Recommendation for Greece

Hi,

Looking to plan a surprise holiday for my wife and I for next year. would love to go to Greece but not on a package holiday. Does anyone have any recommendation on places to go, who to fly with (can't find any low fares airlines to greece), I hear that the island hopping is good fun and you sort your accommodation when you arrive on each island? Appreciate and recommendation.

tphelan

Greece

I would recommend Kefalonia and Ithaca. These islands are stunning. Google for either and you will plenty of accomodation links. Panorama will do package or flight only to Kefalonia. I recommend either anywhere on Ithaca or the Sami/Fiscardo side of Kefalonia.

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Thought Kelonia was excellent. Theres plenty of accomodation for the independent traveller.

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You won't find cheap flights really from Dublin to Athens (even less so to anywhere else in Greece) - there's no scheduled flights on the route from any airline.

2 options really

- Try to get a seat only on a charter flight from a tour operator - Budget Travel / Panorama or whoever ... though often these aren't too cheap especially in summer as they're usually not too interested in selling seat only's if they can sell a whole package holiday. The main Greek charter destinations where you'll be able to fly to from Dublin anyway are Corfu, Heraklion (Crete) and Kos - other destinations may be possible I'm not sure .. but even if they are they'd be much less frequent.

- Fly to London (or somewhere else in the UK) then get a cheap flight from there to Greece .. Easyjet fly from London to Athens pretty cheaply and other carriers such as BA will often nearly match their low fares... otherwise there's a good choice of charter flights (look on ITV teletext / www.teletext.co.uk) to many places in Greece which aren't served from Dublin

Does anyone have any experience of Crete in late September? Would the weather still be fairly good?

Danmo said:

Does anyone have any experience of Crete in late September? Would the weather still be fairly good?

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I was there a few days into September and the weather was great so it should be more or less the same.

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EvilDoctorK said:

You won't find cheap flights really from Dublin to Athens (even less so to anywhere else in Greece) - there's no scheduled flights on the route from any airline.

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What about Malev via Budapest? Much less hassle than via the UK. I went with them last year and they were fine.

I thought Aer Lingus flew to Athens?

You can also book flight only with budget travel to greece