Meteora Private Full Day Tour
Our tours and services are flexible and can be adapted to the customer’s needs. All our professional drivers have the required certifications and are fluent in English. Their experience will help you feel safe and at easy in one of our well maintained, comfortable vehicles. You will have the added benefit of visiting archaeological sites at different times from the large tour buses and groups of visitors, thus enabling you to experience the wonderful monuments and learn their history at a time of the day when they are not overcrowded. The cost of hiring our services is smaller than purchasing individual tickets from large tour and excursion companies.
Options
Private tour 11-15 Travellers
Private - Luxury - Stresfree
Duration: 14 hours
Bottled water
Mercedes minibus: Mercedes Benz Limo VIP -16 passengers seater
Fully air-conditioned
Smoke Free
WiFi
Private Tour 11-15 travelers: Experience the Meteora Full Day tour in a private tour by a Mercedes minibus in style
Pickup included
What's included in Meteora Private Full Day Tour
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Meteora
By reaching Kalambaka, an important town well known due to the second largest and most important complexes of Eastern Orthodox Monasteries in Greece after Mount Athos, Meteora, you will have the potentiality to visit two or three of the six suspended in the air Monasteries, built on natural sand stone rock pillars. The Meteora Monasteries date back to the 11th century and are included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites. The James Bond movie for your eyes only was filmed at the Monastery of Holy Trinity.
Thermopylae
The Thermopylae or else the Hot Gates is an important town well known for the battle among the Greek forces including the 300 Spartans and their leader King Leonidas and the Persians in 480 BC, commemorated by Simonides in the famous epitaph, "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That here obedient to their laws we lie." The monument of King Leonidas was erected by the battlefield reminding all of us of the sacrifice of those patriots for a free country.
Inclusions
- Private transportation
- WiFi on board
- Bottled water
- Air-conditioned vehicle
- Professional Drivers (Not licensed to accompany you into the sites)
- All meals
- Licensed tour guide upon request, depending on availability (Additional Cost: 220 Euros)
- Airport pickup and drop off (Additional cost)
- Gratuities
- Meteora monasteries extra cost per monastery
- Thermopylae
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Your English- speaking driver will explain about the ancient monuments that you are about to visit, the ancient history of Greece and interesting facts about historical and modern-day Greece but is not allowed by law to accompany you in the sites. If you wish to have a licensed tour guide to accompany you into the sites, we will help you arrange a licensed tour guide to be with you at an extra cost
- Your tour is totally private. No unknown passengers will participate in your group.
- Infant car seats are available upon request
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Pickup and Dropoff
Choose to be picked up from a list of locations
Please arrive at the pick up point 15 minutes before departure time.
Additional Information
We recommend you as pick up time the 06:30 am, if possible, in order to have ample time to enjoy your visit at the monasteries. Airport Pickup:Your driver will meet you upon your arrival at Athens airport at the customs exit holding an H.P.Tours sign with your name on. Port pickup:Your driver, will meet you at Piraeus Port at the customs exit holding an H.P.Tours sign with your name on. Notice that Piraeus port has three terminals, Terminal A, Terminal B and Terminal C. If your ship docks at Terminal A, your driver will meet you at the Terminal A exit holding an H.P.Tours sign with your name on. If your ship docks at Terminal B, your driver will meet you at the Terminal B exit holding an H.P.Tours sign with your name on. If your ship docks at Terminal C, your driver will meet you at the Terminal C exit holding an H.P.Tours sign with your name on. In case your ship docks at Terminal B or Terminal C and the exit gate is closed, you will need to take the shuttle bus to come to terminal A (3 MIN RIDE). Your driver will meet you at Terminal A holding an H.P.Tours sign with your name on.
