Greece, the Greek city holds rich history and beautiful monuments and sight seeing spots for tourists and travelers. However there are a few things that you must keep in mind to make your trip economical and your stay a memorable one.
First of all you need to consider when to book the flights to Greece. The best time to book flights is between Oct/Nov and through the first four months of the year. This will give you the best fares, and the widest choice of available flights. Towards summer, the fares get higher and higher as the sale fares sell out. Sometimes an airline company will come out with a sale in the Spring, but that is only if people are not traveling and they need to move some tickets. Even this year with very few people booking flights to Greece, the flights in late August are sold out on the direct flights with Delta and Olympic and most of the lower fares are not available on the other airlines. It must be considered that in August most of Europe is on Vacation which implies that the flights back to the US will sell out as Europeans head home and that the Greek Americans have purchased their tickets back to the US long before August because they know how hard it is to get the flights.
Second, you should chalk out the order in which you have toproceed with the purchase of airline tickets, cruises, tour packages, hotel rooms and car rental.
When planning your trip, it is best to coordinate all the different aspects of the trip. Ideally you would book everything and when everything looks right, and then purchase everything. Unfortunately, there are often delays in making bookings and limits to how long you can hold a reservation.
Find a general guide below and fit in your situation.
If you have a limited amount of time and plan on taking a cruise or a land tour package with fixed dates, the first step is to find out the available dates. Once you have the dates set then choose the dates you want to fly take flight to Greece and from Greece. Make the reservations for the flights, and then purchase both the flights and cruise/land package. For grasping low airfare to Greece you again have to make haste in deciding as the discount airline tickets are not held for longer time. That doesn't leave you a lot of time to arrange the rest of your trip. If you can't work on everything together, then the most important thing is to book the flights and get a good fare for them. Finding hotels and car rentals is much easier than flights.
Next comes the hunt for lowest fares on flights to Greece. Travel seasons in general are broken up into low, medium and high. The cost of your ticket is based on the Season and the day of week. The breakup is hereby explained:
Low season: this season expands from November 1st to March 31st.
Medium season (also called Shoulder): It starts from 1st April ends by 15th June; starts again from 1st September and ends around 31st of September.
Peak season: generally starts from June 16th and finishes by August 31st.
The difference of fares between peak and shoulder can be of up to two hundred dollars and the difference between shoulder and low can be another two hundred dollars or more. If you can travel in early June or early September it would definitely save you a lot of money.
Another main thing to consider is when to travel to Greece. The best time to travel if you want to take low fare flights to Greece, suitable weather and not be overrun by tourists would be in late May-Early June or early September. August is probably the worst time to travel, it's absolutely packed with tourists, hotels are at their most expensive peak and the weather can be extremely hot. Keep these tips handy and you can make your flight to Greece an economical one.
