We have been monitoring flights (mainly Easyjet and Jet2), Airbnb, Bookings.com and of course trusty old Olympic.
For a while it was a close run thing but then over the last 10 days Olympic came in with their PAYDAY70 offer, which expires tomorrow, and that gave us a £140 discount against a very decent price. That plus day flights out and back made it a no-brainer and so the button was pushed about an hour ago. We also paid the small supplement to change the time of our flight from 08:00 to 07:00 and with getting the luggage included in the early flight rather than having that as an add-on for the later one, this gave us a further saving. Another money saving tip for those using Olympic is to sign up to TopCashback.co.uk and go in through their portal and there we gained another £30 off.
The hardest decision was where to stay.
Irini in Yialos was within £10 of Anastasia in Chorio, which was within £10 of Taxiarchis - decisions, decisions.
Having stayed up in June we decided to stay down and so we will be in Irini. So although we will of course make it up a few times the focus will be on the port which mean Elpida's for the nightly ouzo & retsina and more visits to Tholos and those amazing prawns.
We have stayed in Irini twice before and know all about those stairs but looking back on our posts all those years ago we did love the views of the harbour and it won't do the Fitbits any harm Our Confirmation Email confirms that we have Room 1 which we recall as having the best views.
So we will be heading to gorgeous Symi for the last two weeks of the season going from Birmingham on 9th October at 07:00 flying with TUI and will be on Symi the same day - we may even have time to visit Socratous Gardens which we missed in June.
We get a train directly from Aberystwyth and with the return flight landing at 16:25, for the first time in a long time will be able to get home the same day.
65 days and counting