LIST: UK TOUR OPERATORS TO GREECE

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.
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.
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.
Cretan Ambience	020 7553 6959	Small specialist tour operator offering holidays in hotels, apartments, villas and studios all over Crete.
Crete Escapes	01332 880413	Small company specialising in villa rentals for North West Crete (Chania area). All villas are well equipped and the majority have a private pool. Their portfolio has grown organically from one villa (their own) in 2002 when they launched.
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	0871 895 0075	City breaks to Athens
Direct Holidays	0141 559 7097	Hotels & apartments in Corfu, Kos, Athens, Zante, crete & Rhodes. A direct sell brand belonging to the MyTravel group.
Discover the Greek Islands	0845 2990410	Does 'what it says on the tin', specialises in holidays and flights to all the key Greek islands - Corfu, Crete, Kefalonia, Kos, Lesbos, Mykonos, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini, Skiathos, Thassos & Zante. Wide choice of apartments, hotels and villas. Part of the Freedom Travel 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!	0845 291 4541	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	A wide selection holidays in hotels, tavernas, pensions, and apartments in modern resorts or traditional villages on the mainland or on islands like Rhodes, Corfu, Crete, Kos or Zante. First Choice are a brand of TUI UK.
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).
Island Wandering	0870 777 99 44	As the name suggests, Island Wandering specialise in tailor-made island-hopping holidays. They've been organising them since 1979. Hope they are better at that than they are at websites - this website was offline "under construction" in Jan 2008...and, in Aug 2009, is still promising to be "fully operational very soon".
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.
Lesvos Travel	01594 832956	Holidays in apartments on Lesvos managed by professional wildlife photographers.
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	0870 770 4227	All-inclusive family beach resorts. Strong on sailing and watersports.
Martin Randall Travel	0208 742 3355	Multi award-winning specialist operator offering archaeology and history tours & cruises guided by top academics.
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
Peter Sommer Travels	01600 861 929	Specialises in archaeological tours by gulet around the coast of Turkey. In 2010 they expanded their tours to cover ancient sites in Italy and Greece.
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.
Thomas Cook	0844 879 8442	Resort Hotels, apartments and villas across Greece including Corfu & Crete.
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 Department, The	020 7099 9665	Escorted holidays with a planned itinerary and a local guide, bookable online as an "all-in" package, with departures from Belfast, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford, Bristol and London Heathrow.
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.

Notes

• White Key is an Athens-based villa company specialising in luxury villas throughout Greece. This year, 2012, was the fourth year in a row they have won Conde Naste Traveler's 'Villa Rental Specialist' award.
• Openseas is a really useful timetable & ticketing site for the Greek ferry network, and they now have apps for iPhone and Android
• The Peligoni Club (020 8740 3001) offers watersports & sailing holidays (their speciality), painting holidays, and relaxing family holidays based in a numbers of villas, cottages & rooms situated in one resort at the remote northern end of Zakynthos. Regular guests refer to it as a sort of large 'house party'.
• Roger Ellman and his partner, Lina, have created a cluster of sites specialising in holidays to Greece (www.SuperbGreece.com) and in particular their own home island of Crete (www.CreteTravel.com ; www.CreteHotelsRooms.com ; www.CreteCarRental.com).