Author: Celeste

Meriannnies in the Alps Greece has several successful winter resorts but for high-quality skiing and snowboarding, but they cannot beat the winter wonderlands of the Alps. Great weather, good quality snow, excellent resorts and great hospitality with classy après ski are just a few of the many reasons why you should choose a holiday in the Alps. A winter vacation is a great way to bond with your family. Just like the beach, snow is magical for kids. And they will be spending a lot of active hours outdoors in the fresh mountain air. It is also an ideal opportunity…

Are you visiting Athens in December with your family or do you live in this city and need some inspiration for your Christmas family outing? Here are some of my favourite things to do in Athens during Christmas with kids. The Athens municipality activities Many kids activities can be found around Syntagma square (featured above this post). This part of Athens is always an attraction during the holidays. Children can see the city’s large Christmas tree, visit the Christmas market, join free Christmas concerts, art exhibitions, Christmas fairs or simply admire the beautifully decorated shops. Venues will include Syntagma Square,…

Travel Bloggers Greece at Xenia, the prestigious hospitality trade exhibition in the Athens Metropolitan Expo this month. This invitation was a wonderful opportunity for me to represent this great team of professional travel bloggers that I am part of, as well as my Family Experiences Blog. Travel Bloggers Greece Travel Bloggers Greece is the first and only travel blogger networking group in Greece. For almost three years, we have been collaborating and promoting Greece. My Travel Bloggers Greece colleagues are Greeks and expats of different nationalities who live in Greece and promote Greece as a travel destination around the world…

Pallas Athena Family Sunday Luxury Art Boutique Hotel Pallas Athena offers a series of Family Sundays with family buffet and a creative programme developed with The Paramythohorio. Each Sunday a different concept will be introduced to the children and these are based on the season, a month circle etc. Read here about our experience at the Pallas Athena Family Sunday Event with Kids Creative Lab. On 26/11 the Family Sunday program will be ‘Shadow theatre’: who was Karagkiozis? when did he live and where? The children will be taught the story of Karagkiozis and will create their own souvenir figure, before watching one cheerful show with his…

Pallas Athena Pallas Athena is a Grecotel boutique hotel full of art and glamour located in the heart of Athens city. It is a stylish and luxurious oasis in the middle of the busy Greek capital near all the important attractions, the Athenian metro lines, and shopping streets. Exactly what you need to relax and enjoy on a slower pace with your family on a weekend for example! My girls and I went to eat and play at the Family Sunday and Kids’ Creative Lab and had a great time! Pallas Athena Family Sunday Buffet The Pallas Athena buffet lunch was served at the…

The Aegeos Spa in St. George Lycabettus Boutique Hotel is part the Aegeo Spas, a large Spa & Wellness Group in Greece, with a presence in over 105 hotels in Athens, Thessaloniki and many Greek islands such as Crete, Rhodes, Kos, and Corfu. You can visit the Aegeo Spas whether you are a local or a hotel guest. The spa menu is the same in all locations including the spa with kids treatments. These are facial – and body treatments as well as massage rituals and signature treatments (such as ancient Greek massage) Aromatherapy, Bachelor Day Spa, packages and beauty salon services.…

Parks in Athens are in the center as well as at the surrounding mountains. This weekend we ventured out to the Penteli Mountain in the Northern part of Athens. We had a great autumn day out and returned with a bag full of acorns, oak leaves, berries and more. This inspired me to create a blog post about my favorite forest places and parks in Athens for an autumn day out. Parks in Athens National Gardens The number one place on my list of best parks in Athens: the National Gardens. The National Gardens, formerly called the Royal Gardens, are…

Poros Island with Kids Are you looking for a family-friendly island close to Athens? Think of visiting Poros. Just an hour and a half away by speedboat, or 2 and a half by ferry. It’s a lovely place to visit with many activities for families and lovely beaches! We visited Poros island with kids and created this family guide. Where is Poros island? Poros is actually made of two islands. They were called Sphería and Kalávria in antiquity. But during the last explosion of the Méthana volcano on mainland Greece nearby, the morphology of the area changed a lot and…

Themed cafes are a rage in various parts of the world, Athens has one too! Read on about Little KooK, our favorite fairytale themed cafe in Greece. Little KooK Location Themed cafe, Psiri and Karaiskaki Street Little KooK themed cafe and the decorative buildings belonging to it are located in the hip neighborhood of Psiri in the center of Athens between Monastiraki and Thission metro stations. Psiri neighborhood and especially the Karaiskaki alley are an attraction on its own and not possible to miss. The colorful lights, statues, original street lamps, a circus tent, displays of toys in fairytale-like shop…

Many children love animals and so do mine. Besides our pets, we love visiting animal parks and places where we can interact with animals. We have been visiting our local Athens zoo since the children were babies. The zoo is still one of our favorite things-to-do. But there are more places in Athens where we can get close to animals. Some of our favorites are featured here. Attica Zoological Park Top of my list of favorite things to do in Athens with kids is the Attica Zoological Park in Spata near Athens airport. It is the best place to see animals…

This post is also available in Dutch The Olympia Aqua Park The Olympia Aqua Park is a brand-new exclusive water park in Greece of 20.000m2 in the Activity Park of the Grecotel Olympia Riviera Resort. It is the largest water park in a resort in Greece. There are heart-stopping waterslides and rides as well as water park play opportunities for the little ones. Deze blog post is ook in het Nederlands beschikbaar. Water Park in Greece for young kids For young guests, there is an Aqua Tower with over 100 aqua water games in a 1,200m2 paddling pool. This multi-level play…

Followers of this blog know that I am a huge spa and wellness fan. I also love spending time with my kids. Bonding with them and time together whilst enjoying kids spa treatments would be ideal. I had this change during my stay at the mega resort of Grecotel Olympia Riviera. This post is also available in Dutch The Elixir Thalasso Spa Center This superb thalassotherapy luxury spa of 4500m2 is located in between the beautiful hotels of the Grecotel Olympia Riviera Resort overlooking the Ionian Sea and surrounded by lots of green grass and exotic plants. Its architecture is inspired by the…