Laganas Zante

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Laganas beach Zante

LAGANAS has become synonymous with "lager lout" as it has grown into one of the most popular clubbing and boozing destinations in Greece.
Noted for its tacky nightlife Laganas has boozed-up youngsters partying throughout the night and a huge variety of clubs and pubs to meet the taste of all who lack exactly that - more than 100 bars at the last count. Expect chewy-pasted floors and smashed glass just about everywhere.
The beach of Laganas is long, flat sandy and packed with bodies, sunbeds and every sort of beach paraphernalia you could possibly imagine. The beach is huge, about 9km, and gently shelving with shallow water.
Parts of Laganas beach are also, remarkably, part of the National Marine Park set up to protect endangered loggerhead turtles that nest here.
Turtles have no place in club land though and little has been done to protect them - they are much exploited by the short-sighted locals for crass tourist sightseeing trips despite the turtles being very shy and nervous creatures.
Food is what you might expect. Laganas Zante has two Subway sandwich shops, a McDonald's, KFC and a Pizza Hut, same as Stoke-on-Trent. Stoke probably has more Greek restaurants though.
Laganas Zante is one of the main 18-30's resorts in the Greek islands and anyone outside that age range, or outside that IQ range for that matter, is not going to find much to their liking.