Koukounaries Beach — Attraction in Skiathos Municipality

Long sandy beach, lots of natural shade under the pines. At the entire length of the beach the protected area stretches behind it, offering walks through the pines, really nice when the sun is too strong. Beach has toilets (no charge), and showers. Showers have a bit poor water pressure though. Bus from the city to the beach is 2€ and goes every 15 min or so. Almost all sunbeds have 'sponge-filled-cover', makes it really nice to lye down on (10€ for two sunbeds, 8 if you're using natural shade). The distance between beds on the beach is too narrow imho. Entering the water, you'll see a very gradual entrance depth, ideal for kids. There's no waves whatsoever. If you're up for driving, at the edge of the beach is driving club. Also, if you like watersports there's 3 clubs all over the place. There are three bars: starting from the one one closest to the Palace hotel, ending with the one closest to the bus station: first one is the worst - the staff is ok and friendly but the owner will try to "forget" to return the change every chance he gets, and the food portions are smallest and also the priciest. The next one has very good food, is cheaper than the first one (e.g. 5€ instead of 6€ for orange juice etc), but the downside is that there's a "DJ" that at times plays music so loud you can't hear your thoughts. The third one seemed ok, but it was the furthest so we...

The airplant leave us around 6-7 am on the island and we was no welcome to our hotel until 12am. So I had the idea to take the bus and visit "Koukounaries" early in the morning. We was very tired but we said go to the beach and relax a bit. Around 8am we was in this beach. We see many green trees there and we start to move in the beach. But the image was unbelievable. This famous and gorgeous beach was alone there for us. No one was there cause the early time. We just sit there, the sea has 0 wind and we just look all this gorgeous beach without people. Wow.. This is something that many people want to feel once. We enter and the water was shallow and very clean. It was like a mirror. The sand was amazing and soft but on eye probably was the most beautiful sand I have ever see. It was very bright gold. Almost yellow. I felt I was in some tropical island even thought, this beach has nothing to envy against tropical beaches. If you see this beach without people and wind, probably you will felt in love forever. We took pictures and we just sit there and watch this beach empty and calm. After 1 hour the people start to come and around 11:30 we gone with plenty memories in our heads. Overall, one of the most beautiful beaches I have ever seen and one of the most serious. All in this beach are...

Nice sandy beach with a lot of free facilities. It is accessible to people with disabilities, equipped with Seatrac. They have showers and round shaped, beach changing rooms, that take everyone by surprise because they stop to explore what is that round beige/ecru colored structure under the pine trees.

There are a lot of rows of sunbeds, even some under the pine trees. But you can also find a spot on the sand if you do not wish to pay for a sunbed, although on a sunny day it gets crowded fast. There is also the possibility to go diving or do water sports.

The beach has coffee/restaurant/bar shops that also offer snacks if you like to have a lunch. A lot of people choose to visit it during rainy days just to sit and enjoy a quick bite next to the sea.

It is ideal to visit if the wind comes from the North as it doesn’t get affected, being covered by the pine trees, you can still swim. It has a bus stop, only a few meters from its entrance and in general it is easily accessible by any type of vehicle.

Overall, it is probably the most organized beach on the whole of the island and in a magnificent scenery, adjacent to Limni (lake) Strofilias, which is a...