Moraitis Beach, a Beach Club at Schinias

On the sand at Schinias

Moraitis Beach is a beach club on Schinias beach, the long strip of sand with a pine forest behind it that closes the north of Marathon Bay, the same one where the Persian fleet anchored in 490 BC. It has operated since 1979 and is, at once, a place to eat and drink by the water and a water-sports base on Marathon Bay. It now also has a club at Costa Navarino, in the Peloponnese, but the original is still at Schinias.

It opens all year from 9:00 to sunset. It fits into the Marathon day as an afternoon stop: the sites close at 15:30 and from the tumulus or from Rhamnous you come down to the beach in a quarter of an hour.

What there is and what is not known

Its website presents the club as a place for food and sport, but does not publish the menu, the prices or whether you have to pay for the sun loungers. So we cannot tell you what to order: take it as a beach bar for a coffee, a soft drink or something light, with the sand and the pine forest in front, and not as a sit-down meal. If you want real fish, the tavernas of Nea Makri, Argo and Trata, are a quarter of an hour south.

Nor does it publish on its website the lessons or equipment rental at Schinias; the price list it links to is for its Peloponnese base. If you want to try windsurfing, paddleboarding or kayaking in the bay, write to the email or call before you go.

Getting there

It is at number 210 Poseidonos Avenue, the road that runs along the Schinias coast, in the beach area. From Athens it is about 50 minutes by car along Marathonos Avenue. The website gives no parking directions.