Interest list open · Autumn 2027

Kos, Greece

Dodecanese, Greece · A family-run glamping camp a short walk from the beach · Our first cohort in Greece
6 Sep to 4 Oct 2027 4 weeks, plus 2 if you want them Your own tent Meal plan in the price
Kos, Greece 6 Sep to 18 Oct 2027 Confirming by 6 June 2027
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Kos cohorts: 6 Sep to 4 Oct 2027 4 weeks · Interest list open 4 to 18 Oct 2027 2 weeks · Interest list open
Lauren and Tiago, Cohli founders
Lauren & Tiago

An island, after the crowds have gone home

Families keep asking us for the sea. Not a resort and not a week of it. A month where the children can walk to the water, the adults can still get a morning of work done, and nobody has to drive anywhere to see a friend.

Kos in September is that. The summer crowds have left, the sea is at its warmest of the year, and the island goes back to being a place where people live. The camp we have chosen is run by a family, on quiet farmland a short walk from a sandy beach. Tents rather than rooms, a pool, a taverna, bikes for everyone and a cinema under the sky.

It is also our first time in Greece, and we would rather say that plainly. We have not yet lived a month here ourselves. What we know is the shape of a Cohli month, and what a place needs for it to work: homes close together, somewhere to eat at one table, room for children to roam, and hosts who care. This place has those.

The camp stays open to its other guests while we are there. We think that is fine, and we tell you so it is not a surprise. Our children have their own shaded space for the Kids Programme, and our families live close to one another.

If an island autumn is your window, tell us. This is the kind of cohort that gets built by the first few families who say yes.

With salt in our hair, soon,
Lauren & Tiago

Lauren and Tiago are the co-founders of Cohli and parents of two (Maya, 5, and Koa, 3). Over 40 combined years, they have lived and travelled through 30+ countries, and have been designing family coliving since 2024.

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4 weeks
Plus an optional 2
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Your own tent
Three sizes
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Meal plan
In the price
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Weekdays
Kids Programme
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About 24°C
The sea in September
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Free bikes
On a flat island
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First
Cohli cohort in Greece
The Place
A family-run camp on quiet farmland, a short walk from the sea

Kos is one of the Dodecanese islands, in the south-east Aegean. Our host is a family who built a glamping camp on farmland near a long sandy beach, away from the big resorts. There is a pool with a children's area, a taverna that cooks from breakfast to late evening, an outdoor cinema, a playground, a herb garden and vegetable patch, and free bicycles. Families live in large canvas tents, close to one another. Parents supervise their own children throughout, except during the scheduled hours of the Kids Programme.

The pool at our host's glamping camp on Kos, with sun loungers and hills behind
A Villa Tent with a hammock and a garden in front
A Safari Tent with its own terrace
A Glamping Tent behind oleander in flower

The photographs on this page are our host's own. If you are reading this and one of them is no longer right, tell us and it comes down.

Your tent

Three sizes, allocated to families by size and shape. The Glamping Tent is 47 m² and takes up to four. The Safari Tent is 62 m² and takes up to four, with more room. The Villa Tent is 90 m² and takes six to eight. These are furnished canvas homes with real beds, not camping. We publish exactly what each tent has inside once the host has confirmed it to us in writing, and before anyone books.

The Surroundings

A long sandy beach a short walk away. Kos is known as an island for cycling, with flat routes that a child on a bike can manage. The Asklepieion, where Hippocrates taught medicine, is on the island. So is a medieval castle, hot springs by the sea, and boats to a volcano island you can walk into.

Honestly
A month under canvas, in a camp that stays open

Three things we would rather you read here than discover on arrival. First, these are tents. Large and comfortable ones, but canvas: you hear the wind, the birds and sometimes your neighbours. Second, the camp is not ours alone. It stays open to its other guests while we are there, so the pool and the taverna are shared. Third, early September is still hot in the afternoon, and by mid-October the evenings are cool and some rain is possible.

What you get in return is the best month of the island's year. Highs around 28°C in September and 24°C in October, the sea at about 24°C, and beaches with space on them.

What's Included
What a month here holds

This cohort comes with a meal plan, which changes the shape of the week. Here is what sits inside what you pay.

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Your own tent

A Glamping Tent, a Safari Tent or a Villa Tent, with the rest of the cohort close by. Passed on to you at the camp's own rate, with only payment costs added.

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The camp's meal plan

Breakfast every day. Five days a week, dinner for adults and lunch and dinner for children. The other meals are yours: the taverna is there, and so are the beach and the village. The plan is at the camp's own rates, with no Cohli mark-up. For meals, children are 4 to 12, and under-4s eat free.

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Kids Programme

On weekdays, with our own educators, in a shaded space of its own, for ages 1 to 12. Child-led, outdoors as much as the day allows, and built around the island: the sea, the garden, the old stones. Teenagers are very welcome in the cohort. The exact hours are being set with the host and appear here once they are agreed.

The pool and the sea are family time, not programme. Children use them only with their own parents or guardians.

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The camp

The pool, the playground, the outdoor cinema and free bicycles. The camp also runs its own activities and excursions, which families book and pay for directly.

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The community

Families chosen and matched by us, welcome calls before you land, an opening circle, parent circles, and someone holding the month so that it is yours to live.

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Working from here

We have not measured the wifi ourselves yet, so there is no speed on this page. We will publish a measured figure, good or bad, before anyone books. Until then, plan on a mobile data backup for any call you cannot miss.

Daily Rhythm
What a week looks like

There is a rhythm, not a rigid schedule. On an island it bends around the heat and the sea.

Every morning
Breakfast at the taverna
Included every day. The easiest way to find out what everyone is doing.
Weekdays
Kids Programme
With our own educators, for ages 1 to 12, lunch included on plan days. The exact hours appear on this page once they are agreed with the host.
Weekday daytime
Parents work, swim, rest
A terrace, a table in the shade, or the beach. Nothing is scheduled for adults in these hours, on purpose.
Late afternoon
The sea
Children come back to their parents and most of the cohort ends up on the same stretch of sand. This is the part nobody plans and everybody remembers.
Five evenings a week
Dinner together
On the plan, at long tables. Nobody cooks and nobody washes up.
Weekends
Yours
A bike ride along the coast, the old town, a boat to another island, or nothing at all.
The Dates
Four weeks, two weeks, or both

The four weeks are the heart of it. The two weeks after are for families who want to stay on, or who can only come for a shorter time.

The four weeks

6 September to 4 October 2027

28 nights. The warmest sea of the year and the quietest beaches. Age bands are set by each child's age on 6 September 2027, so a birthday during the cohort moves nobody.

The two weeks

4 to 18 October 2027

14 nights. Softer light, cooler evenings, and the camp's last weeks of the season. Come for these alone, or stay on from September for six weeks in all.

Both are outside the northern summer holidays, so this suits families who school at home or can travel in term time.

Pricing
What it costs

Everything is here before you talk to anyone. 1 adult + 1 child in a Glamping Tent: €5,124 for the four weeks. 2 adults + 2 children in a Glamping Tent: €7,498. That is your tent, the meal plan, the Cohli Programme Fee and the Kids Programme.

From €5,124
1 adult + 1 child · Glamping Tent · four weeks
Tent, meal plan and programme
6 Sep to 4 Oct
Your family, your price, for the four weeks
1 adult + 1 child · Glamping Tent €5,124
2 adults + 1 child · Glamping Tent €6,638
2 adults + 2 children · Glamping Tent €7,498
2 adults + 2 children · Safari Tent €8,073
2 adults + 3 children · Villa Tent €9,508
The two weeks, 4 to 18 October
1 adult + 1 child · Glamping Tent €1,987
2 adults + 2 children · Glamping Tent €3,174
Both, six weeks
1 adult + 1 child · Glamping Tent €7,036
2 adults + 2 children · Glamping Tent €10,597

What is in the price. Your tent, the camp's meal plan, the Cohli Programme Fee (€950 per adult for the four weeks, up to two adults) and the Kids Programme (€500 per child for the four weeks). For the two weeks, each fee is half.

The meal plan. Breakfast every day, plus dinner for adults and lunch and dinner for children, five days a week. Children here are 4 to 12, and under-4s eat free.

No mark-up on your home or your food. Your tent and your meals are passed on at the camp's own rates, with only payment costs added. Cohli is paid by the Programme Fee and the Kids Programme, and nothing else.

A different family shape? Tell us in your application and we send you your own figure, built the same way.

These prices come from our host's written proposal and may still move a little before we sign. Your price is locked when you book, and if it comes down before the cohort, we pass that on. You can apply now, with no payment at this stage. We confirm this cohort by 6 June 2027.

In what you pay

  • ✓Your family's tent
  • ✓The meal plan above
  • ✓The Kids Programme on weekdays, with our educators
  • ✓Our community programming
  • ✓The pool, the playground, the cinema and the bikes

Bought separately

  • •Flights and travel to the island
  • •Meals outside the plan
  • •The camp's own excursions and activities
  • •Travel insurance
Before you decide
Where this cohort stands today

We are still finalising our agreement with the host. Until it is signed there is nothing to pay and nothing to sign. You can apply now, we get to know your family, and you hear from us first when booking opens.

We confirm this cohort by 6 June 2027, and we write to you either way. If it does not go ahead, everything you have paid by then comes back to you in full.

Getting There
How to reach the island

By air

Kos International Airport (KGS). Fly via Athens all year, or take one of the seasonal direct flights from much of Europe, which run until late October.

By sea

Ferries link Kos with the other Dodecanese islands and with Athens. A slow and lovely way to arrive if you have the time.

Visa

Greece is in the Schengen area. Most nationalities get 90 days visa free, and the 90 day rule counts any other Schengen days in the same window, so check yours. We share specific guidance after acceptance.

Questions About This Cohort
What families ask about Kos
Yes. The two weeks from 4 to 18 October stand on their own, and each fee is half. Families who stay for all six weeks arrive on 6 September and simply stay on.
No. The camp stays open to its other guests while we are there, so the pool and the taverna are shared. Our families live close to one another, and the Kids Programme has its own shaded space.
These are large furnished tents, from 47 to 90 m², with real beds. They are still canvas, so you hear the weather. We publish exactly what each tent has inside once the host has confirmed it in writing, and before anyone books.
The Kids Programme is for ages 1 to 12, on weekdays. Teenagers are very welcome in the cohort. For under 3s and over 12s we agree with you before you book what the day looks like.
It may still move a little before we sign with the host. Your price is locked when you book, and if it comes down before the cohort, we pass that on.
No. It is a children's programme run by our own educators on weekdays. It does not replace formal enrolment. Families who keep a home school or an online school running do that alongside it, and most do.

Kos, Greece, autumn 2027

The interest list is open. No payment at this stage: a one-minute form, then the full application. We confirm this cohort by 6 June 2027.

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