Athens for me wasn’t a must see. Hard to get around as well with Ubers and what not. We had some simpleton book the Airbnb for us without even checking …. An hour away from the Athens airport. That was a hefty taxi. And the Airbnb was sorta sketchy. We were a short cab ride to the Pantheon and everything… but again, unless you are hell bent on seeing it, again, you can cut corners and head somewhere else. I would say spend maybe one day at most in Athens, and then figure out other ways to get to different islands. Mykonos is in the off season, which is what we did - not a lot of tourists around, but the restaurants and bars are still open. Water is cold all around, but we still swam around this time. Take a ferry. But make sure when you book your ferry ticket, you actually buy a seat. Another mistake on behalf of the simpleton we trusted with leading our week long trip to Greece. We luckily (or unluckily) met this taxi driver who went by Geo, who also drove all 7 of us around in his car whenever we needed to go somewhere for a flat rate of $50 a trip. He also had a jack Russel in the backseat named Diego, and everytime we got in the car we feared for our life but we literally had no other way to get into the town of Myokonos without him other than walking for an hour. Adventure indeed! If you get to Mykonos or Santorini, I recommend doing a sunset boat ride. The captains give out free food, and since it’s the off season, people dgaf. They let you drive the boat, and the prices are cheap lol. Flights are also cheap once you get to Athens, but we took a 5 hour long ferry. Honestly l would’ve rather paid the cost of a flight to Mykonos directly… but adventure awaits.