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One of the things I enjoy about the rec.travel.europe newsgroup is when people take the time to post where they went on holiday, what they did, the places they stayed and how they did it. I've not done this before so if you're not interested in my trip to Greece, thanks for reading this far. The picture on the right is Jerry, Kathryn, Chris and I in front of the Parthenon in Athens. It was very hot and sunny.

Greece - June 1997

Jvi
2004-09-14 10:44:36

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in writing a few days later. I asked if I could pre-pay and it would have been $10 more- you figure it out! I made the reservation in April and did make one change a few days later which they again confirmed in writing. We had originally intended to pick up the car at the airport and drop the car off in Piraeus, that would have cost $4.44 more for a drop off charge. The only extra charge we paid was an extra driver charge of $1.85 per day. I used a Gold Visa card for the collision damage waver insurance and was not given any hassle at the airports. The cars were new, about 3-4000 miles on the odometer. We got the same weekly rate in Crete, $259.00 for five (5) days, about $52 per day. The weekly rate was cheaper than the daily rate.

We purchased our transatlantic tickets through a consolidator, no mileage credits. No, I will not recommend a consolidator. The price you pay for transatlantic tickets depends on when and from who you buy them, if you're happy, the price was right. We were very happy. The Olympic flights were purchased through a travel agent, $75 for each flight, $301 total for the four flights each. The Olympic inter-island flight charges seem to be pretty standard, I know of no discounts.

We made no advance hotel arrangements because we were not quite sure how long we would stay at any location. It's hard to find hotels to answer your Fax when you're only inquiring about one day.

Christine and I left Chicago on British Airways on June 9. The trip started out great, we were upgraded to Club class and got a good night's sleep. Those seats are fantastic. We had 1 hour 40 minute layover at Heathrow and saw the Concorde take off, very impressive. I also watched as they loaded the luggage, at least I saw mine loaded. As we learned later, Christine's did not make the flight to Athens. They were both checked in together, properly ...