On 2011-06-23 12:32:57 -0500, tim.... said:

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:46:57 +0100, "tim...."
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"Mike Lane" wrote in message
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Dan Stephenson wrote on Jun 19, 2011:

Hello, in the Fall I will travel to Greece, flying into Athens and
heading to the Pelopponese by car, for maybe 10 days.

There are several car rental places at the airport: Avis, Budget,
Hertz, National/Alamo and Sixt.

Can anyone recommend one more than the rest? I wouldn't be buying the
high-dollar collision damage waiver.

Thanks,


Wouldn't you be better off travelling to the Peloponnese by public
transport
and renting a car from there? That's what I did a few years ago. You would
save yourself the trouble and expense of driving through Athens which is a
place to be avoided these days as far as possible.

I took a ferry from Piraeus to Porto Heli - a small place on the east
coast
of the Peloponnese near Spetses - and hired a car there for a week. It was
a
very relaxed experience compared to the hassle of Athens.

Athens airport to the Peloponnese is 100% motorway.

The only time you'll have to stop is to pay the toll

Why waste time driving and paying per kilometre, if you can start from
a more convenient place?

As the options for this more convenient place a

1)Taking the bus to the Peloponnese presumably from Athens bus station.
Any idea where that is? I'll wager it isn't very convenient

It's this huge affair right in the middle of tear-gassy Athens. No
thanks! ha ha

2) Flying to Kalamata. Hm, I wonder how many flights a day that gets
from London/New York or wherever it is that the OP is starting.

Well, that would be a small flight from Athens. I understood this to
be what was meant. I think the logistics to hook up flight times will
make this option infeasible, but I hadn't thought of it. And I know a
hotel I trust in Kalamata, the Elite City Hotel. I am gotten
super-picky with age and this one checked out alright with me. Also,
for those wondering: Panorama Hotel in Monemvasia, the Kalamaki Beach
Hotel south of Corinth, Olympic Village S.A. above ancient Olympia, and
a sufficient place on the right side of the road from the Athenian tomb
mound to the shore, at Marathon Beach.
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.11....panoramio.all



They

don't seem very convenient to me.

It's a 100 km drive, how hard can it be?

tim


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