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Greece Slideshow
Top Hotels in Greece
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Mediterranean Palace Hotel Thessaloniki
56 reviews -
Chrissi Amoudia Hotel Hersonissos
48 reviews -
Metropolitan Hotel Thessaloniki
18 reviews -
Terra Maris All Inclusive Resort Hersonissos
45 reviews -
Kalithea Sun & Sky Hotel
173 reviews
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Pelagos Suites Hotel Kos Town
80 reviews
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Aquis Bella Beach Anissaras
323 reviews
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Filoxenia Kalamata
41 reviews
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Marni Village Hersonissos
236 reviews
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Classical Fashion House Hotel Athens
57 reviews
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Polis Grand Hotel Athens
121 reviews
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Belvedere Beach Hotel Rhodes
102 reviews
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Candia Park Village Agios Nikolaos
167 reviews
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Elea Beach Hotel Dassia
70 reviews
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Astor Hotel Athens
125 reviews
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Mendi Hotel Kalandra
40 reviews
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Princess Flora Hotel Lardos
33 reviews
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Kamari Beach Hotel
94 reviews
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The Island Hotel Gouves
268 reviews
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Golden Age Hotel Athens
58 reviews
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Ialyssos Bay
155 reviews
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Elite City Resort Kalamata
28 reviews
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Best Western Museum Hotel Athens
229 reviews
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Skiathos Princess Hotel Agia Paraskevi
175 reviews
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Esperos Palace Hotel Faliraki
77 reviews
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Ionis Hotel Athens
127 reviews
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Airotel Galaxy Kavála
31 reviews
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Orfeas Hotel Kalambaka
26 reviews
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Hotel ABC Thessaloniki
17 reviews
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Esperia Hotel Laganas
10 reviews
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Amarilia Hotel Athens
81 reviews
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Alkyon Resort Hotel Vrachati
20 reviews
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City Hotel & Central Spa Thessaloniki
72 reviews
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Ilissos Hotel Athens
41 reviews
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Aegean Plaza Hotel Kamari
123 reviews
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Iniohos Hotel Athens
31 reviews
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Bio Hotel Apartments Rethymnon
47 reviews
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Nautica Bay Hotel Port Heli
36 reviews
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The Aeolos Beach Hotel Kos Town
80 reviews
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Airotel Parthenon Athens
803 reviews
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Travel Blogs from Greece
Pre-Funk and Tower of the Winds
This is a top pick! The Persuasion class went on a special expedition just for the twelve of us to the Tower of the Winds in the ancient Roman agora. The Tower of the Winds, dated between 100-50 BCE, is an octagonal building that includes friezes of the eight ...
Poodle Gauntlets
This is a top pick! ... had to leave, "So I walked into the study abroad office and said 'Send me somewhere on the other side of the world.'" Greece makes her so happy because she's getting exactly what she hoped for - a new perspective on her life and the opportunity to meet ...
The Oracle
This is a top pick! First there was wilderness, with tall Mediterranean mountain forests on the slopes of Mt. Parnassos, the navel of the Greek world. Zeus sent two eagles from the corners of the earth, and they met here. During this ...
Turkey + Baklava = Greek Thanksgiving
This is a top pick! I am shamelessly stealing Papia's phrase for the title of this entry because it perfectly encapsulates the blending of two cultures that was the Thanksgiving potluck dinner tonight at the program. We had a crowd of almost 40 people, including students, ...
Jane the Olympic Champion
This is a top pick! We arrived at Olympia on a gorgeous day to see the site of the first ancient Olympics, the site where the Olympic torch still begins its journey every four years. We went to the track where the footraces were held. Indy showed us how the sprinters ...
Lemons and Bananas at Vassai
This is a top pick! The local limestone of the Temple of Apollo Epicurous is crumbling so badly that the ancient building is protected under a big tent and propped up with scaffolding. The epithet "Epicurous" could refer to Apollo the helper of soldiers in battle, or it ...
A Blessing on Your Day
This is a top pick! The BibFem Four departed for home this morning. The coat rack looks empty and the bathtub is missing its crowd of shampoo bottles. As Chaplain said goodbye, she said, "A blessing on your day." Safe travels, ...
Plaka
This is a top pick! Made it out of Istanbul in one piece and arrived in Athens a few hours ago. Took the X95 Airport bus to the Student and Travellers Inn in the Plaka area of Athens right below the Acropolis. Very cute area and am about to set out to explore ...
Ancient monuments
This is a top pick! We came to Athens not sure what to expect, other than pollution and the Acropolis. The chaotic streets and markets reminded us more of Asia than Europe but we found we enjoyed the atmosphere. Europe is sometimes a little too sterilised! We didn't spend ...
The Road to Chania
This is a top pick! We could not stay at Tylissos very long, because we had a three-hour drive ahead of us to reach Chania (hahn-YAH). It didn't feel like three hours, though, because my eyes were glued out the window as we hugged the north coast of Crete on our way west, ...
Nicky, Nikos, Maria, and Nicholas
This is a top pick! Once we checked into our rooms, I toured the ferry boat with our program representative, Beautiful Basil. As we walked, she explained about Greek names. A couple's first baby would be named after the groom's father or mother. The second baby would ...
The BibFem Four's Perfect Day
This is a top pick! ... . Beside the Zappeion are the National Gardens, the only really green space in the heart of Athens. A monarchy was installed in Greece in the nineteenth century, and the gardens were created beside the palace as a royal refuge by Queen Amalia (who was ...
Rice with Curry, Peas, and Raisins
This is a top pick! I slept in to a decadently late hour for the first time in almost a month this morning. In the afternoon, Wedding Belle came over with a load of laundry and stuffed peppers, Greek gigantic beans, homemade tzatziki on fried pita, chicken, and a special ...
Epidaurus: Built for Butts, Not for Churches
This is a top pick! ... in Nauplion (or Napflion, same thing) for the night. Nauplion is said to be one of the most beautiful places in Greece, so romantic that Athenian couples come here to get engaged. Unfortunately, I missed it completely. And I missed dinner. I ...
Missing Apple Cider in the Orange Grove of Tyrins
This is a top pick! It was only a short drive this morning from Nauplion to the ancient ruins of Tyrins. We had more silver light today thanks to the overcast skies, and it was downright chilly. Grizz waxed eloquent on how the taste of the air in the morning reminded her ...
Heading straight for the islands
This is a top pick! (C) (S) Go directly to Santorini. Do not stop in Athens and do not collect ...
Paralympics
This is a top pick! Keeping a promise Anita and I made on our trip to Greece to return for the Olympics.. Adrian Tracey and I headed over for the paralympics.. we caught the wheelchair basketball, sight impaired football and volleyball. After all that activity (watching ...
Bed Rest
This is a top pick! I'm on bed rest today. Sage wants me to take it easy to prevent the bronchitis from developing into pneumonia. I'm glad for the support of the women of the program, who call to make sure I'm ok and can get me anything I need. I've been going from nap, ...
Paros Island
This is a top pick! Leaving Mykonos Island rewarded us with the perfect sailing conditions. The same wind and waves that battered us yesterday while motoring north to Mykonos were now exactly in our favor as we sailed south to Paros Island, one of my ...
Girls Lunch
This is a top pick! ... about how glad she was to have been encouraged to study abroad. Blink Blink said she had always felt a special call to Greece, and then this opportunity came along that fit perfectly with her communication major. We all started crying, moved to ...
For Aletheia
This is a top pick! It's Aletheia's birthday today! (Greek for "truth") International author Magazine editor and publisher Web content developer Musician Theologian Activist for justice Founder of an international organization Mother ...
Taking The Sun And Sights In Mykonos And Delos
This is a top pick! Welcome to Paradise!" says the handsome Greek man on reception. Paradise Resort and Camping that is - at Paradise Beach Mykonos. The sun is shining and bikini clad girls (well they seemed to have mislaid their tops!) laze on sun lounges while boys in ...
Leaving Chania Harbor
This is a top pick! I am at a loss for words to describe the exhilaration of the boat ride. The harbor was beautiful as we pulled away and rounded the lighthouse. We passed a rocky outcropping where a special herd of endangered goats were the only ones inhabiting the ...
Stories in Marble and Gold
This is a top pick! ... he's hurling Zeus' thunderbolt or Poseidon's trident, we don't know. Indy votes for Poseidon's trident. When the Romans conquered Greece, they transported many priceless works of art back to Italy. This sculpture was on a ship bound for Rome before it ...
Toucha Toucha Toucha Touch Me
This is a top pick! With apologies to Rocky Horror... We're back in Athens for a regular day of classroom instruction and blogging catch-up after our trip of wonders through the Peloponnese. As I was going through my pictures, I realized I had a lot of pics of the ...
Umbrellas at Mycenae
This is a top pick! It was still raining when Papou pulled in to the palace ruins at Mycenae. But we got the Lion's Gate to ourselves for a while, quite a luxurious treat, and then we had fun going to the peak of the palace walls and taking pictures of each other under our ...
Lounging around in Greece
This is a top pick! We spent a few days doing, well, not much really in Corfu. We stayed at a hostel/guesthouse that seemed to have more 'staff' than guests, most of them Aussies working for board and food. The 'traditional greek cuisine' that they advertised was cooked ...
THE "perfect beach"
This is a top pick! (C) (S) Ahhh...finally. We have found the perfect beach. The pictures don't do it justice. The knee deep, bath temperature water goes out from the beach for 50 meters. Why don't more people come to Crete? Oh right, it's not that easy to get to. Unless ...
Emotional Bloodbath
This is a top pick! ... original songs for the group. Then the students initiated storytelling time, each recounting their favorite moments with each other in Greece. Again, they stuck to funny stories to dam the pressing flood of mass tears. Finally it was time to leave, ...
Goodbye To The Car (and our friend Athina).
This is a top pick! After a night at a travellers style motel at Stilida, and a sighting of Mt. Olympus the highest mountain in Greece, we are now in Athens and finding it very "down at heel" with frantic traffic and unhappy people. We found one last UNESCO monastery, ...