How we recommend tours and stays in Greece

I'm Photis, and I run Greek Travel Guides from Greece. This page explains, as plainly as I can, how the tours, stays and transfers on this site end up being recommended, how they are ordered, and how the site earns money. If you are deciding whether to trust a suggestion here, this is the page to read.

An independently run site

Greek Travel Guides is not owned by a tour company, a hotel group or a booking platform. There is no editorial team behind a corporate brand: the guides are written and maintained by me. Nobody outside the site approves what I publish, and no company can pay to change what an article says about it.

How options are compared

When I write a guide such as the Acropolis tours guide or the day trips from Athens guide, I compare options on the same few practical questions:

• Duration. How much of your day it really takes, including pickup, travel and waiting, not just the time on the listing.
• Crowd level. Whether the timing puts you at a site in the busiest hours, and whether the group size is small enough to hear a guide.
• Value. What is actually included (entry tickets, food, transport) compared with doing it yourself, rather than just the headline price.
• Who it suits. Families, first-timers, people with limited mobility, travellers on a budget, or those who want something private.

Often the honest answer is that you do not need a tour at all. Where doing something independently is easy and cheaper, I say so. Plenty of guides on the site recommend the metro, a public ferry or simply walking.

Affiliate links do not change the order

Some links on the site are affiliate links, mainly to GetYourGuide, Viator and Amazon. If you book or buy through them, the site may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. That money pays for hosting and the time it takes to keep guides current.

The order in which options appear is based on the comparison above, not on which one pays a commission. Options without any affiliate link are included when they are the better choice, and a listing with a link does not move higher because of it. Affiliate links are disclosed near the top of every article. More detail is in the disclaimer.

Some local businesses appear as clearly labelled featured places. Those are kept separate from the editorial guides and are marked as places, not guides.

Keeping pages up to date

Greece changes through the year. Ferry timetables shrink after October, prices rise in July and August, sites change opening hours, and new rules appear, such as timed entry at the Acropolis. I revisit guides when prices, ferry patterns or seasons change, and each article shows the date it was last updated. If a detail matters to your day, such as a departure time or a closing hour, please confirm it with the operator before you rely on it.

If you find something out of date or wrong, I would genuinely like to know. Send a note through the contact page and I will check and correct it.

We are not a booking agency

Greek Travel Guides does not run tours, sell packages, hold your payment or confirm reservations. When you book through a link, the contract is with the company taking the booking: its prices, cancellation terms and customer service apply. The site's job is to help you choose well and avoid common mistakes, like the ones in our first-timer mistakes guide.

You can read more about me and the site on the About page.