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Self catering in Greek islands

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Piggywaspushed · 09/01/2019 16:48

We are having the annual summer holiday booking debate/argument in my household!

Thsi year , we are considering Greek Islands. We have recently preferred with the DCs villas to hotels, just for privacy and own space. But hotels do have their attraction especially as I am the only cook and in recent holidays that idea of eating out in restaurants at lunch or in the evening has caused stress in itself and villas are never as nice or well located as their pics!

However, I ahve never self catered in Greece. I may be wrong but do the islands have actual big proper supermarkets? In France and Spain this ahs always been easy. I did wonder whether we coudl find oursleves miles from a proper shop across mountain roads!

If it helps, we are considering Rhodes or Crete (and Croatia at one point and I know that's not Greece!!)

Any insights welcome!

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EveryDayIsLikeMonday · 09/01/2019 19:41

There are 'proper' supermarkets in Greece, but most are in cities or on a main roads rather than in smaller tourist resorts/villages. There are plenty of minimarkets around that have all the essentials, but are a bit more expensive. Obviously if you hired a car, you'd be able to find a big supermarket.

We always self cater for breakfast and lunch and then eat out for dinner. Greece is very child friendly when it comes to eating out.

Piggywaspushed · 09/01/2019 20:03

Thank you. I was thinking about BBQ stuff and booze really!

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thismeansnothing · 09/01/2019 20:04

We stopped in Kos this summer (in a hotel) but when we were out and about we saw a few Lidls close to our resort

Jaimx86 · 09/01/2019 22:29

There was a Waitrose store on Mykonos!

Piggywaspushed · 10/01/2019 07:06

Not surprised by that! Mykonos not within budgetBlush

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