Unforgettable Crete: Spinalonga & Agios Nikolaos Journey

This tour was amazing! Special thanks to our guide Manos and to our driver who ensured a lovely and safe experience for everyone. Agios Nikolaos is an amazing place that we instantly fell in love with, and Spinalonga is just breathtaking. The operating company was fantastic, a team of professionals who quickly found a solution to reduce our return time in difficult traffic. I highly recommend this tour!

Fabulous day trip, extremely well organised with no waiting around. Ample time at each stop. Highly recommend!! Manos our guide and David our driver were very friendly and Manos was very well educated with info about our stops. The boat trip was again perfectly organised, thank you Manos and Captain John, with no waiting around. Spinalonga was the highlight and a very interesting place to visit..sad but with a sense of hope…

Booked an English tour and was surrounded by French and the tour in English and mainly French. Also in the description there is no mention of a swim stop in Elounda bay which meant I feel we wasted 20 minutes so that 4 people out of the 50-60 could get off the boat and swim, stranding the rest with nothing to do. I feel that time would have been better spent on spinalonga as there wasn’t enough time there. If I had know about the swim stop then I would’ve booked a different tour. The amount of time in Agios Nikolaos and Elounda town was just right to see what was there and relax a bit.

Content was great . The problem was too many people and all the dropoffs! The trip was supposed to be 8-9 hours and by the time we got dropped off it was 10.5 hrs and we were late for our work event in the evening. Smaller buses with less people would have made this a lot easier .

It’s worth every penny. We lives this experience. You have enough time in each stop to enjoy the city. The tour guide was very helpful. Manos explained with detail the history along the way and at each stop. You will be able to shop and eat at each stop. Spinalonga and diving into the water was the highlight of the tour. 100% recommended.

Our guide gave us great information on the coach about our journey and surroundings and on arrival she explained various places to visit giving clear directions to find your way around Agios Nicolaos, I visited the archaeological museum which was like a labyrinth inside, full of interesting local findings. It was lovely to revisit Elounda and we had free time to explore, have lunch etc before the boat trip to Spinalonga. I hadn't realised the tickets to go into the archaeological site weren't included, that was a bit of a disappointment, the guide did not take us on a tour once inside but it was fascinating. The steps up to the top of the Bastion were steep and narrow with no safety rail which made me nervous at 60 and solo but I still went up - coming down was unnerving so I came down on my behind, step by step! The 2 ladies toilets were not really enough for the number of visitors but were clean when I used them. The return boat trip was lovely with a 20 minute swimming opportunity half way back before the return coach journey. It was good value for money with a nice balance of activity and free time.

Day trip to Agios Nikalaos and Spinalonga is a must for visitors to Heraklion and the surrounding areas. Manos was a terrific and smart tour guide. He was very knowledgeable about the places that we visited. He also took special care that we knew when to be back to the bus for the next part of the trip. You get to see a lot of Lasithi on this trip. This part of Crete is extremely beautiful. The boat ride to Spinalonga Island was enjoyable with gorgeous scenery. Just about the right amount of time for each activity. Altino Travel Co. did a great job with all the travel arrangements. I highly recommend this tour.

This was a great way to see several places around the island. The tour bus was nice and clean. Our guide was informative. Excellent way to spend the day.

Agios Nikolaos and Spinalonga were great. Elounda was not as impressive and I would have rather spent more time in the other two places. I don't remember if this is mentioned in the description, but the price for Spinalonga is not included, which is 20 euros per person. The bus ride is very long if you're getting picked up in Heraklion, as there are many stops in between.

You only have a guide on the bus, although very good and knowledgeable the guide leaves ou at Agious Nikolaos and at Spinalonga, so your left in your own to wonder around both stops. Which i found a bit of a let down!!! You have to pay an additional €20 to get in to Spinalonga and you dont have a guide with you. Very disappointing