Crete · SELF-GUIDED TOURS
The good self-guided tours fill up weeks ahead and the great ones go first. Below: the 15 to book early, what each includes and how they differ.
Prebook a Knossos time-slot e-ticket to skip lines, explore Minoan rooms at your pace, and optionally add self-guided audio in Crete.
“You get a lot of informations about ancient life and the culture”
Pre-booked Knossos entry with phone audio in your ear, plus optional Heraklion and Phaistos add-ons, for a self-paced visit.
“Easy to use app, interesting stories for the site. I totally recommend it!!”
Self-guided e-ticket combo for Knossos Palace and the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, with optional audio guides in 5 languages.
“Knossos and the museum are a perfect pairing, well worth the trip”
Prebook your Heraklion Archaeological Museum ticket plus an offline audio guide emailed in advance, with Minoan highlights like the Phaistos Disk.
“Wonderful tour and great guide. Needed to arrive early not for parking but for women to wait in line to go to the bathroom.”
Take the morning bus from Rethymno to explore Chania’s Old Town and Venetian Port, with a live multilingual guide and time to shop.
“Chania was so beautiful that our only complaint was that we had to leave at 4pm and wished we stayed longer. Our guide was very helpful and lovely!”
Tablet VR audio tour of Knossos Palace in Crete with 3D 360 reconstructions and spoken commentary in multiple languages.
“Not well explained. We missed many of the 3D video features until the end of the tour. We wasted 15 minutes trying to figure the technology out. Aim had to be perfect.”
Audio tours plus time-slotted e-tickets for Knossos and the Heraklion Museum in one day, with offline narration on your phone.
“Il est difficile de s'orienter correctement, et dès qu'on utilise son téléphone pour prendre une photo, faut relancer complètement l'appli sinon il n'y a plus de son. Mais sinon super intéressant !”
Prebook Knossos Palace entry plus an offline smartphone audio guide, timed access, and key stops from the Throne Room to purification.
“I had thought, when booking the tour, to be given a standard "go here, look at this, listen to the history of it" tour. That was not the case! The Clio tour is in fact more concerned with a general background of the period and people, and so it is better to view the palace at your own pace while listening as you walk. The background detail given is certainly interesting and I felt we had something that other visitors were not experiencing. My only criticism is that the Android app didn't auto-play so I had to keep manually starting the next part of the tour as I moved around.…”
E-ticket plus offline audio for Knossos and optional Heraklion Museum, plus a self-guided city audio tour on your phone.
“Il n’y avait pas de signalisation , les stations n’étaient pas clairement identifiées par des panneaux.”
Walk Chania’s Old Town with a VoiceMap self-guided audio tour on offline audio and maps, for $11.99 and lifetime access.
“This audio tour was super! The app literally guides you every step of the way. A great way to see historic Chania!”
Book an e-ticket and downloadable audio for Knossos and Heraklion, so you can explore the Minoan palace and old harbor streets on your phone.
“This Guide was Great! Clear, easy to follow, and understandable! We did like this particular company that provided this service - it's our second and quite good. Compared to our Acropolis experience - 100% improvement - which was entry ticket only and non audio tour!!”
Self-guided e-tickets plus offline audio for Knossos and the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, with time slots and phone-friendly maps.
“Really liked walking among the ruins. It was nice to listen to all the history there was and how everything was laid out and restored. We had beautiful weather and had a good time.”
Prebooked, time-slot entry to the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, plus a self-guided city audio tour to pair history with easy walking.
“Es un lugar extraordinario, donde se exhiben objetos milenarios en un estado de conservación sorprendente. Es algo que no debe perderse de ver.”
Audio guide for Knossos palace ruins on your phone with offline map, but you must buy the entrance ticket separately.
“Superb content, very accurate information about the Minoan Civilization ...even for an expert. Excellent sound performance. A Very helpful companion for a visit to the archaeological site of Knossos.”
Prebook your Chania Archaeological Museum entry and tour key highlights with an offline English audio guide on your phone.
“Beautiful building. Very well curated exhibits. Audio guide purchased here really helpful. No guide offered on arrival despite audio guide being available. So grateful to have this done (despite the poor pronunciation of Chania by the American audio voice). Loved the scales for weighing souls in particular.”
Every kind of day on the island, and the best of each.
