Punda
Beach Club

Every island has one address where the volume lives, and on Paros it has been Punda for as long as anyone can remember. The venue on this east coast sand has worn a few names over the years, Punda Beach Club to most of the world, Viva Punda for a spell, and today Punda Coast, the relaunch that put a large pool, cabanas and a restobar at the centre of the operation. Same sand, same job: the liveliest afternoon on the island.

We keep it at number two on our Paros club directory, behind Monastiri, and the gap is a matter of what you came for rather than execution. Monastiri owns the calm and the setting. Punda owns everything else: resident DJs and themed days under the Cycladic sun, a crowd that arrives to socialise, and the closest thing to a Mykonos afternoon that Paros permits itself, delivered with a straight face and a cocktail list.

The relaunch as Punda Coast softened the old all out party machine into something broader. The pool is now the centrepiece, a proper one, ringed by sunbeds and cabanas, with the restobar running food that takes dietary requests seriously and a wedding and events side that would have been unthinkable in the venue’s rowdier decades. The DJs still play every afternoon in season, but the register is chill house rising through the day rather than a wall of sound from noon.

For two, timing decides everything. A weekday cabana in June or September is a genuinely pleasant shared day, close enough to the music to feel the buzz, far enough to hold a conversation, and the 24 hour refund window means booking it costs you nothing in flexibility. In late July and August the club fills with groups and the pool deck becomes a scene, wonderful if that is the date you wanted, exhausting if it is not. One more honesty for the sunset romantics: this coast faces east, so the sun slips behind the hills, not into the sea.

The gaps are the usual ones for a club this size. Nothing about beds, cabanas or minimum orders is priced publicly, so the booking step is unavoidable, and the club’s own pages disagree about the closing hour, listing both 19:00 and 21:00. Quiet seekers have no business here at all, and the club would be the first to say so; the island keeps Monastiri for them.

First, the name trap: Punda beach on this east coast has nothing to do with Pounda on the west side, where the kitesurfers cross to Antiparos. This bay sits between Logaras and Golden Beach, golden sand with a gently shallow entry, and it stays usefully swimmable on meltemi days when the north wind is wrecking the exposed coasts. Step past the last speaker and the shore mellows fast, and the sand of Logaras is a short walk north when you want the same water without the bassline.

Count on roughly 25 minutes by car from Parikia and 20 from Naoussa, with parking steps from the entrance that fills late morning on event days. Summer buses run from both towns to the Piso Livadi and Logaras stops, leaving a short walk or a quick taxi, which matters because the smart way to do a Punda afternoon involves someone else driving home.

Booking runs through the club’s online reservation page, with a phone and WhatsApp line for questions, and the cancellation terms are unusually kind: cancel up to 24 hours ahead and the refund is full. Since no prices are published, the enquiry is where you learn the day’s cost. Name the date and the size of your party in the form below and we put the enquiry to the club directly, confirming availability, cabana rates and that week’s programme, at no cost to you.