Press
Skyros has been the subject of numerous features in the British and foreign press over the years. The very short extracts on this page represent only a tiny sample of the vast publicity given to an organisation, which does not even have a PR department.
Go on a holiday with a difference. For those who don’t want to spend their holiday on one activity, holiday company Skyros’s Atsitsa Bay centre has a great solution: choose your trip according to the timetable of subjects available – then dip in and out as you please.
Skyros Holidays, a long-established retreat provider on the idyllic Greek island of Skyros, is offering travellers a different path: one of real-world connection. Through shared experiences like communal meals, creative workshops, yoga, and storytelling under the stars, guests are gently encouraged to put their phones away and truly engage, with themselves and others.
May 2025
A holistic holiday in the sun. One of my favourite holiday memories is an activity holiday on the Greek island of Skyros. I saw a picture of a spectacular blue sea and two women sitting at a table. It intrigued us and, sharing a sense of adventure, we booked a week at Atsitsa Bay. We didn't regret it. The setting is stunning and it is very much a relaxed community feel. We've had several reunions with people we met there, and enjoy reminiscing about magical Skyros.
July 2024
The best solo travel destinations. For the original Shirley Valentine experience, look no further than Greece and its beautiful islands. If you're looking to explore your creative side, check out learning holidays company 'Skyros'. Staying in a rustic eco-lodge, this week-long holiday on Skyros, in the southern Sporades, includes creative writing sessions, stand-up comedy workshops and relaxing yoga classes.'
June 2024
Skyros is one of the 10 best European holiday resorts. 'Once there, there are secluded beaches to explore, a Byzantine castle towering over the main town and sea, and even an ancient breed of miniature horse, the Skyrian horse. The island is a work of art'. But more than that, the CNN channel, which has viewers in over 212 countries and territories tells us, Skyros island is enriched with its ‘sophisticated, alternative tourism’, ie The Skyros holidays. The island's residents, it adds, 'preserve the authenticity of their place’ and ‘do not succumb to the massive and the trivial'. It is 'a supremely peaceful place.'
February 2023
10 of the best health and wellness retreats in Europe for 2023 Island idyll, Greece. On the Aegean island of the same name, Skyros holidays offers a range of courses to heal and inspire, from writing and art to yoga and kayaking at two locations: Skyros Centre in the village (May-July) and coastal Atsitsa Bay (July-September). All sessions are led by experienced facilitators, the community environment is supportive and food is veggie and tasty. Families are welcome during school holidays.
January 2023
“To read Skyros press coverage is to choke on cliched words like 'life changing', 'transforming'. Yet at the end of two weeks, Skyros has been all of these.”
December 2022
"Let your hair down, take risks, expand your horizons, go on a Skyros holistic holiday."
December 2022
"I felt inspired and optimistic... I relaxed, had fun and learnt new skills."
December 2022
"Once a year, the shade of Dionysus rises like a breath of ancient madness over the milk-white homes and rugged hills of this stone-crusted Aegean Isle."
December 2022
Discover the off-season wellness retreat. [..] as the weather cools [...] Skyros, the learning holidays experts, decamp to their UK HQ, The Grange by the Sea, a handsome Georgian country house in Shanklin. 'We switch-it up during the low season from one week and two-week wellbeing holidays on the Greek island of Skyros to creative weekend retreats on the Isle of Wight'.
November 2022