Built by People Who
Actually Live This
Not another faceless travel app. We're Greece locals, expats, and obsessive travelers who've spent decades exploring every corner of these islands.
How This Started
I moved to Greece over 15 years ago, originally for “a summer.” That summer turned into a decade and a half of island-hopping, guiding tours, running accommodations, and falling deeper in love with this country every year. I've seen thousands of travelers arrive in Athens excited and leave frustrated because their itinerary was completely unrealistic.
The pattern was always the same. Someone would Google “10-day Greece itinerary,” find a blog post written by someone who spent five days here, and try to cram four islands into six days. They'd spend half their vacation on ferries, miss the quiet beach that's actually better than the famous one, and eat at whatever TripAdvisor put in front of them — usually a tourist trap with a view and a markup.
I'd watch this happen and think: if they'd just asked a local, their entire trip would have been different.
That frustration became this project. What if we could take everything we know — the real ferry schedules, the tavernas where Greeks actually eat, the timing that makes a day work instead of exhausting you — and make it accessible to everyone? Not as a consulting service for a few hundred people a year, but as something anyone could use, for free, in three minutes.
Greek Trip Planner is that idea, built by a small team of people who live and breathe Greece. We're not trying to cover the entire world. Greece is complex enough — 6,000 islands, millennia of history, ferry systems that change with the wind — that doing it justice requires real specialization.
What We Actually Know
Not marketing claims — actual expertise built over years of living, working, and traveling across Greece
Island Logistics & Ferries
We've taken hundreds of ferries across the Aegean and Ionian. We know which companies are reliable, which routes get cancelled in wind, and how to build island-hopping sequences that actually work.
Where Greeks Actually Eat
We know restaurant owners by name. When we recommend a taverna, it's because we've eaten there dozens of times — not because it has good reviews from tourists who visited once.
Every Season, Every Island
Greece in August and Greece in October are two completely different countries. We've experienced both, across dozens of islands, and our recommendations account for seasonal realities.
Realistic Timing
The difference between a stressful day and a perfect one is usually about two hours of buffer. We factor in actual walking times, ferry delays, meal durations, and the Greek concept of "siga siga" (slowly, slowly).
Beyond the Obvious
Yes, Oia sunset is beautiful. But the view from Imerovigli is better, with a fraction of the crowd. We've spent years finding the spots that don't show up on Instagram.
Mainland Expertise Too
Meteora, Nafplio, the Peloponnese, Zagori villages — Greece isn't just islands. Some of our favorite recommendations are on the mainland, where most tourists never go.
How We Stay Honest
In an era of sponsored content and hidden advertising, we think transparency matters. Here's how we operate:
No Paid Placements
No hotel, restaurant, or tour operator has ever paid to appear in our planner or blog. Recommendations are based purely on personal experience and quality. If a place declines, we remove it.
Affiliate Links — Fully Disclosed
Some links in our blog earn us a small commission if you book through them — primarily for accommodations, tours, and ferry tickets. This never influences what we recommend. We'd suggest the same places to our own family. Full details in our editorial policy.
Content We'd Want to Read
Every guide is written from real experience. We write the kind of travel advice we'd want to find ourselves — practical, honest, and occasionally opinionated. If a popular island is overhyped, we'll tell you. If a little-known beach is extraordinary, we'll share it (reluctantly).
Regular Updates
Greece changes. Restaurants close, ferries reroute, new gems open. We review and update our guides regularly — not annually, but as things change. If you notice something outdated, please let us know.
“If It's Good, Why Is It Free?”
Fair question. We get it a lot.
The honest answer is that this started as a passion project, not a business plan. We were already helping friends, family, and friends-of-friends plan their Greece trips for free. The AI planner just lets us do that at scale.
We earn enough through transparent affiliate partnerships to keep the lights on and the content fresh. That model means we never need to charge you, upsell you, or put the best recommendations behind a paywall.
Keeping it free also means more people experience the real Greece — the kind we fell in love with. That matters more to us than maximizing revenue.
Curious about how we create content and handle commercial relationships?
Read Our Editorial Policy & Disclosure
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