Grecotel LUXME Kos

About 24 miles (38 km) from Kos airport

Luxury5 starAll-inclusive

Grecotel LUXME Kos is a five-star all-inclusive at Psalidi, a bay about 2.5 miles (4 km) south-east of Kos Town on the north-east coast of Kos, in the Greek Dodecanese. It spreads over 100,000 m² of tropical gardens between a lagoon pool and its own pebble beach on the Aegean, and it was reinvented for the 2026 season with redesigned rooms, a new line-up of restaurants and a lazy river drifting round Papaya Island, a sandy islet at the middle of the pool.

Grecotel LUXME Kos at Psalidi: the lagoon pool and its sandy island, ringed by palms and low bungalows, with the Aegean beyond. — On Psalidi bay The lagoon pool and Papaya Island sit at the centre of the gardens, with the pebble beach and the Aegean beyond.

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The short version

Is it worth it?

Who it suits, what the all-inclusive covers and where it stops for babies and toddlers.

LUXME, short for Grecotel’s “Luxury Made Easy” brand line, is Grecotel’s top tier, and LUXME Kos, known until its 2026 relaunch as Grecotel Kos Imperial, is a big five-star all-inclusive built for families with children of four and up. From four, Grecoland is free, age-banded and runs six days a week. Below that there’s no crèche and no drop-off childcare, so a baby or toddler is with you all week and paid babysitting is the only way to hand over. If a couple of hours without a toddler is what you want built into the price, this isn’t the resort for it.

The site is what you’re paying for. It’s tropical gardens with a lagoon pool wrapped around a sandy island, six pools in all and a private pebble beach where the water deepens quickly, so the pools rather than the sea are where small children swim. Every restaurant is included, à la carte and buffet, along with the drinks, though one of the six is adults-only and there’s an adults-only beach and restaurant area alongside the sixteen-plus spa. Children up to twelve can stay free in their parents’ room on selected room types and dates.

Best for

Children of four and up who’ll use the club, a week built around pools rather than the sea and a Greek town you can reach on foot or by bike.

Maybe not for

You’re counting on drop-off childcare for a baby or toddler, or you want sand and shallow water at the resort’s own beach.

Best ages

Four and up, when Grecoland takes children on their own.

What stands out

The lagoon pool with its lazy river and Papaya Island, a sandy islet with hammocks and evening fire pits at the centre of the water.

What to check

Whether your room type and dates qualify for children staying free, and that you’ve requested the airport transfer if you’ve booked direct.

Where is it?

At Psalidi on the north-east coast of Kos, in the Greek Dodecanese, about 2.5 miles (4 km) from Kos Town.

Quick facts for families

BoardLUXME all-inclusive: à la carte and buffet meals at every restaurant, unlimited drinks from over 100 brands, all-day snacking, Afternoon Tea and the Wine Library. In-room dining isn’t included, and the package stops at 17:00 on the day you leave.

The site100,000 m² of tropical gardens between Psalidi bay and the Aegean, built around a lagoon pool with a sandy island and a lazy river at the centre.

BabiesGrecoBaby kit, requested before you travel: cots, loan prams, bottle sterilisers, monitors, potties and trainer steps, with baby food made to order for infants under one.

ChildcareGrecoland is free and takes children from four to twelve, plus teenagers in high summer. There’s no crèche and no drop-off care under three. Babysitting through reception costs extra.

BeachA private pebble beach with loungers, umbrellas and attendants. The water deepens quickly, so there’s a paddling pool at beach level for the youngest.

AirportKos (KGS), about 24 miles (38 km) and 45 minutes by road. Book direct for seven nights or more and a private transfer from the airport or Kos Port is included, though you have to request it.

Gardens on Psalidi bay

What the resort is like

Where it sits on Kos, how the site is laid out and what 10 hectares means when you’re walking it with children.

The resort sits at Psalidi, a bay about 2.5 miles (4 km) south-east of Kos Town on the island’s north-east coast, in the Dodecanese group off the Turkish coast. It has its own stretch of the bay. Kardamena, the island’s nightlife town, is on the far side of Kos, and the Lambi hotel stretch is out the other side of Kos Town. Psalidi itself is a run of hotels along a coastal road, with the town and its harbour a 10 to 15 minute drive away.

The site is 100,000 m², which is 10 hectares, planted as tropical gardens with palms and papaya trees. Around 383 rooms, suites and villas are spread through them, low-rise, with the lagoon pool complex and Papaya Island at the centre and the pebble beach along the front. It reads as a resort village rather than a purpose-built water park: there are no flumes or slide towers here, and the water is a lagoon, a lazy river and a set of pools. The resort holds a Travelife Gold award for its sustainability work.

What 10 hectares means in practice is that your room, the pools, the restaurants and the beach are a walk apart, and how far depends where you’re put. The ground between the gardens and the beach is level, so it’s flat walking rather than slopes and steps. If the distances matter to you, whether that’s a pram, a toddler who won’t walk far or a tired evening trip back for bedtime, email the resort at [email protected] before you book and ask what’s available across the site for your room. On accessibility, the resort has no rooms specially designed for guests with limited mobility, though most rooms in the main building are accessible and every department is accessible to wheelchair users. For the wider island, its beaches and when to go, see our Kos guide.

Six restaurants, five bars

Every restaurant and bar

All six restaurants, the five bars and the Wine Library, what LUXME covers and how the booking works.

The LUXME all-inclusive covers à la carte and buffet dining at every venue, unlimited drinks from over 100 regular and premium brands, snacks through the day and late at night, Afternoon Tea, the Pâtisserie-Chocolaterie, the Crêperie-Gelateria and the Wine Library. Vegan, vegetarian and gluten-free options run across the restaurants. Children up to twelve dine free from a children’s menu at every à la carte restaurant, and baby food is made to order for infants under one. There are six restaurants and five bars, plus the Wine Library, a cellar of more than 150 labels chosen by Grecotel’s sommeliers and included like everything else.

The Lagoon Restaurant is the buffet and the main family room, open for breakfast, lunch and dinner, Mediterranean and international, with themed dinner nights, a bakery section baking fresh each day and the wine library built into the room. It looks out over the lagoon, in mint-green tile and copper. It’s the one you don’t book, so it’s the fallback when a toddler’s appetite arrives at the wrong hour.

The Finicia Italian Classics serves dinner: an Italian menu of hot stone dishes, the Aperitivo tradition, dolci, fresh fruit and gelato, with wine tastings on request. Italian is usually the easiest à la carte room to get a young child through a meal in.

Tavernaki is the Greek restaurant, open for dinner, with meze, ouzo and family recipes in relaxed taverna style.

Asiana sits on the beach and serves pan-Asian fusion at dinner. The flavours are the most adventurous on site, which suits an older child more than a fussy four-year-old.

The 1930s Bar Restaurant is adults-only, a fine-dining degustation menu served in the setting of a 1930s aperitivo bar. It’s the one restaurant of the six your children can’t come to, so it’s a babysitting evening rather than a family dinner.

The Food Court is the all-day casual hub, open until sunset, with its own bar, a Gelateria and a Crêperie alongside a lunchtime spread of grills, salads, homemade pizzas and the chef’s sandy creations.

Three more places to eat are included and don’t need booking. The Pâtisserie-Chocolaterie does chocolate, sweet breads, pastries, cakes, macarons and candy. The Crêperie-Gelateria makes crêpes to order alongside artisanal gelato, granitas and cold drinks, and it’s open from sunrise to last light, which makes it the one thing here you can promise a child at almost any hour. The Kids’ Tasty Corner is a children’s buffet running 12:30 to 14:00, though only from mid-June to mid-September, so you won’t find it on a May or October week.

The five bars

The Corals Pool Bar is poolside and does fresh lunches by day and evening plates after. There’s a second Pool Bar for refreshments and sunset drinks, a Beach Bar down on the sand for cocktails and freshly squeezed juices, and the bar inside the Food Court running through the day. The Lobby Bar is where Afternoon Tea and the patisserie section live, and it’s the one to know about: from 20:00 to midnight it turns into the Secret Lobby Bar and becomes adults-only.

One meal out is included too. Between 1 July and 31 August you can dine once per stay at a local taverna, booked in advance, though getting there is your own arrangement rather than a transfer laid on.

How the dining works

Each à la carte restaurant can be reserved once per week per party, subject to availability. That works out at one dinner each at Finicia, Tavernaki and Asiana over a week, with the Lagoon buffet, the Food Court and the Crêperie taking the other nights and no booking needed for any of them. The 1930s Bar Restaurant is the fourth à la carte booking, and it’s adults-only. Reservations go through the Grecotel app, which opens each Thursday for the following week, or at the front desk. The app also handles the rest of your bookings, and there’s a WhatsApp line for anything you need during the stay. Dinner is smart casual after 17:00, with no swimwear, sportswear or flip-flops; the rest of the day is resort casual with proper footwear. Two things to plan around: in-room dining isn’t part of LUXME, and the package ends at 17:00 on the day you check out.

Buffet show-cooking counter with three chefs in whites plating dishes beneath copper-mesh cabinets and pendant heat lamps, clay serving bowls set out on a white counter in front. — The Lagoon Restaurant buffet, the main family dining room

Bright restaurant dining room with pale tub chairs at marble tables around a round central table, framed by tall fiddle-leaf fig plants, its doors folded open to a sea-view terrace. — One of the à la carte restaurants

A domed meringue-and-cream dessert topped with blackberries, raspberries and a small orange flower, in a swirl of passion-fruit sauce on a white ridged plate. — A dessert plated at one of the restaurants

Rooms, suites and villas

Every category with its official size, then the six pools, the lazy river and the beach.

There are twenty-five categories, running from a 31 m² double up to a 250 m² four-bedroom villa on the beach. Rooms and suites sit in the main building or as low-rise bungalows through the gardens; the villas are in the gardens by the beach. In the table, where the official listing splits the occupancy it’s written as adults plus children, so 3+1 means three adults and one child. A few categories give only a total number of people with no age split, and those say “persons” below, so check the mix that works for your family when you book.

Grecotel LUXME Kos room, suite and villa categories with official sizes and occupancy
Room	Size	Sleeps	What you get
Double Room Garden View	31 m²	3 persons	A balcony or terrace onto the gardens. The most compact room here.
Double Room Side Sea or Sea View	31 m²	3 persons	The same size, with a balcony facing the sea or part of it.
Bungalow	33 m²	3 persons	A balcony or terrace onto a side sea or garden view.
Bungalow Pool View	33 m²	3 persons	Ground floor, facing a pool.
Bungalow Sharing Pool	33 m²	3 persons	A garden or pool view, with access to the serviced shared pool landscape.
Petit Family Room	36 m²	2+2	A balcony onto the gardens. The extra beds sit in the living area rather than a second bedroom.
Petit Family Bungalow	36 m²	2+2	The same layout in bungalow form, with a terrace onto a garden or pool.
Petit Family Bungalow Sharing Pool	36 m²	2+2	As above, plus access to the shared pool landscape.
Family Room	50 m²	3+1	Separate sleeping and living areas, with a balcony or terrace onto the gardens.
Family Bungalow	52 m²	3+1	Separate areas in bungalow form, with terrace access and a side sea, pool or garden view.
Interconnecting Family Room	62 m²	6 persons	Two rooms joined together, each with its own balcony or terrace, onto gardens or the sea.
Bungalow Maisonette	60 to 65 m²	3+2	Split-level over two floors with stairs inside, and a balcony with pool and side sea views.
Bungalow 1st Row	33 m²	2+1	A private balcony and a sea view, in the beachfront row.
Bungalow 1st Row Private Pool	33 m²	2+1	Beachfront, with a pool on its own terrace.
Penthouse Junior Suite	50 m²	2 persons	A private veranda and a sea view. No family configuration.
Penthouse Senior Suite	70 m²	2 persons	Top floor, with a balcony and a sea view. Again for two.
Luxury Family Suite	56 m²	3+1	A balcony or terrace, sea, side sea or garden, a travertine bathroom and a freestanding tub.
Luxury Family Suite Sharing Pool	56 m²	3+1	The same suite with access to the shared pool landscape.
Luxury Family Suite Private Pool	56 m²	3+1	The same suite with a pool on its own terrace and a sea view.
Famous Family Bungalow	52 m²	2+2	Beachfront, with two separate sleeping areas and a private balcony onto the sea.
Famous Family Bungalow Private Pool	52 m²	2+2	The same beachfront bungalow with a pool on its terrace.
2-Bedroom Villa	68 m²	2+2	In the gardens by the beach, with a terrace and direct pool access.
2-Bedroom Villa with Private Pool	68 m²	3+1	A terrace with its own pool and a sea view.
3-Bedroom Villa	125 m²	4+2	Separate living and dining rooms and a private pool in the gardens, facing the pool and side sea.
4-Bedroom Villa Beachfront Private Pool	250 m²	6+1	Two levels, verandas, a private pool and the sea in front. The largest on the estate.

With a baby or toddler, the question is whether you need a door to close on a sleeping child. The Petit Family Rooms and Bungalows at 36 m² are the cheapest way to get a family into one room, though the extra beds are in the living area, so a child going down at seven means the evening goes quiet too. The Family Room at 50 m² is the first with separate sleeping and living areas, and the Family Bungalow at 52 m² gives you the same split on the ground floor with a terrace you can step straight out of, which is the easier shape with a pram. Above those, the Interconnecting Family Room at 62 m² is two rooms joined, and the Famous Family Bungalow at 52 m² is beachfront with two separate sleeping areas. The Luxury Family Suite at 56 m² is the headline family room, with a travertine bathroom and a freestanding tub. Two to skip with young children: the Penthouse suites take two people and have no family configuration, and the Bungalow Maisonette splits over two floors with stairs inside.

Two words in the room names are worth decoding. A Sharing Pool room opens onto a serviced shared pool landscape that runs between the bungalows and suites, so it’s a pool near your door that you share with the rooms around you. A Private Pool room has a pool on its own terrace, and it comes on the 1st Row Bungalows, the Luxury Family Suite, the Famous Family Bungalow and several villas. Neither is the same as the main pools, and with a young child a pool at your door is a supervision question as much as a treat.

Children up to twelve can stay free in their parents’ room, though only on specific room types and during specific periods, so treat it as an offer to check against your dates rather than a rule. An extra bed measures 180 to 200 cm by 80 to 90 cm and takes one more person within the room’s occupancy limit, and twin beds can be requested in selected room types. Every room has tea and coffee making including a Nespresso machine, a safety deposit box and free Wi-Fi. An iron and board come up on request for a limited time for security reasons, and there’s an ironing service at extra charge.

White-walled double room with a large bed, a round mirror, pale armchairs and a low table, its curtained doors open to a terrace with palm trees and the sea beyond. — A sea-view double room

Suite living room with a cream sofa, wooden armchairs and a round timber coffee table on a pale rug, its doors folded back to a terrace with loungers, a private pool and the sea. — A suite living room, opening onto a private pool

Pools, the lazy river and Papaya Island

There are six pools, and the lazy river is counted separately from them. The centrepiece is the lagoon pool complex, several swimming areas with waterfalls that wrap around Papaya Island, and it’s where most guests spend the day. It also sits inside the gardens rather than on the front, so it’s more sheltered than the beach when the wind gets up in the afternoon.

The lazy river winds around the island through the gardens and the exotic trees, and it’s the feature most young children make for. Children have two pools of their own: a dedicated children’s pool over near the Grecoland area, and a separate children’s and paddling pool at beach level, which is the water to head for with the youngest, given how the sea shelves here. Two of the six are the Elixir Spa’s indoor pools, for guests of sixteen and over, so they’re part of the count but not part of a family day.

Papaya Island isn’t a pool at all. It’s a sandy islet at the heart of the lagoon, with hammocks, deep loungers and fire pits lit in the evening, sitting in the middle of the pool that most families spend the day around.

Pool sizes and depths aren’t something you can look up before you go, and the pools run to a seasonal schedule rather than fixed hours, so if depth or opening times would change your plans, email [email protected] before you travel.

Elevated view through tall palms over two large swimming pools ringed by loungers and parasols, the calm Aegean filling the top of the frame. — The pools among the gardens, with the Aegean beyond

Wide lagoon-shaped freshwater pool with a shallow round platform in the foreground, ringed by palms, parasols and low white buildings under a clear sky. — The lagoon pool at the centre of the resort

Aerial view of a sandy island dotted with palms, loungers and cabanas, encircled by the pale blue channel of a lazy river. — Papaya Island and the lazy river that circles it

The beach

The beach is private and pebble, opening straight onto the Aegean, with attendants, sun loungers and umbrellas included. Asiana sits on it, the Beach Bar is alongside, and there’s a dedicated adults-only beach and restaurant area at one end. Watersports run from here through an outside partner, motorised and non-motorised.

Two things to know before you picture the week. The substrate is dark pebble and the water deepens quickly, so this isn’t the long shallow wade you get on the island’s north-coast sand: with a toddler, the paddling pool at beach level and the lagoon complex are where the swimming happens, and the sea is the older children’s. The beach also doesn’t hold a Blue Flag. The Psalidi flag belongs to Mitsis Ramira, a neighbouring resort, and Grecotel holds Blue Flags at fifteen of its beaches elsewhere, so it’s a mark the group works to rather than one this stretch carries.

The other thing to plan around is the meltemi, the north-west wind that blows across the Aegean from May to September. Kos’s north coast, Psalidi included, faces it, and the pattern is calm mornings with the wind building from midday. In practice that can make the beach breezy through the afternoon, which is the other reason the lagoon pool fills up after lunch.

For the little ones

Babies and toddlers

The kit that comes to the room, the feeding and where the childcare stops.

Start with the line, because it shapes the whole week: there’s no crèche and no drop-off childcare for under-threes. Children of three and under are welcome in Grecoland only when a parent or legal guardian is with them. Babysitting is available at extra cost, arranged through reception and with its own terms, and that’s the only way to hand a baby or toddler over here, whether that’s for a spa hour or the adults-only restaurant in the evening. Rates and availability go with the week you’re there, so ask reception what they can do early in the stay rather than on the night you want it.

The strong part for this age is the kit. GrecoBaby covers nought to three and you request it before you travel through the form on the resort’s site: cots, loan prams and pushchairs, bottle sterilisers, baby monitors, potties and trainer steps, with changing facilities through the public areas. The prams are the useful one on a 10-hectare site if you’d rather not carry your own out, and the trainer steps and potties are the sort of thing that otherwise fills a case. None of it is guaranteed unless you ask in advance, so put the form in when your dates are firm.

Feeding is well covered. Baby food for infants under one is prepared to order if you contact the Restaurant Manager in advance, and staff will warm bottles and baby food. The Petite Gastronomie range puts farm-to-table fruit and vegetables and baby food options across the restaurants, and children up to twelve eat free from a children’s menu at every à la carte restaurant. All the restaurants can cater for dietary restrictions and allergies with advance notice, so tell them before you travel rather than at the table. From mid-June to mid-September there’s also the Kids’ Tasty Corner children’s buffet at lunch.

The wider Kids Go Free offer bundles the free stay in the parents’ room with free children’s dining, snacks and the Grecoland programme, and it applies to select room types and specific periods only, so check the terms against the room and week you want.

From four upwards

Grecoland and the older children

From four, Grecoland is a proper age-banded club, free for resident children and part of the LUXME package. Children who aren’t staying at the resort can’t use it. It runs six days a week through the season with one day off. Session times move with the season, so reception holds the timetable for your week, and it’s also where to ask about staffing numbers if that matters to you.

GrecoKids takes four to six year olds through creative play, water activities, arts and crafts, team games, themed events, a mini disco, cooking classes, environmental days, treasure hunts, gardening, live shows and outdoor play. GrecoJuniors covers seven to twelves with discovery adventures, parties and discos, sports, team games, water activities and crafts. GrecoTeens runs for thirteen to seventeens, though only from mid-June to mid-September, with beach volleyball, beach soccer, tournaments, hip hop and Greek dancing and parties. There’s a dedicated play area in the Grecoland grounds.

The programme is built around two Kos stories rather than generic club activities, which is the part that lands if you have a curious seven-year-old: the Nisyros volcano, an active caldera on the next island that you can walk down into, and Hippocrates, the father of medicine, who was born here. The club uses interactive geological exhibits and the botanical garden nearby to tell both, and it lines up neatly with the day trips below. Four to twelves can also do the Kids’ Culinary Workshop, cooking simple recipes with fresh ingredients.

Filling the days

Things to do

What’s included, what costs extra, the spa and its age rules and the parts of the resort your children can’t come to.

Included in LUXME: tennis on maintained courts for all levels, table tennis, boccia, darts and water polo. On the wellness side, group yoga and meditation with a resident yogi, Pilates sessions, Aqua Gym and fitness classes are all part of the package, with CrossFit alongside them. Personal trainer sessions are one-to-one rather than a group class, and personalised services carry an additional charge, so ask what a session costs before you book one.

Down on the beach the watersports centre is run by an outside partner and costs extra. The motorised list is paratrike, paragliding, wakeboarding and waterskiing. Non-motorised hire runs alongside it, kayaks, pedaloes, paddleboards and windsurfing boards, so ask the centre what’s on the water in the week you’re there. Scuba diving and snorkelling go through an external dive school with pick-up and drop-off, and scuba has to be booked in person once you’ve arrived rather than ahead. There’s laser tag too.

Off the site, the concierge arranges sunset horse riding along the shoreline, private hiking tours on Kos and on Nisyros, and boat trips of every shape: yachts, RIB speedboats, catamarans, sailing, scenic cruises, snorkelling, fishing, day trips and crossings to Bodrum in Turkey. Bike hire is worth singling out, because Kos is flat and the 13 km seafront cycle lane from Kos Town runs all the way to Psalidi. The resort holds a Bike Friendly Hotel Award for 2025 to 2027 and hires bikes out, which makes the town a ride rather than a taxi.

In the evenings, the Family Disco and Family Movie Night, an outdoor cinema under the stars with popcorn, are both included, and there’s a Family Game Zone indoors with table tennis and billiards. Afternoon Tea runs daily in the lobby and a wine tasting with the head sommelier is part of the programme, both included in LUXME. A private photo session with a professional photographer and a private sunset dinner on the beach are arranged individually through the resort.

There’s also a structured events calendar from May to October, which matters if you’re choosing a week: craft workshops on 1 May, Mother’s Day on 10 May, an Ocean Day beach clean-up on 8 June, Father’s Day on 21 June, family moon events across July, August and September, the Dormition on 15 August with a panigiri (a village festival) nearby, then Harvest Moon and Greek dancing on 26 September.

Sixteen and over

The Elixir Spa

The Elixir Spa is for guests of sixteen and over, which rules it out for children and means one parent at a time unless you’ve arranged babysitting. It holds two of the resort’s six pools: a freshwater indoor pool and the seawater Aqua Elixir pool with its wild-water corridor, water cannons and shower jets. Alongside them are an open-air whirlpool, a sauna, a steam room, a fitness room with cardio equipment, an outdoor gym, private massage rooms with their own garden, a beauty salon and changing rooms. Using the pools doesn’t require booking a treatment; the two are billed separately.

Treatments all cost extra and cover body work like Mediterranean citrus scrubs, marine rituals, mineral detox wraps and vineyard-extract anti-ageing treatments, massages from the black obsidian de-stress and deep tissue to Sea Breeze aromatherapy and in-room rituals, and packages for anti-ageing, hyaluronic firming and after-sun. There are family bonding packages too, chocolate therapy and side-by-side massages for guests taking treatments together. The one exception to the age rule is a children’s menu for seven to twelve year olds, “Chocolate Hug” massages and fruit-scented facials, given by the spa therapists and charged on top.

The spa runs 10:00 to 18:30 and booking at least a week ahead is strongly recommended, by email to [email protected] or by phone on +30 22420 58000.

Where children can’t go

The adults-only side of the resort

Part of the resort is set aside for adults, so some doors close to you. The adults-only experience runs across the spa’s indoor and thalassotherapy pools, a dedicated beach and restaurant area and the Secret Lobby Bar, which is the Lobby Bar reserved for adults from 20:00 to midnight. The 1930s Bar Restaurant is adults-only at dinner, and the spa is sixteen and over.

None of that takes anything away from a family day: the lagoon complex, the lazy river, the children’s pools, Grecoland, the Crêperie and the Family Disco are all yours. What it does mean is that using the adult side needs your children settled with someone, and for under-threes that someone is a babysitter booked through reception.

Off the park

The area and days out

Map of the area around Grecotel LUXME Kos, showing the resort, the nearest airport and the main family days out

Kos Town on the doorstep, the volcano you can walk into and the island’s sandy beaches, with the drives.

Kos Town is 2.5 miles (4 km) away, 10 to 15 minutes by road, 30 to 40 minutes on foot and a flat ride on the cycle lane. It’s a real Greek town rather than a strip: a working harbour, the Neratzia castle, reopened after its earthquake restoration, an Italian-influenced old town, Hippocrates’ plane tree, the archaeological museum and Casa Romana, plus bike paths, tavernas, bars and markets. It’s also where the pharmacies, supermarkets and markets are, so it’s the run for nappies, formula, sunscreen and anything else you’d rather buy than pack.

Nisyros is the day out that nothing else on the island matches, and it’s the one Grecoland tells stories about all week. Ferries run through the summer from Kos Port, about 3.5 miles (6 km) from the resort and 12 minutes by road, and on the other side you walk down into an active caldera. The Asklepeion, the terraced temple-hospital tied to Hippocrates, is about 15 minutes away and suits children of about five and up who’ll take the story in, rather than a toddler outing. Lido Waterpark near Mastichari, about 15 km west of Kos Town, opens in the summer season and is a half-day if you want slides.

Further afield, Zia is a mountain village above Kos Town with panoramic sunset views and tavernas, about 30 minutes by car or taxi. Therma, at Agios Fokas, is about 5 km along the same coastal road, roughly 15 minutes, where natural thermal springs meet the sea. Plaka Forest, near Antimacheia about 40 km west, is home to peacocks and wild birds and makes a half-day if you have a car. Antimacheia also has a medieval castle and windmills, and Kefalos is a hilltop village worth the drive; a local olive mill and a local winery run cultural tours.

For sand, the island’s best is not at Psalidi. Tigaki, on the north coast about 18 km away, is fine sand with shallow water and the island’s best morning beach for toddlers, though the meltemi finds it in the afternoon, and there are windsurf schools there. Mastichari, about 22 km on the same coast, has a wide sandy beach and a calmer harbour, and it’s the ferry port for Kalymnos. Kamari, in Kefalos Bay on the south coast about 40 km away, is a sheltered bay reckoned calm even when the meltemi is up, on a longer drive. Buses run to the main resorts and reception holds the times, taxis are straightforward and a hire car is what buys you the far end of the island.

What guests say

Loves and gripes

What families rate and the watch-points worth weighing, in the reviews we have read, plus how it sits against the other luxury names in Greece.

What families love

The mini disco and the evening entertainment, with young children.
Grecoland, and staff who get stuck in with the children.
The pool complex, and the lazy river in particular.
The calmer resort-village feel against the water-park properties.
The food.
The staff, for service and cleanliness, a note that goes back through years of reviews.

Gripes and watch-points

No drop-off care for under-threes, so babies and toddlers are with you all week.
The pebble beach, and water that deepens quickly.
No Blue Flag on this stretch of Psalidi.
The walks across a 10-hectare site, depending where your room is.
One of the six restaurants closed to families.

On the numbers, guests rate it at around 4 out of 5 on TripAdvisor, a solid score for a big all-inclusive rather than a chart-topping one. Note that most of those reviews describe the resort as it was before the 2026 relaunch, when it traded as Grecotel Kos Imperial: the staff, the beach and the setting they describe are the same, but the restaurants, the redesigned rooms, Papaya Island and the lazy river are new, so the ratings run behind what you would actually be booking.

Against the alternatives

How it compares

The natural comparison is Ikos Aria, the other five-star luxury all-inclusive on Kos, down at Kefalos in the far south-west, about 31 miles (50 km) from the airport rather than 24. Aria has a sandy bay and no lazy river; LUXME Kos has the pebble beach but the lagoon, Papaya Island and the lazy river, and it’s usually the cheaper of the two, with Ikos typically sitting at a slightly higher price. If you want sand at the resort, Aria; if you want the water complex and a town you can cycle to, this one. The same trade runs against Ikos Oceania and Ikos Olivia over in Halkidiki, where LUXME Kos is the Kos-based equivalent.

Within Grecotel, Corfu Imperial on the Kommeno peninsula is the same LUXME tier and the group’s more iconic flagship, slightly smaller and known for its private beach peninsula. Casa Paradiso at Marmari is the group’s other Kos property, at a lower tier and a different price point. Against Sani Resort in Halkidiki, Sani sits higher on price and on market perception, and it’s a boutique collection where this is a chain product.

The comparison that matters most for our readers is childcare. On Kos, TUI Blue Atlantica Marmari Beach is the only property with a structured drop-off baby and toddler club, and for under-fours it and Akti Beach Club at Kardamena are the alternatives with structured care. If a couple of hours a day without a toddler is what you want from the week, that’s the shortlist. From four, this one is back in the running.

Before you book

Getting there and transfers

The journey in, the fee UK families don’t expect, and the months that suit young children.

Kos International Airport, named for Hippocrates, is about 24 miles (38 km) away, roughly 45 minutes by road. A private transfer from either the airport or Kos Port is included on direct bookings of seven nights or more, and it isn’t automatic: request it in advance by emailing [email protected]. If that doesn’t apply to your booking, taxis run 24 hours a day, with a typical wait of 45 to 60 minutes, so pre-ordering is the sensible move with a tired child and a car seat. The concierge arranges rental cars and motorbikes, and reception has the times for the public bus.

Once you’re there, Kos Town is 2.5 miles (4 km), 10 to 15 minutes by road, and Kos Port, where the Nisyros ferries leave, is about 3.5 miles (6 km) and 12 minutes.

The details

Practical things to know

The charge to plan for is the Climate Crisis Resilience Fee: €15 per room per night, applied from 1 April to 31 October and settled at check-out, on top of an all-inclusive price you’ve already paid (last checked June 2026). It’s per room rather than per person, and it’s a charge most UK families won’t have budgeted for, so it’s better known about now than met at the desk on the way out.

There’s a 24/7 on-call doctor at the resort, and the island has a public hospital and two private clinics. An ATM sits on the mid-level of the main building, though reception doesn’t do currency exchange. Cards are widely accepted, VISA, MasterCard, American Express, UnionPay, Discover, JCB and Diners Club, along with bank transfer. Greek law prohibits paying an invoice of over €500 in cash, in whole or in part.

Booking direct through the resort’s own Our Greek Summers package brings a €100 hotel credit per room per stay on selected room categories with a minimum five-night stay (last checked June 2026), and a long-stay discount of up to 15% off the room rate on seven nights or more. Rates and discounts vary by season and room type and they don’t promise to combine with other offers, so check the current terms on the resort’s site against your dates.

Check-in is from 15:00 and check-out is 11:00, with early check-in and late check-out depending on a free room and not guaranteed unless you book the extra night; luggage storage is there before check-in and after check-out. There’s a parking area with a valet service. Wi-Fi is free throughout, staff speak English, German, Dutch and Italian, and there’s a WhatsApp line for help during your stay alongside the Grecotel app for bookings. Plugs are Type C at 220 V, which is the standard two-pin European fitting, so pack adaptors. Dogs aren’t allowed, service animals aside. Tap water is generally safe in Kos, though bottled water is what’s recommended.

For the trip itself, Greece needs no special preparation from a UK family: there’s no FCDO advice against travel and a UK GHIC covers necessary state healthcare, though it’s not a substitute for travel insurance.

Month by month

Weather and when to go

Kos has hot, dry summers and mild, wetter fringes, and Psalidi sits on the same coast as Kos Town so the picture is the town’s. April sits at 19° with a 17° sea, cool enough that swimming happens in the pools. July and August are the peak in every sense: 31° days, 23° nights and next to no rain. June and September are the easier months with young children, 28° to 29° with the sea at 22° to 24°. May is pleasant at 24° though the sea is only 19°, which is paddling for most small children, and October holds 24° days and a 22° sea alongside the season’s heaviest rain, which makes half-term a real option. Sunshine runs from around 7.5 hours a day in October up to a full 12 in July, and rain across the season is mostly a handful of wet days rather than washout weeks, even in the wetter shoulder months.

Typical monthly weather for Kos
Month	Daytime high	Overnight low	Rain	Wet days	Sea temp
May	24°	17°	20 mm	5	20°
June	28°	21°	8 mm	3	23°
July	31°	23°	2 mm	3	24°
August	31°	23.5°	5 mm	3	26°
September	28.5°	21.5°	15 mm	3	25°
October	24°	18°	60 mm	6	23°

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. The resort’s season runs approximately May to October.

The questions parents ask

Questions

The things families ask before booking, the official pages worth a bookmark and when this guide was last refreshed.

Can we leave a baby or toddler at the kids’ club?

No, so work out what you actually want before you book. Email [email protected] and ask what babysitting costs, then decide whether you want it most days or the odd evening. Whatever it comes to, it’s an extra on top of an all-inclusive price you’ve already paid. If most days is the answer, look at TUI Blue Atlantica Marmari Beach instead, the Kos hotel that runs a drop-off club for that age.

How do we get the included airport transfer?

Book direct with the resort for seven nights or more, then email [email protected] with your flight details before you travel. It isn’t added to the booking for you, and it doesn’t come with a tour-operator package, so if you’ve booked through an operator, check what transfer that includes instead.

What will we pay for on top of the all-inclusive?

A Climate Crisis Resilience Fee of €15 per room per night runs from 1 April to 31 October and is settled at check-out, so a fortnight in August adds a couple of hundred euros you may not have budgeted for (last checked June 2026). Beyond that: babysitting, spa treatments, the motorised watersports, the dive school, most excursions and in-room dining.

Will our children stay free in our room?

Only if your room type and your dates qualify. Children up to twelve staying free in their parents’ room is an offer attached to selected room categories and specific periods rather than a blanket rule, so check it against the exact room and week you want before you count on the saving.

Which of the six pools suit a toddler?

Two of them: the children’s pool over by Grecoland and the paddling pool down at beach level. Of the rest, the lagoon complex is the general family pool, and two of the six are the spa’s indoor pools, which are for guests of sixteen and over. The lazy river is counted separately from the six and is the feature most young children head for.

What hours does Grecoland run, and when is it shut?

It runs six days a week through the season with one day off, and reception holds the session times for the week you’re there. Worth asking on arrival rather than assuming: if you’re planning a spa treatment, a dive or a boat day around club hours, you want the timetable in front of you first.

When is the best time to go with young children?

If your dates are free, September, which takes the heat off the July and August peak without giving up the sea. If you are tied to school holidays, October half-term is worth pricing against August before you default to it: the days sit at 24° rather than 31°, which is a different week entirely with a toddler in a pram, and the sea still swims. It brings the season’s rain with it, and it lands near the resort’s closing weeks, so check the booking calendar against your dates first.

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Useful links

Grecotel LUXME Kos: the resort’s own site for rooms, what LUXME includes and the current offer terms. The address is Psalidi, 85300 Kos, Greece, and reservations are on +30 22420 58000 or [email protected].
GOV.UK Greece travel advice: entry rules and safety updates before you travel.
Kos with little ones: our guide to the wider island, its beaches and when to go.

Last updated 15 July 2026.