Crete · Family-friendly
13 stays in Crete where families are welcome. Each one has its pool confirmed in the property's official facilities list and a rating of 8.0 or higher from at least 50 guests; the most recent pool check was on 28 Oct 2026.
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High on a hillside near Kissamos, each of the three white villas here has its own outdoor pool, set into a pale stone deck with a glass balustrade on the open side. From the water you look across green hillsides down to the sea. The pool is fenced and opens for the warm season.
The main pool sits on a stone-paved terrace with the garden's trees around it and the bay and mountains across the water. It has a shallow end for easing in, and a separate children's pool gives younger swimmers a space of their own. Both are outdoors, and the main pool opens in season.
Spinalonga sits right across the water from Cayo's three outdoor pools, infinity pools set on the hillside above Plaka. Most rooms and suites add a private pool on their own terrace: every category except the entry-level Superior Room has one, and the Grand Suite has two. Down in the Armonia Spa there's also a large indoor pool beside the sauna and steam room.
A long outdoor pool runs the length of the sun terrace, finished with an infinity edge and a shallow end for easing in. Pale stone decking and glass balustrades frame it, the garden lawns run alongside, and the upper balconies look straight down onto the water. There's a kids' pool too, so younger swimmers have their own patch.
The main outdoor pool runs along the edge of Ierapetra's seafront, with the Libyan Sea just beyond the railing and rows of thatched umbrellas on the sand below. It's a saltwater pool with its own pool bar, and next to it a separate kids' pool is built around a pirate ship with water slides. Down in the spa there's also an indoor pool, alongside a sauna, a hammam and a hot tub.
From the deck you look straight out over green slopes to the Cretan Sea. Each stone villa here has its own outdoor pool, fenced, with a shallow end and a long lounging terrace alongside. The pool is heated and open all year: the heating lifts the water 6 to 8 degrees above the day's average air temperature, up to 29°C.
Spinalonga and its Venetian fortress sit just across the water, and the pools of Domes of Elounda step down the hillside towards the sandy beach of Driros. Families get their own outdoor pools with a shallow kids' pool, there's an adults-only pool, the 16+ Chora complex has a pool with the closest view of the island, and the spa has an indoor seawater pool. Many suites, residences and villas add a private pool; the rest have an outdoor hot tub.
Tall palms stand over the pool at Kallitsakis Beach, set in a flowering garden between the low apartment buildings. It's a fresh-water outdoor pool with a shallow end, ringed by sun loungers and umbrellas, and the pool-view balconies and ground-floor terraces look straight down onto it. It opens with the summer season, from May to October.
Seventeen freshwater pools spread through Creta Maris, from the big main pools above Hersonissos beach to five kids' pools and a 4,000 m² waterpark with slides, aqua tower pools and river rapids. The heated ones set the tone for spring and autumn: the indoor pool, the heated outdoor pools in the Terra family area, and three heated East Pools inside the Exclusive Adult Rooms area, kept for guests aged 16 and over who stay there.
From the water you look straight down Vathi's cove. The main pool is an infinity edge filled with heated sea water, set on the hillside just above the resort's private sandy beach, with part of it kept for children. Up the slope, many rooms, suites and villas have a sea-water pool of their own: 165 in all.
Water is everywhere at Lyttos Beach. A long, curving outdoor pool runs between the hotel wings and the sand, a lane-marked pool is there for proper lengths, and an indoor heated pool sits under glass for cooler days. Along the seafront, some ground-floor rooms and junior suites have a private pool of their own, a few steps from the beach.
The best of the four pools is out at the tip of the peninsula: a two-level saltwater pool with the sea on three sides, a children's section on the lower level and nothing but the bay of Agia Pelagia from the water. The main pool sits higher up between the restaurant and the snack bar, with a 270-degree sea view.
Agii Theodori island fills the horizon from the main pool, which runs between the resort's terraces and the sea at Platanias. Outdoor pools spread through the 30,000 m² grounds, including a palm-lined courtyard pool, and there are four children's pools. The heated one is indoors: a 90 m² pool under a glass roof in the spa, lined with white loungers, with a sauna, steam bath and hammam alongside.
Scores are exact Booking.com guest ratings; review counts are rounded once they pass 100. We re-check pools and ratings monthly.
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