Greece

Why Go

Holidays to Greece are truly unique – one of the world's oldest empires began here, and it is flooded with golden sun for most of the year. As an added bonus, the mainland of Greece is like an open-air museum, filled with awe-inspiring relics from the past, and the sprinkling of islands set in the Aegean Sea aren’t short of architectural must-sees either, but, essentially, these are blissful locations for beach holidays of every shade - lazy, vibrant, sporty or stylish.

Family holidays in Greece can be fun-filled with trips to monuments steeped in Greek mythology, or trips to one of the numerous huge waterparks in Limnoupolis, Kos, Corfu or Faliraki.

For those that enjoy fine wines and top-notch cuisine, the wonderful tastes to experience on your Greece holidays are as much as a lure as the scorching sunshine. The feta cheese, olives, dolmades and of course – the red grape wine – can be found in the most high-end of restaurants in the capital of Athens, to the tiny tavernas in Rhodes or Crete.

The islands in Greece have everything from party resorts to places where you can just relax and forget all your troubles - check out our range of Greece hotels to explore where you want to visit. For thrilling shopping holidays to Greece, the capital of Athens will bring you up-market boutiques and branded clothes at great prices, whereas the resorts and little craft stalls dotted around the country sell traditional Greek pottery and trinkets.

The weather you'll experience on your Greece holiday is categorised into the three main territories: the Mediterranean, the Alpine and the Temperate. In the Alpine resorts where you can go on activity holidays to Greece – such as the Thessaly region and the Pindus mountain range, can be colder with thunderstorms. Areas such as Crete and the Dodecanese areas have mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers, and Athens uniquely has a mix of both Mediterranean and Temperate.