Narrow your search filter to beautiful beaches, authentic Greek restaurants and seafront hotels, and Marmari holidays come up trumps.
First-gear getaway
Things pootle along at a gentle pace in Marmari. It’s slotted into the north coast of the island of Kos, and dresses itself in classic Greek style. Open space isn’t hard to come by, so family-run tavernas are fanned out along the coastline between whitewashed holiday apartments and cutesy villas.
Caribbean standard
Pop a jar of sand from Marmari Beach beside a Caribbean counterpart, and you’ll struggle to tell the pair apart. The mile-long sandy beach is the same colour as a scoop of vanilla ice-cream, and has a well-earned Blue Flag to its name. Wispy dunes and palm trees are perched parrot-style on the seafront’s shoulder, and the views across the Aegean Sea rope in the islands of Pserimos, Plati and Kalymnos. You’ll see watersports enthusiasts kite-surfing and kayaking their way across the shallows, too.