beautiful location with a small inlet and beach which offered excellent snorkelling with a wide variety of sea life, as well as a choice of indoor or outdoor pools. Also a dive centre on site (for which you will need cash). Fantastic variety and quality of food across all the restaurants on offer with the opportunity to eat a la carte as well. Very well appointed and comfortable rooms and amazing WiFi coverage across the whole site inside and out. Very accommodating and professional staff for whom nothing is too much trouble. We cannot wait to return next year for a longer stay!!

We previously stayed at Aquila Elounda Village Hotel in June 2017. We decided to return to Crete this year and did not hesitate in our choice of hotel. We were sceptical that the hotel could be quite as good as we’d remembered in view of the 7 year gap since our last visit, and with the aftermath of the pandemic. We need not have doubted!! This hotel and all its staff were as splendid, if not better, than we remembered. We chose a better room this time, treating ourselves to a shared pool. My husband does not like too much sun and does not swim, preferring to read in the shade, soak up the views and watch me frolicking in and out of the pool. Having a pool in front of the room therefore seemed the perfect compromise for us to both have a fantastic holiday. Unfortunately, because of the time of the year, the sun did not reach our patio or pool, making it much less inviting to be room-based. I explained this to the guest relations staff at reception (namely Haridimos, Thomas and Alexandra). The hotel was at full capacity at the time, but it was clear from the offset that the staff genuinely wanted to help us and we were told that they would try moving us to a room with a bit more sun as soon as one became available. True to their word, we were moved to such a room two days into our holiday; the new room not only gave us the sun we’d hoped for, but the staff were delighted to inform us that it also meant an upgrade. We now had our very own pool and a much bigger suite! We really cannot give enough praise to the way in which these 3 staff members rallied round to help resolve our problem and to ensure our holiday was everything we had hoped for and more. They are truly a credit to this hotel! We were also very pleasantly surprised to find out that because we had paid for one of the more expensive rooms, that made us Mythica guests, and meant we could eat at our preferred A La Carte restaurant (Mirabella) every night. The setting and food at this restaurant was sublime, and as for the waiting staff, namely Sofia, beautiful Natalya and Dimitris, nothing was too much. These same staff were there evening after evening of our stay, but never failed to be anything other than delightful – friendly, informative and funny. We felt we had become more than customers by the end of our week there - we had become friends. The one other member of staff that I must mention is Sofia in the main restaurant. I recognised this lovely lady from when we visited 7 years ago, and she has apparently been working at the hotel for 20 years. All I can say is that her ability to continue to show such enthusiasm and desire to ensure each guest is happy after 20 years in the job is commendable. All in all, we LOVED everything about our holiday at this wonderful hotel - the STUNNING hilltop setting, clean sea, gorgeous architecture of the hotel, beautifully maintained and established gardens, and ABOVE ALL ELSE………the splendid staff! Needless to say, we will definitely NOT be wa

Fantastic experience at the Aegeo Spa during my stay at the hotel. I had my treatments with Sonela who was lovely and had a massage and facial treatment. Both were incredibly relaxing and performed really well, very much enjoyed and worth the visit.

This has got to be the best hotel we have stayed in. Upon arrival we was greeted when getting out the taxi by a friendly and welcoming member of the reception team. We checked in and was introduced to Elini who explained everything to us and made us feel very welcomed and then personally walked us to our room, we are staying in room 10 which is a deluxe waterfront bungalow… all I can say is WOW. The room is stunning with the most amazing view. The food is outstanding and there is an excellent buffet restaurant as well as 3 other places to eat , had dinner in the Mirabello restaurant last night and really enjoyed it. The whole team that work here go above and beyond to make your stay special. I will most definitely return to this hotel and would thoroughly recommend it… it is stylish, relaxing (adults only) and the whole feel to the place is perfect. Thank you Aguila for a fantastic holiday.

This is our 5th time at this hotel and it only gets better. The setting of this hotel is magical and oh so blue ! You can admire the views all day long. The hotel is made to feel like a village just as the name suggests with bungalows doted around beautiful gardens and separate to the main hotel. We had a beautiful room 519 which was set on its own and had a lovely view. The room was very spacious with plenty of storage space. The food in the hotel is lovely and you can always find something to choose from at the buffet which is included as part of the all inclusive package. I think the all inclusive package represents excellent value for money in terms of both drinks and food. The Al a Carte restaurants do offer items that are included in the all inclusive package but then also offer items which attract a supplement but given you can visit these restaurants as many times as you want (as opposed to being restricted to 1 visit which some all inclusive hotels do) it gives a choice to stick with all inclusive prices or pay a little extra if you want something really special. The staff are exceptional and provide first class customer service and always have a smile to greet you. This applies to all the staff from reception to bar staff and to staff in the restaurants.