What 6509 DialAFlight clients thought of Europe

Great service and after sales support. Good customer service from Harry. Well done at an affordable price

Highly satisfied with the back-up help

Michelle and her colleagues provided an excellent service..

You always come up with what we want and the flights you found for Thessaloniki were so much cheaper than those for others on our trip

Eric arranged yet another fantastic holiday! Great service as always

Great flights and a lovely hotel. Very well organised and we had a wonderful time. Another super trip from DialAFlight!

Good hotel but very difficult to book a table in the restaurant

Happy to hear from you before we travelled and kept us updated in case of any delays.

Thank you again Guy. What a fantastic trip! Your recommendations were spot on. We can't wait for our next trip

Thanks again to Simon and the team. Fab holiday as always

I would like to say I will always travel with DialAFlight which is the best. Thank you

Jim is a top man - will use again!

Everything was perfect - as always. Thank you to Alex and team.

As per usual - excellent

Another great holiday organised by Stacey at DialAFlight. Outstanding hotel and everything went smoothly.

Fabulous hotel. Superb service. Would have been nice to say the same about BA in Palma airport

We finally got to Porto after three attempts thanks to Covid. What a wonderful city and excellent hotel. Transfer to and from airports were on time and again excellent. Thank you Michael, Ben and all others for all the help and assistance. Once again the holiday was wonderful and we would never use anyone else.

Kennedy was top notch, very helpful, informative and chatty throughout the whole booking!

Small problem as I gave the wrong mobile number, but expertly quickly resolved by Simon and the team. Excellent service as usual, and looking forward to our next trip organised by DialAFlight in a couple of months

We had an amazing time - all went to plan.

Kennedy is absolutely fantastic. She answers enquiries quickly and efficiently. She takes the time to understand what it is you want and then goes above and beyond to make sure that she fulfils those wishes. Superb!

A well organised trip. Flights were perfect

Well done - all went very well

Thank you for all your help and patience. Trip went well with no problems.

Excellent as always

Saved the day by booking us Club Class on the ferry Pozzallo to Valletta, 21.00 hrs arrival. First foot passengers off and only two taxis waiting. Much relief at getting speedily onwards to hotel.

Howard and Russell were great as usual. Anyone we speak to is always so helpful.

Another excellent deal booked via Zoe. Everything was brilliant and we will definitely be booking through DialAFlight again in the future.

As ever, a fabulous trip with fantastic hotels. Flights and transfers were seamless … and with cancellations due to weather we didn’t have to worry as DAF were already on it and contacted us with amended arrangements. Perfect - thank you.

First class service and a holiday to remember.

Heavenly Halkidiki

Simply baking in ancient Greece!

Mmmm... Bake Off star Candice Brown has a delicious time in heavenly Halkidiki

Immediately after winning the Great British Bake Off, I escaped to the delightful Greek island of Kefalonia to kick back after such a hectic time in the tent.

I can still remember that moment in 2016 when I was floating around in the pool and my triumph finally sank in: 'I've won Bake Off!' I said to myself. It was truly wonderful.

Look out to sea from the pool at Miraggio Thermal Spa Resort

TIME FOR A BREAK
My partner Ian and I recently returned to Greece, this time staying at the Miraggio Thermal Spa Resort in Halkidiki. The resort sits at the heart of a large beachside park facing the Aegean, and our first impressions were very good.

Inside, things got even better. The smartly designed rooms all had balconies or patios with sofas, there was free wi-fi, flatscreen TVs, and tea and coffee-makers (amazingly these days there are still some 'posh' hotels that think that offering coffee-makers is somehow naff).

As someone who has a professional interest in cooking these days, I was delighted to discover that the Miraggio has four smart restaurants (and six bars).

Enjoy the privacy of your own pool area in a deluxe suite

KEY ATTRACTIONS
One of the hotel's key attractions is its luxury spa that features hot spring water: there are also outdoor pools and a very good gym.

When you're in a resort as good as the Miraggio, it is so easy to stay put. We had a suite with a private pool and it was just what we needed relaxation-wise. We did lots of carefree chilling out and I have to admit not very much sightseeing! In fact, I'm afraid we left the resort just once for an evening in Paliouri, a gorgeous fishing village located on Kassandra, one of the three fingers of land that stick out from the peninsula.

During a lovely stroll around the village, I just had to check out the competition from the local bakers. I couldn't resist the baklava - rich, sweet dessert pastries made with layers of filo, filled with chopped nuts and held together with honey. They were wonderful and I made a mental note to try making them myself.

BEST THINGS TO DO
If you do want to be busy (as you might have guessed, busy was not on our agenda on this trip!), there are organised activities during the day: everything from archery to zumba, and beach volleyball to water-polo. The organised fun continued after dark thanks to the in-house entertainments team putting on their versions of musicals including Grease.

We did feel a bit guilty not making more effort to get out and see the sights, because Halkidiki is full of history and has some fascinating archaeological sites.

It is a peninsula extending into the Aegean Sea in the far north-west of Greece. Settlers first came here in any large numbers in the eighth century BC and founded cities such as Mende, Toroni and Scione. The city of Stageira, on the east coast of the peninsula, was the birthplace of the philosopher Aristotle - his teachings are said to have influenced every possible branch of knowledge.

Venture out of the resort for a spot of sailing

MORE THAN JUST AN ADVENTURE
But confusingly we found we weren't sure exactly where we were, as no one can agree on exactly what the peninsula is called - Chalcidice, Chalkidike, Chalkidiki or Halkidiki, depen-ding on who you talk to.

We decided to stick to Halkidiki. Over the centuries Halkidiki has been part of the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire - and was finally incorporated into the kingdom of Greece, as it was then, in 1912 after the Balkan Wars.

There are many intriguing ancient archaeological sites all over Halkidiki, including excavations that revealed stone houses with one or two rooms built by communities in Neolithic times. Many incredible artefacts are on display at the Archaelogical Museum of Olynthos.

In some places on the peninsula, lush green forests reach down to some excellent sandy beaches - and there are some exhilarating mountainous parts too, with slopes covered in pine, oak, fir and chestnut.

There is plainly plenty for me to justify a return visit! But I have also promised myself something else for that trip. I would love to go back to the Miraggio and do a baking demo. Maybe my version of the Parthenon (although not a Kefalonia icon) made out of nougat would be a good showstopper!

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