Apartments Katoji

Fantastic Location Pansion Katoji is located on a wonderful beach with spectacular views across the Messenian Gulf to beautiful mountains that separate this part of the Peloponnese from Sparta. I have to say that the views really are fantastic. The apartments are approximately 10 minutes walk along the main road to the supermarket and first Taverna - Allegro (which is also run by the family that owns Katoji). Within another 2 minute walk and you’ll find the other 4 tavernas. There is also a friendly bar (that plays pop music and shows sports). The village is small and quiet but very friendly. Katoji has a great beach bar. It’s been built very cleverly and has a ‘Caribbean/Pirate’ theme that works well with the surroundings. Food is served 09:00 to 18:00 but the bar stays open til approx 21:00. The food is great and plentiful. The food and drinks are well-priced. This end of the beach has 2-3 beach bars. The other end has no beach amenities so far as we could see - although that’s where most of the tavernas are for evening meals. Our apartment was very good. It had a kitchen with fridge and cooker (which we didn’t use), a small bathroom, aircon and a very nice balcony with sea view. All of the staff at Katoji, the beach bar and Allegro (effectively the same staff) were excellent. They were friendly and super-efficient - food and drink was delivered very quickly whether we were sat in the beach bar or on sunbeds on the beach itself. I recommend taking time to chat with them. Chrani is set on a main road. It took us a while to get used to the walk along the main road - but we did. Chrani was pretty quiet in September. There’s not much to do apart from eat, drink, relax and take it the views. That suited us fine. Allegro did have a night of Greek music which went down very well. But, apart from that, there is no nightlife per se. We loved our stay - made even more enjoyable by the staff who did everything with a smile. They couldn’t have done more to help us have a great holiday. We did - and we hope to return.