Exclusive Crete: Spinalonga, Ag. Nikolaos & Olive Oil Journey

We had a wonderful day with our guide Gijs. He was an excellent tour guide, very friendly and we learned lots of interesting things. We loved Spinalonga (Gijs took care of the formalities and accompanied us on the boat each way) and the Olive Oil Tour but we also had a very enjoyable day trip being driven through different villages. We would highly recommend the trip. Thank you.

We had a wonderful day with Louise! She picked us up near our hotel in Heraklion She is a wealth of information and communicates well. We had a wonderful stop in Agios Nikolaos, then along the coast and then again to Spinalonga. She knew so much about the history and the local culture. Louise recommended a wonderful spot for lunch along the coast overlooking the water and Spinalonga. This was a great way to see the area without having to drive ourselves and also learn the history of the area. She showed us local places and gave us recommendations for dinner in Heraklion.

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,

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!

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 :)

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!

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.

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!

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!

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.