Before all begins

Shortly after our wedding, came to life our two children, Kostas and Elina. Our family settled in Zakynthos in 1992 as bank employees and the following year we bought a seaside plot, which was meant to build Porta del Mar Beach villas in 2003.

Building the idea

We built eight villas and landscaped the surrounding gardens within a year, and in May 2004 we welcomed our first guests! The eight houses with mythical names form a “neighborhood" of a traditional village that overlooks the endless blue of the Ionian Sea. On its “feet”, spreads the sandy beach 'Psarou' with its clean waters, ideal to enjoy the tranquility and swimming from our guests .

Expansion

The success of PdM from the first year of operation, has led us to the idea of its continuous improvement. Nearly every year we make small improvements inside the villas and in the beach front gardens and beach: In 2007 we purchased the adjacent plot, where we gradually have created a playground, gym, mini soccer field, two beach decks and the second access to the beach.

Improvements

In 2013 season, we built our new "Sun set" deck and redesigned from scratch the old «Sun rise Patio" while we upgraded the Cafe del mar in our effort to offer also genuine and fresh Greek food to our guests.

Cleo

We continued our investment plan and on top we made significant upgrade to “Cleo” villa, that was much appreciated by our guests last summer.
In the outside we made two new additions: The “central” deck and the “Caminia” patio, both beach front.
The “Central” deck is another place to relax or eat at fresco with panoramic sea views while the smaller “Caminia” is a new place to be as near to the sea as it gets!

2017

The 2017 season was our 14^th of running Porta del Mar. It was a very long and successful season that started late April and ended on October 28^th. This season we had the luck to work with a great tour operator based in Holland and specializing in quality holidays, the “Eliza Was Here”. Lovely young couples and families was the majority of the lovely guests that “Eliza” brought here throughout the season from Holland and they were all very enthusiastic with our beach, the quality of our restaurant’s meals and the beach front villas!

Being so near to the sea, we need to work hard during the closing winter months towards maintaining the high standards of the whole resort: The stone villas, the patios on the sea front and the gardens. The upgrades started October 2017, immediately after the closing of last season.

We finished already the refurbishing of the last en suit bathroom of “Melite” and now we are repainting all the interior non-stone walls of all villas to make them more bright and “summery”!

By investing the great part of our profits back to Porta del Mar, is for us the RESPECT we feel that we owe to have for our guests. We look forward to welcome you here soon for another great holiday. Roll on April 2018!

2019

It is time to deal with an upgrade to our bar/restaurant.
Kostas has gradually made a great improvement to the food and drinks offered. As a natural result , we now had to focus on restructuring and face lifting of the aging bar/restaurant building.
We rebuilt it from scratch, creating not only more functional kitchen and behind the bar area, but also a nice and extended covered space, ideal for breakfast setting, while protected with glass windows that provide panoramic sea views.
We finally succeeded to offer a brand new bar/ restaurant that will fit better to the place and make it a lot easier for us to keep improving our food and drink services in the years to come.