Kardamena is Kos at its all-inclusive best — a former fishing village on the sunny south coast that has grown into the island's big-resort heavyweight, home to the landmark Mitsis hotels with their domes, waterslides and private beach clubs strung out along miles of golden sand. The village itself has a lively centre of bars, tavernas and shops, but the resorts on this page sit outside town on their own stretches of beach, so you get the calm of a self-contained hotel with the buzz of Kardamena a short hop away whenever you fancy it. You fly into Kos Island International Airport (KGS), which sits practically next door — the transfer is barely ten minutes — so you can be in the pool before you have unpacked.
Every Kardamena 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 and slept in.
"Kardamena is where I send families and couples who want a proper all-inclusive week without lifting a finger," says Eleni Trachalakis, our Greece Operations Manager, who looked after British holidaymakers across the Dodecanese during her years as a resort representative before Thomas Cook. "The Mitsis resorts here are their own little worlds — pools, slides, spas, a row of restaurants and a beach out front — and they sit a little outside the village, so you get the quiet even though the bars and tavernas are ten minutes down the road when you want them. I re-check them every season, timing the walk from sunbed to sea and tasting the buffets on the quiet weeknights, so the ones on this page are hotels I would happily book for my own family." Eleni rates the Mitsis dining and the beaches here among the best on the island.
