Good Afternoon,

As a subscriber to Travel & Leisure for the past few years, I wanted to e-mail you today. I wanted to take a moment to recommend to your T&L readers the team at Hellenic Holidays. My husband and I recently returned from a 12 day honeymoon coordinated by Petros Zissimos of Hellenic Holidays in New York. Although we dont live in New York, Petros was more than obliging and professional in our phone conversations and e-mails. These communications helped Petros to plan for us an amazing March honeymoon. We were treated as his most important clients, even though he was busy helping other couples. He took the extra time to find us lodging in what is considered "off season/winter" in Athens, Rhodes and Crete. He even found the ferry schedule and was able to get us to Santorini when the island was still preparing for the season. While on the honeymoon, he was extremely helpful via Blackberry messaging and referred us to local guides and restaurants. We found Petros and his team in Greece to be wonderful people who only wish for us to have an amazing honeymoon that we would remember fondly for the rest of our marriage.

Thank You for your consideration,

Laura & Bob Mello   
March 2010

To Whom it May Concern,

We would like to nominate Petros Zissimos as a Top Travel Expert for Greece for Conde Nast Traveler. After deciding on Greece as our destination, Petros at Hellenic Holidays put together our perfect honeymoon package. We met with Petros twice before departing to Greece. At our first meeting he gave us a lot of suggestions and asked if there were specific things we wanted to do. He took everything into account and presented our itinerary at the second meeting after corresponding via e-mail for a few months. Our honeymoon began in Athens where we stayed at a beautiful 4 - star hotel in the heart of downtown Athens. We were picked up by John, a local cab driver who frequently works for Hellenic Holidays. He immediately made us feel comfortable and helped us get our bearings in Athens. Petros also set up a bus tour of the Acropolis and Acropolis Museum for us to see the sites. The day we departed Athens we were picked up by John who made sure to get us to the airport in plenty of time for our flight to Chania, Crete. We stayed at Casa Delfino, a lovely villa on a quiet street just outside of the busy tourist area in Chania. With the combined knowledge of Petros and the staff at Casa Delfino we had more than enough choices to keep us busy during our stay and lots of great food to choose from. Petros recommended a great Turkish restaurant that we went to twice. For our last day on Crete, we traveled to Heraklion and visited the Palace of Knossos again at Petros' recommendation. Petros went above and beyond when we asked if there was a later transfer time from Chania to Heraklion that would allow us to sleep in and have breakfast at our hotel. He arranged a private transfer for us in very little time. We then traveled to Santorini on the ferry without any trouble. We stayed at an amazing cliff-side hotel with the most spectacular views of the entire trip. We were especially excited to discover that we had been given an hour and a half of private Jacuzzi and steam room access to enjoy during our stay as a gift of Petros. We also had a beautiful sunset sailboat cruise around Santorini on our last evening there, which was a perfect way to take the island. From there we traveled to Mykonos where we spent the final leg of our two week honeymoon. We stayed at the Myconian Ambassador, which was undoubtedly the most luxurious of the hotels. We discovered that our room had been upgraded to one with an outdoor Jacuzzi and a view of the clear blue sea - another present from Petros! As part of our honeymoon we were treated to massages in the Hotel's spa which was a wonderful respite from our busy travels. Overall our honeymoon was as close to perfect as possible. With the exception of us getting mixed up while exploring, nothing went wrong and we got far more out of the trip than we ever expected. Petros made sure that we were always well taken care of and the hotel staffs were all top notch. It was a trip we will remember for the rest of our lives.

Jen Rogers & Alex Taylor   
April 2010