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Sea, sun, sand, drinks & dining at Platis Gialos, the popular Mykonos “family” beach

August 23, 2011 / / 2 Comments
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Platis Gialos beach Mykonos

A hotel and resort area just a 15-minute bus ride from Mykonos Town, Platis Gialos is one of the most popular beaches on Mykonos island …

 

Platis Gialos beach Mykonos

… with hundreds of rental sunbeds and a good selection of bars and tavernas at the front of hotels stretching along the sandy beach

 

Family friendly: If you want to spend time with your kids on a beautiful Mykonos beach that has  a good selection of restaurants, bars and water sports facilities, but none of the raucous and raunchy partying that some of the island’s beaches are famous for, then you’ve got two excellent choices on the island’s south coast.

You could visit Ornos beach, which I profiled in my July 24 2011 post, or you could go to Platis Gialos beach. They’re not the only family-friendly beaches on Mykonos, of course, but they are two of the easiest to reach from Mykonos Town — especially if you don’t plan to rent a vehicle during your island visit and will be relying solely on buses or taxis to get around.

 

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Quirks & curiosities: Castle-sized room key in Naxos

August 19, 2011 / / 0 Comments
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Naxos Beach II hotel room key

Our biggest hotel room key — ever — had to be the one that opened our studio at the Naxos Beach II hotel on a hillside in the Stelida district of Naxos.

 

Naxos Beach II hotel room key

The key was’t just big, but it was heavy, too. It nearly poked a hole in my shorts pocket, so we turned it in to reception every time we left the hotel.

 

Naxos Beach II hotel room key

 Here I am wielding the big key after opening our studio’s split door

 

 

Greece holiday 2011: Arriving at Ios

August 17, 2011 / / 1 Comment
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Gialos Port beach on Ios

The golden sandy beach near Gialos Port on Ios

 

Hello Gialos: When I told a friend back in the spring that we would be going to Ios, she wondered why. “It’s ugly!” she scowled. “Every time the ferry stops there on our way to Santorini, I think the island looks like a giant lump of rock.” We had seen Ios several times from ferries, too, but never considered it “ugly.” It always looked, to us, like a typical Cycladic island: a rugged landscape of rocky, almost barren mountains dotted with whitewashed cube-shaped buildings; beautiful beaches on sun-soaked bays along the coast; and gorgeous blue waters of the Aegean Sea all around. When we finally stepped onto Ios soil for the first time ever back in May, the island appeared much nicer than we had expected. Given its notorious reputation as a non-stop summer party place for kids in their 20s, we had thought Ios would be somewhat scruffy and dumpy, but it was anything but. In fact, it looked rather pretty.

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