Greece hotels slash prices to £11 a night – but Brits still avoid the country due to rising Covid cases
GREECE holidays are cheaper than ever with hotels slashing prices to as cheap as £11 in a bid to entice tourists.
Beaches and resorts in the nation remain deserted despite tourists being allowed back from the start of this month.
Hotels which are open for business are slashing prices by up to 40 per cent to entice guests, according .
Others are offering additional services or upgrades for free.
Hotel prices are less than £20 per person, per night, with deals including:
- Seven nights in Rhodes - from
- Seven nights in Kos - from
- Seven nights in Crete - from
- Seven nights in Corfu - from
However, this has done little to welcome families and holidaymakers back with capacity remaining at new lows.
According to the , passenger traffic at Athens Airport is 75 per cent lower during the first two weeks of July than last year.
One person they hadn't seen Santorini so empty "since the 1980s".
Despite tourists returning it hasn't been reflected in income, according to .
Rhodes hotel owner Savvas Pagonakis said: “Unfortunately we have to do it, because it looks like the danger from coronavirus will be smaller than the danger from its effects on the economy."
He added that easyJet has since slashed their weekly flights from six to three, while hotel capacity is dwindling further.
Greece has seen a spike in coronavirus cases since tourists returned, prompting fears of a second lockdown or another UK flight ban if more tourists test positive.
According to Greek newspaper Protothema: "If the number and percentage of those found to be positive is low, and is limited to less than 30 to 40 cases then [...] the British tourist market will remain open.”
Confirmed cases have exceeded 4,000, following 24 new cases, 18 of which were from tourists.
Thankfully, no British tourists tested positive for coronavirus following a number of direct flights on July 15 and July 16.
Two tourists transiting through France and Greece from London tested positive, however.
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