Greece?

Thinking about it for HM.
Who's been there? Any recommendations/things to avoid?
TIA!

went to a few place in greece on my HM-on a cruise
Mykonos, Rhodes, Santorini, Athens
Santorini was my absolute favorite
Rhodes-2nd
Mykonos and Athens

oooh oooh oooh.... I can help you guys....

we booked our greek honeymoon by first buying good island and greek mainland travel books, figuring out where we wanted to go (crete, santorini, and athens) and for how many days... We then went on tripadvisor.com for candid hotel reviews, and after we selected the hotels, we used their search engine which scans 5 major travel websites for the best price for our hotel. We then booked flights to island hop...

total cost: about $4500 for flights and good hotels in mid june... 10 days in athens, crete (chania and iraklion), and santorini



oh, one thing I heard you cannot rely on is the ferries in late summer.... it's not their fault.... the wind apparently whips around in the agean, making sea travel almost impossible at times...

I go to the Greek Islands every year, and as someone said, its heaven on earth!!!. Do you want to take a cruise there? or just island hopping on the ferry

Aegean Islands:

Santorini: known as the romantic island, great for couples

Mykonos: known at the insane party island, I am planning on going this year bec I have never been. Romantic??? dont know, but if you want to partyyyy go there

Rhodes
Crete
Kos
etc etc all AMAZING places

Ionian Islands:

Kefalonia: thats where I am from, hehe, very beautiful
Zakinthos
Lefkada
Ithaki
Corfu

You can stay in Athens and visit the Acropolis and walking where the Gods roamed etc etc

All of Greece its beautiful!!!

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Posted by milana

Yes I've been there. I did the two week Mediterranean cruise with princess. It stopped in Santorini, Corfu, Athens, Olympia, and Mykonos. Greece is absolutely gorgeous and all of the islands are incredible. My father is from Crete which is another beautiful island. If you dont want to do the cruise then definitely look into island hopping.

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My parents are from Crete, too!! It's a gorgeous island!!!

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Posted by milana

Yes I've been there. I did the two week Mediterranean cruise with princess. It stopped in Santorini, Corfu, Athens, Olympia, and Mykonos. Greece is absolutely gorgeous and all of the islands are incredible. My father is from Crete which is another beautiful island. If you dont want to do the cruise then definitely look into island hopping.

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My parents are from Crete, too!! It's a gorgeous island!!!

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oh cool, he is from Chania! My grandfather and a few cousins live there still. And Yes it is heaven on earth!

We went to Greece in Sept for our hm, it was amazing. We stayed at:
St. George Lybettecus (or something like that) hotel in Athens, it was so fun, romantic, gorgeous view of the Acropolis, and so young and trendy. We found out when we were there that it's actually a Starwood hotel so makes sense.

Myconian Imperial in Myconos - very very romantic, we loved Mykonos, since it was Sept party season was pretty much over but we still went out and had fun.

Andromeda - Santorini hotel, not as nice as the other 2 but fantastic view and very different type of hotel.

We went to Crete also but don't really recommend our hotel. However our friends stayed at Blue Palace and loved it there.

hth

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Posted by milana

Yes I've been there. I did the two week Mediterranean cruise with princess. It stopped in Santorini, Corfu, Athens, Olympia, and Mykonos. Greece is absolutely gorgeous and all of the islands are incredible. My father is from Crete which is another beautiful island. If you dont want to do the cruise then definitely look into island hopping.

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My parents are from Crete, too!! It's a gorgeous island!!!

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oh cool, he is from Chania! My grandfather and a few cousins live there still. And Yes it is heaven on earth!

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We're going to chania!!!! Staying right by the harbor in an old venician B&B.... Any advice on what we shouldn't miss?

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Posted by shopaholic07

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Posted by milana

Yes I've been there. I did the two week Mediterranean cruise with princess. It stopped in Santorini, Corfu, Athens, Olympia, and Mykonos. Greece is absolutely gorgeous and all of the islands are incredible. My father is from Crete which is another beautiful island. If you dont want to do the cruise then definitely look into island hopping.

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My parents are from Crete, too!! It's a gorgeous island!!!

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oh cool, he is from Chania! My grandfather and a few cousins live there still. And Yes it is heaven on earth!

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That's where my whole family is from!!! All of my mom's family still lives there. I've been to Greece recently but haven't been to Crete in years.....I miss it so much!!!

I had no idea there were so many recent immigrant family Greeks on LIW!

Please tell me what we shouldn't miss. It can be a site, a food, a drink..... there's way too much to absorb over there!

AMAZING!!! i went last august with friend. it was unbelievable! BEAUTIFUl...my friend and i kept say ing ...'are we really here?' it was unbelievable. mykonos is definetly a party place ...go there if you are into it!... we went to the beeach at 1 or 2 stayed until like 8/9 pm (there were bars/resturants on the beach/dj's etc...) went home showered, went out at night, then cam e home, had breakfast, then took a 'nap' then did it all again the next day! FYI...u cant last with that routine for more than 4 days!!!
we stayed in a hotel called KUOROS ...it was a little bit away from the night life , bu t that might be better for a HM...it was great...excellent service, beautiful, comfortable...A++++

SANTORINI!!!...beautiful!...they refer to it as the honeymoon island!...i was there with my friend n we kept saying how much we miss our boyfriends! we stayed in this hotel on the cliff ...loved the veiw, but hated the walk up to it...i mean it was aweful!... we had to carry our luggage all the way up the cliff!!
ALSO...IMPORTSNT...PACK LIGHT!

we also stayed in athens...quick visit...but also beautiful!!