Ho hoho what a riot

"Martin" a écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion :
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On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:54:13 +0100, Mike Lane
wrote:

Martin wrote on Jul 4, 2011:

On Mon, 4 Jul 2011 09:00:17 +0100, Mike Lane
wrote:

Martin wrote on Jul 3, 2011:

On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 22:48:13 +0100, Mike Lane
wrote:

Dan Stephenson wrote on Jul 3, 2011:

On 2011-06-23 02:54:25 -0500, Mike Lane said:

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.

Well, the rental would not be from Athens per se, but from the
airport,
which is outside the city and near the big motor. I would avoid
Athens
by circuiting it on the motorway, over to Corinth, then south to
Argos.


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.

I will have to look into this, thanks for the tip. I would also like
to avoid the hassle of getting to and from Pieraeus from the airport,
but the ferry time might be competitive with the drive time.

To me the time taken is not important - I actually enjoy the
travelling.
What
I don't enjoy is driving through the surroundings of airports and
large
towns
like Athens.

Getting to Piraeus is no hassle. You get on a bus at the airport and
get
off
at the harbour

What happened to the old airport?

I believe it still remains largely undeveloped.

It seems to be the usual story in Greece - several opposing groups all
see
the opportunity to make a considerable amount of money from a prime
site,
so
the bickering continues and nothing is done. The latest I heard is that
a
Qatari group of companies are interested:
http://tinyurl.com/692lhm4

Ten years already. It was very convenient for Piraeus.

Yes, indeed - I greatly regretted its passing. The new airport must be one
of
the worst designed ever. There's no attempt to separate internal from
international flights, and a chronic shortage of toilets, seats, hotels -
everything necessary for a modern airport.

Sounds remarkably like Schiphol Airport.
"Why are you sitting on the radiators?"
"because there are only 50 seats for 200 passengers"
--

Martin