Hi we are looking to book 2 weeks in Greece we have done various islands but next we want to do 2 islands but not sure how to go about this and what islands....there is my husband and I and 2 children and thought it would be nice to split the holiday and maybe get a ferry across for the 2nd week...has anybody done this as would appreciate some ideas.
Many thanks
Lisa,
providing you choose islands with good connections this is very easy. As an example Santorini, Paros & Naxos or Mykonos, Tinos & Syros have very frequent connections. The easiest but most expensive way is to use a company like Greek Sun or Sunvil to book it all. We find it best to buy a cheap package to an island and arrange the second island independently. The accommodation with the package is simply left empty for 4/5 days and you return in time for your flights with the package. This works out much cheaper than arranging the whole thing through an agent. You could of course book it all separately but we find its not worth the hassle.
providing you choose islands with good connections this is very easy. As an example Santorini, Paros & Naxos or Mykonos, Tinos & Syros have very frequent connections. The easiest but most expensive way is to use a company like Greek Sun or Sunvil to book it all. We find it best to buy a cheap package to an island and arrange the second island independently. The accommodation with the package is simply left empty for 4/5 days and you return in time for your flights with the package. This works out much cheaper than arranging the whole thing through an agent. You could of course book it all separately but we find its not worth the hassle.
Skiathos and Skopelos or Alonissos are also good for this type of holiday.
If you were going to try these islands i would suggest staying on Either Skopelos or Alonissos for the first week and staying on Skiathos for the second week. This is simply because of the ferries in relation to the flights from Skiathos airport. We did this type of holiday a couple of years ago and had to board the ferry at Skopelos at 6am on our return journey. Our flight wasn't until 4.30pm!!
If we had done it the other way around we could have had a nice relaxing day on Skiathos
We booked everything ourselves for our holiday but i do know that Olympic were operating 2 centre packages at the time.
Whatever you decide, enjoy........We did!
John
If you were going to try these islands i would suggest staying on Either Skopelos or Alonissos for the first week and staying on Skiathos for the second week. This is simply because of the ferries in relation to the flights from Skiathos airport. We did this type of holiday a couple of years ago and had to board the ferry at Skopelos at 6am on our return journey. Our flight wasn't until 4.30pm!!
If we had done it the other way around we could have had a nice relaxing day on Skiathos
We booked everything ourselves for our holiday but i do know that Olympic were operating 2 centre packages at the time.
Whatever you decide, enjoy........We did!
John
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