If you’re staying at AKS Hinitsa Bay Hotel, then you’ll find the beach pretty easily. If you’re at AKS Porto Heli Hotel, then you need to follow the main road for less than five minutes and then make a right turn. A rather steep and narrow downhill road (that will make you think you’re on a Greek island somewhere) later will bring you to the most beautiful beach in Argolida, Hinitsa. And if you are not certain how to get to it, you should just ask the people at the reception of AKS Porto Heli Hotel; they will be glad to help you. We have said so in the past, we will say it again now. Hinitsa stands out from the beaches of Argolida for many reasons. First of all, it is awarded a blue flag every year. This doesn’t only mean that it is clean, but that it has all those facilities and services that will make spending the day at the beach easier and more pleasant. The luxurious AKS Hinitsa Bay Hotel that overlooks the beach has made sure of that. But here we don’t want to speak solely about the beach chairs and the umbrellas, the sand and the grass a bit further behind (which is also equipped with umbrellas – when we saw that for the first time, the question that came to mind was “Why isn’t everybody doing that?”…the answer of course is that something like that would be almost impossible on the Greek islands; the weather and the salt from the sea would not allow it). What we do want to talk about is a sense of adventure that Hinitsa can make you feel, even if this is the last thing you’d expect of it. If you go to the left side of the beach, you’ll see that you can climb the rocks, hide behind the trees there. You’ll also find trails, possibly opened by previous beach goers. And where the beach ends you’ll see a spear of land extending into the sea and moving closer to the island of Hinitsa across the bay. We’ll tell you now what went through our mind: “I can definitely swim to there”. It’s one of those challenges that awake the ten year old in us, before reason kicks in. Because the distance might appear short, but distances in the sea are always deceptive. And sea currents might exist between the island and the beach and, sometimes, various boats can pass through there; you’ll see a lot of them in Porto Heli, after all. But the wish is always there. So is the question. And, in the end, we’ll stay in our beach chair or swimming in the water and think: “Oh yes, if I want to, I can definitely make it across.” Peloponnese Hotels – AKS Hotels
