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Knossos Palace Exploration: Small Group Shared Tour with Licensed Tourist Guide
4.8
205 Ratings
Knossos
Join our small group tour of Knossos Palace in Crete. Skip the ticket line and explore the ancient palace with a licensed tourist guide. Discover the Minoan civilization and marvel at the colorful wall paintings in the House of the Frescoes.
Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
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The Palace of Knossos - Knossos! What an enchanting place! This is simply a must visit site in Crete if history, culture, and myth are of any interest to you at all. Hire a guide to help bring the place to life. It is harder to get a true sense of the place without the guidance and knowledge of experienced guides.
There is signage but it is simplistic and limited only sharing a fraction of what you’re actually seeing and why.
Knossos, a complex of more than 1500 interlocking rooms, was an astonishing palace, built for a mighty king of the Bronze Age. As you wander through the labyrinthine ruins, you will have the chance to see the original throne of “Minos”, the mystifying sanctuaries, the luxurious domestic quarters of the royal family, the once upon a time bursting with Creteâs treasures pantries and the astonishing water-management systems!
Skip-the-ticket-line service !
Licensed tour guide for a 90-minutes guided tour in a small group.
What's Included
- Guided Tour
- Knossos Palace skip-the-line entry ticket
- 90-minute tour with an English-speaking licensed guide
- Small group for a more personalized experience
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
Additional Information
Join our intimate group for a walking tour around the Knossos palace with a Certified Tourist Guide.
Bypass the ticket queues for easy entry into Knossos Palace.
Discover the antique palace, venture into the royal dwelling, and behold the throne of the Minoan king.
Be captivated by the House of the Frescoes and its vibrant murals.
Gain insights about the history of the Minoan Civilization, likely the oldest in Europe.
Please verify your location before making a reservation!
Crete is split into four sectors and approximately spans 260 km (162 miles) in length and 60 km (37 miles) in width. Crete comprises four areas: from west to east, Chania, Rethymnon, Heraklion, and Lasithi (Elounda, Agios Nikolaos).
Knossos palace is stationed at the heart of the island (Heraklion).
Distance from:
Heraklion’s center, port or airport (code HER) to Knossos palace is roughly 5 km (3 miles or 20 min by car)
- During summer periode (June-July-August) visit Knossos, escaping the crowds and not when it’s so hot! Unravel the myth of the labyrinth enjoy Knossos at its best time 17:00 o’clock (5:00pm) with us!
- We kindly remind you that the tour you booked is a shared one. It starts at the mentioned time and can not be delay for any reason. Our check in begins 15 minutes prior the starting time of the tour.
- IMPORTANT NOTE : Starting times are strictly kept. There is no exceptions policy.
- Entrance exclusively at the time slot of your choice! We would like to inform you that from 01-April-2024, in all Archaeological sites and Museums where the e-ticket is applied, entrance is only possible during the time slot of your choice. Please make sure to be at the entrance 15 minutes before your chosen time slot ! • Please bring your passport, if you qualify for a reduced price
Location
WeGuide.gr - Meeting point for guided tours
Meet your guide next to the entrance of the archaeological site, right next to the Little Garden restaurant by the ticket booth. Your guide will be holding a sign with the WeGuide logo.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(205 Ratings)
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Grace_s
Jun 24, 2024
Interesting and engaging tour! - This was a really wonderful tour! Our guide was very knowledgeable, and presented the history in an interesting and engaging manner. Akrivi, our guide, was also very conscious of the heat, and made sure we stopped in the shade as much as possible. We definitely appreciated Knossos more with this tour. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to learn about the history and the myths of the area!
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Dorothy_g
Jun 23, 2024
Excellent - I took my 11-year-old son on This . We had an Excellent guide Who was very friendly and Very knowledgeable about the history of the site and the people who inhabited it. Parking was easy and it was not too crowded. Fascinating ruins. Perfection!
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Dietmar_l
Jun 18, 2024
Very good guide - The guide was really knowledgeable and did a great job in explaining the history and the way the people lived in a catching way.
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Purcell
Jun 6, 2024
Ancient site that requires a guide - Katerina was a great guide! Knossos would be very difficult to navigate without a guide, as they don’t even have information placards (from what I can remember) around the site. It was fun to have an archaeologist and historian bring everything to life. The site is not just a single palace but a large ancient city. Katerina also had photographs and told stories to help us understand this amazing place. The site itself is a very well-run tourist destination with a great cafe (with espresso!) and then souvenir shops on the outside street. It was also nice to skip-the-line as the lines get very long. The company did a great job being close to the entrance, and it was easy to find them. Note that the bathrooms do charge .50 euro. Also note that many of the paintings/murals/mosaics at the actual site are recreations and the originals are at the Heraklion Archaeological Museum (another must see!).
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Daniel_o
Jun 6, 2024
Knossos palace tour - Good coverage of material for Greek mythology. Also offered a lot of insight into the “palace” itself. Perfect amount of time.
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Anastasia_c
Jun 5, 2024
Knossos palace - Our your guide was fantastic & very knowledgeable!!! She explained everything to us & was very sweet to have us wait in the shade while she waited in the queue to visit the ruin
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Zijie_g
Jun 5, 2024
An Educational Visit to the Labyrinth - Akriti was friendly and knowledgeable. They made our visit to the Labyrinth eye opening and memorable.
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Sandpmom
Jun 3, 2024
Great tour, wonderful guide! - Tour was excellent and skip the line a must! Our tour guide was incredibly knowledgeable and provided connection between history and mythology. She also did a great job of finding shade! TIP: try to get either an early morning or early evening tour to avoid heat and crowds
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Nuhar2018
Jun 18, 2024
Konossos palace and ruins. An ok trip to it - It was a very very hot day for this. Just ruins and a bunch of red columns. Nothing much to tell you about it. If you like history and archeology you will like it. We finished it in 20 min. It was so so.
We didn't take the tour guide because I read about it before hand and made a guide myself to my family of nine people 😄
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Chanty1990
Jun 13, 2024
One big chaos and bad organisation - This was a disaster. We were looking forward to this but it was a big disappointment. We rented a car so we looked up if there was a parking and there was but it was verry small. It is one of the most famous attractions of Crete and one of the most famous mythes of the greek culture, you would expect that it would be really good organised. It was one big chaos. Busses, cars and people were blocking eachother, it was even a bit dangerous. The shops on the other side of the street are really close to the street and with all the traffic there, it is also really dangerous. At the entrance you have a lot of possibilities to buy tickets but no one know where you need to be, there are no signs. Then at the entrance gate you don't know if it is an entrance for groups of for regular visitors, so again, chaos. The lines at the tickets ans at the entrance were enormous. When we could filaly enter the site. It was even more chaos. People were packed. A lot of groups crisscross through eachother, people in wheelchairs trying to go through, ... we couldn't see a thing. A bit furter on the site we had a bit more room to take some pictures but it was still verry packed. We dindn't had the chance to see the throneroom because it was waiting in line for almost an hour in the heat. So in a nuttshell it was one big disappointment!!!
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