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Chania and Rethymnon Tour: Explore Crete's Hidden Gems
3.6
8 Ratings
Chania Prefecture
Explore Chania, Rethymnon, and Kournas on a full-day guided tour. Discover Venetian walls, Turkish minarets, and a stunning alpine-like lake. Book your adventure now!
Explore Chania, Rethymnon, and Kournas on a full-day guided tour. Discover Venetian walls, Turkish minarets, and a stunning alpine-like lake. Book your adventure now!
Duration:
11 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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Chania Prefecture - The bus trip to Chania will take 3 hours.
Your professional guide give you a tour and you have some free time to wander around the beautiful Venetian streets and neighbourhoods, little shops, markets and local restaurants around the picturesque old port. -
Lake Kournas - The bus trip to Chania will take 1 hours.
You can…
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Chania Prefecture - The bus trip to Chania will take 3 hours.
Your professional guide give you a tour and you have some free time to wander around the beautiful Venetian streets and neighbourhoods, little shops, markets and local restaurants around the picturesque old port. -
Lake Kournas - The bus trip to Chania will take 1 hours.
You can enjoy the beautiful nature and your lunch. The largest natural lake of Crete. You cab hire a pedal boat for a lovely ride around the lake. -
Rethymnon - The bus trip to Chania will take 20 minutes.
Your professional guide gives you a guided tour and you have some free time to the picturesque venetian town, the old port and beautiful oriental beach road of the town.
What's Included
- Professional guided tour in Chania
- Professional guided tour in Rethymnon
- Transport by air-conditioned coach
- Pick up / drop off Malia till Amoudara(Heraklion)
- Liability Insurance Coverage by ALLIANZ
- Professional guide on the coach
- Gasoline
- Croissant, juice, sandwich, water
- Tours available in English, German, and French on Wednesday and Saturday
- Professional guided tour in Chania
- Professional guided tour in Rethymnon
- Transport by air-conditioned coach
- Pick up / drop off Malia till Amoudara(Heraklion)
- Liability Insurance Coverage by ALLIANZ
- Professional guide on the coach
- Gasoline
- Croissant, juice, sandwich, water
- Tours available in English, German, and French on Wednesday and Saturday
What's Not Included
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Breakfast
- Lunch
Additional Information
The journey begins with a visit to Chania, Crete’s second largest city. Explore the old town within the Venetian city walls, a charming labyrinth of narrow streets, historic mansions, and arcades. The mosques and minarets reflect the Turkish influence, while the meticulously planned new town is regarded as one of Greece’s most beautiful cities.
Next, the…
The journey begins with a visit to Chania, Crete’s second largest city. Explore the old town within the Venetian city walls, a charming labyrinth of narrow streets, historic mansions, and arcades. The mosques and minarets reflect the Turkish influence, while the meticulously planned new town is regarded as one of Greece’s most beautiful cities.
Next, the Lake of Kournas awaits in a picturesque valley, nestled between hills and surrounding mountains, reminiscent of an Alpine lake. Here, visitors can enjoy lunch and take a leisurely walk around the lake.
The final stop is a brief visit to Rethymnon. Discover antiques and trinkets in the narrow streets of the old town, admire the Turkish minarets, and stroll along the Venetian port to the fortress and the expansive golden sandy beach. It’s astonishing how one island can offer such diverse sights and colors.
- Operates in most weather conditions, please dress appropriately
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Travel time is added on the time duration
Location
Chania Prefecture
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
3.6
(8 Ratings)
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Asha_s
May 20, 2022
Great tour! - It was a wonderful tour and a beautiful day. I do wish that we had more time at lake kournas but overall, the van driver was on time, the bus driver drove safely and the ride was very comfortable, the tour left promptly at each stop and the tour guide gave us a lot of information about the island. It was great, thank you.
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Amcun
Oct 13, 2021
Great way to explore the island - We thoroughly enjoyed both our trips with Eye travel; Knossos & Lesithi & Western Crete. They were excellently organised, both in advance, and on the day! We really appreciated your prompt and helpful responses to our questions before we booked. The coaches arrived promptly and both guides gave us a wonderful commentary. Everything and everyone was very efficient and welcoming. The tours themselves gave us a good contrast and enabled us to see quite a lot of the island, and ran well to time, yet we hardly ever felt rushed.
Western Crete;- The landscape and commentary during our trip was wonderful. The opportunity to visit two other cities, Rethymnon and Chania, and have free time to explore was really good, and the time allowed for each of these stops was just perfect. Lake Kournos for lunch was beautiful. The day we visited has quite cloudy and windy, so we didn't mind not swimming too much, but there would not have been time to swim and have lunch there, which is a shame - this was the only stop which would have benefitted from a bit more time - another 30-45minutes would have given those who wished to time to swim or take a boat out as well as have their lunch.
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Mark_g
Oct 17, 2024
Western Crete from Heraklion - Long day..slightly confusing pickup..guide was good. Description of itinerary was somewhat misleading in that there really is not a guided tour of the towns. It's basically being dropped off in each place and you're on your own with some basic info given beforehand. The 2 towns were beautiful, the lake so so.
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Amanda_s
Jun 23, 2022
History of crete - Chania old town was the best for us. Beautiful cafes and shops up the narrow streets. The view of Kournas lake was amazing with the mountains in the background. The only difficult thing was the length of the day and journey back. We were picked up 7.40 and returned 9.30. Be prepared for a long day but great experience . The guide joy was very friendly and had so much information about crete. We learnt quite a lot.
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Andrea_p
Jun 15, 2022
Lovely tour - Lovely day. Tour guide was a bit condescending when answering questions but the tour was informative and scenery was beautiful.
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Karen_e
Sep 16, 2021
Shopping gallorel - Chania had more to see than Rethymnon. Not enough time to swim. Not enough historical focus for us. Would have Iike a walking tour of each city rather than have free time for shopping.
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Andrea_a
Jun 24, 2022
Horrible Experience - I want to start by saying that the tour itself was an enjoyable experience. Our tour guide, Joy, was friendly, helpful and informative and it was lovely getting to see the sights of Crete (Chania and lunch at Lake Kournas were our personal highlights).
.. However, our entire experience was devastated by the shuttle bus driver from Sparrow who collected us from our hotel (Aldemar Royal Mare). Essentially, when we went to enter the shuttle bus we tried to enter using the wrong door (the back passenger door rather than the front passenger door), at this point he proceeded to shout and swear at us in Greek, not knowing that we are, in fact, fluent in Greek. When we calmly told him that we understood what he had said and the slurs he had used towards us (which I will not repeat here) he became even more enraged and started driving recklessly and dangerously. He continued to swear at us until we arrived at the tour bus. He was completely unhinged, used appalling and offensive language towards us and drove so dangerously that we were both terrified at points. Despite how great the tour team were, I'd urge anyone staying in the Anissaras/Hersonissos region to AVOID THIS TOUR and others by this company as this individual is truly dangerous.
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Excursion627398
Aug 21, 2022
Incorrect information - I have sent a separate email, the voucher said they were picking us up at Sisi Bay Hotel & Spa, the time on the voucher said 09.00, we had no communication saying anything else. We were waiting at 9am , coach did not turn up. We called and were told we were meant to be there at 7am. We are extremely disappointed, why put on the voucher 09.00? When that isn’t the time to be collected. We want a full refund.
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