Athens
Madeleine
The one to call for group travel — reunions, milestones, friends going together. She’s backpacked Europe and says yes to almost anything.
Everyone pictures the same white village on the same blue cliff. Greece is 227 inhabited islands and a mainland most visitors never see.
Santorini and Mykonos earned their reputations, and if that’s the trip you want, we’ll make it a good one. But the Peloponnese has the archaeology, the castles, and beaches without the ferry crowds. Kefalonia and Corfu are green in a way the Cyclades never are. And Thessaloniki may be the best eating city in the country.
The other thing worth knowing: summer isn’t the only season. Spring and autumn give you the same light with half the people and better prices — which is often the difference between a good trip and a great one.
Where to go
Three places worth building a trip around
Beyond the two islands everyone names first.
The Peloponnese
History without the ferries
The most popular region of the mainland, and reachable by car. Ancient Olympia, the theatre at Epidaurus, Venetian castles, and seaside towns where you’ll eat better for half what you’d pay on an island.
Kefalonia & the Ionian
The green islands
Pine, cypress, and olive running down to water that’s turquoise rather than navy. Kefalonia has the vineyards and the sea turtles; Corfu has the layered Venetian, French, and British history. A different Greece entirely from the Cyclades.
Thessaloniki
Where Greeks go to eat
Inhabited since prehistory, layered with Byzantine churches and Roman ruins, and — ask anyone Greek — the country’s best food city. Pairs well with Halkidiki’s beaches an hour away.
Endless ways to experience it
What kind of Greece are you after?
Ancient history
You can walk through 4,000 years in an afternoon here. We’ll get you guides who make it more than a pile of stones.
Island hopping
Ferries, small ships, or a private charter. The trick is picking islands that actually connect — we’ve watched people lose days to bad routing.
Food and wine
A cuisine roughly four thousand years old, built on simplicity. Cooking classes, market walks, and the vineyards most visitors never hear about.
Beaches
Nearly ten thousand miles of coastline — sandy, pebbled, volcanic. Tell us which kind you mean and we’ll get it right.
Active and outdoors
Eighty percent of Greece is mountainous. Hiking, sea kayaking, sailing, diving — and gorges that rival anywhere in Europe.
Shoulder season
Spring and autumn are the local secret: same light, fewer people, better rates. Often the version of Greece we’d book for ourselves.
Who you’ll work with
Pick the office nearest you.
All four of our advisors plan Greece. Which one you work with is usually just a question of which office you’d rather walk into.
Dunwoody
Leslie
Planning trips since 1990 and deepest in Italy, Greece, France, and Ireland. Ask her about the history nobody told you to look for.
Dunwoody
Steve
Left a career as a chiropractor for a year-long trip around the world, and came back to help other people take theirs.
Tuscaloosa
Stella
A year living in France taught her to travel slowly. She builds trips around local life — markets, long meals, the streets past the checklist.
Go deeper
More on Greece
Island guides, hotels, and current offers — kept up to date through our Signature Travel Network membership.
Ready when you are.
Tell us roughly what you have in mind and we’ll take it from there.
