Ganztägige Balos- und Gramvousa-Tour ab Chania

Was told the bus to pick us up would be at 9:20 and it was on time, and tour guide was very helpful and spoke multiple languages. The boat has lots to offer food wise on board, drinks, ice cream, hot meals, sandwiches. I would bring swimming shoes for the balos beach sea, getting in is very rocky and slippery, however the lagoon has some rocks but mostly sand if you avoid the rocks, crystal waters. Lots of people but we didnt really notice how many there was because the water and scenery was the main attraction.

Our pick up guide was lovely enough so not a commentary on them but the actual experience. It took us from pick up in old town chania to the bus TWO hours. Then load in time to the ferry, load out time. We were picked up at 8am and didn’t get to balos til nearly noon? The ferry had hundreds of people and it felt like we were being herded. The boat was so overcrowded with people having nowhere to sit. You get to balos, which is beautiful but small and overcrowded by this giant boat of people. Repeat long board/herding to next site. By the time we got back to the bus at the end of the day, we decided we weren’t going to spend another two hours on the bus and paid $65 for a cab. The experience was not worth the time at all. If you have all the time in the world, I guess it’s fine but we spent most of the day just being herded. We did another experience the next day that also had a bus pick up and was even further but travel time was better, group size was better and we had allllll day afterwards. Really depends on what you’re looking for but we would not recommend this particular excursion

Helena (Reiseleiter) war wunderbar, so süß, so sachkundig! Und hat immer auf uns aufgepasst. Strände waren euphorisch. Aber leider muss ich sagen, Jungs - ich hatte auf der Fähre sofort eine schlechte Erfahrung - ich stieg ein und der Fotograf schrie mich sofort und unprofessionell an - (ich glaube, mein Fuß war auf einem Foto, oder das gefiel mir nicht) . Ich war ziemlich erschüttert und fühlte mich ziemlich unwillkommen. Wir werden auch ruhige schöne Orte besuchen, so hoffte ich, dass die Fähre entspannter wäre, nicht der Fall nach dem Schreien, laute schlechte Popmusik während der langen Fährfahrten gespielt, die auch sehr unbequem!