Peaceful Day Trip - Maja was a great guide and the trip was so peaceful. There were only four of us and when we went to the castle on the hill we were the only ones in the castle, the whole time! Maja had umbrellas ready for if it rained, and the trip was flexible to our needs. She kept things on a good schedule without us feeling rushed. Beautiful sites on this day trip, I do highly recommend it. A great way to see a relatively undiscovered (for foreigners) part of Croatia.

A very good one - The guide was so knowledgeable and charming! I enjoyed the tour tremendously!! I recommend it to everyone.

Trakoscan Castle and Varazdin tour, a great experience and lots of history - The history and the beautiful scenery were overwhelming and Maria (hopefully spelling her name correctly) was a great tour guide. Varazdin was a beautiful town and the views from Trakoscan were amazing.

Wonderful Day Trip to Varazdin and Trakoscan Castle - It was a wonderful small tour day trip to Varazdin and Trakoscan Castle. The scenery was magnificent and the views outstanding. But, I will also remember the excellent conversations that our group had with our tour leader. We discussed quite a bit of history (from ancient times all the way up to modern Croatia) during the tour. This was the type of day that makes vacations worth while. I look forward to another tour with this company and in particular our tour leader.

Maya was a great tour... - Maya was a great tour guide! Though we had booked a small group tour we were the only ones in the tour. Maya was a great driver and very knowledgeable tour guide. The castle was amazing! The entire experience was great!

Enjoyable and educational - Maja provided pertinent and entertaining information about the sites we visited, and Croatia more generally. She was an excellent driver. I would definitely recommend this trip.

Everything you expected. - A truly memorable day. Tour guide Mia (sp?) was excellent. So much to see and the narrative on Croatia history wonderful. Highly recommended.

Veritable Varazdin and Tantalizing Trakoscan Castle 8 hour day tour from Zingy Zagreb - Veritable Varazdin and Tantalizing Trakoscan Castle small group private day tour from Zagreb. Petros tours are smaller in size and more personable, and Petros Tour operator is flexible and accomodating to slot me in at the last minute. Our group size was only 3, and tantamount to an extremely excellent private tour, which we thoroughly enjoyed. Our professional polite local guide Maja is intelligent and a walking encylopedia, and shares a wealth of information of rich historical and cultural facts and figures with us. Maja provides us with the right dose of digestible, informative and educational local tour, without overwhelming / overloading us with excessive information. She also patiently answers all our myriad of questions. Maja speaks excellent English, and is a safe and efficient driver, transporting us in a comfortable and clean new vehicle, in our Northern Captivating and Charming Croatia tour to explore the lush and verdant rolling hills landscape and beautiful baroque small city of Varazdin and fairy tale-like Trakoscan Castle which is rather intact with gorgeous ornate interior furnishings and incredible picturesque view of the spectacular scenic surrounding forest area. Highly recommended local tour from Petros, departing from Zagreb. They provide free pick-up from certain hotels, or from the Meteorological Station. Check out and book this tour or their other day trips too, and kindly tip their well-deserved local guide generously please. Helen Singapore

Ying and yang - Maja is a wonderful guide with patience, knowledge and understanding. While I thought the castle part was bland, the Varazdin part was really wonderful with its many churches, colorful buildings, and, of course, angels.

Interesting to see how the town walls (now gone) defended the city / Castle - we started two different tours (city & castle). This city was once the Capital of Croatia between 1756 & 1776, when a big fire burnt down much of the city, and the capital of the country was moved to Zagreb. Today this town is a beautifully preserved Baroque city that’s often compared to Vienna, and unlike Zagreb there are NO mass transport trams running around this small community. For centuries, this was the home of several aristocratic families, who built magnificent palaces and churches that continue to grace the city today. Originally this was a walled city surrounded by earthen fortification walls and a massive moat totally around the town, and a separate moat around the castle within the city. The defenses were emplaced to fend off (never happened) an Ottoman empire attack. The moat design would prevent tunneling under the city defensive walls. Today the moat area is mostly filled in! The castle was originally a military barracks / defense keep for the defenders to fall back on; and then converted into a royal palace for the Hungarian governor once the Ottoman threat went away. We started our guided 45-minute walking tour of the town itself. Tom enjoyed the detail in the Baroque architecture of this town some call “Little Vienna.” We then went on a tour of the castle surrounded by a now empty moat (entering via drawbridge). The Castle is now owned and managed by the town after the last residence left in 1929. The last residence basically emptied the structure, and over the years donations of equipment /armament /furniture has now filled the attraction. The castle was built in the twelfth century and was used as a seat of local government until 1925. We had an hour-long tour by one of the most excellent museum curators