Oh del i do hope the hairdressers bit isn’t true… although at this point i would probably pay anythinf 
Hi Leanne,
My wife did get a call from her hairdressers on Friday to try and fix in the shops regular customers first and did say there would be a small increase in price.
Hmm, well I suppose a small increase would help them get back on their feet. I’m booked in a week on Tuesday. She hasn’t mentioned an increase but I guess I will find out lol
Hi I am new to this site and found you as was watching the beautiful live webcam. We are meant to be travelling to Thassos on 31st august with TUI. I had seen the comments on here so I contacted TUI head office today and they said they are flying to Kavala this year. They even confirmed our flight number TOM4726. I hope they are being honest. It will be our first time to Thassos and we are so looking forward to it. I will be ver disappointed with TUI if they know already but are not being honest with their customers. Does anyone know any more about this.
Thank you in anticipation
Tina
Hi Tina
All I can say is that we were supposed to come with Tui on 21st June which was obviously cancelled. We wanted to change to end of August last week using our credit note and were keeping an eye on prices online. All of a sudden it looked like everything was sold out so my husband rang them to ask about availability and they told him they were not offering holidays to Thassos this year and tried to get him to book for next year. We took a refund instead and have booked flights only and contacted our host directly (still a bit of a gamble but hey). We were disappointed too as we normally travel independently and had only booked Tui as it was such a cheap deal at the time we booked.
I hope your holiday goes ahead (Thassos is the most wonderful place on Earth) but if you look on their website and try to book Thassos for any date it’s been greyed out.
Gango x
Hi Tina ( @tbone ),
I phoned TUI UK on their number: +44 (0) 2034512688 .
I asked them: Will TUI offer flights and holidays from the UK to Thassos Greece in 2020?
They replied: In order to see if flights are running from the UK to Greece, check the Greek embassy’s website to see if travelers from the UK are allowed into Greece.
As this answer was completely unhelpful, I decided to get more specific and asked if they could confirm if flight TOM4726 will be operating this summer.
They replied: We don’t have that information. We can only inform you if you have a specific booking number. More information from TUI will be available on the 10th of July.
I then tried phoning the Thassos TUI office to ask them directly but they didn’t answer the phone so I will try again later today.
Hello, we’ve been visiting Thassos for the last 33 years and had flights booked with Tui for June. As these were cancelled, we contacted Tui to see if there would be flights later in the year and was told if they were not online, then it was highly unlikely they would go ahead. We have therefore booked with Easyjet from Manchester to Thessoloniki (Ryanair also fly from here). A Taxi to and from Kerimoti is €300, however, with the flight (including extra luggage, priority boarding and extra leg room) and the taxi journey, I have still saved £500 from the original Tui flight to Kavala.
Yes it is a new airport for us but I am not concerned as I shall just leave it to the taxi driver to get us there. The thought of not going to Thassos was just too disappointing and apart from a slightly longer journey, I don’t see this as a problem and have saved money too.
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Hi Tina, originally booked for May but was cancelled due to covid, in the last week have tried to book nine different dates to no avail told by the staff all flights cancelled due to low numbers and a very short season due to covid.
@tbone I looked on the Tui website tail end of last week and there were no holidays available for 2020, now only 2021. I looked at the website as if I was booking a new holiday. Also checked on Skyscanner for our original holiday dates and Tui were the only direct flight going into Kavala. Now no flights are available.
I think unfortunately your holiday won’t go ahead. We were going to Thassos in September but have now amended our holiday to go to Corfu, as this is one of the Greek islands Tui said they would be flying to. But we’re really gutted we’re not going to Thassos, we’ve had it booked for over a year! 
Hi Jayne,
It was always said that TUI almost charge as much for their ‘flight only’ as the TUI package with accommodation. Would the price of the flight, taxis, crossing and accommodation compare with the original TUI all in package.
hi all, i feel for all who are missing out on thassos this year. luckily we can still go as we fly from germany. had booked with condor before the Thomas cook debacle and lost our money and now going with eurowings to Thessaloniki. we’ve done that many Times and always hire a car. it is easy to get from Thessaloniki to keramoti, all motorway, Apart from the Last 15 km and we are mobile.
Good morning Tina ( @tbone ),
I just got off the phone with the Thassos TUI office.
I asked them: is flight TOM4726 running this summer?
They responded: That flight is canceled…no TUI flights are running to Kavala in 2020.
I followed up by asking: A tourist ( @tbone ) who made a reservation with TUI told me that TUI-UK told them it is still scheduled to run. Why would they say that if it’s certain there will be no flights to Kavala/Thassos?
They responded: If they were told this by the TUI-UK office this week, then the representative that informed them made a mistake.
It’s just generally frustrating that Tui UK, or at least their call handlers aren’t able to be upfront with their customers. Perhaps they don’t know, perhaps they’re not allowed to. But everyone seems to know that Thassos 2020 isn’t happening so why not be transparent!
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It’s all about refunding money which they don’t appear to want to do until the date of the flight cancellation. At that point you will be offered a voucher with a 20% off next year, credit note or use the credit code on that credit note to fill in a forum requesting a full refund.
So they don’t have to give people’s money back until they inform you
Hi, I was due to travel on September 13th , I spoke to hays who I booked though and they confirmed there will be no flights to kavala this year and that I should expect to hear from tui by July 17th .
Slightly off topic, but @augie or @anthony can you please advise what Greece’s overall stance is at letting the UK into Greece at all? It seems an air bridge hasn’t been agreed, at least not yet!
Hi SJR1991 
UK citizens are allowed into Greece since July 1st.
Here’s the tricky part: Flights from the UK are banned until 15 July
So you are allowed to come to Greece but you won’t be able to find a direct flight to Greece from the UK until 15 July. (Scroll down to Frequently Asked Questions - Travel Q&A HERE)
Read on to see how this famous British citizen got in yesterday:
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Thanks @augie, I’ve already read about Bojo’s Dad!
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Yes disgraceful, one rule for us and one for Boris’s mates. Boris refused to talk about it after being questioned about it by the press this evening on the covid update
Del, boris’s default setting is to just not answer whatever he’s asked. It’s actually embarrassing right now 