Wonderful day with many highlights, perfectly organised.
Overall a tour that we can definitely recommend. It was perfectly organised, pick-up from the hotel, friendly personnel and very modern busses. The programme was not too stuffed and good to digest. However, the tour guide can improve (thus 4/5 stars).
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Helene_B
May 16, 2023 · via Viator
Informative, well organized and interesting tour
This trip that includes Palace Knossos, the Lasithi Plateau, the Kardiotissa Monastery and the Dikteon Cave, is a well organized and worthwhile tour. I enjoyed all aspects of the tour.
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162kia
September 27, 2022 · via Tripadvisor
Nicely organized trip, but lacking information at the booking site
So I basically paid 45€ for a bus ride and guiding. The guide that we had was really good of a story teller, which made listening to her guidance entertaining. She was nice and looked after everyone.
I was on a budget and it just was a poor experience for me because of the lack of information that you need to ¡carry your id! in order to get the free tickets you need to buy yourself to latishi and knossos when you're a under 25yo european citizen.
Since there was no mention of anything really, I would assume that everything is taken care of for me if I purchase a trip package that says I do not have to pay for anything else, than the really good food we had at this really nice restaurant in betweed the visits of latishi and knossos.
We also visited a monastery and a nice shop that had clothing, ceramics, olive oil, cosmetics ect.
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WallingfordEl
September 19, 2022 · via Tripadvisor
Definitely a fun tour worth taking
Fantastic tour company!! We thoroughly enjoyed visiting Zeus' Cave, seeing the plateau, having lunch at a local tavern and finishing up at Knossos Palace. Our guide was excellent. This company provides pick up service from hotels outside of Hersonissos which worked out great! Great tour, great day!
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Taylor_M
September 14, 2022 · via Viator
Great tour
Great to see the history and sites! Tour guide was amazing and informative. Only downside was our tour group was a little rude and were impatient and pushing to get off the bus. No fault of the guided tour. Still worth a go!
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pinktravelgirl
May 12, 2022 · via Tripadvisor
Don't bother with this tour
This tour took 11 hours, 3 of which were interesting... the cave is cool as is Palace of Knossis but you spend half the day picking up people at hotels and dropping them off, it was awful! Lunch break is too long. Find a smaller group to do it with so it doesn't include a tour of every resort on the coast!! Our guide Mary was very knowledgeable but it was still torture. And wear proper shoes, if you try hiking up the non-paved (but more scenic) route to the cave in sandals you'll likely injure yourself. And they won't warn you that you need to be fit to get up there, down into the cave and back up again, I thought we were going to end up doing CPR on some people!
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Marta_K
September 1, 2021 · via Viator
Intense but worth it
It’s a very intense trip, it could be narrowed only to Lasithi Plateu, Dikteon Cave, Knossos and lunch break. However, still recommend it
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pb2769
August 23, 2021 · via Tripadvisor
Beautiful, but a long day
Picked up from Stalis by bus, and drove directly to t Lasithi plateau. Nice route! Straight from sea level to 900 meters.
After visiting shop on to the cave where Zeus is said to have been born. Got to hear a lot about the history of the area, which is extensive.
After lunch on to Knossos via a village where some people got off and on. Knossos very nice, and impressive.
Guide very enthusiastic, and very knowledgeable. But a pretty loud voice, and the day is very long: 9:00 on the bus, 7:30 back at the hotel.
All in all a beautiful, but exhausting day. I get the combI, but it's a lot!
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Thanks for your feedback, what you are stating is true since this excursion combines two major attractions (Lasithi plateau and Knossos palace).
Please note that these two attractions are also offered as individual excursions for people who desire to visit them on different days in a more relaxed manner.
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Jeanine_G
August 17, 2021 · via Viator
$40 down the drain
This tour was not impressive at all. The guide was all over the place. She didn’t seem very knowledgeable. And if she was she was so animated that it barely came across. It was almost like she thought it she spoke big then we would feel it more. I do not like that every other minute is a stop to some sort of shop to spend money. The restaurant we went to was very delicious. That I liked. The coolest part of this trip was the cave in the beginning. Definitely very cool. Knossos was the worst part of the tour. About a third of the group, including myself, walked off to wander in our own directions. Her screaming through the headsets was too much. Then half of it was “just imagine This and that, I can’t tell you exactly what or how much but let’s say it was like this. You can imagine”. I’m not making this up. I couldn’t! I was so over it. $40 down the drain.
事業者からの返答
Thanks for your feedback. We are really sorry that you were not impressed.
We handpick all of the guides that work for us based on the quality of the content they convey as well as their engagement and interaction with the guided group. We are really sorry that this didn't work in your case.
There are shops at the place where the pottery workshop is but the purpose of the stop is to witness the art of pottery in action. We are really sorry that it felt like a shopping stop.
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Kolos_K
July 14, 2021 · via Viator
Good intense combo
The tour was a very good combination of sightseeing, little bit hiking, history and culture. The tour guides explained everything in 3 languages. The bus is cool and comfortable. Be prepared for a really long day, especially if you are picked up early, the complete tour took us 12 hours. It was informative, the guides explained much more about each site compared what is written onto standard tourist signs. Well organized.