ZEUS Eleva Mirabello Bay
ZEUS Eleva Mirabello Bay, the resort most guests still know as Wyndham Grand Crete Mirabello Bay, is a 343-key family resort on the Havania shore at the northern edge of Agios Nikolaos, with 2 private Blue Flag sandy beaches and its own marina. Relaunched by Zeus International as a Wyndham Registry Collection hotel, it scores 4.4 out of 5 on Tripadvisor across 4,167 reviews and 8.4 out of 10 on Booking.com, the latter on a rebrand-reset 72 reviews. Our verdict lands at 8.0 out of 10: serious seaside hardware in mid-upgrade, with the dated main building and young scores the honest caveats.
Hotel information
| Hotel | ZEUS Eleva Mirabello Bay |
|---|---|
| Address | Havania |
| Type | Air conditioning · Airport shuttle |
| Style | Large family resort, Wyndham Registry Collection |
| Signature | 2 private Blue Flag sandy beaches and a private marina |
| Keys | 343 rooms, suites, and bungalows; about 130 private pools and whirlpools |
| Dining | 5 restaurants and 6 bars, Amaltheia the main table, Elia the exclusive-tier room |
| History | Wyndham Grand from 2023; ZEUS Eleva under the Registry Collection from 2026 |
| Nearest airport | Heraklion (HER), about 65 km by road |
| Booking.com rating | 8.4/10 (72 reviews) |
| Tripadvisor rating | 4.4/5 (4,167 reviews) |
| CreteLocals score | 8.0/10 · read the verdict |
Booking.com and Tripadvisor scores checked on September 19, 2026.
Location
ZEUS Eleva Mirabello Bay is located at Havania, in Agios Nikolaos. The map below shows the exact spot; Google Maps and Waze give turn-by-turn directions.
Who ZEUS Eleva suits, and who should skip it
ZEUS Eleva suits families who want the full-resort week, waterpark, animation, kids pool, beaches, minutes from a real town, and it suits them best in the village section and the newly built categories. The lists below come from recurring themes in the resort’s 4,167 Tripadvisor reviews and its young Booking.com record.
Advantages
- Two private sandy Blue Flag beaches plus a private marina, rare holdings this close to Agios Nikolaos
- Renovation wave delivering about 130 private pools and whirlpools and 5 new hillside villas
- Village-section rooms and pools that reviewers steer each other toward
- Aegeo-run spa drawing the file’s warmest specific praise
- Waterpark, animation team, and aqua aerobics carrying the family day
- Agios Nikolaos town about 5 minutes away
Disadvantages
- Main-building rooms run dated and small against the village and new stock
- All-inclusive food swings, with recent guests eating out despite the package
- Big-resort friction, from arrival-day porters to restaurant booking mix-ups
- Three names in 3 years, so the Booking score of 8.4 rests on only 72 post-rebrand reviews
The rooms: village first, main building last
ZEUS Eleva spreads 343 rooms, suites, and bungalows between the main building, the village section, and the new hillside villas of 225 to 380 square metres, with about 130 keys now carrying private pools or whirlpools.
The reviews’ internal advice is unanimous: take the village. Its bungalow-style rooms and their own pool escape the main building’s dated, small-balcony stock, and the new private-pool categories and villas are where the relaunch money visibly went. The Mirabello Exclusive tier adds a 2,000 square metre private beach and the Elia room’s reserved breakfasts for the 103 keys inside it.
The beaches, the marina and the programme
The shoreline is the resort’s inheritance: 2 sandy Blue Flag beaches and a private marina on Mirabello Bay, with 4 outdoor pools, an indoor pool, and the waterpark stacked behind them.
Days run on the big-resort engine: animation, aqua aerobics, 3 tennis courts, 6 sports courts, an open-air cinema, and the Aegeo spa whose massages are the file’s most-praised single service. Dinner rotates 5 restaurants and 6 bars from the Amaltheia main hall outward, with quality that swings by night, and Agios Nikolaos’s tavernas 5 minutes away as the standing insurance.
How to get there
ZEUS Eleva sits on the Agios Nikolaos-Vrouchas road at Havania, about 65 km from Heraklion airport (HER), roughly 1 hour by road, and about 5 minutes from the centre of Agios Nikolaos.
Three transport options cover the trip, and each fits a different stay. A pre-booked transfer or taxi is the standard arrival; our guide to taxi and airport transfer services in Crete lists the operators and typical prices. A hire car adds Elounda, Plaka, and the east, and our car rental in Crete page compares local rates. The town bus and taxis cover the 5-minute hop to Agios Nikolaos.
The Crete Locals review
ZEUS Eleva is the coast’s identity-crisis resort and its most interesting turnaround bet at once. The property has answered to 3 names in 3 years, Wyndham Grand at the 2023 relaunch, Mirabello Bay in the 2025 announcements, ZEUS Eleva under Wyndham’s Registry Collection today, and guests can be forgiven whiplash. What has not changed is the holding underneath: 2 real sandy Blue Flag beaches, a marina, and a hillside over the bay that Agios Nikolaos cannot zone again.
The upgrade programme is visible in the file rather than just the press releases: 130 private pools and whirlpools threaded into the room stock, 5 genuinely large hillside villas, the Mirabello Exclusive tier with its private beach, and an Aegeo spa performing above the house average. The village section has quietly become the resort’s core product, and reviewers now route each other there by name.
The honest reading of the numbers: the 4.4 across 4,167 reviews carries the whole pre-rebrand history, while the 8.4 on Booking is a 72-review infant, so neither describes today’s resort cleanly. What the recent file does establish is the pattern of a big resort mid-correction, main-building rooms waiting their turn, all-inclusive kitchens that swing, service that peaks at the spa and dips at the buffet line.
Book ZEUS Eleva as the value play on Agios Nikolaos’s doorstep: a village or private-pool room, half board rather than the full package while the kitchens settle, and the town’s tavernas as the second dining room. June and September fit it best, and if the Registry Collection era finishes what the renovation started, this review’s score will move first.
