Family villas in Kassandra

A family villa is not just a big villa. It has at least three bedrooms so nobody sleeps on a sofa, a kitchen you can actually cook in, an enclosed garden or terrace, and a beach nearby that is shallow and safe. Kassandra is the first leg of Halkidiki and the closest to Thessaloniki airport. It is the resort peninsula: Sani and Afytos on the west coast, Kallithea, Kriopigi, Polychrono, Hanioti and Pefkochori strung along the long east-coast beach, Paliouri and Possidi at the tip. Villages have tavernas, beach bars and nightlife within walking distance, and the beaches are wide, sandy and shallow.

Every villa on this page has three or more bedrooms. On each listing we note what matters with children: cots and high chairs, a fenced pool or a shallow end, distance to the nearest supermarket, pharmacy and playground, whether the beach is sandy and shallow, and whether the village has tavernas where children are welcome at nine in the evening, which in Greece is every one of them.

The family favourites in Kassandra are Pefkochori, Hanioti, Polychrono, Kriopigi, Kallithea, Afytos, Sani, Possidi and Paliouri, with beaches such as Sani, Possidi, Paliouri, Glarokavos and the long Pefkochori to Hanioti strip. For two families travelling together, look at the villas with five or six bedrooms or ask us about two villas next to each other. For grandparents, we mark ground-floor bedrooms and villas without steep steps.

Kassandra is the busiest leg in July and August; May, June and September are calm, warm and much cheaper. School holidays fill the best family villas by March; ask for a shortlist with your dates and the ages of the children and we will answer within a day.