Greece holiday advice

lawtz04

Hi all

I am looking for a cheap holiday, a week away for myself and my wife in july. Ive been looking at the holiday discount centre and hreece holidays are very cheap at the moment. I imagine this is due to their economy and I wanted some advice on whether booking there is ok at the moment

Thanks!

Voyager2002

Why wouldn't it be?

tesuhoha

Don't go to Kos.

travellite

tesuhoha wrote: »

Don't go to Kos.

Why would that be? Don't believe all you read in the Daily Mail.

Moto2

There's an awful lot of poor souls currently sleeping and living wherever they can at the moment in Kos.
I guess the risk for holidaymakers is that they somehow spoil their enjoyment.

richardw

There's a reason they appear cheap! Read the bad reviews http://www.feefo.com/GB/en/reviews/Holiday-Discount-Centre/?id=666931

richardw

lawtz04 wrote: »

..I am looking for a cheap holiday, a week away for myself and my wife in july....

What is your budget for both of you?
Where in the UK are you?

Moto2

lawtz04 wrote: »

Hi all

I am looking for a cheap holiday, a week away for myself and my wife in july. Ive been looking at the holiday discount centre and hreece holidays are very cheap at the moment. I imagine this is due to their economy ............

It's likely that the main travel operators have had to off-load a lot of beds onto smaller concerns after they failed to sell.

In the next few years that corner of SE Europe is probably going to decline in popularity as the issues of the Middle east spill over

Blue264

lawtz04 wrote: »

Hi all

I am looking for a cheap holiday, a week away for myself and my wife in july. Ive been looking at the holiday discount centre and hreece holidays are very cheap at the moment. I imagine this is due to their economy and I wanted some advice on whether booking there is ok at the moment

Thanks!

Of course it's ok. Greece is a huge country spread over a very large area. Even if you were concerned about pour souls coming over, there are plenty of other places that aren't affected, such as Corfu, Zakynthos, Kefalonia, Halkidiki, etc...

I'm off to Aegina, Athens, Evia and western Crete in 5 weeks time and have no concerns at all.

Voyager2002

Blue264 wrote: »

Of course it's ok. Greece is a huge country spread over a very large area. Even if you were concerned about pour souls coming over, there are plenty of other places that aren't affected, such as Corfu, Zakynthos, Kefalonia, Halkidiki, etc...

I'm off to Aegina, Athens, Evia and western Crete in 5 weeks time and have no concerns at all.

If Greece were to suffer a generalised economic collapse then it would affect the whole country... personally I would hesitate to put money in a Greek bank account at the moment, and if I visited Greece I would bring cash rather than relying on cards. However, even if the banking and financial sector were to be disrupted, tourism would continue as normal: it is too important for anyone to allow it to fail.

barbaraemmerson

just back from Crete - went to a lovely quiet place called Sissi - stayed in a five star hotel but spent all our time in the taverna next door - Anixi Apartments - https://www.facebook.com/anixi.apartments?fref=ts
Fabulous owners, lovely clean pool, views out to sea and definitely where we will be staying next time. Try sky scanner for you flights and go from there.
Only thing is they don't allow kids in the taverna - not sure if you have any but great for those that don't!