Comfuzio is a small, family-owned place very close to Arkulis Hotel. It’s quite cheap, but excellent quality and portion sizes, delicious food! It’s not even aimed st tourists but at locals, so that tells you something. Not glamorous at all though, if you care about that.

Arkulis Hotel has wonderful cozy rooms with balconies or patios (depending on which floor you’re on — I recommend balconies), beautiful views, and they have a huge amazing pool! Most hotels there don’t have any pools at all, or small ones, but this is a fantastic pool. You won’t always be by a beach, so if you want a quick swim or just to be lazy at your hotel, there is your amenity. Hotel itself is very affordable for the island.

Finally, the most important thing that was missed in this article completely is that there are BUSES on Paros! There is a great bus network, very cheap and reliable, gets you arpund, including some beaches. While certain places are not serviced by bus, a lot of them are. You can get off the ferry is Parikia and take a bus to Naoussa, don’t let cab drivers fool you. It’s only a 30 min drive by bus. Hotel Arkulis is also close to the bus stop in Naoussa, which makes it so perfect: if that’s your base, you can travel the whole island by bus easily.
Also, this is never mentioned when talking about the beaches of Paros, but Piperi Beach is great for snorkelling!

Loved reading your blog on Zakynthos. Your recommendations are great and stunning photographs.

We are going for my 30th Birthday in 3 months time and cannot wait. We are staying in the north in Volimes and planning to do the two coasts on the island as two separate boat trips. We are travelling with my almost 2 year old toddler so we are unsure about renting a boat ourselves and may opt for two seperate tour companies? Have you got any advice or recommendations?

Thank You.

That sounds like such an incredible trip! Your daughter is so lucky! Honestly, the best thing I can do here is to point you to my Greek Islands Digital Guide which is my start to finish guide to planning a trip – it will take you through choosing your ideal destinations (based on your travel priorities + personalities), map out routes for you, daily itineraries, and much more: https://shop.finduslost.com/pages/greek-islands-digital-guide

Hope it helps!

Enjoy! xx

We hiked for about 2 hours but didn’t do a full loop – I would definitely recommend dressing warm (leggings, pants, gloves, thermal, coat, hat, etc). The weather can be very unpredictable and daylight will also affect the temperatures! We didn’t need hiking poles for the portion we did (and the path was fairly established) but some people did bring them. Enjoy, it’s beautiful!

Beautiful photos! Planning on stopping here this winter and this post is really helpful’ I’d like to know if there was any tricky or steep terrain and would this be suitable for beginner hikers? Did you bring any crampons or snowshoes or hiking poles or did you feel like any of those would be helpful? And were you just wearing leggings and that was warm enough all day? And just a flannel shirt with no gloves?

Lucky her, that’s an amazing gift! I think that’s a wonderful itinerary. If you are also looking for full itineraries, the digital guide I released this summer contains day-by-day itineraries for both Paros and Santorini.

Greek Islands Digital Guide: https://shop.finduslost.com/products/greek-islands-digital-travel-guide

Have a wonderful trip x