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I am SOOO excited!!! I just booked our flights to Greece!!! Now to decide how long to spend in each place! Athens, Lefkada, and hopefully Santorini (haven't booked flights to Santorini yet). WOOHOOO!!!!

Just had to share!!

Greece is my most favorite place in the world!  Unless you really love cities, I would spend less time in Athens and more time on the islands.  Take a ferry-they're really cheap.  Santorini is incredible. 

I'm jealous of you.  I would have loved to go to Greece for our HM. Congrats and I'm sure you'll have a great time there.

AHH awesome! We are planning on doing that for our "Big Honeymoon" next year! You'll have so much fun!

Woohoo! Air miles TOTALLY pay off! We didn't even think we would get a honeymoon at all and then my grandma offered us to let us use her miles. She says she doesn't need them because she is old haha. 

@brenda.m.fields:  I totally want to do the ferry route. I am a little concerned that they won't have any though, since we are going in November (the cool season). What do you think?

Yay that's where we're going too! My FI has been saving his miles since college lol- so we didn't have to pay for our flights (otherwise there's no way we'd be able to afford it).

I think we're going to start in Santorini, do the typical honeymoon relaxing thing, then hop around a little bit.

@MissTaken:  That sounds awesome! I am in the same boat as you. Definitely wouldn't have been able to afford it without the use of airline miles. My attention has recently been brought to Meteora. It looks AMAZING, you should google it and see what you think! It's in central Greece but would be a really cool day trip I think!

congrats on the booking!  we're going to Greece in June (santorini, mykonos and athens), so happy to share any info if you are interested.  

 @nikole.powell.np:  Congrats on booking your honeymoon! In November you won't have to compete with the mass of tourists and accomodations will be cheaper. If you are worried about a ferry in November, you could always fly to Santorini from Athens. We are flying from San to Ath for only $63 each. Although from Mykonos to Santorini you will have to connect in Athens first, so probably better to take a ferry

@lanany10:  I'm going to those places in June too! Only in reverse order (Athens, Mykonos, Santorini).  Where are you staying? Our hotel in Santorini is over looking the caldera and volcanos, with our own little private balcony. I can't wait.

Yay Greece!

We are visiting a couple of Greek islands on our Med cruise and http://www.athensguide.com/index.html has been really helpful.

@RoundSolitaire:  & @LAZB:  

so funny that we are all planning trips there at the same time.  i have to admit, i'm a bit worried about the political issues, but hopefully things are a little calmer by then.  we're staying at the gold suites in santorini, mykonos grand in mykonos, and hotel bretagne in athens.  our hotel in santorini overlooks the volcano and caldera too - i'm pretty sure most of the hotels in santorini have the same view :)

@lanany10:  I just did a quick search on those hotels and damn girl, those are some fancy accomodations you have booked! Our hotel in Athens (Central Athens, with a rooftop hottub and Acropolis views) and Mykonos (Mykonos Beach Hotel) are nice ands close to town, but definitely not top notch luxury. But we splured in Santorini with the Volcano View Villas. We are going to Paris and Nice too before Greece, and so we went middle-line in Paris and an intimate B&B in Nice.

I am a little worried about political unrest too. But FI is keeping me calm. And FI's parents, who are over protective and worry about Everything (with a capital E) aren't at all concerned....So I figure if they think it's safe, I should too.

 @boaconstrictor:  Thanks for the website. It's bookmarked in the "honeymoon" tab of my favourites!

We are still trying to figure out the rest of our itinerary. Lefkada is a must for us because I have family there which will be really neat to see! I SO HAVE to see Meteora. I think that for us, our honeymoon will be 1 part vactation and 9 parts trip. We want to see Meteora and possibly the Diros Caves.

@Evie19:  Have you been to those places? What do you think?

I totally want to see Santorini for the white buildings and blue domed roofs but it would add so much more to our trip than just to rent a car and drive to Diros Caves, Lefkada, Meteora, and then back to Athens to fly out. I can't decide what to do, I just want to see it ALL!