TINGAKI
Area: Kos
Country: Greece


Location:
Flat N coastal plain with salt pans. Pserimos Island is just offshore.

Telephone code from UK:
30 22420

Description:
A scattered beach resort with beach popular with day trippers, especially cyclists, from Kos. Has expanded rapidly in recent years. Cooling N coast breezes can intensify to bracing wind.

Suitability:
Appeals to those seeking a relaxing beach holiday without great variety by way of restaurants, nightlife or sights.

Accommodation:
A widely dispersed selection of small, often family-run hotels, many of them on the road down to the beach.

Shopping:
In nearby Kos.Nightlife: one disco.

Beach:
One of the best on the island: long, broad and sandy; gently shelving, with sports and facilities available.

Entertainments:
A handful of simple tavernas.

Eating:
Daily buses to Kos.

Public-transport:
See Kos.

Local-excursions:
On the N coast, 7 miles W of Kos, 9 miles NE of the airport.