NOW TRAVEL ABOARD A REAL LUXURY YACHT IS AFFORDABLE! Charter the M/Y “THEODORA” with your choice of THREE different SEVEN-DAY TOUR PACKAGES in Greece and Turkey. We have designed new travel packages which are affordable and unique in our market. These include special seven-day cruises to the most beautiful Greek islands enabling passengers to experience the most picturesque and interesting areas of the eastern Mediterranean sea from the comfort and luxury of a beautiful yacht.

CRUISE ONE: Rhodos Island ­ Samos Island
A visit to the Greek Islands of Rhodos, Simi, Kos, Kalymnos, Patmos, Samos, Kusadasi and Ephesus in Turkey and Samos (please see detailed descriptions of these Islands and areas below)

CRUISE TWO: Samos Island ­ Island of Rhodes
A visit to the Greek Islands of Samos, Kusadasi and Ephesus in Turkey, Patmos, Leros, Kalimnos, Kos, Nisiros and Rhodes (please see detailed descriptions of these Islands and areas below)

CRUISE THREE: Mykonos Island ­ Mykonos Island
A visit to the Greek Islands of Mykonos, Delos, Paros, Sykynos, Santorini, Ios, Naxos and Mykonos. (please see detailed descriptions of these Islands and areas below)

Please note that all itineraries are tentative and may be subject to change due to client demand, weather conditions and/or Captain’s duties and responsibilities concerning passenger safety and well being. Cruise itineraries may be amended to include time extensions or visits to additional ports of call (ie. visits to additional or other Greek Islands and interesting places in Turkey) provided that Mediterranean Cruises, Ltd. has been consulted in advance with reasonable notice of intended itinerary changes.

CRUISE ONE: Rhodos Island - Samos Island A visit to the Greek Islands of Rhodos, Simi, Kos, Kalymnos, Patmos, Samos, Kusadasi and Ephesus in Turkey and Samos
	RHODES Rhodes is the largest island of the Dodecanese islands which you are about to discover, here the sun rules all year long and the summer extends well into the other seasons, warming them with its breath. The city of Rhodes has two faces, on one hand the old town which is encircled by medieval castles with narrow lanes, beautiful stone mansions, churches, the Knight’s Castle, the Knight’s hospital and the Castello, and on the other hand the new city with its wide streets, beautiful buildings, glamorous hotels, shops, cafes and discos, night clubs and casinos.
	SIMI One of the neoclassical building houses a great collection of Antiquities. To the south lies the Monastery of Archangel Michael, one of the places of greatest interest on the island. The monastery has brilliant Byzantine frescoes and an engraved temple full of golden offering. The islanders occupy themselves with fishing and sponge diving.
	COS Cos is a slim fertile island with a cool and bracing climate. The island's fame is due mainly to the immortal Hippocrates, the father of medicine, who was born in Cïs (460 BC) and practiced medicine there. After the death of Hippocrates (357 BC), the Asklipiion medical center was built by Asklipios, whose school of medicine was one of the best known of ancient times, and he practiced medicine following the methods inherited from Hippocrates for various cures. The principal town, also called Kos, is a garden town, cheerful and pretty, with many local attractions.
	KALYMNOS The island of the "sponge divers" which lies to the south of Leros, affords yet another image of a typical Aegean Sea island. The intrepid sponge divers of Kalimnos sail away in their boats each spring and their departure is moving and momentous event preceded by impressive religious manifestations. After five or six month’s hard work the sponge divers return to their island. Then all over Kalimnos one feels the sense of relief and joy. The whole island puts on its very best face and prepares to greet its toil-worn and weather-beaten sailors with local dances, feasts and banquets.
	PATMOS The whole atmosphere of Patmos is somehow biblical and certainly peaceful. As you sail towards this most sacred of the Aegean islands, your eyes will hardly stray away from the massive and formidable Monastery of St. John the Divine, which dominates the island. It was built in 1088 and it has something of the look of a Medieval fortress, with its formidable array of towers, cupola, belfries and battlements.St. John spent two years on Patmos, in a grotto, where he received, and later dictated “The Revelations" to his pupil Prohoros. This "sacred grotto” lies to the left as you climb from Skala, the small harbor, to reach Hora.
	SAMOS Samos is an island separated from Asia Minor by the narrowest of straits. Mythology named Samos as the birthplace of the goddess Hera and the ancients used to call the island Parthenias in honor of the Virgin' Goddess.In the peak of its prosperity around 550 ÂC Samos produced the philosophers Pythagoras and Epicouros and the mathematician Aristarchos. Samos has managed to retain its dignified character.
	KUDASI (Turkey) Kusadasi, “Island of Birds”, with its old caravanserai, white minarets, shady terraces, where one can sit and sip raki, and a main street lined with little shops offering a thousand and one tempting bargains, is a lovely little port built along the shores of a glittering bay around a tiny islet covered in flowers.
	EFES (EPHESUS) - Turkey During its Golden Age (2nd century A.D.), the city had a population of about 300,000; it monopolized the wealth of the middle East and it was one of the principal ports of the Mediterranean. As a commercial and financial power, Ephesus, was also a center of intellectual activities. The city was adorned with splendid monuments, theatres, temples, agoras, gymnasiums, libraries etc. The protector of the city was Artemis, the goddess whose temple was considered one of the seven wonders of the world. The Ephesians were still worshipping Artemis at the dawn of Christianity when St. Paul came to the city to win converts and when St. John arrived in their midst, accompanied by the Virgin Mary who spent the last days of her life in a small house on a hill near Ephesus.

CRUISE TWO: Samos Island - Island of Rhodes A visit to the Greek Islands of Samos, Kusadasi and Ephesus in Turkey, Patmos, Leros, Kalimnos, Kos, Nisiros and Rhodes
	SAMOS Samos is an island separated from Asia Minor by the narrowest of straits. Mythology named Samos as the birthplace of the goddess Hera and the ancients used to call the island Parthenias in honor of the Virgin' Goddess. In the peak of its prosperity around 550 ÂC Samos produced the philosophers Pythagoras and Epicouros and the mathematician Aristarchos. Samos has managed to retain its dignified character.
	KUDASI (Turkey) Kusadasi, “Island of Birds”, with its old caravanserai, white minarets, shady terraces, where one can sit and sip raki, and a main street lined with little shops offering a thousand and one tempting bargains, is a lovely little port built along the shores of a glittering bay around a tiny islet covered in flowers.
	EPHESUS (Turkey) During its Golden Age (2nd century A.D.), the city had a population of about 300,000; it monopolized the wealth of the middle East and it was one of the principal ports of the Mediterranean. As a commercial and financial power, Ephesus, was also a center of intellectual activities. The city was adorned with splendid monuments, theatres, temples, agoras, gymnasiums, libraries etc. The protector of the city was Artemis, the goddess whose temple was considered one of the seven wonders of the world. The Ephesians were still worshipping Artemis at the dawn of Christianity when St. Paul came to the city to win converts and when St. John arrived in their midst, accompanied by the Virgin Mary who spent the last days of her life in a small house on a hill near Ephesus.
	PATMOS The whole atmosphere of Patmos is somehow biblical and certainly peaceful. As you sail towards this most sacred of the Aegean islands, your eyes will hardly stray away from the massive and formidable Monastery of St. John the Divine, which dominates the island. It was built in 1088 and it has something of the look of a medieval fortress, with its formidable array of towers, cupola, belfries and battlements. St. John spent two years on Patmos, in a grotto, where he received, and later dictated “The Revelations" to his pupil Prohoros. This "sacred grotto” lies to the left as you climb from Skala, the small harbor, to reach Hora.
	LEROS Most parts of Leros are mountainous, but places near its many deep bays are green and cultivated with grapevines and fruit trees. Traces of the island's past glory include the Franco­ Byzantine fort overlooking the capital town Platanos, and the ruins of the Byzantine castle on Mount Kastell, to the north­west. Old customs and traditions are still kept up faithfully and the celebrations at Carnival time are somewhat reminiscent of the ancient Dionysian festivities. Leros has a wide range of locally produced handicrafts to show to her visitors.
	KALYMNOS The island of the "sponge divers" which lies to the south of Leros, affords yet another image of a typical Aegean Sea island. The intrepid sponge divers of Kalimnos sail away in their boats each spring and their departure is moving and momentous event preceded by impressive religious manifestations. After five or six month’s hard work the sponge divers return to their island. Then all over Kalimnos one feels the sense of relief and joy. The whole island puts on its very best face and prepares to greet its toil-worn and weather-beaten sailors with local dances, feasts and banquets.
	COS Cos is a slim fertile island with a cool and bracing climate.The island's fame is due mainly to the immortal Hippocrates, the father of medicine, who was born in Cïs (460 BC) and practiced medicine there. After the death of Hippocrates (357 BC), the Asklipiion medical center was built by Asklipios, whose school of medicine was one of the best known of ancient times, and he practiced medicine following the methods inherited from Hippocrates for various cures. The principal town, also called Kos, is a garden town, cheerful and pretty, with many local attractions.
	NISYROS Approaching Nisyros you are impressed by perfectly white houses, dense greenery and the colors of the volcanic soil. The capital of Nisyros is built at the foot of a hill, which used to be fortified in the middle Ages. To the northwest of the capital on a tall rock lies the monastery of the Madonna of the Caves (Panagia Spiliani) every year a huge feast takes place her with lots of drink and food.
	RHODES Rhodes is the largest island of the Dodecanese islands which you are about to discover, here the sun rules all year long and the summer extends well into the other seasons, warming them with its breath. The city of Rhodes has two faces, on one hand the old town which is encircled by medieval castles with narrow lanes, beautiful stone mansions, churches, the Knight’s Castle, the Knight’s hospital and the Castello, and on the other hand the new city with its wide streets,beautiful buildings, glamorous hotels, shops, cafes and discos, night clubs, casino etc. a freedom of spirit throughout the island.

CRUISE THREE: Mykonos Island - Mykonos Island A visit to the Greek Islands of Mykonos, Delos, Paros, Sykynos, Santorini, Ios, Naxos and Mykonos.
	MYKONOS Mykonos is world famous. It is no coincidence that this, the most cosmopolitan of all the Greek Islands, attracts so many visitors from all over the globe, including large numbers of artists and intellectuals.
	DELOS The sacred island of Delos was, in the myths, the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. Today the island is uninhabited: it is a vast archaeological site whose superb monuments draw thousands of visitors in pilgrimage to what was, for a thousand years or so after the ninth century BC, the political and religious centre of the Aegean. The archaeological site covers almost the entire island, starting on the west side, where the sacred harbour was.
	PAROS Paros the third largest island of the Cyclades after Naxos and Andros has developed into an important centre of tourism in recent years. Paros has been inhabited since very ancient times and was one of the centres of Cycladic civilisation.
	SIKINOS Sikinos has retained all of its island character, and this adds to its attractions for those in search of peac and an authentic atmosphere. The island has been inhabited since ancient times, as has been proved by the finds made in the Episkopi district. As on all the more isolated islands, the religious feast are celebrated with great enthusiasm.
	SANTORINI Santorini one of the best known of the Cyclades differs from the other islands in the group thanks to its geological morphology, the result of action by volcano now dormant. The landscape on the western side of the island where towering cliffs crowned by tiny and blindingly white house plunge straight into the depths of the sea. The steep coastline of the west is countered by the vast beaches of the east side, some of them sandy and others with pebbles.
	IOS The Coastline of this predominantly mountainous island with its countless chapels, its olive trees, its vineyards and its limpid air is adorned with small attractive coves. Those features combine with the crystal clear sea the superb sandy beaches and the good range of amenities to make Ios a magnet for tourists.
	NAXOS Naxos, the largest and most fertile of the Cycladic islands lies almost at the centre of the Aegean. Meadows running down to vast beaches, cliffs sinking suddenly into the sea, rocky mountain side by side with fertile valleys, abundant springs and streams these are just some of the features of a natural environment marked for its variety. The island is first heard of in the myths and then mentioned throughout every period of history, though it was at the peak of its glory during the period of the Cycladic civilization.