NEMA Design Hotel & Spa opened EÉSO on 1 May 2026, a wing of 35 suites on the shore at Analipsi, east of Heraklion, drawn by the architect Dimitri Tsigos of Omniview. Four of its categories are new to the house and sit at the top of it. A dining room opened with them, NÁ LE MA, which admits nobody staying elsewhere on the property. The wellness building that completes the scheme, AÉQU, is a separate undertaking of 1,350 m², announced for the third quarter of 2026.
The setting
Analipsi is a coastal village in the Hersonissos municipality, on the north shore of Crete, some 20 minutes from Heraklion International Airport. The house stands on the beach, facing the Cretan Sea, and takes adults only. It is a stretch of coast NEMA’s own pages describe plainly — sandy beaches, sheltered bays and rocky coves, with the olive groves and inland villages behind, and Knossos about 30 minutes away.
The design
Tsigos and Omniview drew the wing, and the clearest reading of the intention is in the proportions rather than the renderings. Of the four new categories, two give more square metres to the open air than to the room: The Pavilion and The Sanctum each measure 123 m², of which 55 m² are indoors and 68 m² are not. The Atrium is 100 m², split 60 m² inside to 40 m² out. The Penthouse holds 118 m² across 60 m² of room and a 58 m² terrace. On a shore this warm for this many months, that is a considered allocation: the terrace is the principal room, and the interior is where one sleeps.
The rooms
EÉSO added 35 suites in total, and its four new categories carry names rather than numbers. The Atrium takes an outdoor jacuzzi. The Pavilion carries a private pool of 23 m², The Sanctum one of 24 m², and The Penthouse one of 26 m² on a rooftop terrace of uninterrupted views. The house calls The Penthouse the quiet crown of EÉSO. Each of the four sleeps 2. It is the second phase of a longer programme: 15 suites were unveiled in September 2025, and EÉSO follows them.
The table
NÁ LE MA is the wing’s own room, and it is reserved for guests of EÉSO alone — the house has written the restriction into its own pages rather than left it to discretion. It keeps daylight hours, from 11.00 to 18.00, and is composed of stone, wood and filtered light. The house now lists five places to eat and drink, among them Euphoria, the Rizes Cretan Gastrobar and The Divine Bar; NÁ LE MA is the least public of them.
The spa
For the present the house keeps the Royal Spa, a treatment house run in collaboration with Aegeo Spas C.M.S., with rooms indoors and gazebos outside. What is coming is of another order. AÉQU is drawn by Tsigos across 1,350 m² and announced for completion in the third quarter of 2026: Roman baths and a hydrotherapy zone, saunas and steam rooms, a halotherapy chamber for the lungs, a chromotherapy room working in light, and an Ayurvedic room, alongside private treatment cabins, an indoor heated pool and a fitted gym. On an island where the wellness offer has for years meant a massage room behind the pool, a thermal circuit of that size is the more significant half of the announcement, and the half that has not yet arrived.
Crete has taken a good deal of new building in recent years, most of it horizontal and most of it aimed at scale. What is interesting at Analipsi is the opposite instinct: a wing of 35 rooms inside an existing house, with its own restaurant closed to everyone else and its own spa to come, built to be smaller and quieter than the property that contains it. Whether the second half lands as drawn is the question the third quarter of 2026 answers.
The house makes the introduction, for those who ask.
