Paradise beach

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Paradise beach Mykonos

Probably the best-known beach on the island of Mykonos, PARADISE has a beach party reputation that many others strive to achieve.
Day and night beach parties throb to 24 hour music, blasting from the Paradise beach bars. Young people have been attracted in droves, ever since it gained a reputation among backpacking hippies in the sixties and seventies.
The success of Paradise Beach has been helped by it being one of the most accessible south coast beaches, with a regular bus service and easy access. There are also shuttle buses for specific events such as 'Full Moon Parties' or 'Bubble Parties' and regular water taxis and caiques from beach resorts at Platys Yialos and Ornos.
A local and long-standing campsite also offers apartments, beach cabins and showers under the trees at the back of Paradise beach.
The atmosphere of Paradise Beach is what brochures might call 'lively' with a multicultural mix of young people partying until they drop, sleeping off the hangover then picking up again at about 4pm when beach bars turn up the volume yet again.
There is plenty to occupy those not drinking or dancing. Restaurants, cafes and bars abound and there is the full gamut of Paradise beach watersports - jet skis, water skiing, snorkeling, parasailing, banana boats, tubes, canoes and pedal boats as well as a scuba diving centre.
On land there is beach volleyball, horse riding and even a bizarre form of reverse bungee jumping. If you are under 30 and on the island in September it's hard to miss the closing party of the season that is always held on Paradise Beach.