Matt's Greece Suggestions
Lesser Known Islands for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd Time Visitors to Greece |
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So assuming you
were coming to Greece for 10 days and doing a day trip on
the mainland a sample itinerary would look like: All you have to do is contact one of the Greek Travel agencies and give them this itinerary. If you wanted to do this itinerary with one or more of these sample islands Aegean Thesaurus Travel is your best bet. If you use their Create-an-itinerary page and fill in the form they will come back with a price within 24 hours. |
 There are other island combinations that you could do with this sample itinerary. Instead of doing Sifnos and Milos you could do Syros and Tinos(photo) which are 2 islands very close together and as different as two Cyclades Islands
can be. Or you could do either of those islands with Mykonos or Andros because all those islands are on the same ferry line. Syros is interesting because it is the capital of the Cyclades so even in the winter there are people out eating and drinking and shopping. Also because it is the capital of the Cyclades and that is where the courts are people have to come here for official business
to get paperwork, licenses and sue people, so they have their own little subsidized ferry system that connects Syros to all the islands. However the ferries run a different schedule every day and don't go to the same islands. So you can do Syros with just about any island but you have to plan very carefully. If you want to do the Ionian Islands you can do Zakynthos and Kefalonia using
the above itinerary example because they have ferry connections. You can also do Kefalonia with either Lefkada or Ithaka. But you can't really do these islands with Corfu unless you rent a car and drive to Lefkada. There may be a boat between Corfu and Paxos and some years there is a seasonal
ferry
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Hopefully you have found this page helpful. If not just contact me and tell me what kind of a person you are and I will tell you what to do. If you want to book on your own you can do so using Matt's Hotels of Greece page. |
| Islands Off the Beaten Path Not everyone wants to go to Mykonos, Santorini, Paros, Naxos, Crete etc. Some travelers want to go somewhere that is not on the bucket list of every tourist in the world. If you are one of these people visit Greek Islands Off the Beaten Path. |
This page is for those who don't want to follow the beaten path, either because they have already followed it, or they are the type of people who normally don't. (I only say second and
third time visitors because I assume by the time you have visited Greece four or more times you know where you want to go and you won't need me
to tell you). It is also for the first time traveler
who wants to visit a Greek island that will give him a feeling
of traditional Greece, and even though they may feel
that the popular islands should be seen, they are willing to take the chance
that they will come to Greece again and see them another time, maybe in the off-season when they are not so crowded. This page is also for those people who visited the popular islands in the distant past and have not been back since and want to go somewhere that will remind them of how the islands were in the good old days before mass tourism. For these people an island like 
The other option
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Fantasy Travel actually has a few itineraries to these less popular islands on their |
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