How big a deal are Ikos resorts in Halkidiki? Well, put it this way, the most prominent sign on the motorway outside Nea Moudania isn’t for the surrounding villages and beach resorts, but for the ...

I counted just 20 short steps from the garden of our beautiful beachfront bungalow to the warm, crystal clear sea. An elegant yacht was lazily sailing by and everything was calm, quiet and blissful ...

Halkidiki, its high-minded critics will tell you, is at best an archaeologist’s wasteland. The three-fingered peninsula that extends its reach from the Macedonian mainland to the shallows of the ...

Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. Taking inspiration from luxury Caribbean resorts, Ikos reinvents and elevates the all ...