Slow days by the sea
A Different Kindof Paradise.
Canvas suites and stone terraces above the water, made for unhurried mornings and long evenings.
ReserveMavrovouni · Gytheio · Mani
Between Sea and Stone
Thalata is a glamorous camping resort on Mavrovouni beach, just outside Gytheio. Canvas suites and stone terraces sit above the Laconian Gulf, with Taygetos behind them.
You park once at the gate. Your bags go ahead in our car, and you walk. By the second day you stop looking for your car keys.
Ask us. That's what we're here for.
What Thalata is
- Calm
- Quiet spaces, soft light and few words. Nothing here raises its voice.
- Warm
- Linen, timber and clay, and people who remember your name.
- Natural
- Real materials from the place: stone, olive wood, sea and sun.
- Unhurried
- No cars inside, and no programme unless you want one.
VisualisationThe suites
A canvas roof and a proper bed
Each suite is an A-frame of canvas and timber, with a canopy bed, linen, clay and olive wood. There'll be a Mani sweet waiting when you arrive. Ask what it's called.
A day at Thalata
The Mani keeps its own time
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07:30On site
On the lawn
Sunrise yoga as the light comes over the gulf
08:3010 min
Marathonisi
Walk out to the islet and its lighthouse before the heat
10:00On site
Junior Rangers
Turtle-nest watch on our beach with the Rangers
10:3035 min
Limeni
Clear water off the rocks, then fish on the little harbour
11:0035 min
Diros caves
A boat through the underground lakes of Vlychada
13:305 min
Gytheio harbour
Octopus drying in the sun and a long lunch by the water
16:0030 min
Areopoli
Stone towers and the square where the Mani rose in 1821
18:001 h
Vathia
The tower village in the golden hour
20:30On site
Thalata terrace
Dinner above the sand, lights kept low for the turtles
VisualisationThe table
Be Greek in Greece
Tell us what you usually drink at home and we'll find you its Greek cousin. Dinner is on the terrace, a few steps above the sand, with the lights kept low for the turtles.
Beyond the gate
Wind off the gulf every afternoon
Windsurfing on the Laconian Gulf, with lessons if it's your first time. We know the instructors and we'll book you in.
Taygetos, right behind us
From an easy morning path to a full day on the mountain, with a local guide who knows every spring on the way.
A fisherman who'll take you out at six
Out on the water before the heat, back in time for breakfast. Boat trips along the coast too, to coves you can't reach by road.
The turtles come back to our beach
From May to October the Caretta-Caretta nest on our sand. Join the Junior Rangers on a quiet nest watch, at a safe distance.
Thalata Junior Rangers
Four hours asking about turtles
Under the big tamarisk, children learn about the Caretta-Caretta turtles that nest on this beach every summer, with real conservation volunteers. They leave with a diploma, a stamp and a lot of opinions.