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Travel Agents In Lesvos

Hahathakis Travel and Tours

Hahathakis travel agency, Lesvos, GreeceBased 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

Sappho Travel

Sappho Travel, Lesvos, GreeceThere 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.

Eressos Travel, Lesvos, Greece

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

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.

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.

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."

For more on sailing in Greece see www.greecetravel.com/sailing

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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