St. Nicolas Bay Resort Hotel & Villas, an SLH Hotel

This hotel has a beautiful setting, on the stunning Mirabello Bay. The grounds are well laid out and maintained, with plenty of places to sit and relax, and easy access to the pools and the small private beach. Our room was spacious, comfortable and clean. |The food was of a very good standard. In addition to the main buffet restaurant, we also ate at the 2 a la carte restaurants. The Greek entertainment and dinner at the Kafenion was memorable. Our lunches at the Blue Bay were all delicious.|The staff were very friendly and helpful, and Eleni's welcome was always so warm when we arrived at mealtimes. The manager was often to be seen greeting and interacting with guests, and we appreciated the gifts of wine and cake in our room. |We easily hired a car for a few days via the concierge service, and enjoyed exploring the Eastern side of the island, which has many places of interest.|Highly recommended.

My husband and I stayed here a couple of weeks ago and had a wonderful time. Our room was a sea view 2 bedroom suite with private hot tub on a half board stay. The food was good quality with a fair amount of options. We also enjoyed the bar cocktails after dinner. The beach and pool areas had plenty of space to lounge, though I'd recommend visiting Almyros beach (10 mins drive,30 mins walk) for a beautiful sandy beach. The Agios Nikolaos town centre is also a convenient 30 min walk away.|The staff were friendly and helpful , and our room was kept sparkling clean every day. Overall an exceptional hotel - really enjoyed our 5 nights here.

My wife and I returned to St. Nicolas Bay Resort this August for the second consecutive year, which is unusual for us but says it all. The resort is beautiful and the seafront location is exactly what we were looking for. After also staying in the very nice Club Open Plan Mezzanine Suite for 5 nights in August 2024, this time we stayed in the Artemis Thalassa Suite, which was spectacular. The private pool and direct sea access are extraordinary features that deserve more attention on the resort’s website — they make this suite truly unforgettable. Every staff member we met was warm, professional, and eager to help and the atmosphere throughout the property is both elegant and relaxing. It was, again, very hard to leave and we look forward to returning in the future.

We were here for the tail end of our honeymoon, and when I say this was the best stay that myself or my wife have ever had, I mean it. From the moment we got there we were treated like family - everyone knew our names, greeted us with joy and went above and beyond to ask us if we need anything. My wife has a gluten allergy, and from day one, whether it was breakfast, lunch, or dinner, they knew to bring over gluten free bread for her, and had the chef come out and talk to her about what she could and could not have. For our final night, they offered to move us to an upgraded room as an extension of warmth for our honeymoon - unfortunately we had to decline as it meant packing up early on a day we had an excursion planned. So, instead, they surprised us with a dinner on the house at their finest restaurant, and gave us the best seat in the house to look out at the sunset over the bay. This included a full meal, as well as a bottle of champagne. Everyone on staff was warm and asked us about our wedding, gave us personal stories, etc. All this to say this place has the service of a 5 star stay, and the personality of a local bed and breakfast. Well-done to all involved, we never like to return to hotels but we both have agreed that we plan on coming back here as often as we can afford 😂

I’ll start with the positives. |Great location, clean, comfortable sunbeds and parasols, very professional and friendly staff. Good to attend the yoga class and in the main decent gym equipment. Also great to acknowledge there was no music blaring around either pool 👏👏||However, we booked a partial sea view room - which given a very late decision to travel to Crete was the only room available in our price range. So accepting of that we arrived, happy with the room size, shower, bed and air con but the room was very dated with ‘eclectic’ furniture. |No proper bedside cabinets with drawers only mismatched ‘trays on legs’ in different colours and heights. Sliding wardrobe doors which were ill fitting and crashed into the hangers on opening and closing, which was very difficult and not at all smooth. |The patio furniture - 2 chairs and a table wasn’t at all relaxing. Whilst the patio was large enough for aforementioned table and chairs, it was large enough for more relaxing padded furniture and even a sun lounger. |As others have mentioned the service at meal times to have a cooked breakfast and main course at dinner served to you was hit and miss with late delivery of food and sometimes lukewarm. Also managers circulating at meal times and greeting some guests and not others ? Felt like you had to be a returning guest to be acknowledged !!

From the moment we arrived, late & tired, we were treated wonderfully by the staff. They provided a welcome drink, late dinner & showed us our room. We had a sea view suite, with two balconies, one covered & one uncovered. The room was large with so many places to sit! I found the bureau area great for hair & make up as it had a large lit up mirror. Lots of storage & a large bed made for a comfortable stay. The fridge was a silent pull out drawer & it was fine to use, along side the chargeable offerings inside. We were gifted a bottle of rose, some Greek sweets & there was a fancy coffee maker, with a selection of flavours. We were also left two bottles of water each evening. Our great shower was over a huge jacuzzi bath, which initially I thought was inferior to a walk in, but I actually had 3 baths over our 11 night stay & enjoyed them. We were upstairs (low rise buildings only) with a lovely view. We never heard a thing at night & rarely during the day, so peaceful. The resort is spread over a large area and everywhere is beautifully laid out & comfortable. The hotel beach is stunning & the plentiful sunbeds super comfortable. The pool is gorgeous, although we preferred swimming in the sea. Breakfast was fabulous, by the pool, served & buffet options. Dinner was really good, again main course served & other courses a buffet. Great authentic greek options. Spotlessly clean throughout. On Saturday evening we were invited to drinks by the pool & chatted to the general manager, who was very present throughout our stay. We hired canoes on the hotel beach which was fun. The cocktails were great (not strong) & the wine list gorgeous! We got very familiar with Greek (mostly Cretan) wine during our stay. The staff were polite & welcoming throughout our entire stay. We rarely go back to the same hotel/town, but would definitely return here in the future. The town is a 30 minute walk, along the sea & has lots to offer. There was a cliff diving competition on the lake too, whist we were there. We visited Elounda twice & Malia (don’t bother) as well as Spinalonga by boat, very interesting. We had a wonderful stay at St Nicolas Bay & would recommend it 100%. Thank you for a fabulous holiday.

We thoroughly enjoyed our 7 night stay at the St Nicolas Bay Resort hotel. We were in sea view room 524 and it was perfect. The hotel has so many excellent reviews and photographs, so this short review does not do justice to this amazing hotel; the location, service/food in restaurants to the friendly hardworking staff were all outstanding. The hotel was closing for the season but standards did not drop at any time.||We were delighted to be invited to the farewell meal at The Minotaure Restaurant where we dinned by candlelight under the stars and food, service were exceptional||We cannot wait to return next season.

A fantastic week in this first class hotel. The staff were all so friendly and helpful it made for a great holiday. The food was very good and we used the main restaurant all week. It was a nice easy walk to the town with plenty of bars and tavernas for lunch. We will be back.