When you say package holiday, I suppose you mean plucking a complete deal from a brochure down the travel agency and going along with it hook, line and sinker. Well Mrs Steve and I wouldn't do that, but we do use small travel companies that specialise in particular areas. My favourite is called Sicilian Experience (Italia Nel Mondo). The agents offer you a choice of hotel and you choose the dates, then they fix up flights from the airport of your choice and arrange transfers. The agents all know every one of their hotels. We had a fabulous week in the Aeolian Islands in 2013 and another in Sicily last year, in an hotel between Taormina and Castelmola. No organised trips with tour guides, nothing at all of that nature. One's own thing must be done, even lugging bottles of prosecco up bloody huge great hills in the heat to fill the minibar (which justifies the massive gelato you've just eaten). Good prices too. A happy medium! Long Travel are good too.