Travel Review: Greece Honeymoon Vacation - Santorini, Crete, Athens

I would definitely have a live conversation with the tour company at the onset of planning and at the end, I would require a phone call to review the itinerary in its entirety. This will insure the client knows exactly the distance needed to drive and hotel locations relative to town center is well understood and agreed upon. The hotel that this Greece tour operator booked in Santorini (Filotera) was not the one I expected since there are 2 hotels on the island with the same name. Moreover, the location of the hotel was far away from the main town of Oia which is where we wanted to stay. Moreover, the hotel manager at Filotera was not friendly and reacted to our questions with short and often sarcastic responses. This was not a fun start to our honeymoon. Luckily, the rest of the trip went more smoothly and we met many friendly people. The second misstep is the ferry we took from Santorini to Crete landed in Irakilo which was a 2.5hr drive to Chania where we were staying. Not only were we not informed of the distance that we'll need to drive but the fact that our ferry landed at 8:30pm made our late night drive even more taxing. If we would have known, we would have prefered to stay in Irakilo the first night and make the drive to Chania the next morning. Other than these 2 instances, the rest of our trip was fine and the tour operator did try to make it work throughout our trip when we had questions and asked for hotel upgrades. Our representative in Athens was especially gracious and helpful.