Exploring Athens Traveller Reviews

This was a week-long tour of Athens and surrounding areas of Attica on which we visited sites of interest from antiquity, museums and on the last day, sites of interest from Athenian and Greek history from the 19th and 20th centuries. It was a small tour group of only four people, and so we were able to interact extensively with our excellent guide, Nota, who is an Athenian with a lot of knowledge and a lot of passion for the history of her home region. Accommodation for the week was in a lovely hotel in central Athens with an excellent view of the Acropolis. Highlights for my wife and I were visits to Eleusis and the shrine of Demeter and Persephone, the coastal fortress of Aigosthena, Marathon, the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum.

This was our second tour with Peter Sommers Travel. Both have been excellent, with very good communication prior to the tour from the moment of expressing interest. We know that Peter Sommers Travel tours will be well organised, will have excellent and knowledgeable guides, and that they will proactively deal with any issues that arise during the tour. We plan to book future tours with them.

This was a perfect follow-up to Cruising to the Cyclades, consolidating and expanding on what we had seen and learned. It was also a pleasure to explore contemporary Athens with our knowledgeable guide. Our hotel was excellent and well located for independent exploration.

Low-key efficiency, perfect logistics, no add-on costs

My experience, a week-long tour of Athens, was superb. We saw not only the usual tourist sites, but several that were certainly off the beaten track. The visits to the National Archaeological Museum and the Acropolis Museum, as well as several smaller ones, were fascinating. Museums can be overwhelming, but our guides pointed out the most significant items and explained their context and meaning. The organization of the tour and the accommodations were excellent and the meals, superb.Our 2 guides, both archaeologists, were enormously knowledgeable, did a wonderful job of sharing their knowledge, and were charming companions, as well. Now, for gods's sake (Athena and Poseidon, in particular). give them back their Marbles!

Peter Sommer Travel was a pleasure to work with. The were helpful and prompt with all my inquiries and helpful with additional arrangements. I would be happy to go on one of their tours again.