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Spinalonga Island Tour: Explore Crete's Hidden Gems
4.7
29 Ratings
Stalida
Discover Spinalonga, Agios Nikolaos, and an olive oil factory in Crete. Enjoy scenic views, historical tours, and local flavors on this guided minibus adventure.
Discover Spinalonga, Agios Nikolaos, and an olive oil factory in Crete. Enjoy scenic views, historical tours, and local flavors on this guided minibus adventure.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Agios Nikolaos - Enjoy a visit to the bottomless lake and Mirabello Bay. Take some free time to shop or relax with a coffee while admiring the stunning port view.
- Mirabello Bay - Experience a scenic drive along the Mirabello Bay coastline, with a photo opportunity and a pass through Elounda.
- Elounda - Pass by this charming port, famous…
- Agios Nikolaos - Enjoy a visit to the bottomless lake and Mirabello Bay. Take some free time to shop or relax with a coffee while admiring the stunning port view.
- Mirabello Bay - Experience a scenic drive along the Mirabello Bay coastline, with a photo opportunity and a pass through Elounda.
- Elounda - Pass by this charming port, famous for ‘Who Pays the Ferryman?’
- Plaka - Board a traditional Greek fishing boat to Spinalonga (approximately 10 minutes each way). After exploring Spinalonga, enjoy lunch at the quaint harbor.
- Spinalonga (Kalydon) - Enjoy free time to explore Spinalonga following a comprehensive explanation from your private professional guide.
- Vassilakis Estate - Olive Tour Crete - Visit the oil factory for a guided tour, tasting, and a stop at the souvenir shop.
What's Included
- Guided tour in the olive oil factory
- Pick up / drop off (15 km around Hersonissos)
- Air-conditioned minibus
- Gasoline
- Boat trip to and from Spinalonga
- Personal Local Driver/Guide
- Insurance
- Guided tour in the olive oil factory
- Pick up / drop off (15 km around Hersonissos)
- Air-conditioned minibus
- Gasoline
- Boat trip to and from Spinalonga
- Personal Local Driver/Guide
- Insurance
What's Not Included
- Drinks coffee stop Agios Nikolaos
- Entrance Spinalonga = 20 € adult.
- Lunch
- Pick up / drop off Heraklion
- Pick up / drop off Sissi and Milatos
- Pick up / drop off Agios Nikolaos and Elounda
- Drinks coffee stop Agios Nikolaos
- Entrance Spinalonga = 20 € adult.
- Lunch
- Pick up / drop off Heraklion
- Pick up / drop off Sissi and Milatos
- Pick up / drop off Agios Nikolaos and Elounda
Additional Information
With a minibus your Eye Travel guide shows you the Spinalonga island and other interesting places. Our first stop is in Agios Nikolaos where we have a fantastic view over the “Bottomless lake”. You have some free time for a coffee, shopping and a stroll along the most eastern main city of Crete. After passing Elounda it is time for SPINALONGA, the last…
With a minibus your Eye Travel guide shows you the Spinalonga island and other interesting places. Our first stop is in Agios Nikolaos where we have a fantastic view over the “Bottomless lake”. You have some free time for a coffee, shopping and a stroll along the most eastern main city of Crete. After passing Elounda it is time for SPINALONGA, the last leper colony of Europe. A typical Cretan fishing boat brings you to the island, this takes no more than 10 minutes. On the island you make a tour. After finishing the trip on Spinalonga, a fishing boat brings you back to the small village of Plaka. Plaka is a tiny harbor, so the unique opportunity to eat fresh fish. After our lunch we are heading to an olive oil factory. You get a guided tour through the factory. All facts about olive oil, the pressing methods and grades of olive oil are explained. At the end of the tour you can taste different olive oils and other local products.
- Operated by a multilingual guide D/E/G/F
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
Location
Eye Travel Excursions
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.7
(29 Ratings)
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Arlene_r
Aug 24, 2024
Beautiful Tour of Crete ! - Our Tour guide Luisa was an amazing beautiful person, she was very knowledge guide, she stopped at all the picturesque spots along the way, she suggested an delightful restaurant in Plaka with a view to die for, the grilled Calamari was the best I have ever had,
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Abarker02
Oct 6, 2023
A great day! - This is an excellent way to see the area around Elounda, Plaka and of course the island which has a long and unique history and is definitely worth visiting. The olive oil tour was very interesting and we learned lots about the harvesting and oil extraction process.
Our guide Gijs was outstanding!
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T1046tucarlys
Sep 4, 2023
Unforgettable Private Crete Tour - We had the most incredible experience exploring part of Crete with our guide, Louise!! This private tour was everything we expected and more.
Louise was knowledgeable, passionate, and fun! She shared with us some of the most popular areas in Crete but also hidden gems, which was exactly what we were searching for. Her recommendations for restaurants, food selections & activities were spot on!!! She made this day feel very personalized to our interests and an adventure we won’t forget! I can’t recommend this tour enough :)
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Anand_p
Jul 17, 2023
Private Spinalonga tour - July 2023 - I highly recommended this tour. There were lots of beautiful view points to take snaps. Our tour guide Louise was great. She was happy to answer any and all question we had about the tour and the island in general. Thanks for enjoyable day out!
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Risottorules
Jun 22, 2023
Highlight of our trip - We enjoyed an excellent private tour with Gijs last week. We were collected punctually from our hotel in Heraklion and driven to Agios Nikolaos and then on to Plaka and Spinalonga. Gijs was both relaxed and informative.. a really nice guy to spend the day with. We had a great lunch in Plaka at a restaurant recommended by Gijs...idyllic views, great fresh food.. it doesn't get much better. We returned via the mountains and a monastery, so a full day but also a relaxing day. We organised everything by email with Tanya in advance - communication was easy and efficient and I would without hesitation use this company again for future tours and visits.
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310darcyb
May 13, 2023
Great private tour! - We had a great day on this private tour! We were picked up from our hotel and straight into the tour. We did a larger bus tour later in the week and it took a long time to pick up and drop everyone off! It was definitely worth paying a bit more for a private tour. Our guide was great, very knowledgeable and friendly - we stopped very often to take photos and she told us a lot about living on Crete as well as the towns we drove through and Spinalonga. It would have been good to have a guide with us going around Spinalonga and an hour on the island wasn’t really enough time to explore everything but other than that the tour was great and we would definitely recommend it to anyone going to the Heraklion area!
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Hesky87
Apr 26, 2023
Excellent private tour with Louise - Had a lovely day with our guide Louise, so glad we took time out of the resort to see some of the tourist hotspots as well as glimpses of the real Crete. The private tour meant no waiting for the coach to drop everyone off at their hotels, we weren’t sure initially because of the cost to go private but it was well worth it. Louise was great, she gave us total flexibility on if we wanted to stop along the way photos and was not at all overbearing when it came to where we choose to have lunch, she gave us her recommendations but in the end we could happily choose wherever we liked the look of. We were given some great information on Spinalonga on the journey there, along with some good stops along the way, on our journey there. Once on the island we had to tour Spinalonga without our guide, but that was fine with us and it meant we could explore at our own pace. The olive oil factory visit was interesting but fairly brief. There are products at the end that the guide at the factory allowed us to sample and we were happy to purchase a few items as they were very reasonably priced. We were blown away by just how many olive trees there are in the rural areas. The following day we took a tour elsewhere with another company, on a bus tour, and realised how lucky we has been the previous day to have a private tour that was very much at our own pace. Thank you to Louise, our guide, we would recommend the day highly!
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Laurenb529
Sep 14, 2022
Great tour company - We finally decided it was time to book a trip to Spinalonga, and this tour really stood out. Taïna was our excellent guide, and as well as being incredibly knowledgeable, she was a lovely person to spend the day with. On our way to Agios Nikolaos, Taïna stopped off so we could look around a local monastery - it was incredibly beautiful and a great start to the trip. We stopped off on many occasions so we could hear the history of the places we were visiting and to get some great pictures. Spinalonga was an amazing place to visit, but it was such a hot day we decided to only stay for half an hour so we had enough time to look around the houses- with hindsight we probably should have stayed a bit longer, as we do tend to dawdle, but that was our fault. The restaurant Taïna recommended was a lovely place to sit and relax for a while and the food was great. Our last trip was to the olive oil factory, and was something that was more for my husband, but I found it enjoyable as well, and definitely made the most of trying out the different products they produced, especially the wine!! We can thoroughly recommend this tour.
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Gregory_c
Sep 1, 2022
Highlight of my Crete trip - Such a great experience. The scenery was stunning. My guide was very knowledgable and really took time to make it my trip. Private was the way to go for me. The olive oil factory was super fun too. And getting to taste all the various oils. So much better than store bought. Spinalonga was an incredible place too. So much history. Do this trip. You won’t regret it.
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116carols
Sep 13, 2022
Enjoyable and historical day trip - An enjoyable day with a friendly and knowledgeable guide. Plenty of time for lunch in Plaka and Spinalonga and olive factory but would have liked to have stopped in Agios Nikolaos as per the itinerary instead of just driving through.
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