September 10, 2007
Use OTBeach for your Greek vacation?
The following is a paid review for OTBeach
I plan to see how easy it is to use OTBeach for travel planning. They cover a range of destinations including Egypt, Turkey and Greece (they say) all at very competitive prices.
I figured we'd start with Greece since we recently had all those positive comments on going to Greece. Now the first thing I noticed on the Greece page is that they have lots of links to hotels in different places in Greece. So I think you might be a bit lost if you didn't already have a bit of a plan.
I scrolled down to the resorts because there were just too many hotels in places I've never heard of. The resorts are in Athens, Corfu, Crete, Halkidiki, Kefalonia, Kos, Rhodes, Santorini, and Zante.
I've heard of most of these places and I know Santorini was recommended in the recent post on Greece I mentioned above and this old where to honeymoon entry.
I decided to use what i think is the OTBeach main search engine to see what we could find in Santorini.
I really like that they have a date flexibility option - my dates are almost always flexible but not many web sites let you give them say 3 days worth of flexibility. At the top, I could choose Greece right away or scroll down to Greece - Santorini. It seems like you have to search all towns so I'm not sure what that option is for (maybe it's needed for other destinations but not Santorini).
So I tried starting October 16th with 3 days flexibility for 7 nights. I didn't choose how many stars or all-inclusive because I wanted to see how much they had to offer in Santorini.
In the next step I had to choose a flight departing from either Birmingham or Manchester so i figured I'd missed something important in the search area...
I went back and chose London airports. I didn't realize that this site was only for people from the UK (Ireland and Scotland seemed to be available).
Since everything was in pounds and I have no idea how much flights from London to Santorini are supposed to cost, I can't really review the prices on OTBeach. I did figure that Santorini is fairly popular since there was only one flight available and that was down to its "last few seats".
Apparently in Santorini you can stay in Perissa or Kamari and I don't think the website tells you how (or if) each place is different so you would want to make your plans in advance and consider OTBeach for booking to see how its prices compare with other hotel and air booking sites. Again, that's if you're flying from England or around there.
Posted by James Trotta at September 10, 2007 12:22 PM | TrackBack