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Hahathakis Travel and Tours
 Based in Vatera, Hahathakis Tours are George and Yannis Hahathakis, two brothers who began with a small restaurant and gradually turned it into the popular Hotel Aphrodite Beach which is in my opinion the best hotel on the island, especially for families with children. Their travel agency books
hotels in Lesvos, as well as many of the other North Aegean Islands. They also book tours in Turkey as well as individualized programs including Olive Picking in Winter, Churches of the Revelation in Turkey, 14-Day Lesvos-Turkey Combination, Scuba-diving in Lesvos, 14-Day Lesvos, Chios and Samos, Easter in Lesvos, and many more programs. They can also do custom-made itineraries for you which combine Lesvos with other islands, Athens and Turkey. They also book charter flights from Europe to Lesvos and all domestic air and sea tickets as well as ferries to and from Turkey. For information visit their website
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Sappho Travel
 There are few women who can match the energy and enthusiasm of the quick-witted Joanna Savva of Sappho Travel in Skala Eressos. In fact if Zorba the Greek were seeking the perfect mate it would probably be her. How she gets the energy to answer a million tourist questions, run a travel agency, and a real-estate company, help travelers in distress, and still have time for dinner, drinks and dancing with her friends and still be able to wake up early every morning to begin again is a mystery and makes me believe she may have come from another planet where people have strange powers and super-human passions. For hotels and all travel arrangements in Lesvos including women only holidays see the Sappho Travel website. For those who are looking to book one of the dozens of inexpensive simple rooms and apartments which are not found on the internet you can use their Skala Eressos Room Search Form to find what you are looking for at a price you can afford.
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Eressos Travel
Lena
Mantzorou of
Eressos Travel
in
the town of Mytilini can find
rooms all over the island,
book domestic flights,
ferries, tours and more, for groups. She
and her husband are experts on
the monasteries and churches
of the island and can organize
specialized itineraries to
them for groups or
individuals and she is currently working with trips to Lesvos by schools, mostly in Greece.
Her family owns several rental
properties including a
house in Eressos and the very
popular Heliotopos Hotel in Skala
Eressos which is my favorite
place to stay in that
town.
To
contact Lena visit
the Eressos Travel website |
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You can find hotels, apartments, rooms and even houses through Booking.com's Lesvos Pages with photos, guest reviews, location maps and in most cases you can book with no cancellation fee.
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Travel Agencies outside of Lesvos
Travel agents in
who specialize in all of Greece can also help
you book your holiday in Lesvos. Agencies like
Fantasy Travel,
Dolphin Hellas,
and
Aegean
Thesaurus work with agents in
Lesvos as well as with individual hotel
owners. There are benefits of booking
with one of these agents, especially if you
want to combine Lesvos with other islands,
particularly the Cyclades, Crete and the
Dodecanese or if you want to combine your trip
to Lesvos with a cruise or a few days in
Athens. Aegean Thesaurus in particular offers
a combination of
Sifnos with Lesvos and Santorini with
Lesvos, while Fantasy Travel offers a
Lesvos-Athens combination as well as a
Fly and Drive Program that supplies you
with a rental car and hotels all over the
island. Of course you can also work with any
of these agents to put together your own
special program too. In the summer of 2012 Fantasy Travel helped me put together a Santorini/Lesvos trip that was efficient and made the most of my time, traveling to and from Santorini by air and taking the overnight ferry to Lesvos in a beautiful luxury cabin that cost about ten euros more than a normal cabin.
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Rent
a Sailboat or Yacht
A fantastic way to
see the island of Lesvos is by boat. The
beautiful beaches and quiet harbors are
perfect places to tie up and enjoy the
restaurants and nightlife before going back to
your floating hotel. The enormous bays of
Kaloni and Gera are large enough so you can
spend your whole holiday exploring the wooded
shores and coves. Turkey is a short sail away
and if you bring your fishing pole you will be
rewarded with some of the finest fishing in
the Aegean Sea. Visit Chios and the beautiful
island of Psara on the way to or from Pireaus,
or just meet the boat on Lesvos and fly home
when you are finished with your cruise.
Skipper Adonis Kondaxis says:
"I took these
people on a charter. They only wanted to sail
around Lesvos. I thought to myself: Are they
crazy? They have all the Greek islands and
they just want to sail around Lesvos? But
after 10 days I realized they were right. We
saw so much and we could spend another 10 days
seeing more of the island. And the food on
Lesvos was fantastic everywhere we went. The
freshest fish and so inexpensive too. Since
then I have longed to do this trip
again."
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Flying
to Lesvos
You can fly
directly from the USA to Lesvos with a change
of planes in Athens or an overnight stay if
you like. You can get flights from the USA
by filling out
this
form.
You can save a lot of money by booking early. The airline sells a certain amount
of cheap tickets for each flight and they go
fast. If you book early for summer you can pay
as little as $1000 dollars during peak, while
the guy next to you may have paid $1500 or more! If you are coming from the UK or anywhere else contact Hahathakis Travel to find out about direct flights to Mytilini from European cities.
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