Hiking, biking and exploring in Greece
Greece
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Oct 20 - Nov 2, 2026
We had a great trip to Greece. While planning the trip we worked with Gustavo who was very helpful in planning the details. We let him know the kinds of things we were interested in, and then iterated the ideas until we had a plan we liked.
While we were in the country the operations team Lea and Maria were very helpful. They would check on us from time to time to make sure everything was going smoothly. At one point, the local tour company had to cancel one of our tours because of the weather, and Kimkim worked with them to quickly get us a refund.
All of our local guides were great, and we felt that we really learned a lot about Greek history, and got to know some of the people there.
I felt that having a private tour customized for what we wanted to do was much nicer than doing a big packaged tour, and having the local guides gave us a lot of knowledge that we miss out on when doing self guided tours.
Hotel Reviews
A nice hotel centrally located in the old part of Athens near the acropolis, shops, and many restaurants. The breakfast buffet was good. The rooms were clean and comfortable.
This hotel is located in an old building outside Kalamata. The staff was great, and they had a great breakfast. The rooms were very large, but being old they lacked somewhat in warmth. The one downside of this hotel is that it is located a ways from Kalamata. There are two tavernas that you can walk to for dinner, but other than that you need a car or need to call a taxi.
This is a big modern hotel, which is not really my style. The food is kind of expensive compared with what we had gotten used to. If you have any early morning flight the location is great. Otherwise why would you stay here.
A large resort hotel. It was off season, so there were not many guests. It has a huge breakfast buffet with lots of choices.
This hotel was conveniently located in old town Nafplio. It had a nice breakfast buffet. Other than that the rooms were small, and I didn’t think it had much charm.
Activity Reviews
This was maybe my favorite activity. Our guide was great, and we learned a lot about Greek history.
This tour was mostly riding in the van for a long time. The guide was interesting and informative, but I was expecting more time to actually explore some of the villages. We did have a little time to explore Areopolis on our own. This was probably my least favorite activity.
This was a great experience.
Monemvasia was very interesting. We felt that it would have been nice to have a guide to learn more of its history and provide transport. We called the resort to call a taxi for us to get back.
A very interesting site. We had a great lunch after.
I didn’t do this activity. After a long morning I decided to rest.
We learned a lot about different kinds of olives and grapes. We had a nice wine tasting, and then a great meal.
This was just a long walk along an empty beach.
The olive oil tasting was good, but by the time it was over we decided to skip the meal because it was getting so late.
An interesting tour of the city. We had seen some of the sites the day before, but there were new sites as well.
We didn’t actually go to the beach or the waterfall, but the alternative things we saw were great.
This didn’t include any famous historical sites, but we met some interesting local people, and ended with a nice dinner.
The gorge was very impressive. It was harder than I expected.with some scrambling over large rocks.