Getting There

Total flexibility

In the introduction to each area we list the various travel options. We have access to all flights – scheduled, chartered and even no frills airlines from all relevant UK airports

Since we have no charter seat commitments, we will look for flights which best fit your dates, times and budget because we have no incentive to sell off an over-supply of seats on a charter of our own. Our advice can be – and, indeed, is – completely impartial.

Our guide prices tables, however, are based on Olympic Airlines to Athens with a “connecting” domestic flight from there to your nearest destination airport*. The cost of using other flights may alter the total cost, either up or down depending on seasonal and other factors, but usually not significantly, unless you try to combine other airlines’ flights to Athens with OA domestics. OA allow one way and “open jaw” domestic journeys, so you can fly out to one island and back from another (or fly out and sail back) at no extra cost. Using these flights you may choose from three flights a day on any day of the week for any length of holiday. If your dates and home town make a direct charter the best option, the journey will be more convenient but you lose flexibility because you have to travel out and back on a specified day of the week and must stay exactly one or two weeks.

Your holiday is always re-costed once your chosen flights and accommodation have been agreed at the time we finalise your booking. In common with most operators, we invite you to make a laughably tiny contribution to the travel industry's environmental projects and to offest the carbon generated by your flight - see Responsible Tourism & The Environment. You may opt out of either.

* Guide Prices for the Cyclades do NOT include domestic connections (except for Santorini Airport for Folegandros and of course Santorini itself) because fast sea crossings are usually quicker.

Remember the 2-hour clock difference: outward flights to Greece appear to take six hours, homeward flights two hours.

We can even base your holiday on no-frills flights.

"What do you mean I can't come in? I'm St Peter. Just lost my key, that's all."

Safe island hopping under the strict eye of Rear Admiral Marianna