Παραλία Πλάκα — Attraction in Zakynthos Municipality

Avoid this place and to screw your day for nothing. Most miserable customer approach ever met in Greece. Pretty far from city center, more expensive than promoted and welcomed by an agresive and rude “manager who does it all, which preffered to kick-us out (a familly of 2 adults and 3 children) instead of welcoming us for beach club (we wanted to get 2 sunbeds and an umbrella - 10€, drinks, snacks) and dinner in the tavern, just for asking him questions and telling him that his approach is completely unappropriate. The kids were not even loud and we just first went to the grass beds instead of going directly to the beach, knowing that we were soon going to be eating in the Tavern. He wasn’t even interested to hear what we were there for, being rude and approaching us in an agressive manner, from the very start, interested only in geting most of our money or kicking us out. His only argument for this was that he is the manager, that it is private property, he can kick us out whenever he wants and he doesn’t like nor want us...

Unfriendly and arrogant …

Our trip to this place lasted about 1 minute. After having parked our scooter under a roof, next to the last available car parking spot (neither blocking nor occupying anything), an old grumpy man rode by on his scooter yelling and pointing: „There!“

Since we found this command both rude and unclear, we waited for a moment, asking ourselves what that was, only to have the man return on his moto and lecture us „how business is done here“. The command was to park the scooter in a different place, which would have been a legitimate request, had it not been uttered in the most unfriendly manner we have ever experienced in Greece. Sure, it’s your business. But such utter lack of respect towards others (guests), is simply unacceptable.

„Bye!“, was our answer. We went to the lovely beach right next door, instead.

What a nasty...

I enjoyed this private beach. The umbrellas are very good (unlike the plastic ones), the sand is perfect, the sunbeds are easy to move. The prices (umbrella+2sunbeds) on Plaka beach are lower than on the others around.

There is a family restaurant there, you may order food on the beach directly. The food was very good and the owners were very kind to us.

No safeguard. On windy days, beware of the rocks on the right, if you get closer, the stream will drag you towards behind the rocks where there is no beach. Ive seen around 10 people struggling -with help from others- to get out of there in just one day. Some ended up climbing the rocks. I guess this applies for all areas around where you may get closer to rocks having a different stream around them. This has nothing to do with the...