Kalamaki combines a quiet and lively atmosphere with restaurants and bars plus childrens play areas Kalamaki is an ideal holiday destination for families and couples. Flights available from all over the UK with a selection of hotels. Hotels and self catering for holidays to Kalamaki start at £8.00 per person and the cheap flights make Kalamaki a top quite resort
Kalamaki is Zante’s closest resort to the airport and lies five kilometres from Zante Town. It is a quiet resort with a wonderful sandy beach that attracts not only tourists, but loggerhead turtles. Kalamaki looks out onto the clear blue seas of the bay and behind it looms the magnificent Mount Skopos. The resort has no real centre but reaches out along the beach and into the surrounding farmland. A Kalamaki holiday offers a relaxing retreat in a charming traditional atmosphere where it is easy to forget the pressures of twenty-first century living.
Kalamaki offers peaceful relaxation in an attractive area with good accommodation and a variety of restaurants and tavernas. Owing to the presence of the turtles, there are no noisy water sports so even sun bathing on the beach is undisturbed. There are good bars and restaurants and mini-markets for essentials. Kalamaki is only a short distance from the livelier resorts of Laganas and Argassi as well as Zante Town.
Kalamaki is very popular with families, particularly those with young children looking for good sand castle terrain. Couples are also attracted by the quiet atmosphere of the resort and its close proximity to Zante Town.
The most popular time to visit Kalamaki is in the summer, although the season extends from Easter to the end of October. The temperature range is from 20 to 30 degrees.
Owing to its popularity, Kalamaki is an expanding resort but it has not, as yet, lost its traditional appeal. It remains a peaceful place where you can enjoy life’s simple pleasures. In the western end of the resort the aircraft noise is noticeable but it rarely seems to inconvenience people.
Kalamaki has a great beach of soft sand perfect for buckets and spades. It shelves gently into the clear blue sea, providing ideal conditions for young children and less confident swimmers. In order to protect the turtles there are no water sports apart from the occasional canoe.
Kalamaki has a range of hotels, apartments and studios accommodating most budgets and restaurants and tavernas catering for most tastes. Shopping is rather limited providing only holiday essentials and souvenirs.
It is worth taking a trip inland to the picturesque villages with their whitewashed houses and fertile vineyards where the authentic spirit of Greece is found. The tavernas here serve good wholesome food and wine.
A Kalamaki holiday would be incomplete without a trip to Smuggler’s cove. It is the most photographed cove in the whole of Greece with its tall cliffs, golden sands and wrecked ship half-buried in the sand. Although it can be viewed from above, the best place to see it is from out at sea.