Eagles Palace
Eagles Palace is a family-owned five-star hotel at Ouranoupolis, on the quiet Athos peninsula of Halkidiki in northern Greece, part of the wider Eagles Resort and a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World. Families come for its own golden-sand beach with calm, shallow water, à la carte restaurants with menus by a Michelin-starred chef and a rare calm near the monastic peninsula of Mount Athos. It runs from May to mid-October.
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Is it worth it?
Who Eagles Palace suits, who might do better elsewhere and the facts to skim before the detail.
Eagles Palace is a quiet, character-rich five-star rather than a big all-inclusive estate. It's been in the same family since 1925, and that heritage shows in the long-serving staff and the personal service guests single out. The beach is the strongest thing here, a private stretch of golden sand that shelves in gently, which is exactly what you want with a baby or toddler, and the à la carte restaurants and the calm Mount Athos setting are the rest of the draw. The trade-offs are worth knowing before you book. It sits further from Thessaloniki airport than the Kassandra resorts; the crèche for under-threes is paid for every session; the cheapest rooms are small; and there's no waterpark or splash pad. You'll get the most from it if you'd choose a beach-led, low-key luxury week over a resort built around entertainment.
Best for
You want a calm, beach-led five-star with warm service, a gently shelving beach for little ones and à la carte food, and you'd take that over a big lively all-inclusive.
Maybe not for
You want a waterpark or splash pad, an included crèche, a short airport transfer or the cheapest possible week.
Best ages
Babies upwards. A crèche from four months, a kids' club from four and a shallow, calm beach that suits paddling.
What stands out
The safe, shallow beach, the family heritage and service, and the private Drenia Island Club a short boat ride offshore.
What to check
The paid crèche if you have a baby, the small 25 m² entry rooms, and the longer transfer from the airport.
Where is it?
At Ouranoupolis on the Athos peninsula of Halkidiki in northern Greece, about 1 hour 45 minutes from Thessaloniki airport.
Quick facts for families
What the resort is like
How Eagles Palace is laid out, and what the ground is like with young children.
Eagles Palace has been in the Tornivoukas family since 1925, over a hundred years, and it's run as a five-star hotel of 153 rooms, part of the wider Eagles Resort and a member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World (other counts of 157 or 158 turn up on a couple of family-travel sites, possibly down to how they count rooms used for hotel operations, but 153 is the resort's own figure). The heritage isn't just a line in the brochure: there are family heirlooms in the lobby and staff who've been here for years. The main building rises to eight floors, but with the rooms spread across several wings the place feels compact to stroll around rather than sprawling.
The hotel sits among olive groves, pines and palm trees right on the beachfront, with Mediterranean gardens between the wings and a set of standalone bungalows near the sand. The grounds around the hotel are relatively flat and easy with a pushchair. What isn't flat is the route up to Eagles Villas, the sister property on a hilltop above and behind, which is sloped and not one to push a pram up; it's also the part of the site a wheelchair user would find hard, rather than the hotel itself, which has step-free access at several of its restaurants. Golf buggies, the small electric carts that ferry guests around, run throughout both properties, and Eagles Villas guests get their own club car on call to handle that hill.
The resort opens from May to about mid-October, and in the quieter weeks at either end some restaurants, bars and experiences run reduced hours or don't open at all. One tour operator describes it as an ecological resort, which is marketing rather than a named certification, though the organic farm and the local sourcing behind that claim are real. Ouranoupolis village is 4 km away, about a five-minute drive, reached on the free hotel shuttle or by hired bike. For the wider region, its beaches and seasons, see our Halkidiki guide.
Every restaurant and bar
The three board packages, all the restaurants and bars, and how the booking actually works with children.
Eagles Palace guests choose between three board packages, and which restaurants you can use depends on the one you pick. The table sets out what each covers and who it's for.
| Board | Who it's for | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Half Board | Eagles Palace and Villas guests | Buffet breakfast and buffet dinner at the Melathron restaurant. |
| Half Board Premium Dine-Around | Eagles Villas guests only | Buffet breakfast and a three-course à la carte dinner at Kamares, Vinum, Armyra or Lofos. Drinks aren't included and dinner needs booking 24 hours ahead. This tier isn't open to Eagles Palace hotel guests. |
| Bon Vivant | Eagles Palace and Villas guests | The all-inclusive option: breakfast, a three-course lunch and dinner across the named restaurants, one bottle of wine per couple at lunch and dinner from a selected list, beer, soft drinks and coffee at meals, spirits at set bars, drinks brought to your sunbed, your minibar restocked once during the stay if you ask, 30 minutes of daily non-motorised watersports, tennis, spa wet-area access, a children's menu with ice cream, soft drinks and juice at the beach and pool bar for under-12s and one dine-out evening in Ouranoupolis. |
Kamares
Kamares is the flagship fine-dining restaurant, dinner only and à la carte, on a wooden balcony over the gulf towards Ammouliani island. The menus are by Alexandros Tsiotinis, a chef who holds a Michelin star at his Athens restaurant CTC, though Kamares itself isn't a starred restaurant. It's adults only, so families can't eat here together; on a night you want it, that means an evening sitter or splitting up. A reservation is required and the dress code is resort chic.
Armyra
Armyra sits right on the beach: casual Greek tapas at lunch, and gourmet seafood by the same chef at dinner, when the tables are set out on the sand. It's open for lunch and dinner, takes high chairs, has a children's menu and needs a reservation. There's no step-free access to it.
Vinum
Vinum is Greek barbecue and slow-cooked meats, rabbit stifado, lamb chops and goat cooked in a clay pot, served in a wine-cellar setting with a private dining room. It's dinner only, resort chic and reservation-only, with no step-free access. The cellar also hosts sommelier-led wine tastings built around Mount Athos monastery wines with regional snacks to match.
Melathron
Melathron is the main buffet restaurant, open for breakfast and dinner with a different theme each night, a dedicated children's section, a kids' menu, high chairs and no booking needed. It's the Half Board dinner venue, and while it does the job, guests tend to rate the à la carte restaurants higher, and queues build in the peak weeks.
The daytime and casual spots
Patio Bistro is a walk-in garden lunch spot, upscale casual and step-free. Cantina (listed as "Canteen" on the board-package page) serves beachside comfort food from a vintage food truck and a pizza oven, gyros, hot dogs, souvlaki, chicken nuggets and chips, at lunch, walk-in and step-free, which makes it the easy mid-day choice with children; it's open for the season, despite an old closure notice left over from 2024 still sitting on its own page. Lofos, the Italian restaurant up at Eagles Villas, does fresh pasta and pizza with buffet breakfast and à la carte dinner; it's mainly for Villas guests, and lunch there is only for those on Bon Vivant or the Dine-Around. There's also a daytime café for coffee, snacks, ice cream, milkshakes and pastries, roughly 9am to 5pm.
The bars
Ammos is the beach bar, with a buzzer at each parasol so drinks and snacks come to your lounger. The Armyra Pool Bar is a swim-up bar at the main pool, next to the children's pool, with snacks, cocktails and champagne cocktails from 6pm. Eagles Club is the evening entertainment bar, indoor and terrace, with live piano, cocktails and a long wine list, and it can get busy. Up at Eagles Villas, the Cabin Bar is a sundowner spot with a terrace looking over the Gulf of Mount Athos.
How the booking works
The à la carte restaurants, all except Melathron, need a reservation at least 24 hours ahead; lunch is walk-in, first come first served. Special event nights, the all-day dining menu, pool and beach snacks and room service aren't part of Bon Vivant. Breakfast at Melathron runs about 7 to 10:30am, and à la carte dinner starts from about 8pm at Kamares and about 7:30pm at the others, which is worth knowing if you want an early family dinner before bedtime. High chairs, colouring books and children's menus are in every restaurant except Kamares, and staff will heat milk and baby food on request. Staff welcome children at every table but Kamares, though reviewers note they're less keen on children running around between tables, so it's worth keeping little ones seated at meals. Step-free access is fine at Patio Bistro, Cantina, Melathron, Lofos and Kamares, but not at Armyra or Vinum.
Rooms and suites
Every Eagles Palace room type with its official size, the pools across the grounds and the beach below.
The rooms have all been recently renovated, and every one has air conditioning, 24-hour room service, an LCD TV, a Nespresso machine, a safe, wifi, two minibars (one for snacks and drinks, one for toiletries), waffle and towelling robes, slippers, beach towels and olive-based toiletries. The table below is the full Eagles Palace line-up with official sizes; the guidance after it is which ones suit a family with a baby or toddler.
| Room | Size | Sleeps | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deluxe Double Room Garden View | 25 m² | 2 | Entry level and small; a couple at most, tight for a week with a child, and it doesn't take a cot |
| Deluxe Double Room Sea View | 25 m² | 2 | The same compact room with a sea view; a couple only, no cot |
| Deluxe Junior Suite Sea View | 40 m² | 3 | King or twin bed and a sofa area; suits two adults and one young child. Some listings give 45 m² |
| Deluxe Junior Suite Sea Front | 40 m² | 3 | As above with a marble bathtub and a large covered balcony you can sit out on while a baby sleeps |
| Panorama Suite Sea Front | 60 m² | 3 | Walk-in dressing room and a roomy living area; good for two adults and a child |
| Deluxe Family Suite Garden View | 40 m² | 4 | Bedroom and sitting area with a sofabed, separated by a sliding door; the best mainstream suite for naps |
| Deluxe Suite Garden View | 50 m² | 4 | Double bed and a rollaway for up to two children, a sitting area and two bathrooms |
| Deluxe Two Bedroom Suite Sea View | 65 m² | 5 | Two bedrooms with a sea view |
| Suite with Private Pool Nero | 80 m² | 4 | Living room and a separate bedroom, two marble bathrooms and a private pool; marked ideal for families |
| Two Bedroom Suite with Private Pool ("Kyma") | 100 m² | 5 | Two bedrooms and a private pool; marked ideal for families. Some listings give it the name Kyma, Greek for wave |
| Grand Suite Private Pool Sea Front | 150 m² | 5 | Two bedrooms and a private pool, right on the sea front; marked ideal for families |
| Bungalow Garden View | 50 m² | 3 | Standalone near the beach, with a terrace and sunloungers |
| Bungalow Sea View | 50 m² | 3 | Standalone near the beach with a sea view |
| Bungalow Sea Front | 50 m² | 3 | Standalone with a direct sea orientation |
| Bungalow Sea View with Private Pool | 50 m² | 3 | Standalone near the sand with its own private pool |
| Two Bedroom Bungalow Sea View | 60 m² | 4 | Two bedrooms; marked ideal for families |
| Two Bedroom Bungalow Sea View with Private Pool | 60 m² | 4 | Two bedrooms and a private pool; marked ideal for families |
| Presidential Bungalow Sea Front Private Pool | 180 m² | 5 | The largest standalone option, with a private pool on the sea front. One family-travel agency lists it as the "Maria Callas Presidential Bungalow", though that isn't a name the resort itself uses |
The two entry rooms are the 25 m² Deluxe Doubles. They're comfortable for a couple over a couple of nights, but they're tight for a week with a child and they don't take a cot, so for a family they're really only a fallback. Cots are free in most other categories, though not in these rooms, and one reviewer notes they aren't offered in the Jacuzzi version of the Junior Suite Sea Front either.
The 40 m² Junior Suites add a sofa area to a king or twin bed and fit two adults and one young child; the Sea Front version has a marble bathtub and a large covered balcony, useful for sitting out in the evening while a baby sleeps inside. The room actually designed for families is the Deluxe Family Suite Garden View at 40 m², where the bedroom and the sitting area with its sofabed are separated by a sliding door, so you can stay up in the living space while a baby or toddler naps. The Deluxe Suite Garden View at 50 m² adds a rollaway for up to two children and a second bathroom. Above those, the private-pool suites, the 80 m² Nero, the 100 m² two-bedroom and the 150 m² Grand, are marked ideal for families and give you your own pool.
The bungalows are the most sought-after choice for families: standalone buildings near the sand, with garden or private-pool terraces, from 50 m² up to the 180 m² Presidential. Children stay free on twin, rollaway and sofabeds, and hotel child prices apply from two to eleven; from twelve they need their own room or a two-bedroom option. If you run low on any baby basics mid-stay, the hotel keeps a small stock, and spa treatments can be brought to your room rather than only taken at the spa.
Above the hotel, the sister property Eagles Villas is a separate option again: 42 hilltop villas with private heated plunge pools, a private concierge, reserved beach cabanas and club-car access, from a 65 m² Junior Pool Villa up to a 165 m² three-bedroom villa. It suits families who want total privacy and their own pool, and who don't mind the club-car ride down to the beach.
Pools and water features
The main outdoor pool is heated and freshwater, with the Armyra swim-up bar alongside and rows of sunloungers around it; the official site doesn't give its size. Next to the beach there's a separate children's pool, heated and freshwater, 0.60 m deep and open 10:00 to 18:00, which is the one spot set up for very little ones to paddle, with the swim-up bar a few steps away for a drink. It isn't lifeguarded, so parents keep watch. Inside the Elemis spa there's an indoor-outdoor pool, but it's adults only, so children can't use it. Up at Eagles Villas there are outdoor and indoor pools kept for Villas residents. There's no splash pad or waterpark here: the shallow children's pool is the only dedicated toddler water feature, with a pedalo that has a small slide attached down on the beach beyond it.
The beach
The beach is the reason many families come. It's a private stretch of golden sand directly in front of the resort, with no road to cross between the hotel and the sand, and it shelves in gently to calm, shallow water that's specifically noted as safe for babies and toddlers. The water is clear enough that you can watch fish from the jetty. It runs to three sections with slightly different moods, one quiet, one with background music and one with the Ammos bar and the watersports centre, and the parasol tables have a buzzer so drinks and food come to your lounger, with plenty of loungers and umbrellas to go round. Several tour operators describe it as a Blue Flag beach. On lifeguard cover, check the current position when you arrive, and supervise children at the water's edge as you would anywhere.
Two extras sit on the sand. The Athos Scuba Diving Center, a PADI five-star dive school that's been in the area for over 25 years, runs courses, snorkelling and boat dives around the Athos peninsula and Ammouliani, with a Bubblemaker taster for children from eight. The resort also has exclusive use of a private beach on the uninhabited island of Drenia, the Drenia Island Club, about five minutes away by boat: umbrellas, sunbeds and a drinks service, reached by the resort's own motorboat on request for an extra charge.
Babies and toddlers
The crèche and clubs, the babysitting, and the baby kit that comes with the room.
Childcare splits into two, by age. The Nest is the crèche, for four months to three years, in the main building, open 10:00 to 18:00, Monday to Saturday in the shoulder months and daily in July and August. It has a nap room, indoor and outdoor play areas, sensory play and crafts, run day to day by Worldwide Kids staff, and the activities lean on nature, storytelling and the family's own heritage. Guests who've booked through the tour operator Scott Dunn get an extra layer of structured activities under its own Scott Dunn Explorers programme; if you've booked directly, the club is simply the Worldwide Kids one described here. The crèche is paid for every session, morning, lunch and afternoon, with no free session for this age group; you pre-book, with a 50% deposit due at confirmation. The rates below are per child (last checked Jun 2026).
| Session | Time | Price per child |
|---|---|---|
| Morning | 10:00-13:30 | €40 |
| Lunch (lunch included) | 13:30-14:30 | €25 |
| Afternoon | 14:30-18:00 | €40 |
| Full day (morning and afternoon) | 10:00-13:30 and 14:30-18:00 | €80 |
The Beach Shack is the kids' club, for four to eleven, next to the beach and open on the same days and hours, with play areas, themed adventures, sports, simple STEM activities, crafts and treasure hunts. Here one session a day, morning or afternoon, is free per child, with extra sessions bookable subject to availability and the lunch session charged. Its blocks run 10:00 to 13:00, then a lunch session, then 15:00 to 18:00, which don't quite line up with the crèche's own times, so if you're splitting a baby and an older child between the two, plan around the different drop-off and pickup slots. For water-based fun the Explore the Outside programmes take over-fives, with Voyagers for five to seven, Pioneers for eight to thirteen and the PADI Bubblemaker for eight and up, and there's a separate teens' space with video games, table tennis, pinball, mountain biking and water sports, listed as taking up to around thirteen.
For an evening out on your own, babysitting is available in the evening only, roughly 18:30 to 23:00, at €15 an hour per child for up to two children, plus another €10 an hour for a third child and a €15-an-hour late fee for anything after eleven (last checked Jun 2026); request it in advance. On the baby kit, free cots come with most room types, there are high chairs in every restaurant but Kamares, staff will heat milk and baby food, and the hotel keeps a stock of baby basics. A baby monitor and baby seats for the transfer are mentioned by one operator rather than the hotel, so ask for them rather than assume they're standard. Reserve the crèche and club slots when you book the holiday, as they fill in the peak weeks.
On resortThings to do
Most of what fills a family day is on or beside the beach. The watersports centre has towables covering water skiing, wakeboarding, an inflatable ringo and a three-seat couch that a young child can ride behind a speedboat, and rentals that run to a sailboat, a stand-up paddleboard, a larger Mega SUP for up to six, a pedalo with a slide attached and a sea kayak, with guided kayaking trips over to the Drenia islands and a self-drive motorboat for exploring Ammouliani and Drenia yourselves. The resort's own boat, an Axopar taking up to seven adults, runs cruises to Ammouliani and Drenia, over to Diaporos and Vourvourou on the next peninsula and along the Mount Athos coastline, which by regulation stays 500 m off the monasteries, plus an evening sunset cruise from 18:30 to 20:30 with a glass of sparkling wine.
On dry land there's a gym with TechnoGym equipment and trainers on request, free yoga at sunrise and sunset, meditation, Pilates and aqua aerobics, two tennis courts, a padel court, beach volleyball and table tennis. Bikes can be hired for three marked routes of 14, 20 and 32 km around the Xerxes Canal and Komitsa beach, and there are guided hikes to Mount Olympus and Holomontas. The Eagles Farm, an organic herb and vegetable garden with farm animals, runs guided tours, a vegetable-harvest and egg-collecting experience for children and a farm-to-table picnic that the chef cooks from the day's pick. Evenings bring an open-air theatre and cinema with family film nights, live plays and kids' discos, there's an artist-in-residence programme showing Greek work around the resort, and an on-site boutique for international press, magazines and books. There's a chapel in the grounds and a helipad for anyone arriving by helicopter.
The spa
The Eagles Spa is run in partnership with Elemis, the British spa brand, and it's adults only, so children aren't admitted. The wet area runs to an indoor-outdoor pool, a jacuzzi, a sauna, a hammam and steam room, a rasul-laconium for mud treatments and a salt room, with three treatment rooms alongside. The treatment list covers Elemis signature treatments, facials, body wraps and scrubs, massages, manicures and pedicures, couples' rooms and a five-hour Day of Tranquility package, and treatments can be taken in your room or villa or under a beach pavilion instead of at the spa. Bon Vivant includes access to the wet area, with treatments charged on top.
The area and days out
What's within reach, what families praise and flag, how it compares and the journey in.
Ouranoupolis is the easternmost tourist spot in Halkidiki and the departure point for the Athos peninsula, more rural and untouched than the busier Kassandra coast. Ouranoupolis village, 4 km away and about a five-minute drive, is a fishing village with a 14th-century Byzantine tower, shops selling local produce and tavernas at roughly half resort prices, reached by the free shuttle or by bike. Just offshore, Ammouliani island is about five minutes by boat, green and ringed with coves and beaches for a half-day trip, and the uninhabited Drenia islands, the same short hop out, are where the resort's private beach club and the guided kayaking go.
The peninsula's headline is Mount Athos, the monastic republic founded in 963 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, immediately adjacent. It takes male visitors only, with permits arranged six months ahead and a daily cap for non-Orthodox pilgrims; women see the monasteries from the water on the Mount Athos boat cruise, from 500 m out, and the crumbling Zygou Monastery ruins near Ouranoupolis are open to everyone with no permit. Further afield there's Ierissos, about 8 km away, with a Serbian monastery's medieval frescoes and a 3D cultural centre; Ancient Stagira, Aristotle's birthplace, which has a science and philosophy park with hands-on experiments that suits older children; and Petralona Cave, with its stalactites and stalagmites, better for older children than for a toddler who might find it dark and daunting. Arnea, about 50 km away, is a traditional highland village with an 1812 church, folklore and textile museums, honey tasting and children's horse riding, and the hotel can arrange Platanorema Farm for horse riding, archery, a climbing wall and feeding donkeys, ponies and rabbits. Thessaloniki, Greece's second city, is about 110 to 115 km and 1 hour 45 minutes away, more a trip for older, history-minded children than a typical family day out. The resort also organises route excursions if you'd rather have it laid on, taking in local vineyards, the Varvara waterfalls, the Aristotle sites and Arnea, up to a full guided ascent of Mount Athos for experienced walkers.
Loves and gripes
What families love
- The warm, personal service, with long-serving staff who welcome children rather than tolerate them.
- The beach, consistently called the star of the resort, calm and shallow and safe for babies.
- The kids' club, praised for the staff and the range of activities.
- The quiet Mount Athos setting, with no passing traffic or strip of bars.
- The intimate feel despite 153 rooms, rarely crowded.
- The à la carte food, Kamares and Armyra especially, and the breadth of watersports.
Common gripes
- Every crèche session for under-threes is charged, a real weekly cost for families with a baby or toddler.
- Only one free kids'-club session a day, so extra sessions cost and slots go early.
- The 25 m² entry rooms are small for a week; most reviewers suggest upgrading.
- Drinks are expensive by Greek standards.
- The Melathron buffet is the weaker meal, with queues in high season.
- Kamares being adults only, the longer airport transfer, and a few reports of uneven kids'-club staff engagement.
On the ratings, it's consistently one of the best reviewed in the region: around 4.8 out of 5 on the Small Luxury Hotels site from more than a thousand reviews, nearly 2,000 reviews on TripAdvisor with a Travellers' Choice award, a Booking.com couples score in the mid nines, and one tour operator's own booking data puts its recommendation rate at 90%. It has also been named among Europe's best hotel kids' clubs by The Times.
Against the alternativesHow it compares
The obvious comparisons all sit on the Kassandra peninsula, a shorter drive from the airport. Sani Resort is a much larger eco-estate, with a complimentary beach-childminding service and a crèche from six months, so it's the one to weigh if included childcare and scale matter most; Eagles Palace is smaller and more intimate, with the quieter Athos setting and the private Drenia Island Club, though its crèche is paid. The Ikos resorts, Oceania and Olivia, are ultra-premium all-inclusives with the childcare included and simpler cost planning, and they're newer builds; against them, Eagles Palace has more heritage and character, a comparable beach and a slightly longer transfer. Miraggio has a bigger, more entertainment-led kids' zone with a waterpark and splash pad, where Eagles Palace is quieter and beach-focused with no splash zone. The sister Eagles Villas suits families who want complete privacy and their own plunge pool, so long as they're happy with the club-car ride to the beach, while the hotel is the better bet for closer beach and kids'-club access at ground level.
Getting there and when to goGetting there
Thessaloniki airport is the arrival point, about 1 hour 45 minutes away by road, roughly 110 to 115 km. Kavala airport is another option but it's further, so Thessaloniki is the right choice from the UK, served by British Airways from Gatwick along with easyJet, Ryanair and Jet2, on a flight of around three and a half hours. The transfer is arranged on your flight details, by hotel bus or private car, minivan or limo, and it has to be requested when you book rather than being laid on automatically. If you're driving, there's free parking on site, though the entrance is easy to miss behind dense foliage. The Athos location is noticeably further from the airport than the Kassandra resorts, which sit around 70 km out, so the drive is longer with a tired toddler. For the best weeks with little ones, May and October are the quiet shoulders, warm at around 21 to 25°C but with some restaurants and experiences running reduced; June and September are very good, warm and swimmable without the peak; and July and August are the hottest and busiest, when the kids' club runs daily and you'll want to book well ahead.
On the paperwork, there are no travel restrictions on Greece. Your passport needs to have been issued within the last ten years and stay valid for at least three months beyond the day you leave the Schengen area, and there's no visa for stays up to 90 days in any 180. The EU's Entry-Exit System is now live across the Schengen area, though Greece has indicated it won't collect UK travellers' fingerprints and photos under it.
Month by monthWeather
Ouranoupolis has a typical northern-Aegean climate, hot dry summers and mild springs and autumns, and its east-facing position gives some shelter from the afternoon wind. The figures below cover the open season.
| Month | Daytime high | Overnight low | Rain | Wet days | Sea temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May | 25° | 13.5° | 37 mm | 8 | 18° |
| June | 30° | 18.5° | 31 mm | 7 | 23° |
| July | 32.5° | 21° | 24 mm | 6 | 26° |
| August | 32.5° | 21° | 21 mm | 5 | 27° |
| September | 28° | 17° | 22 mm | 5 | 25° |
| October | 21.5° | 12° | 25 mm | 4 | 22° |
Typical monthly averages from weather-station records. Sea temperature is the open-water figure, so a sheltered bay can feel a degree or two warmer. Eagles Palace is open from May to mid-October.
Questions
The things families ask most, the official pages worth a bookmark and when this guide was last refreshed.
Is the crèche ever free?
No. Every crèche session for a child under three is charged, with a full day the priciest option. The one free session a day belongs to the four-to-eleven Beach Shack, not the crèche, so if you'll use childcare daily for a baby, budget for it.
Can the whole family eat at every restaurant?
Not at Kamares, the flagship fine-dining room, which is adults only. On a night you want to eat there you'd book an evening sitter or split up, since every other restaurant welcomes children and lays on high chairs and a kids' menu.
As an Eagles Palace guest, which board should we pick?
Your choice is Half Board, which is the Melathron buffet, or Bon Vivant, the all-inclusive. The à la carte Dine-Around tier is open only to guests staying up at Eagles Villas, so don't book expecting it as a hotel guest.
Are the cheapest rooms big enough for a week?
The 25 m² Deluxe Doubles are fine for a couple on a short break, less so for a week with a child, and they can't take a cot. For a longer family stay, move up to a Junior Suite, a Family Suite or a bungalow, where the floor space and a sofabed come in.
Is there a lifeguard on the beach?
Check when you arrive, because it isn't something we can confirm ahead. Either way, the water is shallow and calm a long way out, so supervise little ones at the edge as you would on any beach.
Do we need to arrange the airport transfer ourselves?
Yes. It isn't automatic. Send your flight details when you book and the hotel sets up a bus or a private car; leave it to arrival and you may not have one waiting.
What ages does the kids' club take, and is any of it free?
The Beach Shack runs from four to eleven, with one free morning or afternoon session per child each day and more bookable on availability. Reserve the slots when you book the holiday, as they fill in the peak weeks.
Can we get a babysitter for an evening out?
Yes, in the evening only, roughly 18:30 to 23:00, charged by the hour per child with a surcharge for a third child and a late fee after eleven. Request it in advance rather than on the night.
See more Eagles Palace photos
Open the Eagles Palace photo gallery →Useful links
- Eagles Resort: the resort's own site for rooms, dining, the kids' club and board options.
- GOV.UK Greece travel advice: entry rules and safety updates before you travel.
- Halkidiki with little ones: our guide to the wider region, its beaches and when to go.
Last updated 13 July 2026.
