Kos is the easy one. A long, flat island in the Dodecanese, just off the Turkish coast, it is made for the kind of holiday where nobody has to work too hard — miles of sandy beach, a bike-friendly landscape you can pedal end to end, and a compact harbour town with Roman ruins and a Crusader castle right in the middle of it. Most visitors fly into Kos airport in the centre of the island and are at the beach within the hour. If you want a Greek island that families with young children, couples and cyclists can all enjoy without a fuss, Kos Town and its surrounding resorts deliver exactly that.
Every Kos package we sell carries full ATOL financial protection under licence #11211, and your ATOL Certificate arrives the moment you book — you can read how your ATOL financial protection works before you commit a penny. Every hotel on this page has been hand-picked and inspected in person against our 22-point criteria, not chosen from a brochure, so you are booking a resort someone from our team has actually walked through.
"Kos is the island I send nervous first-timers to, and families with little ones," says Eleni Trachalakis, our Greece Operations Manager, who looked after British holidaymakers across the Dodecanese during her years as a resort representative. "It's flat, it's friendly and everything is close — you can cycle to dinner, the beaches shelve gently, and the town is small enough that you never feel lost." Eleni still re-checks the Kos resorts each season, timing the walk from sunbed to sea and tasting the buffets on quiet weeknights, so the hotels on this page are ones she would happily book for her own family.
