Jun 2, 2024
History, culture and all things Crete with Kostas! - Kostas was such a hospitable and knowledgeable guide. A source of all things historical and cretian we were impressed by his communication, attention to detail and general care for our experience. I would highly recommend Kostas whatever your needs may be as he was able to customize eveything to our needs; make recommendations and changes as needed and on the fly. We stopped at the most wonderful local taverna in herklion during our travels and really were able to maximize our short time in this beautiful place. If you’re thinking about booking Kostas and his team don’t think anymore and book! Thank you!
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Jan 15, 2024
Marvelous - We had a wonderful day in Crete, we couldn't find a tour in Spanish but Kostas saved the day, he came for us and took us to see Heraklion, and the most important places, he gave us recommendations to visit and where to eat delicious, he even brought us honey what they make at home and some delicious sweets. Highly recommended! He provides private transfer service, but does not give tours to the places, however he explains the history and customs of the city.
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Jul 8, 2023
Beautiful Crete - The Island of Crete is great!
Angie was is an amazing guide. Very informative about the island of Crete as well as the Greek myths and legends. Along with Costa, they both made the tour enjoyable. The Museum was fun...lots of pottery. The ruins of Knosos were ok but definitely not for the summer heat as it's very open. The Greek Mythology Thermatic Park was the highlight for both my 17 and 9 year old. Nico was amazing making time to do some pottery with my daughter.
Angie knows all the good spots and not having to wait around for other people made the long tour enjoyable.
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Jul 5, 2023
Angie the tour guide is the best! - What an amazing experience. Angie was brilliant and very informative. She made the trip relaxing and fun. No rushing around or waiting. Costa was great too. Making sure we had tickets beforehand to avoid queues.
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Sep 4, 2022
Day Tour - Kostas was very nice and accommodating. We were a party of 7 and we had a great time site seeing the Heraklion area and learned about history and current Greek life. Kostas went out of his way to make sure everyone saw something they were interested in including a stop to show us almond and walnut trees! Would highly recommend this trip!!
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Aug 16, 2022
Best excursion EVER!! - Kostas was awesome, dare I say, the best part of our short week visit to the wonderful island of Crete. Our excursion started off with an on time pickup in an immaculate Mercedes VIP level mini bus. Loaded with waters and snacks, handmade by his mother. The trip was filled with expert advice on how to spend our limited time in Crete, amazing local culture and stimulating conversations about his homeland… and food, oh my, the food recommendations were out of this world fantastic.
Kostas was the perfect ambassador to Crete. We never felt out of place or lost, never felt uneasy or unsafe, like we have with other excursions in other cities around the world. If you are thinking of taking a trip to Crete and want to get the best bang for your buck, book this trip and hope Kostas is available!!
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Jul 31, 2022
Great Day with Kosta!!! - JUNE 2022:
Private Full-Day Knossos, Lasithi Plateau, Cave of Zeus from Rethimno
OMG what an AMAZING experience with KOSTA in Crete Private day tour!
KOSTA is your man in CRETE…
First, he picks us up in advance at our hotel with the luxury van and his lovely smile. We knew right away that he wanted to make this day the best of our Greece trip.
We visited not only the planned trip from Viator, but Much more. Kosta went the extra mile for us, stopped at places we wanted and came back safely to the hotel.
Along the way, we never stop Tasting different HOMEMADE Greek food that Kosta’s mom prepared for us! Wow, this was really appreciated and YUMMY!!!
We had friendly conversation about the myth and history of Greece, interesting conversation with Kosta, since his interest on a lot of subjects made the trip QUITE captivating!
Weather was 30 degrees; Kosta took particularly good care of us and listen to our needs. The CAVE OF ZEUS was really a pleasant surprise for us and the myth/history of Zeus…. You must be at least a minimum of shape to go to the top and go down and up the cave. (Donkeys are at the bottom of the road for you to go up if needed with a fee$$$)
The Knossos Palace worth the detour for Archeology fans…very well preserved! (Go in the morning not too crowded).
Kosta picked from the tree, cherries for us, they were SO good! He chose a family restaurant for lunch; the MOUSSAKA was the best one I ever ate…Thank you for this. And what a view!
End of day, we ask him for specific shopping, and he did bring us to the stores to buy what we were looking for…that was NOT in the tour. We really appreciated.
To concluded, without Kosta it would not been a GREAT Crete memory…
THANK YOU, KOSTA, FOR MAKING OUR TRIP MEMORABLE!
Karol
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Jun 30, 2022
Great tour with a great tour guide - The tour guide Kostas is almost the main attraction during this full day trip. His background as a teacher shines through with a healthy splash of irony and humor. The kids loved him and his offerings of local goodies to eat and drink.
Knossos palace is a surprisingly small area, overcrowded, and you will find far more spectacular caves elsewhere than the Zeuz-cave. But as a day-tour in Crete it's great!
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May 4, 2022
Great tour by Kostas! - The tour was great, there were 8 of us in our group and we all enjoyed the tour. Kostas was our tour guide and was very accommodating and gave us a lot of info about Crete. We learned a lot from him about Crete, the culture, the food and Raki/Rakomelo :) He also provided us with goodies made by his mom. Excellent tour and guide! We would definitely recommend him to our friends and family traveling to Crete in the future.
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Jul 21, 2022
Enjoyable but room for improvement - We were a group of 5 adults who booked the Cave of Zeus, Lasithi Plateau and Knossos Palace tour from Rethymno. We were glad to see this tour was available with SGP Tours as it seems that not many companies offer tours to these sights from Rethymno. This was €550 for our group.
Our guide was Kostas for this excursion.
Kostas kindly met us at our hotel and transport was in a very clean, modern, and comfortable Mercedes VIP minibus.
Overall, the tour was good but there are several areas that in our opinion feel could be improved to add a more enjoyable and informative excursion:
Sadly, we were unable to take up the optional visit to Heraklion Archaeological Museum (as advertised)- something that consolidates any information from your Knossos Palace visit (as there is limited signs around the site). Kostas did kindly offer to arrange a tour guide for Knossos (quoted as an additional approx €100) and did apologise about this and explained that this was due to legal caps on the amount of time he and local drivers could spend driving. Obviously, this was partly something out of Kostas' control but if we were made aware of this important information early in the tour or were given any direction regarding the advised/maximum time to spend at each of the points of interest through the day, we could have accounted for this (especially if visiting from Rethymno, as this is >1hour from all stops along on the tour).
More information about each sight to be visited during tour would be nice- whilst Kostas was engaging and did chat to our group during the tour, including recommendations for Crete and some information about Ancient Greek Mythology, the tour could have provided more background information about each point of interest.
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