Whitewashed Cycladic hotel buildings with a pool overlooking the sea

Greece by trip type

Same islands, different trips. These guides re-sort Greece by what you are actually travelling for, so the plan fits the trip instead of the postcard.

The destination pages answer what is this place like. These answer a different question: which place suits this trip. It is worth separating, because the same island can be the right answer for one and the wrong answer for the other, and what changes is rarely the island itself. It is the season you go in, the town you base in, and how long the transfer is at each end.

So each guide starts from the trip and works back. It names the islands that suit it, says plainly who they do not suit, and gives the practical constraint that usually decides it - the airport, the transfer, the length of the season, or the cost.

  • Honeymoons: which two islands to pair, and when to go.
  • Couples: the romantic trip that is not a honeymoon, matched to budget and pace.
  • Greece with kids: the islands with sandy, shallow beaches and short transfers.
  • Nightlife and party islands: where the scene actually is, and who each suits.
  • Cruises: what a cruise gains you, what it quietly costs you, and when to take the ferries instead.
  • Weddings: what getting married in Greece actually takes, and where.
  • Luxury: which three strips the top of the market actually sits in.
  • Food and wine: where the produce, the vineyards and the eating actually are.
  • Adventure: the gorges, the northern ranges and the island paths.

Two of these often overlap, and where they do the pages say so rather than pretending the choice is clean. Once you have a shortlist, the head-to-head comparisons settle the last two, and when to go decides whether the trip you have in mind is even in season.