Tigaki is the north-coast resort that families with young children come back to year after year, and the reason is the beach: a long, gently shelving ribbon of pale sand where the sea stays shallow and warm a long way out, so toddlers can paddle safely and older children swim without a care. Behind the sands sits a salt lake, an inland lagoon where flamingos gather in spring, and the whole flat, bike-friendly landscape rolls out towards Kos Town just a few miles east. It is a relaxed, low-key sort of place — low-rise tavernas, a scattering of beach bars, an unhurried pace — rather than a party strip. You fly into Kos Island International Airport (KGS) in the middle of the island, and the transfer to Tigaki is about 30 minutes, so you can be building sandcastles the same afternoon you land.
Every Tigaki 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.
"Tigaki is my answer for families with really little ones," 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. "That beach is the shallowest, safest sand on the island — you can wade out and the water barely reaches your knees — and it's calm and low-key rather than raucous. The salt lake behind is lovely at dawn, and Kos Town is a flat, easy cycle away when the grown-ups want a night out." Eleni still re-checks the Tigaki hotels each season, timing the walk from sunbed to sea and tasting the buffets on quiet weeknights, so the ones on this page are hotels she would happily book for her own family.
