Originally Posted by KICKINHEADZ1010
Lazy---- How did you go about booking your trip? The pics look amazing.
We were deciding between Spain and Greece. Ultimately, the airfare sale (Delta...ATL to Athens) led to the final decision. I have a relative whose very familiar with Greece so I had gathered information from him a while back. Then my wife and I just opted to look into tripadvisor and lonely planet. She had actually been to Greece before (not all the same Islands, but had spent a day on Santorini) so that helped.
You book directly w/ the owners of the Apartments. Some will cut you a deal, especially if you're far in advance. Less deals during high season. We stayed in a total of 4 places throughout the two weeks.
Broken out as:
We flew from SF (early AM) to ATL, ATL to Athens, Athens to Santorini - LONG @+% day(s). We basically crashed after we got some great food by the place we stayed in Santorini.
-Oia was the first place we stayed on Santorini - I think the Oia Castle? I'd have to look it up.
-Imerovigli was the 2nd, and our favorate place in terms of hospitality, service, privacy, etc. We were able to walk along the cliffs to Fira, couldn't quite walk back to Oia, which was fine since we stayed there originally.
-From Imerovigli we headed to Crete by speed-ferry. They ran 2 hours late. This resulted in us porting in Crete and running for a bus in which we had NO idea where it was (and it was the last one of the night). Fun times on your honeymoon. We made it barely, literally with two mins to spare as I acted like a moron with our backpacks so my wife could catch up with the tickets she hurriedly bought. Long bus ride got us to the place we stayed on Crete which was the old port of Chania, which we'd stay at again if we go back to Crete.
-Crete was awesome, we didn't get to do the Somaria Gorge because of weather, but we'd definitely go back JUST to do that. I've heard nothing but good things.
On Crete the aforementioned beach (see pics below). I don't think anything else need be said other than I almost lost my wedding band in the sand shaking out a towel.
From Crete we went to Athens (Athens Gate hotel). Hotel was decent, for Athens probably even good...that picture with the smoke from the first post is from where we ate breakfast at that hotel. From Athens, back to ATL and back to SF another long travel day...but so worth it.
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