SPINALONGA, Elounda, Kolokitha, Ag. Nicolaos

Efficiently run. The tour guides were excellent. And the barbecue made for us on the beach was very good. The cost of food and drink and ice creams on the boat was very reasonable. I would strongly recommend and it’s not as expensive booking direct rather than through your travel company. All places visited were thoroughly worthwhile.

Interesting trip. We were collected at 08.40 and delivered back just after 1800. I thought the day would drag but really enjoyed it. Swimming in the sea, the bbq and then to the island. We then had time to explore the capital of the island.

I would recommend this trip and the guide was very informative pitching at just the right level.

Thankyou

Very nice day trip, got picked up and dropped off at the hotel. Went on a boat trip to Kolokitha island, with bbq. Boat staff were incredible, beach was beautiful, went for a swim. Then off with boat to SPINALONGA also nice to visit, such a remarkable historic site. Then off with bus to agios Nicholas. All in all a very nice day, well worth going and staff so very nice.

What a great time, currently on bus reviewing as tour guide (who has been super helpful and positive throughout) has said we can do so!

But you get to visit multiple locations with a variety of experiences at each spot (from beaches to a colony to an oil factory), beyond my initial expectations as one thought you'd just visit Spinalonga. Lasted the whole day, and you get to go on boats (boats are cool). Oh and the food, lovely BBQ food with an orange (tip: don't eat all of it if you're seasick)

Went there on a boat sea was a little rough, spinalonga was interesting not alot said about what happened during WW2 but it was interesting all the same

Very beautiful landscape , places full of history, guide tour in English, the guide very professional and charismatic , great experience!

Enjoyed our stops. Found more time was spent on the bus than expected. We came from Heraklion do lots of pick ups and drop offs

Ended up 8am -8pm.

We did enjoy our activities and it was well orchestrated. Lunch …the pork chop was very yummy. I liked the time we had at the beach to walk or swim

Spinalongo was cool place. Would have like for more details from the tour guide and more time here. The stop at Agia Nikolas was fine

Good but not long stops only an hour snd 30 minutes at the beach it take 20 minutes to get to the sand and an hour shopping was felt so rushed which is only 30 minutes by the time you walk back to the bus then the lady said when we got back to the bus and on our way home “ sorry it was a short stop but you could have got the public-bus home if you wanted to “ spinalinga island is just a island with broken buildings and boring people got so fed up of the tour guide they all walked off

I had been looking forward to seeing Spinalonga and thought this day trip would be a good way to see it and some other parts of Crete. Sadly I felt we didn't have enough time on the island, which was disappointing. We had a tour guide, and whilst he was clearly passionate about the island and informative, I felt he talked a bit too long and left us with little time to explore the island ourselves afterwards. If you're going I'd just just walk round the island yourselves, you'll have more time to explore if you do that.

I enjoyed the time on the island Kolokitha and the BBQ afterwards, however I felt this could have been shortened a bit to allow more time for Spinalonga.

Once off the boat, our final destination was Agios Nikolaos and again, sadly we only had about an hour here which wasn't really enough time to explore. If we'd had more time in Crete I'd definitely have gone back there for the day and spent more time in the town.

From the gum chewing tourguide, to the rocky beach and wrong information we were very dissapointed about our trip. The “BBQ” that was supposed to give us the option between steak and chicken was very poorly managed. We got pork instead, when we asked for chicken they told us that we needed to order this beforehand. Nobody mentionzd this to us, so we just went hungry. We had high hopes, but that was our mistake.