DAY ONE

DEPARTURE

After a slight delay, we landed in Thessaloniki and headed to our first property for an inspection. The Elea Beach Hotel is a hotel which is situated just 20 meters away from Elia Beach. This property is a bungalow-style hotel with 80 rooms; there are 30 family rooms, 30 superior rooms and 20 double rooms. The double rooms are all on the ground floor; however, this property isn't accessible for wheelchairs or people with walking difficulties. You have a choice between your board basis here, bed and breakfast, half board and all-inclusive, all as a buffet.

They host themed nights every two days. The hotel has free onsite parking. All rooms have tea and coffee-making facilities, slippers, robes, a safety deposit box, a minibar and room service available. There's a large pool, a children's pool, and a pool bar serving snacks, meals, and various drinks. After a lovely look around the hotel, we sat down for an amazing lunch of various local dishes. We then got the transfer to the hotel we were staying in, The Athena Palla Village, where we were greeted at reception with cucumber water and had our luggage delivered to the private residence before we got into them.

After a quick turnaround, we headed to the pool bar before dinner in the buffet restaurant, which served a variety of international foods. Once we had dinner, we returned to the pool area for an evening of light entertainment. 

DAY TWO

HOTEL VISITS

After heading to the buffet restaurant for breakfast, we got shown around the hotel we were staying in, The Athena Pallas Village. This hotel has 145 rooms and a private residence that consists of 20 maisonettes, 2 with a private pool and the rest with access to a pool only for the people staying in the maisonettes. All rooms in the main hotel and residence have QR codes where you can book spa treatments, tables, and excursions and see different entertainment. All rooms also have minibars (chargeable), safety deposit boxes (free), slippers and robes. There's an animation team for kids and adults, a kids club, a bowling alley and games room, 2 2-story gym, a spa and a sauna. There are 3 à la carte restaurants and a mini market. The kids' club is open for children up to 12 years old  , and babysitting options are available.

The hotel has its own private beach; guests can order drinks on their phones from the QR codes on their sunbeds to be delivered to the beach. After looking around the hotel, we headed to the cooking class, where we were shown how some local dishes are made. After the cooking class, we had lunch and then went to Lily Anne Boutique Hotel for a site inspection. This hotel has 35 rooms; 22 have sea views, and the rest have garden views.

This hotel hosts entertainment 2 times a week. The hotel has a private pool and beach with 100 sun loungers. There are 2 accessible rooms and an à la carte restaurant with live cooking shows. After the site inspection, we headed to another of the properties, Elia Villas; this property has 2 maisonettes and 2 villas that can be rented out separately or as one whole property. There's 1 pool and a private beach. There's a pool bar that has someone working all day serving drinks and snacks and a chef for dinner time.

After looking at the villas, we went back to our hotel, where we could enjoy free time to use the hotel facilities before dinner. Our evening dinner was in an ancient Greek à la carte restaurant. We were given Greek gowns, headpieces, and named after Greek Gods & Goddesses.

DAY THREE

NEO MARMARAS

After heading to the buffet restaurant for breakfast, we headed to Nikiti for our boat trip, where we headed around Neo Maramaras and Kelifos. We had a light lunch on the boat and had time to swim in the ocean. We stopped in Neo Marmaras for an hour and had time to walk around the town before getting back on the boat to head back to Nikiti.

After the boat trip, we got our transfer back to the hotel. We had time to relax, use the spa facilities, and try some treatments before getting ready for dinner. Tonight's dinner was in the buffet restaurant. After dinner, we headed to the pool area, where we enjoyed the entertainment, which was "Greek Night." 

DAY FOUR

FINAL DAY

Today was our last day, so we headed to Ormos Panagias after breakfast to look around The Porto Brava Luxury Villas. There are 8 two-story villas on this property; 2 of the villas have 3 bedrooms and have a gym in them, and 6 of the villas have 4 bedrooms. All of the villas have a large living and dining area with a large kitchen and 3 bathrooms, one of which is ensuite. There's one pool between the 8 villas. However, they do have beach access.

We then went to Lily Ann Village for our last site inspection. This hotel has 42 rooms, 14 family rooms, 11 superior and 17 doubles. This hotel has a buffet restaurant; however, unlike the rest of the hotels, it only has entertainment and activities once a week.

After the last eight inspections, we headed back to our hotel for our last lunch in Halkidiki before checking out our room and getting our transfer back to the airport.