We built the tool we wished existed
Greek Routes started as a spreadsheet, a dozen browser tabs and a very messy attempt to plan our own trip.
The tabs got out of hand
Two summers ago we tried to plan a two-week island-hopping trip through the Cyclades. On paper it sounds simple: pick a few islands, hop between them by ferry, come home tanned. In practice it meant twenty-something browser tabs: ferry timetables that only load properly in Greek, forum threads from 2016 asking whether Naxos to Amorgos is even possible in September, three different hotel sites, and a growing spreadsheet that still didn't tell us if our route actually worked.
The hard part was never a lack of information. It was the opposite: too much of it, scattered across ferry operators, airline sites and travel forums that don't talk to each other, with nobody willing to just say "here's a route that makes sense for what you want." So we built that instead.
An advisor, not a price comparison
Greek Routes isn't trying to be the cheapest place to book a ferry or a hotel. Plenty of sites already do that. What we're trying to do is the part that was missing: tell you honestly which islands fit together, how many nights each one deserves, and where the ferry connections actually exist, before you ever get to the booking stage. Not just a list of "top 10 islands" with no idea how to link them.
Who's behind this
We're a two-person team. Nino handles the content, research and everything you read on this site: the island write-ups, the route advice, making sure the information is actually useful and not just SEO filler. Matthijs built the site itself, including the original planning tool that turned our messy spreadsheet logic into something you can use in a browser. We're not a big travel company, just two people who got tired of planning Greek trips the hard way and decided to fix it.