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Good afternoon my dear friend.
You are going on a trip to one of the most unexplored islands in Greece - Kos.
Or maybe you are going to stay at the Mitsis Norida Beach 5 hotel! ! !
Then I'll give you a little tour....
So.
You definitely need to fly only with the Southern Cross company (Trans Avia), I’ll immediately note that there is no
I have nothing to do with this operator, it’s just that in the alternative you will also have “LABYRINTH” (Sky Express), in which flights are either canceled or transferred to closer dates, as was the case with our friends who were supposed to fly on Saturday in the evening, and on Friday morning they were told that they were flying on Friday, and not on Saturday, and even at 1.00, can you imagine what it was like for people sitting on the beach to find out that they had a flight in a few hours, and not the next day - this was of course the CIRCUS !!!!!!!!!!! ! ! !
So.
You have chosen a tour operator, boarded a plane and flew to Kos.
True, when landing you will be a little “stormy”, as there are frequent winds on the island.
The airport will surprise you if it doesn't disappoint you: it is very small and there is only one passport control window. But everything is very fast and it is not possible to get lost. You will receive your luggage within 5 minutes. At the exit from the airport, a guide is waiting for you, who immediately gives you a voucher and invites you to the bus. Smoking is prohibited everywhere on the territory of the airport - a fine of 500 euros. I recommend you get on the bus right away. Since during the day it is 35-38 degrees outside in the shade in July-August. The entire organization of the exit from the plane and before the departure of the bus to the hotel is no more than 20 minutes. Further on the way to the hotel, the guide will tell you about the features of recreation in Kos, its interesting places, rules of conduct, and so on. Really informative and highly recommended. The guide will definitely tell you when you have an informational meeting with the guide Ekaterina at the hotel - I also highly recommend visiting!
It takes about 15 minutes to get to the hotel. Everything is not far away, especially considering that the island is only 10km by 40km! ! !
They brought you to the hotel, if you like, they will help you carry your suitcases to the lobby and then to your room, for a tip, of course, although in fairness it should be noted that Russian guys who help with suitcases often refuse tips.
At the reception, I recommend to be quicker and quicker, because, for some reason, there are always a lot of people crowding, you will be quickly recorded, given a key, put on a bracelet and you can go to your room. By the way, there is always a Russian-speaking employee at the reception. But I highly recommend preparing only for English or Greek! ! Since in the future you will face huge problems if you do not know the language. This will apply to everything from food to animation with excursions.
Number.
I highly recommend a room in the main building and on the first floors, because if you are offered in others, then you will have daily reusable steep descents and ascents, which are very tiring, especially in such heat, and it is far from the sea.
As a rule, spacious, clean with good interior and furniture, all rooms have either balconies or small verandas. TVs are of course old, but decent, about 12 channels - 2 of which are Russian (first and music). But the trouble is, at 2.00 the antenna is turned off! ! ! The toilet room is also very decent, but here's the trouble again, you won't find shampoo there, only hand soap, so bring everything with you! !
. . and by the way, when your wife goes to the toilet, I recommend checking it for cockroaches 5-7 cm in size, otherwise you risk deafening from her squeals ...and even on the balcony when you go out to smoke. Look around too. They sit there often.
The territory of the hotel.
Quite large, especially when you consider that the amphitheater and water slides ("Water Park") are not on, but behind! ! ! ! hotel area at a distance of 400 meters on a very steep climb. By the way, if you are going to the so-called Aquapark (it’s hard to call a water park two and a half slides descending into one small pool), then be prepared to lie down and also sit there nowhere! ! ! There are no sun loungers or chairs. Apparently, it is designed for the fact that you will come there, ride 2-3 times, get tired of climbing these slides, and this is another 200 meters up the stairs, and go home ...By the way, tennis courts, which you need to sign up at the reception! ! ! and preferably before 8 00, because then there will be no good time left, only in the very heat, they are also outside the hotel (100 meters). Just like that, you won’t be able to come and take a racket and go to play. By SIGN UP only.
Further.
On the territory there is one adult pool, one pool for children and one "leg" for the smallest, by the way it is located very well next to a good solid playground, which will be interesting and comfortable for children under 5 years old. A children's club with animators, including Russian speakers, periodically operates on the territory of the playground. But I repeat, only for children under 5 years old, more adults will no longer be interested there. I would like to add to children's entertainment that for some reason the Italian and Spanish children had tutors who took children in groups and one at a time for the whole day or for several hours, but ours. , as always - no one! ! ! And our children were entertained mainly by their parents, who, it seems, also came to relax ...
Also on the territory there is a playground for playing sports: basketball, futsal. The animator with the ball arrives strictly on schedule at 1.
From food: one kind of sandwich, ice cream, one kind of puff pastry with herbs.
It's all.
3. A bar located near the children's pool, the assortment is the same, but plus 2-3 more types of fruit and coffee and tea, but minus ice cream and sandwiches with pies.
4. The bar is located right on the beach. There are no hot drinks such as coffee and tea in this bar. Only cold drinks. Basically only non-alcoholic, plus one, some cocktail of the day (alcoholic).
This list of bars is ENDED! ! !
You will not find any variety of children's or just non-alcoholic drinks, as well as freshly squeezed juices, even for money - NO.
Now about restaurants.
The main restaurant, where breakfast, lunch and dinner are served, I called "Groundhog Day".
No, you don't think anything. The food quality is excellent. But here's the variety ...Or rather, the monotony struck me. On the first day, my eyes widened. I have tried almost everything.
But on the third and even more so on the fourth day, I already “cut circles” in search of something new. And when we were served mashed potatoes one Thursday, there was a QUEUE next to it. In the end, it all ended with the fact that sometimes we just came to look for something new in the restaurant, finding nothing, took fruit and went to the beach. But I repeat that the food in the restaurant is excellent.
Tavern.
Located near the beach. You can only LUNCH there! ! ! The rest of the time it is closed. Good alternative to a restaurant for lunch. Yes, and it is very convenient to go from the beach. Recommend.
Chinese restaurant.
It works only in the evening and only by appointment, the number of places is limited, sometimes the appointment is 2-3 days in advance. Entrance to the restaurant is open only to those who signed up. Registration is at the reception. But you will definitely not see a Chinese in a restaurant.
On this, all the places where you can ever eat are ENDED.
Beach.
There is not much smell of sand or small pebbles. I would still call it medium pebbles, mixed with stones. It is very difficult to enter or exit the water with bare feet. That is why in the store opposite the hotel there are always special swimming slippers for sale for 9 euros (on the second day they will already begin to rub you in places where there are seams)! ! ! Now about the sunbeds, this is the most fun. If you want to lie at least a little closer to the sea, then you won’t be able to get enough sleep, since you need to get up and OCCUR the sunbeds before 7 00! ! ! and best of all until 6:30, in any case, if you are interested in the front line by the sea, then the beach is waiting for you by 6:00! ! It's not hard to get a sunbed. Choose an umbrella that you like at 6 00, drag the required number of sunbeds to it, put towels on them. Close the sunbed with the upper part and go to fill up the room. And only then calmly return to the beach after breakfast.
If you still decide to sleep and not take a sunbed, then you have many chances not to visit the beach at all. Because at 9 00 all free sunbeds end.
If you decide to play beach volleyball, I recommend wearing knee pads and normal shoes. Since, firstly, the sand heats up very strongly and quickly, and secondly, there are a lot of stones on the site. We played volleyball only once and without knee pads and shoes. More to go to the site, due to many injuries, we could not.
On the beach you will also be offered animation. In the form of aerobics and dancing. There is no more animation on the beach. Generally.
By the way, there is not a big feature on the beach that causes indignation among the Russian-speaking part of the population. Ten percent of the ladies sunbathe topless, with the bulk of those over 50.
The SEA deserves special attention. Insanely beautiful, clean and salty. The fish swim right under your arms.
You can always feed them right in the water, with bread from your hands.
The sea is so salty that anyone can swim in it. Even a non-swimmer. Just lie down on the water and the sea will rock you…. Toddlers, a great opportunity to learn to swim. By the way, not far away there is a place where there are a lot of stones, where you can watch small crabs, starfish and, if you're lucky, even moray eels. We spent a lot of time there, and found where she lives and even fed her sausages from the restaurant….
Here on the beach there is a paid rental of all kinds of jet skis, water bikes, canoes and so on. Here, you, also for a fee, can ride on various inflatable circles, bananas and so on.
Animation.
90% of the Animation is in Spanish and Italian! ! !
Animation on the beach is dancing and aerobics. Animation in the pool is water polo and the so-called "Questionnaire". Animation in the lobby is 20 minutes of play in the evening with Italian children.
At the expense of interesting excursions and details. .
I recommend visiting:
The city of Kos is the capital of the island of Kos. There are not many attractions, shops, market, beaches. A very small resort town. But life in it, unlike "Mitsis Norida", is seething. There is even a McDonald's. What children are incredibly happy about.
Village "ZEA". Located in the mountains. There is the largest center of souvenirs and gifts on the island (one small street, but there is everything). And most importantly, there is a very beautiful sunset from 1.00 to 2.30! ! I highly recommend to sit there in the evening in a restaurant and see, especially for romantics.
Plaka. A place where you can feed peacocks with bread in a small pine forest. They live right there in the trees. A very exciting activity. And I beg you, do not let children pet local dogs and cats, pink lichen will be provided to you (your own bitter experience). Turtles also live in the pond.
Aquapark.
If you have children, be sure to visit Lido Waterpark. Good place for entertainment.
Thermal waters. Not far from the city of Kos are thermal waters. The place is called Termes. Certainly not Niagara, but the place is unique. On the seashore there is a small pond with hot thermal water! ! They say it's very helpful.
Bay of Limnionas. A very beautiful place. Quiet beach. Near the insanely beautiful emerald bay. There is also a fish tavern.
Tigaki and Paradise BEACH are simply beautiful beaches. Nothing else.
In Antimachia (where the airport) there is a Fortress. During the day, nothing special, in the evening it comes to life and is very beautiful, especially with backlight. There you can also meet scorpions and poisonous snakes (which the Greeks really do not like to talk about. So be careful and careful).
You can also be offered excursions to some places of archaeological history. To be honest, nothing special. This is not CRIT for you ...
Now for the subtleties.
Excursions that guides offer you at the hotel cost 2-3 times more than in the neighboring village of Kardamena, in any local travel agency. An illustrative example. An excursion to the island of Nisyros (a sleeping volcano is also very interesting) the guide costs 40 euros for an adult and 23 children. In Kardamena, we bought for 18 euros - an adult and for 8-13 euros per child. Absolutely identical excursions. And so with all excursions.
Further. Car rental. At the hotel, a car with a manual transmission will cost you 58-65 euros, and in Kardamena we took a Hyundai Accent with an automatic for 45 euros (MAREVA rental). Here also consider. We traveled the whole island far and wide in 2 days, the three of us by car. It cost us 90 euros. For comparison. Almost every excursion costs about 35-45 euros per person. They offer you about 10-15. So before you buy this or that excursion, think about whether you need it and how much it will cost.
I highly recommend using the help of a guide at the hotel - Ekaterina.
Very knowledgeable professional! ! Despite the fact that we did not take any excursions from her, as well as cars, she told us everything in great detail.
Only because of her "Southern Cross" should be given 5 points for organization ! ! ! !
But the guide (I don’t remember the name), who accompanied us on the bus to the airport and on the way told us that we were lucky that we didn’t meet snakes and scorpions “oh, it’s okay, you’re already leaving anyway”! ! And then she said that she herself did not like this island and that she “would never come back here, not to mention the island of CORFU”! ! Well, in conclusion, she said that she "doesn't care if you come back here or not. " Here is the GUIDE! ! ! to all GUIDES-GUIDE! ! ! !
In conclusion, I would like to especially note that neither the island nor the hotel caused any serious negative emotions in us.
Yes, it's boring, but here, as they say, there is no golden mean. Who likes what. Many, for example, like to lie on the beach all two weeks and do not need anything else. We need a more active holiday, so now we will look for adventures for ourselves and Russian-speaking company for our son.
Thank you KOS
Thank you Greece
Thanks SOUTHERN CROSS
And the biggest thanks to Alter Via Tour and Elena Roshchina personally.
Makarov: Matvey, Yana and Evgeny. 24.08. 2010-08.08. 2010.
You are going on a trip to one of the most unexplored islands in Greece - Kos.
Or maybe you are going to stay at the Mitsis Norida Beach 5 hotel! ! !
Then I'll give you a little tour....
So.
You definitely need to fly only with the Southern Cross company (Trans Avia), I’ll immediately note that there is no
I have nothing to do with this operator, it’s just that in the alternative you will also have “LABYRINTH” (Sky Express), in which flights are either canceled or transferred to closer dates, as was the case with our friends who were supposed to fly on Saturday in the evening, and on Friday morning they were told that they were flying on Friday, and not on Saturday, and even at 1.00, can you imagine what it was like for people sitting on the beach to find out that they had a flight in a few hours, and not the next day - this was of course the CIRCUS !!!!!!!!!!! ! ! !
So.
You have chosen a tour operator, boarded a plane and flew to Kos.
True, when landing you will be a little “stormy”, as there are frequent winds on the island.
The airport will surprise you if it doesn't disappoint you: it is very small and there is only one passport control window. But everything is very fast and it is not possible to get lost. You will receive your luggage within 5 minutes. At the exit from the airport, a guide is waiting for you, who immediately gives you a voucher and invites you to the bus. Smoking is prohibited everywhere on the territory of the airport - a fine of 500 euros. I recommend you get on the bus right away. Since during the day it is 35-38 degrees outside in the shade in July-August. The entire organization of the exit from the plane and before the departure of the bus to the hotel is no more than 20 minutes. Further on the way to the hotel, the guide will tell you about the features of recreation in Kos, its interesting places, rules of conduct, and so on. Really informative and highly recommended. The guide will definitely tell you when you have an informational meeting with the guide Ekaterina at the hotel - I also highly recommend visiting!
It takes about 15 minutes to get to the hotel. Everything is not far away, especially considering that the island is only 10km by 40km! ! !
They brought you to the hotel, if you like, they will help you carry your suitcases to the lobby and then to your room, for a tip, of course, although in fairness it should be noted that Russian guys who help with suitcases often refuse tips.
At the reception, I recommend to be quicker and quicker, because, for some reason, there are always a lot of people crowding, you will be quickly recorded, given a key, put on a bracelet and you can go to your room. By the way, there is always a Russian-speaking employee at the reception. But I highly recommend preparing only for English or Greek! ! Since in the future you will face huge problems if you do not know the language. This will apply to everything from food to animation with excursions.
Number.
I highly recommend a room in the main building and on the first floors, because if you are offered in others, then you will have daily reusable steep descents and ascents, which are very tiring, especially in such heat, and it is far from the sea.
As a rule, spacious, clean with good interior and furniture, all rooms have either balconies or small verandas. TVs are of course old, but decent, about 12 channels - 2 of which are Russian (first and music). But the trouble is, at 2.00 the antenna is turned off! ! ! The toilet room is also very decent, but here's the trouble again, you won't find shampoo there, only hand soap, so bring everything with you! !
. . and by the way, when your wife goes to the toilet, I recommend checking it for cockroaches 5-7 cm in size, otherwise you risk deafening from her squeals ...and even on the balcony when you go out to smoke. Look around too. They sit there often.
The territory of the hotel.
Quite large, especially when you consider that the amphitheater and water slides ("Water Park") are not on, but behind! ! ! ! hotel area at a distance of 400 meters on a very steep climb. By the way, if you are going to the so-called Aquapark (it’s hard to call a water park two and a half slides descending into one small pool), then be prepared to lie down and also sit there nowhere! ! ! There are no sun loungers or chairs. Apparently, it is designed for the fact that you will come there, ride 2-3 times, get tired of climbing these slides, and this is another 200 meters up the stairs, and go home ...By the way, tennis courts, which you need to sign up at the reception! ! ! and preferably before 8 00, because then there will be no good time left, only in the very heat, they are also outside the hotel (100 meters). Just like that, you won’t be able to come and take a racket and go to play. By SIGN UP only.
Further.
On the territory there is one adult pool, one pool for children and one "leg" for the smallest, by the way it is located very well next to a good solid playground, which will be interesting and comfortable for children under 5 years old. A children's club with animators, including Russian speakers, periodically operates on the territory of the playground. But I repeat, only for children under 5 years old, more adults will no longer be interested there. I would like to add to children's entertainment that for some reason the Italian and Spanish children had tutors who took children in groups and one at a time for the whole day or for several hours, but ours. , as always - no one! ! ! And our children were entertained mainly by their parents, who, it seems, also came to relax ...
Also on the territory there is a playground for playing sports: basketball, futsal. The animator with the ball arrives strictly on schedule at 1.
From food: one kind of sandwich, ice cream, one kind of puff pastry with herbs.
It's all.
3. A bar located near the children's pool, the assortment is the same, but plus 2-3 more types of fruit and coffee and tea, but minus ice cream and sandwiches with pies.
4. The bar is located right on the beach. There are no hot drinks such as coffee and tea in this bar. Only cold drinks. Basically only non-alcoholic, plus one, some cocktail of the day (alcoholic).
This list of bars is ENDED! ! !
You will not find any variety of children's or just non-alcoholic drinks, as well as freshly squeezed juices, even for money - NO.
Now about restaurants.
The main restaurant, where breakfast, lunch and dinner are served, I called "Groundhog Day".
No, you don't think anything. The food quality is excellent. But here's the variety ...Or rather, the monotony struck me. On the first day, my eyes widened. I have tried almost everything.
But on the third and even more so on the fourth day, I already “cut circles” in search of something new. And when we were served mashed potatoes one Thursday, there was a QUEUE next to it. In the end, it all ended with the fact that sometimes we just came to look for something new in the restaurant, finding nothing, took fruit and went to the beach. But I repeat that the food in the restaurant is excellent.
Tavern.
Located near the beach. You can only LUNCH there! ! ! The rest of the time it is closed. Good alternative to a restaurant for lunch. Yes, and it is very convenient to go from the beach. Recommend.
Chinese restaurant.
It works only in the evening and only by appointment, the number of places is limited, sometimes the appointment is 2-3 days in advance. Entrance to the restaurant is open only to those who signed up. Registration is at the reception. But you will definitely not see a Chinese in a restaurant.
On this, all the places where you can ever eat are ENDED.
Beach.
There is not much smell of sand or small pebbles. I would still call it medium pebbles, mixed with stones. It is very difficult to enter or exit the water with bare feet. That is why in the store opposite the hotel there are always special swimming slippers for sale for 9 euros (on the second day they will already begin to rub you in places where there are seams)! ! ! Now about the sunbeds, this is the most fun. If you want to lie at least a little closer to the sea, then you won’t be able to get enough sleep, since you need to get up and OCCUR the sunbeds before 7 00! ! ! and best of all until 6:30, in any case, if you are interested in the front line by the sea, then the beach is waiting for you by 6:00! ! It's not hard to get a sunbed. Choose an umbrella that you like at 6 00, drag the required number of sunbeds to it, put towels on them. Close the sunbed with the upper part and go to fill up the room. And only then calmly return to the beach after breakfast.
If you still decide to sleep and not take a sunbed, then you have many chances not to visit the beach at all. Because at 9 00 all free sunbeds end.
If you decide to play beach volleyball, I recommend wearing knee pads and normal shoes. Since, firstly, the sand heats up very strongly and quickly, and secondly, there are a lot of stones on the site. We played volleyball only once and without knee pads and shoes. More to go to the site, due to many injuries, we could not.
On the beach you will also be offered animation. In the form of aerobics and dancing. There is no more animation on the beach. Generally.
By the way, there is not a big feature on the beach that causes indignation among the Russian-speaking part of the population. Ten percent of the ladies sunbathe topless, with the bulk of those over 50.
The SEA deserves special attention. Insanely beautiful, clean and salty. The fish swim right under your arms.
You can always feed them right in the water, with bread from your hands.
The sea is so salty that anyone can swim in it. Even a non-swimmer. Just lie down on the water and the sea will rock you…. Toddlers, a great opportunity to learn to swim. By the way, not far away there is a place where there are a lot of stones, where you can watch small crabs, starfish and, if you're lucky, even moray eels. We spent a lot of time there, and found where she lives and even fed her sausages from the restaurant….
Here on the beach there is a paid rental of all kinds of jet skis, water bikes, canoes and so on. Here, you, also for a fee, can ride on various inflatable circles, bananas and so on.
Animation.
90% of the Animation is in Spanish and Italian! ! !
Animation on the beach is dancing and aerobics. Animation in the pool is water polo and the so-called "Questionnaire". Animation in the lobby is 20 minutes of play in the evening with Italian children.
At the expense of interesting excursions and details. .
I recommend visiting:
The city of Kos is the capital of the island of Kos. There are not many attractions, shops, market, beaches. A very small resort town. But life in it, unlike "Mitsis Norida", is seething. There is even a McDonald's. What children are incredibly happy about.
Village "ZEA". Located in the mountains. There is the largest center of souvenirs and gifts on the island (one small street, but there is everything). And most importantly, there is a very beautiful sunset from 1.00 to 2.30! ! I highly recommend to sit there in the evening in a restaurant and see, especially for romantics.
Plaka. A place where you can feed peacocks with bread in a small pine forest. They live right there in the trees. A very exciting activity. And I beg you, do not let children pet local dogs and cats, pink lichen will be provided to you (your own bitter experience). Turtles also live in the pond.
Aquapark.
If you have children, be sure to visit Lido Waterpark. Good place for entertainment.
Thermal waters. Not far from the city of Kos are thermal waters. The place is called Termes. Certainly not Niagara, but the place is unique. On the seashore there is a small pond with hot thermal water! ! They say it's very helpful.
Bay of Limnionas. A very beautiful place. Quiet beach. Near the insanely beautiful emerald bay. There is also a fish tavern.
Tigaki and Paradise BEACH are simply beautiful beaches. Nothing else.
In Antimachia (where the airport) there is a Fortress. During the day, nothing special, in the evening it comes to life and is very beautiful, especially with backlight. There you can also meet scorpions and poisonous snakes (which the Greeks really do not like to talk about. So be careful and careful).
You can also be offered excursions to some places of archaeological history. To be honest, nothing special. This is not CRIT for you ...
Now for the subtleties.
Excursions that guides offer you at the hotel cost 2-3 times more than in the neighboring village of Kardamena, in any local travel agency. An illustrative example. An excursion to the island of Nisyros (a sleeping volcano is also very interesting) the guide costs 40 euros for an adult and 23 children. In Kardamena, we bought for 18 euros - an adult and for 8-13 euros per child. Absolutely identical excursions. And so with all excursions.
Further. Car rental. At the hotel, a car with a manual transmission will cost you 58-65 euros, and in Kardamena we took a Hyundai Accent with an automatic for 45 euros (MAREVA rental). Here also consider. We traveled the whole island far and wide in 2 days, the three of us by car. It cost us 90 euros. For comparison. Almost every excursion costs about 35-45 euros per person. They offer you about 10-15. So before you buy this or that excursion, think about whether you need it and how much it will cost.
I highly recommend using the help of a guide at the hotel - Ekaterina.
Very knowledgeable professional! ! Despite the fact that we did not take any excursions from her, as well as cars, she told us everything in great detail.
Only because of her "Southern Cross" should be given 5 points for organization ! ! ! !
But the guide (I don’t remember the name), who accompanied us on the bus to the airport and on the way told us that we were lucky that we didn’t meet snakes and scorpions “oh, it’s okay, you’re already leaving anyway”! ! And then she said that she herself did not like this island and that she “would never come back here, not to mention the island of CORFU”! ! Well, in conclusion, she said that she "doesn't care if you come back here or not. " Here is the GUIDE! ! ! to all GUIDES-GUIDE! ! ! !
In conclusion, I would like to especially note that neither the island nor the hotel caused any serious negative emotions in us.
Yes, it's boring, but here, as they say, there is no golden mean. Who likes what. Many, for example, like to lie on the beach all two weeks and do not need anything else. We need a more active holiday, so now we will look for adventures for ourselves and Russian-speaking company for our son.
Thank you KOS
Thank you Greece
Thanks SOUTHERN CROSS
And the biggest thanks to Alter Via Tour and Elena Roshchina personally.
Makarov: Matvey, Yana and Evgeny. 24.08. 2010-08.08. 2010.
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