Plan A Trip to Greece

By deTraci Regula, About.com Guide to Greece Travel

Here's how to create your own great trip to Greece. Too overwhelming all at once? Sign up for my daily e-course below to help guide you through designing your own trip in easy-to-handle chunks.

1. Learning Tourist Greek
2. Greece Travel 101
3. Quick Tips and How-tos
4. Getting to Greece
5. Getting Around Greece

6. Maps of Greece
7. Tours and Cruises of Greece and the Greek Islands
8. Events and Festivals
9. Discovering Greece

Learning Tourist Greek

You don't need to know Greek to enjoy your trip, but a few words can both smooth your welcome and ease your travels.

• Learn the Greek Alphabet in Eight Easy Lessons
• Read Greek Road Signs
• Greek Alphabet E-Course

Greece Travel 101

Here are the essentials to get started planning your trip to Greece

• Fast Facts on Greece
• Top Ten Reasons to Visit Greece
• Greece Travel Planner
• All About Athens

Quick Tips and How-tos

Little things can mean a lot when you're planning your trip to Greece.

• You Can't Go Wrong with a Sarong
• How to Pack Light for Greece
• How To Visit a Nude Beach in Greece
• How to NOT Visit a Nude Beach in Greece

Getting to Greece

Greece Travel - How to Get to Greece. Flying to Greece and the Greek islands. Greek cruises and cruise ships. Trains, buses, and rental cars/

• How to Find Cheap Flights to Greece
• Repositioning Cruises to and from Greece
• Taking the Train to Greece

Getting Around Greece

Congratulations! You're in Greece. Now how do you get out of Athens?

• Greek Ferries and Hydrofoils
• Driving in Greece - Frenzy and Freedom
• Rules of the Road in Greece
• Buses and Trains in Greece

Maps of Greece

Having a good map of Greece in your pocket - and perhaps another, bigger map of Greece in your baggage - can make the difference between a frustrating and confusing trip to Greece and one that lets you expand your horizons painlessly.

• Free Maps of Greece
• Basic Map of Greece
• Buy Greek Maps Online

Tours and Cruises of Greece and the Greek Islands

Organized tours of Greece may not be for everyone, but for many travelers to Greece, combining a tour or cruise of Greece with your own independent travels provides the best of both Greek worlds.

• Before You Buy Greek Tours and Cruises
• Tips on Greek Tours
• easyCruise in Greece
• Northwest Passage Adventure Tours
• Poseidon Cruises

• Short Trips In and Around Athens
• Greek Tours and Cruises
• Virgin Vacations
• Princess Greek Island Cruise

Events and Festivals

Enhance your trip to Greece by including one of these special events.

• Annual Music Festivals in Greece
• Holidays, Events, and Festivals in Greece
• Ikarus Rock Festival

Discovering Greece

Greece is more than just Athens and Santorini. Both are wonderful locations, but Greece has even more to offer.

• All About Athens, Greece
• Getting to Know the Greek Islands
• Discovering Unknown Northern Greece