22/06/2025
🌊✨ Our Favourite South Crete Beaches all just a scenic drive from Zaros, are where we go to reset, recharge, and reconnect. Each beach has its own unique landscape, energy, and vibe, from ancient healing sites to wild naturist stretches, from deep stillness to soft barefoot bliss. The diversity down here in the south of Crete is unreal and these beaches capture it all. 🏝️
🥇 Lentas Beach
You feel it the moment you arrive this ancient, grounding energy. Once a Minoan healing sanctuary, now a peaceful pebble beach shaped like a lion 🦁The water is calm and deep, the air feels cleaner, and time just slows. Add a seaside lunch and a front row seat to sunset it’s everything. 🌅
🥈 Kommos Beach
Kommos is wide open wild, windkissed and full of contrast. Long stretches of golden sand meet untamed waves and hidden archaeological ruins 🏺. Some parts are naturist friendly, others feel like your own private sanctuary. With dunes behind you and endless sea ahead, this is where you come to let go and breathe.
🥉 Red Beach (Kokkini Ammos)
Red Beach is the definition of hidden paradise. A short rocky hike brings you to this deep red gold bay hugged by cliffs and lapped by sapphire waters. 🧡 It’s quiet, clothes optional and fully off the grid, no roads, no shops, just you and the elements. The energy is warm and primal like the Earth itself is glowing.
🎖️ Honourable Mention: Diskos Beach
Tucked just around the corner from Lentas, Diskos is its barefoot, bohemian cousin. Simpler, softer, and even more peaceful this beach is all about hammocks, hand painted signs, slow mornings, and moonlit swims. 🌿 The landscape feels intimate, with tamarisk trees offering shade and crystal waters offering calm. If you want a gentle, healing vibe Diskos is your place.
📍When you’re staying La Maison, these beaches are the soul of the south, each offering a different window into Crete’s magic. Come for the views, stay for the energy. Which one would you choose?