FarOut Beach Club has been the loudest thing on Mylopotas since 1977, which in beach-club years makes it a dynasty. Family-run across generations, a pool that is never empty, and a booking policy that quietly drags festival-tier names onto a backpacker island for the price of two cocktails. It is the anchor of the Ios day and the reason the island’s party reputation survives every trend cycle.
What it is
A 2,500-capacity beach club spread along the southern end of Mylopotas: pool, bars, loungers, restaurant, and a stage arrangement that turns the whole beachfront into a floor when an event is on. On a normal day it is a straightforwardly great beach club, towel down, swim, eat, repeat. On event days it becomes the biggest room on the island, and the transition is seamless because the crowd is already there.
The bookings
This is where FarOut breaks the value curve. The July run on our FarOut calendar includes Cloonee, Patrick Topping, Joel Corry, Kaos and Orkestrated, sessions running 16:00 to 23:00, tickets at 15 to 25 euros. The same names one island north play rooms where entry alone costs multiples of that, before the drinks menu gets involved. If you are picking one paid event on an Ios trip, this is the category it comes from.
How to do an event day
- Buy the ticket in advance. At these prices the big names sell through, and the door price, when there is room at the door at all, is the worst price. Ticket links are on each event page.
- Arrive early and make it a full day. The event starts at 16:00 but the club opens in the morning. Claim a lounger, swim, eat properly at the restaurant, and you are already in position when the music starts.
- Pace the sun as carefully as the drinks. Seven hours of Aegean sun plus a dancefloor is the classic Ios casualty pattern. Water, shade breaks and sunscreen are performance-enhancing.
- The 23:00 close is the intermission, not the end. The event empties straight into the Chora night, which is just waking up. Shower, eat something, and be in the village lanes by 01:00.
Getting there and away
Mylopotas is ten minutes below Chora, and the season bus shuttles the route constantly into the night. Walking down from the village is easy; walking back up at 23:30 after an event day is character-building, so most people bus it. If you are staying on Mylopotas itself, congratulations, your commute is a flight of stairs and the after-event shower is immediate.
FarOut versus the Mykonos clubs
The comparison misses the point in both directions. FarOut does not sell exclusivity, table minimums or a sunset ceremony; it sells a huge, happy, sunburned dancefloor and a lineup that has no business costing 20 euros. If you want the polished version of a Greek island beach club, that is a ferry ride away and our Mykonos nightlife guide covers it. If you want the version where nobody checks what shoes you are wearing, you are already in the right place.
For how the FarOut day slots into the full island rhythm, the beach-to-village tide and the sunrise checkpoint culture, read the Ios nightlife guide. And for what is actually on this week, times and tickets included, the Ios calendar is checked by a human and updated continuously.