Location: Symi
Top Things to do in Symi
Top 10 Things to do in Symi, South Aegean
Symi, also transliterated as Syme or Simi (Greek: Σύμη), is a Greek island and municipality. It is mountainous and includes the harbor town of Symi and its adjacent upper town Ano Symi, as well as several smaller localities, beaches, and areas of significance in history and mythology. Symi is part of the Rhodes regional unit.
Restaurants in Symi
1. Symi Taxi Boat
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 66 reviews
Reviewed By alisonsM6413UD - Newbury, United Kingdom
About €9 each return from Gialos - we went to Asia Marina (brilliant taverna there) - taxi went at 10am and then again 11-12. There were two return options from our beach 15.15 & 17.15 so you can't exactly hop on and off to visit other beaches. Maybe this is the case in the height of the season. Taxi boat was on time and was the main carrier by the looks of it. There was another option at Gialos port but we didn't use it.
2. Toli Bay
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 120 reviews
Reviewed By 24glynt - Saffron Walden, United Kingdom
A really beautiful secluded bay on the far side of the island of Symi, with a restaurant where the food is simply excellent and good value. Views of the bay are superb. Definitely will visit again!
3. St Nicholas Beach
4. Marathounda Beach
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 254 reviews
Reviewed By BrianEnyc - New York City, United States
Marathounta beach is a beautiful pebble beach in a cove near the southern part of Symi, easy to reach via water taxi. The beach is known for the goats that roam freely nearby, and who are always curious about what is in your bags! The watr is crystal clear and calm, a good beach for swimming. Bring water shoes! Chairs and umbrellas are available at the beach, and a good taverna serves fresh and delicious Greek fare for a reasonable price.
5. Nanou Beach
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 162 reviews
Reviewed By L7768EQdavidd - Devon, United Kingdom
Saturday 1st June at we took the midday water taxi, provided by Taxi Boats Symi, from Gialos to this secluded beach. The beach is situated on the eastern side of the Island in the beautiful Nanou Bay with its amazing mountainous coast. Our boat journey took around 30 minutes, the beach is only accessible by boat There is a small Taverna, Nanou Maria, where we had lunch under the old Cypress tress. Sunbeds and umbrellas are available to rent on the beach, we paid €5 for both sunbeds and the umbrella, reduced price because we ate in the Taverna. When we visited it was not very busy, it was so peaceful, relaxing and very quiet. The only noise we heard was the odd boat arriving or leaving, the gentle flapping get of our umbrella in the wind or the waves lapping up on the shore. The blue/green coloured sea was crystal clear. Towards the rear of the beach, up the concrete pavement, it the small little blue and white church. It is worth walking up to have a look, but please wear appropriate clothing, out of respect. The beaches stretches the length of the Bay, there is lots of space for visitors to spread out their beach mats and towels rather than using the sun beds. It is a pebbled stoney beach, so would recommend wearing rubber sole shoes when getting in to the sea. This beach was definitely the best of the beaches that we visited on the way here.
6. Symi War Memorial
7. Kali Strata
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 150 reviews
Reviewed By elizabethexner - Athens, Greece
Have fun trying to imagine what it must have been like to live in Symi before the onslaught of mass tourism, when this was the main commercial thoroughfare.
8. Agios Georgios Dysalona Beach
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 54 reviews
Reviewed By 247keiths - Abergavenny, United Kingdom
Taxi boat from main port area. The initial view of the beach takes your breath away , it’s very dramatic with towering cliffs . The water is crystal clear . It was fairly peaceful and then a large boat turned up with many day trippers from Rhodes. Spoilt it for me then as the atmosphere changed and it wasn’t peaceful but the boats soon go and it’s back to peaceful again. . I think this seems to happen lots , I guess as it’s so beautiful. The beach looses the sun in the afternoon also but this adds to its mystery , the colours become more vivid then.
9. Panormitis Monastery
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 1,014 reviews
Reviewed By sarahhQ1944UK
Visited this as part of the day trip well worth a visit. Very humbling and really interesting part of the island history.
10. Pedi Beach
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 192 reviews
Reviewed By Stevein
Never thought I would say that a pebble beach is my favourite but I love this place. The beach is long and narrow, and pebbly... invest in some sliders or beach shoes for a fiver and it’s no issue. The setting is beautiful, the beach relatively quiet, and consequently it’s easy to keep an eye on the children. You can walk out quite far so our youngest (2) loved it. The beach is served by a couple of restaurants and we chose the right hand one as you face the beach as it has a covered jetty laid out with a dozen tables and is literally 5 metres from our sunbeds, which were free. There is also a little shop behind the beach with all of the essentials.
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