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Why Hydra, Not Mykonos, Is Where the Quiet-Money Crowd Actually Summers
A two-hour ferry from Athens, Hydra has no cars, no airport, and a long history of quietly hosting the exact crowd that finds Mykonos too loud to bother with anymore.
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A two-hour ferry from Athens, Hydra has no cars, no airport, and a long history of quietly hosting the exact crowd that finds Mykonos too loud to bother with anymore.
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No paparazzi-friendly clubs, no branded beach clubs — just a French duty-free harbour town where the yacht crowd has quietly wintered for decades.
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Away from the marinas that make headlines every August, five coves and harbour towns across the Mediterranean where the charter fleet has actually been pointing the bow this season.
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After a couple of seasons in which Amalfi and Mykonos dominated the charter conversation, Sardinia's Costa Smeralda is quietly pulling the same fleet back north.
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