An alternative to Greece

Amp34 · 9 Jun 2007 at 18:24

D.P. said:
You will find the cheapest way to get to greece is a package holiday with flight and accommodation. Choose a nice area and rent a car. I recommend Elounda on Crete. Nice and quite, some bars but not too many drunken British

Oh yeah and to put a spanner in the works neither of us drive!

Moredhel · 9 Jun 2007 at 18:44

Cyprus is nice. Good weather, nice people, you don't have to necessarily speak Greek, cheap etc.

Lopéz · 10 Jun 2007 at 15:43

D.P. said:
You will find the cheapest way to get to greece is a package holiday with flight and accommodation. Choose a nice area and rent a car. I recommend Elounda on Crete. Nice and quite, some bars but not too many drunken British

Agreed. I am very fon of both Crete and Rhodes. From Rhodes if you really want to get away from it all you could get the boat to Symi and stay there instead.

slinxy · 11 Jun 2007 at 07:43

iBankAllDay said:
XL.com

No!!! This airline lefted me delayed at manchester airport for around 40 hours! I only flew the once with them and that was enough. Bad, Bad experince....

stellasuppa · 11 Jun 2007 at 07:51

Zante is a good destination , airport a bit small but i went to see the turtles took the exmissus a few years ago and bumted into more single girls you could shake you know what at

. Really recommened lots to do and preferred it to the dominican republic wich i thought was a waste of a journey and money in comparrison .

Gilly · 11 Jun 2007 at 09:04

Amp34 said:
Resonably cheap to get to and stay in
Not too touristy in some areas
Lots of history and culture
Hot and in the med
Nice countryside

Crete or Cyprus I reckon

scorza said:
Turkey? Never been but Istanbul is on my list of "must-visit" places.

Why on earth would you do that to yourself?

pyro · 11 Jun 2007 at 09:43

D.P. said:
You will find the cheapest way to get to greece is a package holiday with flight and accommodation. Choose a nice area and rent a car. I recommend Elounda on Crete. Nice and quite, some bars but not too many drunken British

Yup, that's the cheapest way. Crete is a big island with a lot of things to do!

Gilly said:
Why on earth would you do that to yourself?

Have to agree with Gilly here, go to Constantinople instead

AJUK · 11 Jun 2007 at 10:12

Turkey is a **** hole. Croatia may be worth a try.

YorkshirePadd26 · 11 Jun 2007 at 10:45

D.P. said:
You will find the cheapest way to get to greece is a package holiday with flight and accommodation. Choose a nice area and rent a car. I recommend Elounda on Crete. Nice and quite, some bars but not too many drunken British

Yeah Crete is a pretty nice place loads of history and things to see, or if you want a larger fueled night with kebab and sick, check out Malia its more english than blackpool.

Or Elounda or Stallis for the more cultured.

YorkshirePadd26 · 11 Jun 2007 at 10:49

AJUK said:
Turkey is a **** hole. Croatia may be worth a try.

Depends where you go really,

Side on the South coast is great, hardly any british at all and the Turks really do treat you well when your there. As mostly they've gotta put up with arsey Germans shouting at them and being really rude.

Its pretty much a Dutch and German resort but lots toTurkish go there on hol's too. It'd deffo go again. Great beach and nightlife full of friendly people and great for shopping for fake goods. Also its really historic and full of old ruins and stuff like that.

Thomas Cook do it I think.

Amp34 · 11 Jun 2007 at 19:42

Just a slight update, at the moment we are erring towards Sardinia and the city of Alghero, it seems to tick all the right boxes and be nice and cheap at the moment. £50 flights and £150 accom. in a resonable hotel for 4 nights.

Although we are pretty set at the moment we are still looking around.

Thanks for the suggestions.

D.P. · 11 Jun 2007 at 20:16

Amp34 said:
Just a slight update, at the moment we are erring towards Sardinia and the city of Alghero, it seems to tick all the right boxes and be nice and cheap at the moment. £50 flights and £150 accom. in a resonable hotel for 4 nights.

Although we are pretty set at the moment we are still looking around.

Thanks for the suggestions.

Not been but AFIK sardinia is great. Been to corsica and that was WOW, sardinia might be even better wwith the italian flare and food.

LabR@t · 11 Jun 2007 at 20:38

scorza said:
Not that its a good idea to form an opinion of a country based on Hollywood films, but the protagonist in midnight express was actually a drug smuggler, so as long as you don't do any of that, you'll be alright

based on true story that film.