Meteora Monasteries Day Trip from Thessaloniki

Spectacular day trip to view the other worldly rock monasteries. Plenty of breaks on a long day. Our guide was helpful and provided plenty of informatiom to aid the experience on the journey there and back.

The beautiful site, the guide has explained us in detail and has been charming throughout. The very nice driver

The tour really was amazing. It was my 3rd trip to see Meteora. This tour included a guide that went into the monasteries with us. Some other tour companies don’t do this. Our guide, Eleni, provided a great narrative of the history of the monasteries. My only complain is that the bus driver, Dimitri, was not interested in managing the temperature on the bus… it was so cold…everyone was freezing. I had to ask several times and he just turned on the heat to the point that hot air blowing on us.

You get to see a number of monasteries in a gorgeous setting. Expect a very touristic place (that is, crowded). Two monasteries are visited, followed by a lunch at a Greek place. The tour guide was good with a lot of knowledge, speaking 4 languages. You should have at least some interest in history and Greek Orthodox churches, some other participants were clearly on the wrong tour. The ride out there is a bit of a drag, 3 h one way plus pit stop. The restaurant was the low point. If you get to go to the same place, a town square, a key insight is that the outdoor setting is shared between two restaurants, a larger better one and a smaller family-style one. You want to be served by the larger, better restaurant (which the tour guide did not explain to us, but she sat inside the nicer restaurant). All in all a very nice and scenic memory, the drag is the drive out there, being on the coach for some 7 h in total.

The guide and driver were informative, thoughtful and accomodating. It was a tour that met and even surpassed my expectations.

Excellent trip.. Very friendly staff: Dimitris and Maria . Maria is a super knowledgeable person with great English language..

This was a very long day, but we welcomed having someone else do the driving. It slowed things down for us. Our guide was very knowledgeable. We saw two monasteries and we were able to stop and take pictures at a couple of magnificent viewpoints. The bus was comfortably air conditioned and we took several breaks during the trip so people could go to the bathroom. The two things we did not appreciate were what seemed to be a forced stop at a shop to purchase art and the other was the overpriced mediocre lunch restaurant. We’ve been travelling all over Greece for most of the last month and this was the most expensive food we have purchased. We were not given any other options.

Very nice excursion. Yes, you spend a lot of time on the road. But Meteora is not that close to Thessaloniki. The trip was nicely organized. Our guide Julia was very knowledgeable and was sharing a looooot of information about Thessaloniki, Meteora and towns and formations we had on our way to Meteora. At the monasteries our guide was Niki. There was nothing she didn't know about monasteries. Highly recommend this excursion provider!

Great experience with great views during the bus ride. Great views from the monestaries in Meteora. Most importantly our guide was very informative and very caring about the participants. Dimitra made this day trip very interesting and absorbing for all of us.

We thoroughly enjoyed this tour, Demetria was full of information throughout the drive aswell as in the monasteries we visited. We had time for a coffee half way through the drive and also a lunch break in Kalambaka. Would highly recommend any tours by this company.