Historic reviews

2004 June: confirms that this beach does tend to have a high male: female ratio, which some women might find slightly intimidating. Most of the single males appear to be Greek, and quite a few of these are older, and seem focused on genuine naturism and catching octopuses! Moreover, they were very friendly and helpful when my contributors’ 7 year old started crying after getting suntan lotion in his eyes. Generally speaking, as you progress up to the more remote bays, I would guess that many of the males are of a gay persuasion, and sometimes this is quite open – though we witnessed no lewd behaviour.

2004: The directions on this web site were very good but (and a big but) once my contributors had found it there didn’t seem to be any way down apart from an almost vertical climb down the cliff face which, while carrying bags, isn’t the easiest thing to do.

There were already 4 couples and a 4 or 5 single local males , however one of the locals had seen our attempts to skydive off the cliff and showed us another way onto the beach via the adjoining beach; it’s quite narrow in one spot but is so much easier than “skydiving” off the cliff. The Captain, and no doubt my readers, would welcome further information.

Having found a nice spot on the shingle my contributors stretched out for the day. Nobody bothered them and there was a good mix of Germans, Russians, locals and two Brits, the water was extremely warm and clear, ideal for swimming and snorkelling , ice creams and drinks were available on the next beach even if it did mean slipping the trunks on, just a small amount of litter under the cliff but on the whole a clean and tidy beach well worth a visit.

2003 August: suggest I have been insufficiently enthusiastic about this beach. Well, I’m not sure. It gets pretty mixed reports.

Here’s the enthusiastic version. The beach was great, it is much bigger than your report suggested. It now has signs saying “NUDE ONLY” and “FKK ONLY”.

My contributors visited the beach 5 times in two weeks and had a ball, they met French, German and Italian couples as well as a Greek man called Dimitri who seemed to be running the whole show: he stopped textiles on the beach and asked them to strip or leave as the beach was nude only, everyone supported him and I have to say that most people just agreed and went nude.

2005 October: Barefooters who visited met these Greek men. Dimitri is the talkative one and the older man really worships the sun. They shared food and had a raki or two with these friendly Greek naturists.

The beach is a bit tricky to find but all the locals know it and you can be pointed in the right direction easily.

There were several families on the beach as well and many groups and couples, it was very much a party mood. My contributors are considering going back next year just for this beach as they both feel that it really made their holiday.

2004 May: I was at this beach last weekend and it was terrible. People were staring down at the beach all the time. At one point about five 15-16-year-old boys got right up to the edge of the cliff and started throwing pebbles on one of the ladies. The ratio of single Greeks to couples is about 50-50. That contributor gave it a rating of just 10%.

August: My wife and I have visited the beach in previous years when in the area. It is not great, for all the reasons listed above, but it is a place to swim and sunbathe nude! Have spent a couple of hours there four days of our seven here. Today for the first time the naturist couples/families outnumbered the rest. So if you want to swim nude and don’t mind the possibility of being overlooked, give it a try.

2016 August: My wife said to mention that St George’s bay is a visit stop for a number of “tour” boats, and lots of people end up in the sea not too far from shore. Occasionally some swim across to the beach. Today a couple got to the beach, stripped off and joined us nudies until they had to dress and swim back to the Jolly Roger, their tour boat.

2017 May: May: Access was easy from the beach to the south, just having to cross some rocks to get to it. There is no shade from the searing sun until past 1pm when the cliffs give the beach steadily creeping shade. The beach is small stone, not sandy, still comfortable to walk on until it gets to hot. The water is crystal clear and warm to swim in. The rocks can be awkward to walk on so flip-flops would help.

The beach is visited, daily it would seem, by a few local men. One in particular will see what he likes appear on the beach and home in on them, playing with himself and walking around showing his manhood off. We lay naked, feet towards the sea, and he made a point of positioning himself feet away from the female’s legs, facing her looking up at her crotch, so much so that she kept her knees pressed closed and ended up with pale inner thighs. That was the only thing that spoilt the days we spent there.

There is a restaurant at the top of the cliffs with toilets and friendly staff. Drinks are cheap and very nice.

August: We visited a few times during our 2 weeks in Crete, mainly because this was the only beach within a reasonable drive time from our hotel. We didn’t see any FKK sign, nor Dimitri letting people know its a nude beach. There were plenty of older, locals using the beach, all naked and there’s a lovely fisherman who seems to know everyone and offers his fruit to anyone that would like some.

It’s OK here, but there are a few points to note:

The bay area was full of moored boats for most of the day, and some boats stayed all day. Local “pirate ship” the Black Rose pulls into the bay with music blaring and once it has dropped its anchor plays Tom Jones’ “You Can Leave Your Hat On” loudly – I can only presume this is to take the piss.
You get LOTS of gawpers from the above cliff, so not ideal for first time nudists. Many of them took pictures too which was uncomfortable. Some were genuinely interested though and asked how to get down, then promptly did so and stripped.
There are cigarette butts everywhere, otherwise the beach is pretty clean and tidy.
The guy mentioned in the Captain’s report who likes to parade himself is still there, assuming the guy we saw is the same one. Bald head, wrap around sun glasses, blue cap, tattoo on the upper left arm, and parades the beach “semi aroused” while smoking a cigarette all day. Didn’t get any trouble from him though.

Otherwise, it is a lovely beach. There were plenty of nudists there when we visited; lots of single guys, a few male-male couple and some families who were all nude. The male-female couples tended to be nude male-topless female but not always, and as the afternoon drew on, more single males visited the beach. During August 2017 there was a pretty strong wind blowing all the days we were on Crete from a NW or NNW direction which produces some big waves – this beach being west facing and in a small cove was pretty sheltered from those winds so the water was calm and crystal clear. One thing to mention about the water, it has plenty of fish so you do get snorkellers from neighbouring beaches coming along to look at the fish. If you are swimming nude, watch out for these fish!! They are pretty brave and we found they like to “nibble”! A particular problem if you are male, if you catch my drift.

As the beach is sandwiched between two textile beaches which are very thin (as in the distance from the cliff face to the water’s edge) you do also get plenty of textiles coming along as this is one of the few beaches on this stretch which allows you to sunbathe without your belongings getting wet each time a wave comes in – some of these do try a bit of nudism but many don’t. Local young Greeks come along later in the afternoon in small groups but also never strip.

2018 October: Compared to other nudist beaches, this one was somehow creepy. The beach is nice (small white pebbles, nice place to go snorkelling), but was populated only by some textiles and sad-looking single men. The road is just above, and you have a lot of persons checking at you from above. There are probably not much alternatives in Chersonissos and surrounding places, but really, if you can afford it, take your car and go west, east or south…