Best of Klaipeda & Curonian Spit Join-in Shore Excursion

We enjoyed the tour and the most pleasant, professional and experienced guide Christina. Would highly recommend her to all future visitors.

Absolutely amazing tour! We saw so much that I never knew was there.

The Curonian Spit was stunning. You can see Russia, but make note of all the signs advising that you can't just walk there.

The walk up and down the Witches Hill was really cool. Our guide (Peter? - I'm sure it's different in Lithuanian) was so knowledgeable. He told us stories at just about every carving. His knowledge of the area and great personality made it a really fun day.

We had a bit of a bumpy start, as one of the couples on the tour was not to be found at the cruise terminal. Turns out they had walked into town and were waiting at the tour office. But once that was sorted, we had a great time. With 5 people, it was perfect.

The restaurant where we had lunch was really good! The town was very busy that weekend, but he managed to find just the right place to eat.

It's the perfect amount of driving and walking.

This was a great trip and a really knowledgeable, gracious and friendly guide (Peter ?). It is about an hour drive each way to/from Curonian spit. but you get a good sense of the communities, beaches and the Hill of Witches. Peter relayed very good info on the folk lore of the 'witch' statues and was a great walk through magical woods. Interesting to stand and overlook the Russian border (Kaliningrad) which is something most Westerners will never get to see. Very interesting discussions on the way of life in the area, the history and the culture. Would have been nice to include at least a quick tour of old town Klaipeda. however we ran out of time to get back to our cruise ship so opted out of that. The entire van was from our cruise line (6 passengers). And with the annual Sea Festival that day would have been difficult to drive into the old town anyway.

Very interesting to see the Curonian Spit and the small towns along the way. Hiking through the woodland to see the carved images of cultural fairy tales added to the enjoyment. Kristina, our guide, was knowledgeable and accommodating. Would recommend tour to other m.

Seeing dunes which reach to Russian border. On time pick up from port, good guide, tailored experience to those who could hike and those whose walking limited. Resort town had been fishing port. Beautiful cottages and flora. . Nice short tour of port town at end of tour. This is best place of Baltic countries to buy amber.

We all loved this tour. It was a bit of a drive to the spit. I learned that "spit" is a geological term. The history ofhow the people took back the spit was so amazing. It was interesting to see the evidence of how the people reclaimed the dunes and the work that was involved to accomplish that. We had a wonderful walk in the woods and were able to see all of the carved statues of folklore demons and witches that were the result of a competition that was held on the spit. Our guide was so proud of her country and city-it was wonderful listen to her stories of history and folklore. The seaside walk and lunch made this a perfect day. Thank you for this tour!

Taken by car ferry boat to the island where you can discover the "Witch" forest, view the small towns, the amber shop and also take a boat ride and a swim in the Baltic sea. If you visit Klaipeda, then put Curonian Spit on your itinerary.

We thought the dunes were lovely but we expected to see the beach that the spit is so famous for. We also thought the folk tales would be a very small part of the tour, and we did a hike in the woods for at least 45 minutes (maybe an hour) and it was story after story of the folklore. I personally had zero interest in this and had I know it would have taken early 1/3 of the actual time we spent on the Spit, I would not have booked this excursion. It also seems to be quite expensive for what we got (transportation including the ferry over and back, the hike with folklore, a brief 10 minute dune visit at an overlook, then an hour of free time in Nida to walk around- it was a cute town).

The sites were good such as the witches tour, Thomas Mann museum and sand dunes near Niva. The other sand dune and Amber museum could have been skipped. The tour guide tended to ramble to fill time while we were driving and would have been better with shorter more clear summaries. The advertised tour was 6 hours and included a tour around Klaipeda, however, the guide was prepared for 8 hours. We had it cut back so didn't see the city. We were told by our fellow passengers that we didn't miss much in the city.