Our favorite beach! Close to Pedi and you can easily catch the taxi boat for only 5 euro. The restaurant has price worthy meals and the bar makes a great frappé. The sunbeds are included in the price if you eat at the restaurant. If not they will only cost you 3 euro/each.
This beach is sandy, but the swiming is excellent. The taverna serves tasty food, but is a little crowded. If you want to go to St Nicholas, take the boat! Don´t try to walk over the cliffs.
Quite a busy beach, but it can't get too busy as only accessible by boat or a strenuous walk. It has sunbeds for 3 euros a day, some with umbrellas, and plenty of trees for extra shade too if needed. Nice little taverna sells refreshments and food, and if you spend enough at the taverna (10 euros each I think), you get the sunbed free. I wouldn't class it as a sandy beach, more gritty, but normal for a Greek beach
St. Nicholas is a quiet, enjoyable beach, with a pleasant bar and (separately) a restaurant serving decent food. Tables at the front are best, but you have to lunch early to get them; otherwise try the back right hand side and watch the lizards doing not a lot on the little cliff beside the restaurant. Always watch the weather: it can be surprisingly wet, windy and cold if you get caught.
A splendid sightseing and a blue water to swim in we staied two days by walking true the hills near it a fine experience!
Most beaches on Symi are pebbly, whereas St Nicholas is mainly sandy. It's largely peaceful, even when most of the sun beds are occupied; the sea is beautifully clear and sheltered , as is the beach itself. The beach slopes gently - no sudden shelving. Two sun beds and a parasol cost €6, but if you spend €10 in the taverna (welcoming, and serves good food), the sun bed fee is refunded - a good deal! The taverna also has loos, available even if you're not a customer. The beach is backed by tamarisk trees - so good shade even without an umbrella - and there's a beach cafe/bar there too.
Accessible via taxi boat from Symi harbour or Pedi Bay, St Nicholas beach is more a family beach as it has plenty of sand. Sunbeds and umbrellas available but also tree shade as well. There is a decent taverna and like all the beach tavernas it is a touch overpriced as you are a captive audience.
A nice little bay. Sun beds and umbrellas well used and a bit shabby but plenty on the beach. Beach small stones and a bit earthy. taverna family run and food was good. Small drinks and ice cream hut with a few tables and chairs.
Can be reached on foot (about 25 rock climbing minutes) or by water taxi which is far better for the heart! There is a bar,a Taverna and loads of sunbeds. Even at weekends it was never too crowded. The staff were absolutely lovely - always smiling and happy to help. We cannot comment too much about the food in the Taverna as we always ate salads. However, these were very good indeed at a very reasonable price. One tip. The water taxi end of the beach is quite pebbly, and it can be tricky to get in and out of the water without rubber shoes. However, the trees this end give by far the best shade from the midday sun. Therefore, get there early, grab the chairs between the second and third tree and, when you want to swim, just wander down to the other, more crowded end of the beach where it is sandy.
Spectacular setting with a large rock behind the beach. You go there with a boat and as I remember there is nothing there so you need to take everything with you.