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MAIN AIRLINES
Many airlines fly to Greece, either directly from Belgium or via intermediary stops.
  • Olympic Airways flies to Athens and Thessaloniki, daily. They are on 02/ 649 8158
  • Sabena flies to Athens daily, during the afternoons. Sabena is on 02/ 723 2323
  • Swissair flies to Athens via Zurich or Geneva. Call 02/ 220 7111
  • Lufthansa flies to Athens via Frankfurt, 02/ 212 0922
  • Balkan offers some of the cheapest tickets but you have to go via Sofia, Bulgaria. Balkan is on 02/ 512 0072
  • Alitalia flies via Rome of Milan to Athens daily. Contact Alitalia on 02/ 513 8808

CHARTERS

There are literaly hundreds of charter companies setup in Belgium. Flights however are normally late at night or early morning (they get cheaper landing fees at such hours). Lowest fares are late-bookings when tickets are slashed by half. A ticket for, say Mykonos, may be gotten for just BF 6500 return!

  • Sunjets are on 02/ 218 1010
  • CIT is on 02/ 509 4585
  • Wagonlits is on 02/ 287 8811
  • BBL Travel is on 02/ 230 9061

Due to problems in ex-Jugoslavia, the only route for cars into Greece is via Italy. It is recommended that Ancona is used as a port of exit, not Brindisi, because fuel in Italy is very expensive (1750 Lire/liter) and the road tolls prohibitive. It costs Lire 69000 until Brindisi, which is about BF 1300, for the one way toll!

There are plenty of ferries from Ancona, with the biggest Venizelos M/V taking 3000 people and 1200 cars. For a family with a cabin, the fare is about BF 18000 return.

The way to go would be to leave early in the evening, take E411 to Luxembourg and get petrol there. Luxembourg is one of the least expensive places for petrol in Europe. One liter costs LFR 23 (unleaded). Compare that with BF 36 in Belgium!

Follow the road to Metz and then Saarbruecken passing the river Rhine at Strassburg and then getting on the Autobahn direction Basel. You must have a Swiss highway vignette on your windscreen (Sfr 40) current for the year (includes January of the following year). From Basel, you head on direction Luzern and then passing St Gotthard tunnel, you arrive at the last highway/petrol stop of Switzerland, 9 km before the Italian border, called Coldrerio.

Italian Petrol is also very expensive, about LIT 1750 per liter, so fill up before crossing the border. It should be about 6 am at this point and you can stop, relax and have breakfast (there is a McDonalds hamburger restaurant here).

From here taking the highway to Milano and then Bologna you arrive at Ancona 3 to 4 hours later.

REVIS TRAVELTravel agency offers ticketing and reservations on many companies crossing the Adriatic on the way to Ellada.

From Belgium, count about 14 hours to Ancona and another 21 hours to Greece. It is preferable to get off at Igoumenitsa and thus take a look at mountainous Epirus on the way to your destination. The ferries also go to Patras for the same fare as to Igoumenitsa.

The price of petrol (Gasoline) in Greece is about DRA 210 per liter(BF 27), unleaded or about DRA 200 for Diesel (BF25).

TRAIN
There are two main trains heading for Greece: the Acropolis Express and the Hellas express. They take 36 hours from Munich so it is not a fast way of getting to Greece. Coming from Belgium, you would need to connect to Munich which takes an additional 7 hours. However due to the current problems in ex-Yugoslavia, contact the Chemin de Fer at 02/ 203 3640.


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