These are UK-based tour operators and specialist travel agencies featuring holidays, tours and travel in Greece, both on the mainland and the islands. |
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| Amathus Holidays |
0870 443 2972 |
Mainly hotel-based holidays (on Cyprus and in Greece) but also offer cruises, agrotourism, and tailor-made. |
| Anenome Holidays |
0870 074 5678 |
Specialist operator to Cyprus and parts of Greece, such as Athens, Spetses, Porto Heli, Halkidiki Santorini. Also classical tours, weddings, golf, walking etc. |
| Argo Holidays |
020 7331 7070 |
A wide range of packages (weddings, diving, island-hopping, etc) in hotels, apartments, villas, tavernas and pensions on a choice of more islands than most operators. |
| Aspro Holidays |
0870 238 7755 |
Villas, apartments & hotels. Aspro is a brand of Airtours, aka MyTravel. |
| Azogires |
01273 564230 |
Residential holistic health & spirit holidays. (Nasty Tripod website...set your anti pop-up controls to max strength!) |
| Best of Greece, The |
0870 442 2442 |
Deluxe hotels and resorts on Crete, Santorini, Paros, Mykonos, Rhodes, Cyprus, Haldiki & Athens. Cruises & yacht charters. Also specialise in tailor-made. Has been operating to Greece for over 30 years. |
| BikeGreece |
0115 9830370 |
Bike holidays, for both leisurely and hardcore cyclists, around some of the less well-known areas around Athens.
 Podcast/MP3 clip James Brown of BikeGreece talks about his cycle tours, with Travel-Lists' Alastair McKenzie. (4' 30") |
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| Bike & Sun Tours |
01287 639739 |
Motorbike tours. Their annual tour schedule usually includes tours in Greece. |
| Cachet Travel |
020 8758 1818 |
Crete specialists offering villas, apartments and selected small hotels. |
| Contiki Holidays |
0208 290 6777 |
The 18-35s specialist offering mainly island-hopping cruises (Olympic Cruises)and some mainland sight-seeing. |
| Cretan Ambience |
020 7553 6959 |
Small specialist tour operator offering holidays in hotels, apartments, villas and studios all over Crete. |
| CV Travel |
020 7591 2800 |
Villas, tailor-made. Big company which over three decades has expanded away from its original core business as 'Corfu Villas' |
| Cosmos |
0870 901 0790 |
A range from self-catering apartments to all-inclusive resorts. Also a new programme of island-hopping itineraries. |
| Cresta Holidays |
0870 238 7711 |
City break to Athens and summer sun resort hotel holidays. |
| Direct Holidays |
0141 559 7097 |
Hotels & apartments in Corfu, Kos, Athens, Zante, crete & Rhodes. A direct sell brand belonging to the MyTravel group. |
| Elysian Holidays |
01580 766599 |
Self-catering apartments, studios & villas on a wide selection of islands throughout the Aegean |
| Exodus |
0208 675 5550 |
Mainly cycling & walking holidays |
| Explore Worldwide |
01252 344161 |
Small group exploratory tours |
| Exsus Travel |
020 7292 5050 |
Luxury holidays based in Santorini or cruising the islands on crewed yachts. |
| Filoxenia |
01422 375999 |
 Tailor-made specialists, all types of accommodation, study tours (Health, cookery, flowers, painting etc), cultural tours, watersports etc. Also they cover small Greek islands off the beaten tourist track like Kythira, Trizonia, Spetses, Hydra, etc |
| First Choice |
0870 750 0001 |
Hotels, tavernas, pensions, rooms, coach tours, resorts, caique cruises, sailing |
| Freelance Holidays |
01789 297705 |
Character properties, villas with pools, hotels and apartments on Crete and Karpathos. Also special interests like mountain biking, whale watching, winsurfing and botany. |
| Greece & Cyprus Travel Centre |
0121 355 6955 |
Tailor-made tours to the Greek islands and mainland based on hotel or self-catering accommodation. |
| Greek Islands Club |
020 8232 9780 |
Villa specialists. Has a main collection of mid-range villas on Paxos, Ithica, Corfu, Zakynthos, Kythira, Skiathos, Skopelos, Alonissos & Cephalonia, plus a selection of swish villas & hotels marketed as 'The Private Collection'. A Sunvil brand. |
| Greek Options |
0207 233 5233 |
Individually selected villas, apartments, and small hotels on Stoupa, Cephalonia, Levkas, Zakynthos, Crete, and Paxos. |
| Greek Sun Holidays |
01732 740317 |
38 years experience.Apartments, hotels, archaeology, caique cruising, walking |
| Healthy Options |
01920 484515 |
Yoga, herbal walks, aqua safaris, cycling tours therapeutic massage, and course in nutrition, on Lefkas Island in Greece's Ionian sea. Sister-brand to Wildwind Sailing Holidays. |
| Hidden Greece |
020 7839 2553 |
Hidden Greece, or more fully: Colin Murison Small's Hidden Greece, specialises in small islands hidden away from the crowds, and special out-of-the-way places on the larger islands (to which Colin Murison has been taking independently-minded travellers since 1961). His programme features small scale, mainly family-run, accommodation on 35+ islands. His website is a thing of joy, and enthusiastically conveys the joys (# pitfalls) of laid-back Greek holidays in language we can all understand. |
| Houses of Pelion |
0870 199 9191 |
Villas and apartment on the Pelion peninsula, 200 miles north of Athens. Also touring holidays in Greece. |
| Imaginative Traveller, The |
0800 316 2717 |
Small group regional exploratory tours, walking tours, activity |
| Ionian Island Holidays |
020 8459 0777 |
A new operator (Jan 03) created by Sailing Holidays Ltd & Pama Travel, offering sailing, walking, scuba, and painting holidays in a selection of villas & small hotels in Meganisi, Lefkas, Ithaka and Kefalonia. |
| Islands of Greece |
0845 675 2600 |
Specialist Greek island holiday operator, with almost 30 years experience. They started as Skiathos Travel and have expanded to cover Skiathos, Skoplelos, Alonissos, Mykonos, Santorini, Paros, Antiparos, Naxos, Crete and Milos. This season they have also taken on key staff from Laskarina (see above). |
| Just Imagine |
0114 247 3400 |
A selection of over 2600 villas in Greece. Brand of Adventures Abroad |
| Kallisto Holidays |
01803 614327 |
Specialist operator to the unspoilt Greek island of Kythira, offering exclusive environmentally-friendly holidays and tailor-made packages for special interest groups. |
| Kosmar Holidays |
020 8368 6833 |
Budget to mid-price apartments and hotels in over 80 resorts on a huge range of 25 islands. The islands of Alonissos and Ithica are new for 2004. Have been specialising in Greece for 20 years. |
| Lesvos Travel |
01594 832956 |
Holidays in apartments on Lesvos managed by professional wildlife photographers. |
| Libra Holidays |
020 8275 5500 |
Part of Price Right Holidays and Golden Joy, offering self-catering and hotels. |
| Manos |
01273 427333 |
Apartments, villas, & hotels in Agistri, Aegina, Alonissos, Corfu, Crete, Kefalonia, Kalymnos, Kos, Lefkas, Lesbos, Meganissi, Peloponnese, Paros, Parga, Paxos, Rhodes, Skiathos, Skopelos, Symi, & Zakynthos. Part of the MyTravel group. |
| Mark Warner Holidays |
0870 770 4227 |
All-inclusive family beach resorts. Strong on sailing and watersports. |
| Martin Randall Travel |
0208 742 3355 |
Archaeology and history tours. |
| Meon Villas |
0870 850 8551 |
Upmarket villa rentals on Corfu, Kephalonia, Crete and Cyprus. |
| Mountain Beach Activity Holidays |
01159 215065 |
Mountain Bike Holidays on Nidri, Lefkas, Cephalonia and Ithaka. |
| Paint Greece |
01424 712968 |
Painting and yoga holidays on the island of Angristi |
| Planet Holidays |
0870 066 0909 |
Greece & Cyprus specialists (launched in 2003) with a portfolio of 160 4/5-star hotels, studios, apartments and villas with private pools. They have also introduced a dedicated weddings brochure. |
| Planos Holidays |
01373 814200 |
100 properties on Paxos in the Ionion Sea ranging from fishermens' cottages to luxury villas with pools. 20 years experience |
| Prestige Holidays |
01425 480400 |
Independent operator offering luxury holidays in 4/5-star hotels on Crete. |
| Pure Crete |
020 8760 0879 |
Around 50 traditional, out-of-the-way farm & village houses in western Crete |
| Rediscover the World |
08707 406 306 |
Independent operator offering a range of escorted tours (walking, cultural, exploratory, special interest, coach tours) plus hotels & apartments on many Greek islands and the mainland. |
| Saga Holidays |
0800 300 500 |
Land-based or cruising holidays for the over 50s often featuring specialist interests such as archaeology, bird-watching, bridge, painting, botany, etc |
| Simply Travel |
0870 166 4979 |
Small high-quality operator with an excellent reputation. Offers up-market self-catering and hotel/pension-based holidays as well as special interest (walking, painting, botany, sailing, etc) Expanded and was snapped up recently by Thomsons. |
| Simpson Travel |
020 8392 5852 |
Graham Simpson, the man who created Simply Travel (see above), is back. He created Simply Travel in the seventies and built it into a very successful independent specialist tour operator. Three years ago he sold it to one of the big 'multiples' (TUI/Thomsons) and took a sabbatical. Now he's starting up again. Simpson Travel, was launched in October 2002 and offers a select range of elegant villas and small hotels in Crete, the Ionian Islands, the Sporades and the lesser-known Peloponnese. |
| Sky Blue Holidays |
01526 321546 |
Holidays away from the busy tourist destinations in small country houses, stylish villas, studios and apartments. Also yoga retreats. |
| Skyros Holidays |
020 7267 4424 |
Holistic courses/holidays on the island of Skyros |
| Something Special |
01992 552231 |
Villa rental company with longstanding good track record. (We remember them back in the early eighties when they were a small but enthusiastic business operating from a little office in Hertford. Like many successful independents, they were snapped up by the big guys - in this case, Thomsons/TUI. Though we understand they still operate with a fair degree of autonomy). They offer villas with pools in Crete, Cyprus, Corfu & Cephalonia. |
| Sovereign Holidays |
08705 768 373 |
City breaks to Athens and mainstream summer sun programme. |
| Spirit of Greece |
01372 749 579 |
Villas and apartments in Paxos, Lefkas, Kefalonia, Lesvos and Halki. SoG is a villa only agency but has recently teamed up with Sky Value Ltd, an ATOL and ABTA protected flight specialist. |
| SunIsle Holidays |
0871 222 1226 |
Tailor-made holidays in apartments and villas on Corfu, Zante, Cephalonia, Paxos, Levkas, Kea, Skopelos, & Alonnisos. Plus cookery breaks and island hopping tours (operated by Island Wandering). |
| Sunset Holidays |
0870 750 0247 |
Thomas Cook summer sun budget brand offering apartments, studios, hotels. |
| Sunvil |
020 8758 4747 |
Established since 1974. One of the best-known independent specialist operators to Greece and Cyprus offering a wide choice of islands and activities. Sunvil's founder and chairman, Noel Josephides, is a well-known and widely respected character in the UK travel industry and a champion of independent operators. |
| Tapestry Collection |
020 8995 7787 |
Tapestry Holidays, which specialised in small hotels, guest houses, apartments and villas away from tourist hotspots, ceased trading on 10/08/06. Now the assets of the company have been bought by Travelzest who are resurrecting parts of the original programme under the new brand name Tapestry Collection. |
| Temple World |
020 8940 4114 |
Tailormade tours, particularly cultural, archaeological, and eco tours. |
| Thomson Holidays |
0870 165 0079 |
Apartments, studios, hotels, all-inclusives, golf, mountain-biking, scuba diving, walking, windsurfing. |
| Transun |
0870 4444 747 |
Transun have launched a dedicated programme of holidays to Cyprus for 2005, with accommodation in a range of ten 3-5 star hotels in Paphos. |
| Travel a la Carte |
01635 863030 |
Quality self-catering holidays on Corfu, Paxos, Halki, Symi, & Skiathos (a couple of seasons ago they also covered Skopelos and Alonissos so their programme has shrunk a little). Also special interest breaks, eg Yoga & painting. |
| Travelbound |
0870 900 3200 |
Educational tours for schools & groups and individuals, eg tailor-made battlefield tours, history, cultural, nature tours, watersports, activities |
| Travel Club of Upminster |
01708 225000 |
Well-established tour operator (over 60 yrs!) offering specially selected small hotels & self-catering villas/apartments on Crete & Corfu. TCU have built up a very loyal customer base since the company was launched in 1936 by Harry & Rene Chandler. It is now run by their son, Paul, who is a well-known and respected figure in the UK travel industry. |
| Travelux |
01580 765000 |
Exclusive villas with sea views and private pools, plus hotels and apartments, on Lefkada, Meganissi and Zagoria |
| Travel Talk |
020 7183 0910 |
Low price (but not 'budget') guided adventure tours to Greece for the 20 to 35 age group. Travel Talk is a well-established, 'responsible tourism' operator based in Turkey with a UK presence (and a mostly UK, Australian, NZ clientele) specialising in adventure tours to countries around the Mediterranean region. |
| Walking Plus |
020 8835 8303 |
Guided and independent walking holidays islands of the Cyclades. |
| Westminster Classic Tours |
020 8286 7842 |
Expert led, small group classical tours to archeological sites in Greece by sailing gulet. |
| Whitehall Leisure |
020 7340 1030 |
Hotels and apartments on Cyprus |
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