Exploring Crete Traveller Reviews

The tour of Crete was fabulous! The tour and country exceeded my expectations. The accommodations were great......from a modern hotel with all the amenities to small villages with very comfortable, interesting apartments. The food was incredible.......the local produce, cheeses and meats and seafood were well prepared and copious. Our fellow tour-mates were great travel companions: we represented the USA, UK and Canada. Crete was wonderful with widely differing terrain and fascinating archeology.

Our tour guides were outstanding. Maria and Heinrich were well-matched and complimented one another well. I really enjoyed the mythology presented by Maria. The tour was well planned with every detail addressed.

A well led trip by two thoroughly professional and sociable guides. The accommodation was a treat with stays in old mansions and converted mountain village homes.

This is our third trip with Peter Sommer and recommend them highly to firends.

A wonderful first visit to Crete, guided by experts as part of a small group (10 guests) to visit key sites throughout the island. Superb accommodation, meals and company. No reservations in recommending this holiday.

Peter Sommer Travels arranges the most interesting and attractive tours. Clients are treated like family members and no effort is spared to make everything as good as it can possibly be.

I found Crete to be very interesting enhanced by the two guides. I especially enjoyed the culinary aspects. Our guides were interesting, engaging, and fun!

Peter Sommer offers terrific value for the money. Easy planning. Some of the best guides. True professionals in every way.

We spent 12 lovely days exploring Crete, the Minoan civilization, it’s rich Roman, Venetian, Turkish, and Greek history. We enjoyed the beauty of the island and the food was fantastic.

This was our first tour with Peter Sommer but we hope it is not our last. We were a group of 10 with two fantastic guides, two of the best we have ever experienced.

We explored 7000-10,000 years of Cretan history and were introduced to some of the best food, olive oil, and wine ever! The accommodations were wonderful, inventive and inviting.

The professionals at Peter Sommer Travels are amazing. They are well organized, provide an outstanding travel and education experience, and go out of their way to make everyone feel comfortable. Our tour guides, Maria and Michael, were phenomenal. Not only are they highly trained archaeologists who bring life to the past in creative and fun ways, they use that history as a foundation to introduce you to present-day Crete. I still dream about the wonderful food!

This was our first trip with Peter Sommer Travel. It was our first time in Crete but the pre tour info gave us a good insight as to what we could expect. The focus was on archaeology and food. The tour guides were experts in these fields. They had a great knowledge of the archaeological sites which were chosen with care so we experienced a variety of sites that covered a wide span of history. A particular strength was their ability to convey their knowledge to the tour participants so we came away with a real understanding of the sweep of history we were exposed to. As for the food we were able to sample a wide variety of the Cretan regional cuisines and felt the menus never got boring. While we expected a great archaeological tour the food was a great bonus. We are currently checking out another Peter Sommer tour for next year. Many of the tour members were frequent participants with Peter Sommer. Their enthusiasm for some of the other available tours was infectious, and now we know why. Another plus was that the tour attracted folks from all over the world which added interest and made mixing very enjoyable.

The Peter Sommer tour was a great experience. Both guides were excellent subject matter experts, were approachable and related well with the group. Everything was well organized, and they were able to fit in some extra tour visits. The bus driver was excellent in dealing with narrow village "roads", and edgy mountain switchbacks. Before the tour the office staff were able to answer all our questions in a friendly and timely way.

Our holiday in Crete was wonderful. Our travels included curated visits to Minoan sites and museums, tiny and colorful Byzantine village chapels, and agro experiments where mountain villages are turned into lodging. The emphasis is on archeology and history of the island. The food and lodging was incredible with our local tour guide involved the whole way, making sure needs were met.

We are USA based and found Peter Sommer Travels easy to work with. Their tour website was amazingly accurate and we had great confidence embarking on this tour with them. Peter Sommers travels is a highly professional operation.

We had a highly enjoyable trip with Peter Sommer Travel exploring Crete's architecture, culture and food. With two very knowledgeable guides we learned a lot about the island's rich history as well as enjoying delicious food and wine.

Extremely well organised tour which had clearly been carefully planned.

We spent 16 days with a group of like-minded people from several countries being led through the history of the people who have called Crete home over a period of 4500 plus years. Michael and Maria, our leader/guides took us on a comfortable coach to twelve ancient cities and a number of museums, telling us when the cities were lived in and who lived at each place. Meals were taken at restaurants which presented the best of local foods and accommodation was at interesting and comfortable places. We thoroughly enjoyed the holiday and are looking forward to further adventures with Peter Sommer Travels

Peter Sommer Travels runs organised tours concentrating on archaeology, local food and staying at interesting accommodation places. This tour, our fourth with Peter Sommer, fully lived up to our expectations in all regards. We were led by two enthusiastic guides whose knowledge of Crete and its long, intricate history gave us an insight into this long history, challenging our imagination and entertained us with historic stories and Greek myths. The tour was organised as well as any we have taken, seemingly without hiccups at any stage.