The advertised 8-hour trip from Rethymno ended up being far longer at 11 hours. This was due to a significant amount of stops at different hotels on the way there and back. I expected it would be a little longer than advertised, but 3 hours longer is a little much! additionally, while we were also the first on the coach, we were not notified of our pickup time and location being moved, we got a call 15 minutes before the advertised time asking where we were. Fortunately, we were already ready at the original location, but we did have to march down the marina to the bus. Finally, there was no tour guide round the sites as advertised, only a couple of brief details of the sites on the bus.

Great day - Caterina the tour guide was so kind and helpful and spoke great English! We did this tour with our 11 month old baby (if you’re taking a baby I advise that it’s not pram/stroller friendly so bring a carrier or prepare to pick the baby up lots of steps). Other than that it was a really great day, thankyou to Caterina the tour guide and Nicos the driver of our coach!

Our tour guid was awesome. We learned about Crete and Knossos on the bus with her speaking 3 languages! The pick up was prompt and dropped right outside the museum. Plenty of time in Heraklion and just the right amount of time for Knossos before we were too hot and tired. Relaxing drive back in the air conditioned coach with a few more little tid bits of info about the villages we passed through from our guide. Thank you! Had a great time.