About Crete

Our hotel in Crete contacted www.travelcrete.tours (ex. 1618travel.com) as we wanted to spend a day touring Santorini, Yannis, the owner of the company came and collected us at our hotel with Joanna Kalypso Glyptis, a wonderfully experienced tour guide. Words cannot express what an absolutely wonderful day we spent with them! Yanis drove us to the port, where we boarded the ferry to Santorini, had seats in the VIP section which was very comfortable.

Nous avons passé une excellente matinée au site archéologique de Knossos accompagné de notre guide Akrivi. Etant d'origine grecque je voulais faire visiter Knossos à mon fils de 15 ans qui a étudié l'histoire de la civilisation minoenne au collège en France. Ses lecture ont pris sens avec les explications professionnelles de notre guide: le L

My girlfriend and I decided to vacation in Crete for 2 week. As excited as we were, we were also worried about getting around the island. We wanted to enjoy the best that Crete had to offer. Enter Travel Crete Private Tours  -ex."1618 Travel Private Tours" . We sat down with Ioannis, the company's CEO, and came up with the best plan possible to see all the sites my girlfriend and I had always wanted to see, plus some places many don't know about. This was the best decision we could have m

I attended a wedding in Crete with my parents who are in their 60's. Particularly, because of my mom who has limited mobility I needed something personalized and taylored to our needs. I sent the same e-mail to three different travel agencies with dates and preferences. The only agency that replied with a proposed one-week itinerary was Travel Crete Private Tours (ex. 1618travel) , including transportation to the little town where the wedding took place. Moreover, they had the

 If you like to experience the most authentic, passionate Greece, the Greece's origin, Crete is your best choice. Knossos Palace and Heraklion Archaeological Museum are must-visit, and you could spend all day there. In Venetian old town, Chania is impressively beautiful day and night. The most famous Mediterranean beaches are everywhere, and you could find a secret and quiet one here. Most of all, you could embrace Cretan diet with superb satisfaction, especially the fresh se

Akrivi and Yiannis from "1618 Travel", the agency behind Travel Crete Private Tours, are all you need to fall in love with Crete. We used them to do a Knossos tour, a Hera