Exploring the Peloponnese Traveller Reviews

Twelve travelers and two expert guides spent two weeks visiting the Peloponnese peninsula seeing such legendary sites as Mycenae, Olympia, and Pylos. The itinerary was well-planned, little time was wasted, food was fine and plentiful. The guides were knowledgeable, attentive, flexible, and funny. I would recommend this tour to anyone with an interest in Greek history.

The Peter Sommer company did an excellent job. We had signed up to take this tour in spring of 2020 but Covid cancelled that. They were very helpful in arranging for us to revise our plans. There were no surprises in terms of cost; we paid what we had agreed, no add-ons or extras. Everyone from office staff to guides to the driver performed their parts impeccably.

The trip was fantastic- well planned, fascinating, and fun. The focus was archaeology, our obsession, but there was time for natural beauty, great food and a little wandering.

Heinrich and Nota are both archaeologists, so they could help us understand what we were seeing. And they are both fun, organized and have a great sense of humor.

A14 day mini-bus tour of the archaeological & historic sites of the Peloponnese led by 2 archaeologists/historians. Very well planned and organised with good choice of hotels and restaurants. Tour was made by the excellence in every respect of the two guides, one German archaeologist who has lived and worked in Greece for many years, and one Greek historian specialising in the Byzantine period. Very nice and able people

Peter Sommer Travels is a small UK firm that specialises in cultural tours in the Eastern Mediterranean

Fabulous trip around the Peloponnese with high qualified guides

Every aspect was perfect from planning, communication, hotels, meals and expertise of the guides

2 week miniI-bus tour of the Peloponnese historic sites led by 2 excellent archeologist/historian guides. Good choice of hotels & restaurants & great attention to detail to make the trip the obvious success that it was

Peter Sommers Travel is a small UK travel company specilaisingin cultural historic tours in the eastern Mediterranean

From our guides' comprehensive elucidation of ancient times and sites that were visited to current day culture, especially modern Greek cuisine, this tour was a beautifully curated experience.

Peter Sommer Travels is a distinguished company that has years of extensive experience in the Mediterranean. The sites that were selected were many and varied. One really felt that the guides and the company had a real personal interest in ensuring that we enjoyed and appreciated what we experienced.

We knew before we left home that this would be good tour, as we had toured with Heinrich Hall in the past. And, sure enough, he showed us a great many things, in a useful order. The choices of sites were a compromise of too-easy and too-hard, physically, so everyone was happy with the amount of climbing around on the ruins that we did.. Foods available in the offered restaurants were absolutely wonderful; And the hotel choices for the program were incomparable to what we would have found on our own! We have already signed up for another Peter Sommer tour, our sixth(?), for 2020, also in Greece.

Peter Sommer Tours, specializing in historically and archaeologically significant sites in what we Americans call "Europe". Tour guides are truly experts in the sites studied, and often the designers of new tours.

We toured the Peloponnese with 2 excellent guides who made the archaeology and history come alive. Scenery was fantastic including the spring flowers and verdant hills. We were astonished at the variety and high quality and freshness at the selected restaurants.

Peter Sommer Travel was perfect in their communications, planning, assistance and execution. I cannot imagine how they could have served us better.

We had a most enjoyable 2 week tour through the Peloponnese in May this year. The itinerary was well chosen, the commentary from the guides very erudite yet not overwhelming. The trip was well planned and executed, any wish was attended to and our female guide went out of her way to make the experience as pleasant as possible. A lot of attention was paid to give us a taste of the variety of regional Greek food and wine. We followed the two weeks with another two week sailing trip through the Cyclades, back to back. Once again the experience was repeated, so it is fair to say that Peter Sommer provides consistently good service. It might be worth mentioning that the Peloponnese was physically quite demanding, as per advice given, the Gulet holiday on the other hand very relaxing with lots of downtime. This was our first experience with group travel and we were positively surprised; both groups had most pleasant travelcompanions (easier than travelling with friends). Highly recommended.

Very helpful and organised, well planned, interesting itinerary, wonderful guides.

Well organised; caring; all I could have expected

Very helpful in all the organisation