Erica Gerakos

Overall the Kimkim team performed exceptionally well both in the planning stages as well as communication and support during our trip.
Our hotels were overall excellent. Due to the lateness of the season, some services at hotels were not available. However overall, the hotels met our expectations.
Air reservations were well-arranged and everything went smoothly thought the half-hour time from "wheels down" in Athens connecting with our flight to Zakynthos was a little stressful. In fact, we and our luggage made the flight and we understand that, unless we wanted to lay over a day in Athens, this was our only flight.
One comment, our last night in Athens, we arrived in Athens from Zakynthos in the early evening and had to depart from Athens from our hotel at 4:30 AM. Our hotel was 30-40 minutes from the airport. I would suggest a hotel nearer the airport with this tight layover. The hotel was nice.
We appreciated the pacing of the trip without continuous activities. We were in Europe a month total and it was good to have some down time or simply some time to explore the destinations we stayed on our own. We are experienced travelers.
We loved the activities/tours planned for us. Cape Sounion; Archological Museum, Food tour of Athens; Peloponnese tour, Acropolis, Santorini Village and Wine tours. All our guides were fun and very knowledgeable.
All our transportation connections made it easy to keep our connections stress-free. The ability to Whats App our drivers was especially helpful when connections were late or other complications.
Finally, your Kimkim app worked beautifully and was easy to navigate. The only comment I would add is that, while the app has a link to log in, you cannot actually login. The only way to activate the trip is following the link given us by our arranger. Just a bit confusing. Either let us log in or remove the link.

Greece was a wonderful experience. Santorini was fabulous. Vasilios was an incredible guide, so knowledgeable so charming and took us to very interesting places the windmills the seaside, the caves and his knowledge of history was exemplary! Athens: parthenon, wonderfulof course; archaeological museum with our guide Effie superb. she hit all the highlights in just over an hour. Plaka was fun for shopping and grab some incredible bargains for gifts.. Zakinthos was fun bc we had friends there .The Bitzaro Hotel was goodroom was lovely but bathroom lighting was sparse and the bathroom door had to be completely closed before you could access the commode. The Athena Riviera was fabulous. It’s unfortunate that we had to get up at 3 AM and we didn’t arrive there until after 10 and we hadn’t eaten fortunately superb restaurants were 5 to 10 minutes away and we could order in. Perhaps a hotel that wasn’t a 30 minute drive from the airport would be a better choice next time or this would be fine if we had more time to enjoy it. I hear the breakfasts are superb! All in all a wonderful trip.

Erica and Lea developed an amazing itinerary for us that gave us room to enjoy ourselves when we weren't on an fun and fascinating excursion. From Athens through the Cyclades islands of Mykonos, Naxos, Santorini to Crete, we enjoyed the weather, the food, the landscape and all of the historic ruins of archeaologic significance. The catamaran cruise from Crete was fantastic. The cruise with the Santorini Yacht Club i wouldn't recommend or do again. The crew wasn't friendly, the boat wasn't well taken care of and the food was awful.
Aside from this hiccup, we had a wonderful time. Sept-Oct is a great time to see Greece.

To preface this review, I will say that I am the furthest thing from an avid traveler and had no experience traveling over to Europe.
I found the KimKim on a Google search and filled out a painless form which was rapidly followed up with a pleasant phone conversation to get a little more granular on the wants and needs of the trip.
We knew we wanted to go to Greece and spend time in Santorini but felt overwhelmed by the thought of planning a 10-day adventure hopping between islands.
The folks at the Kim Kim were beyond amazing. Everything was put together quickly for our review and we were quite pleased with the agenda. A mix of both scheduled and unscheduled activities, with endless resources, pre-booked transfers, signs up for every activity needed, ferries, planes, and everything in between.
The hotel choices were incredible. We were blown away by the hospitality and care that went into our stays. Everything felt so personalized from start to finish.
The tour guides were incredible, the snorkeling and yacht cruise were amazing.
At one point in the first night we ran into an issue where all the taxi drivers in Athens were on strike and our ride to the airport in the morning was cancelled. Being in a foreign country and learning this news at 9pm before an 8am pickup, we were panicked. I emailed the Kim Kim team and they got right back to me and much to our surprise had already booked a substitute ride service for us before we even realized it was an issue.
No other service is resolving problems in real time like this. 24/7 support and check ins throughout the trip. The app is perfect and available offline to keep everything in order and not lose any of the details.
I’ve told everyone we know about these services and would absolutely do it again and again. 10/10! 5 stars!
It made our honeymoon picture perfect and we enjoyed every minute!
Thank you!

Our trip to Athens, Paros, Antiparos and Naxos exceeded our expectations. Erica was very helpful in planning the trip and the KimKim app worked well in allowing us to seamlessly keep track of our itinerary on the road. Some of the service providers who were particularly friendly and helpful along the way - Nasos Thanasas was our driver to and from the Athens airport, the staff at the Stelia Mare Hotel in Paros, the guides at the Traditional Cooking experience on a Naxos Village Farm and the Naxos Private Wine Experience.

We were not aware of the Cycladic summer winds that are common and did in fact have high winds our first couple of days in Paros. That is the risk you take in traveling to the Cyclades in the summer months and the weather was otherwise ideal. But it may make sense to consider making the trip further into the shoulder seasons on either side of summer.

Renting cars was easy although the driving is a bit challenging with very narrow roads and dodging tour buses on Naxos. In particular, we took a car on the ferry from Paros to Antiparos and very much enjoyed a day on Antiparos exploring the cave there and relaxing on Soros Beach.

We wound up with what was basically a layover day in Athens at the Athens Riviera Hotel on the way out as our flight home the following day was in the early AM. We wish we had taken an earlier flight from Naxos to Athens to have more time in Athens on that day.

In total, we chose several days on Paros and Naxos at Erica's recommendation and do not regret the choice. Other friends had told us Mykonos and Santorini are beautiful but much more crowded. We are not Greece experts by any means and there are many other islands to consider.

We were so pleased with our entire tour with Kimkim. Every transfer, every driver was friendly and always on time!!! We never worried about our pick up or our meeting places. Thank you Kimkim for the detailed itinerary! We started in Athens with 2 neighborhood walks. Our guide, from “ Greek Travel Tellers” , CATHERINA, was wonderful and passionate about showing us the neighborhoods!! SANDRA, of Greek Travel Tellers, was also passionate & very knowledgeable about the sunset tour of the Acropolis ! In Mykonos, our neighborhood guide, PACO, was very informative friendly, and yes , passionate about showing us the neighborhoods! In Santorini, Santorini Road Trips: our guide/ driver was KOSTAS!! He too was passionate, informative & friendly. At the end of our tour, we felt like family! Our last tour with LENA, of course Santorini Food Tour, was so informative & yummy! We learned and ate so much😄😄😄LENA, too, was very passionate about the local restaurants and tavernas!

Hotel Reviews

The Zillers Boutique Hotel

Athens

Loved the location and roof top restaurant! Stafff very friendly and accommodating!

Authenticity & Character

Uniqueness

Location

It’s centralized

Staff

Friendly

Cleanliness & Comfort

Friendly staff.. boutique hotel!

Vencia Boutique Hotel

Mykonos

Beautiful view, clean rooms, Well, cap facility, friendly staff.

Authenticity & Character

The location

Location

The location could be improved. If I had a choice. Next time I would request a hotel on the beach there was a lot of walking upstairs and downstairs to the center of town.

Staff

The staff was very friendly and accommodating

Cleanliness & Comfort

Very clean facility and very organized

Kasimatis by La Perla

Santorini

we felt like we had our own bungalow. The staff was very nice. The rooms are very clean. It was great to have a great view and a personal hot tub as well as a shared pool.

Authenticity & Character

I loved the white washed buildings and the infinity pool and the quiet surroundings

Location

Great view overlooking Santorini however it was necessary to take a taxi or a bus to the different part of the island

Staff

The south was friendly

Cleanliness & Comfort

The entire facility was clean organized and was constantly being kept up

Activity Reviews

Private Evening Neighborhood Walk

Athens

Loved the walk & information! So enjoyed Catherina!

Quality of Experience

The guide and the up front experience of local taverna’s & neighborhoods.

Guides, Drivers and Staff

On schedule, all of the time.. All drivers were personable!

Transport

Exactly… seamless!

Authentic Athens Awaits: The Petralona Experience

Athens

It was great… but similar to our first neighborhood walks.

Quality of Experience

The homes.

Guides, Drivers and Staff

Katharina was very approachable

Transport

The transportation was always on time

Acropolis Sunset Discovery Walk

Athens

Perfect time to see the acropolis at sunset. Sandra, our guide was very knowledgeable and passionate about what she was showing us.

Quality of Experience

Sandra was very knowledgeable and it helped that she was a native of Greece

Guides, Drivers and Staff

Self-Guided Local Markets Visit

Mykonos

We didn’t realize that we were so high up and that it would take some energy and time to walk down to the town center

Quality of Experience

We liked the adventure

Self-Guided Beach Day

Mykonos

We loved our beach day. I would recommend having this day planned in the itinerary.

Quality of Experience

Time to rest and enjoy the scenery and cool off in the water

Private Island Villages & Akrotiri Day Trip

Santorini

We loved our guide, Kostas. The archaeological dig was amazing. We also saw the red beach and the black beach and the monastery Kostas was with us and added so much information. Also we were able to taste caper leaves, seaweed leaves and capers.

Quality of Experience

Guides, Drivers and Staff

Transport

Clean, smooth riding van!

Fira Food & Views Walking Tour

Santorini

We tasted many items of food we learned about real olive oil, real feta cheese, basically authentic items that came from Santorini

Quality of Experience

Authenticity of the food items we tasted

Guides, Drivers and Staff

Lena was a wonderful enthusiastic, funny, informative & passionate guide