Marathias Beach — Attraction in Zakynthos Municipality

AVOID THIS PLACE!!! An abnormal person who has a serious mental problem has taken up residence there. Extremely dangerous and aggressive! He claims that the beach is his and selectively attacks families with children. He chases people with a black motorcycle without registration and threatens them! He is afraid of the police.

Locals in the area know about the danger, but unfortunately the local government and the police do not take any measures to protect the tourists and the property of the Greek State!

N.B. The beach is beautiful, but very dirty with fuel oil, as the sea throws up the waste of the heavy boat traffic there. Don't sit on the rocks, because you'll have a hard time cleaning yourself up afterwards! Access to the beach is very difficult and dangerous! It's not worth falling victim to a crazy person or the poison on the beach for the sake of one view! RUN AWAY!!!

Don't trust the 5 star ratings...

Terrible experience! We arrived in this very beautiful bech early in the morning and we placed on the sun beds. After half an hour a man come to ask 10 euros for renting the beds and the umbrella. Nothing strange on that except that everywhere you can rent whatever you want on the island without having any receipt. This is likely a Greek style. We were a bit surprised for the strong smell of fuel all over the beach but we did not take care about it and we went for a relaxing bath in the sea. After 5 minutes in the water we decided to get out because of a floating fuel all over the water. The surprise come when we looked at each other and we realized that our faces and our hair were completely covered by oil. Asking to the man for the problem he just said us that it was a natural phenomenon and he proposed to wash our hair with olive oil. This beach should be closed and forbidden to everyone for swimming....

TO BE AVOIDED!!!

Highly POLLUTED WATER and THIEVES.

It’s the only place on the island where we witnessed how the sun beds manager cooperates with thieves. Two backpacks were stolen with wallets, phones, car keys and photo cameras just a couple of sun beds away from us. Literally, under our very own eyes, the thieves have been tipped by the sun beds manager as soon as those poor tourists have left their belongings while having a bath in the sea. When they returned, he yell like crazy that they should better go away and never leave their belongings without supervision.

Also the water is very polluted with some sort of oils and diesel like substances that requires heavy showers to be removed from skin and especially from hair.

In the video attached to this review you can view the tip off moment by the sun beds manager so that the thieves can grab those poor tourists...