Explore Authentic Cretan Flavors with feast's Exclusive 7-Day Culinary Tour
Savor the Richness of Crete's Culinary Heritage
Length
7 Days
Group size
4-12 travelers
Travel style
Insider
Crete: A Culinary Discovery
Trip highlights
Olive Oil Tasting
Stay in Chania and Rethymno
Cretan Food Cooking Class
Winery visit & Tasting
The Feast experience
Streetfood Tour in Chania
Make Cheese with a farmer
"Sound of Plants" Show on Farm
Soap Making Workshop with Olive Oil
Destinations:
Arrival information:
On your 7-day culinary tour of Crete, you will discover the culture and cuisine of the largest Greek island.
You will stay in the picturesque old towns of Chania and Rethymno. In addition, you will get to know authentic Crete in different ways every day: For example, through cooking workshops or visits to regional producers. Of course, you will also taste the famous Cretan wine during a visit to one of the best-known wineries.
Still not enough? Extend your stay by a few days wherever you like.
You can be sure that Crete will enchant you with its authentic and diverse nature and show you a Greece that hardly any other tourist experiences.
Depending on local conditions, the order of the visits can be changed, but the entire programme will be adhered to.
Accommodation may be subject to change depending on availability and season.
Why book with Feast?
✔ Book with confidence: 20 years of experience VTT
✔ Small groups of 4-12 travellers
✔ All experiences, meals, guides and daily transfers included
✔ Sustainable travel, avoiding mass tourism sights
✔ Complete and flexible rescheduling without inconvenience, complexity, and stress with our Flexi option.
Every booking supports local communities through a small donation to our V Social Foundation. By clicking on this link, you can find out more about these projects.
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Itinerary
Day 1
Welcome to Crete!
Welcome Dinner Crete
Meals Included: Dinner
Transportation: Private Taxi (0:30h), By Foot (2:00h)
Today you arrive on Crete. You will meet your guide there in the late afternoon. After a short welcome at the hotel, you will take a tour of Chania.
You will then get to know your fellow travellers better at a first dinner in an authentic taverna. With good conversation, fantastic food and a glass of tsikoudia, get in the mood for your time on the gods' favourite island - Yamas and welcome to Crete!
Nefeli Hotel
Type: Hotel
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Facilities:
Bar
Restaurant
Room Safe
Internet/Wifi
Day 2
Street Food and Cretan Wine
Hassan Pascha Mosque
Food Tour Chania
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Transportation: Private Bus (1:00h), By Foot (4:00h)
Today you will explore Chania by foot. You start with a city tour, past the harbour and the lighthouse, to the mosque and the famous leather street. Take a short break with an ice-cold frappé. The tour continues with a street food tour, where you can sample various Cretan delicacies.
At lunchtime, you will head to the Manousakis winery, one of the most well-known on Crete. After a guided tour and a tasting of the famous Cretan wine, you will return to Chania, where you will have time to relax.
In the evening, you will once again enjoy a delicious meal together in Chania.
Nefeli Hotel
Type: Hotel
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Facilities:
Bar
Restaurant
Room Safe
Internet/Wifi
Day 3
Slow Food Farm to Table Experience
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch
Transportation: Private Bus (2:00h), By Foot (4:00h)
Today you will get the ultimate Slow Food experience. In the morning, after a hearty breakfast you will drive to the farm of Dounias. Get ready for an extraordinary experience: Pick olives, feed the farm animals, visit their honey farm and collect vegetables from the garden. The farmers will cook a delicious meal with the produce you collected using a special slow cooking technique - they don't use any electricity! Enjoy your lunch together with everyone at a big table. Did you know that in Greece dishes are shared when eating together?
How about a hike through the surrounding nature after lunch? Hike through the region nearby and take in the landscape and views.
After returning to the hotel you have some free time to enjoy Chania on your own.
Nefeli Hotel
Type: Hotel
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Facilities:
Bar
Restaurant
Room Safe
Internet/Wifi
Day 4
Exotic Fruit and Soap Making with Olive Oil
Soap Making with olive oil
Monastery Agia Triada
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Ready for some history and culture? Your guide will show you sights that Chania is famous for - like the Agia Triada Monastery on the mystical Akrotiri peninsula. It is considered the most impressive monastery of the Venetian era.
The next stop is a local producer who will show you how he grows mangos, lychees and other exotic fruit. You will for sure be surprised that these grow on the island of Crete. Maybe you will also taste some of the delicious fruit!
After having a delicious lunch together, you will drive to Rethymno where you will be staying the rest of your trip. Get ready to immerse yourself in local life: Together you will make fresh soap from local olive oil. During a workshop with the Kotzanioglou family, you will follow all the steps of the soap-making process and take your own product home with you at the end!
In the evening you will have dinner together at an authentic taverna in Rethymno.
Achillion Palace
Type: Hotel
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Facilities:
Air conditioning & private bathroom
Room Safe
TV in room
Internet/Wifi
Day 5
Baklava Presentation and Plant Garden Tour
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Transportation: Private Bus (1:00h), By Foot (3:00h)
Time to explore Rethymno! You will take a stroll through the old town and get to know the city. During your walk you will also get a chance to visit a traditional bakery, where you will see how Fyllo is traditionally made - and also have a taste of the famous sweet baklava.
After lunch you will have some time to rest and get ready for a really special visit: Maravel garden. You will learn all about different kinds of herbs and plants and have dinner prepared for you with vegetables from the garden. But the real highlight will be the sound and light plant show once it gets dark. This is something you cannot miss!
Achillion Palace
Type: Hotel
Visit Website
Facilities:
Air conditioning & private bathroom
Room Safe
TV in room
Internet/Wifi
Day 6
Be a farmer for a day
Introduction to farm life
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Transportation: Private Bus (3:30h), By Foot (0:30h)
Another exciting day awaits you today. After a stop for a traditional Greek coffee with views of Psiloritis mountain you will drive to Kamihis farm. There you will have the opportunity to experience farm life and also to participate at a cheese and pie making workshop! Mihalis will make your stay an unforgettable one with plenty of Greek hospitality. Be a farmer for a day and gather around the big table to have lunch together at the farm.
After resting a bit at the hotel back in Rethymno you will do a Cretan cooking class in the evening and enjoy a self-made farewell dinner.
Achillion Palace
Type: Hotel
Visit Website
Facilities:
Air conditioning & private bathroom
Room Safe
TV in room
Internet/Wifi
Day 7
Goodbye Greece!
Meals Included: Breakfast
After your last breakfast on Greece's largest island, you prepare for your trip back home.
From the plane, take one last look at the sparkling blue sea and the thousand islands in it - you are no longer a tourist on one of them, but have long since made it your home.
Perhaps you would rather not fly back home yet, but extend your trip. Our guides will be happy to give you further tips and advice for an extended stay.
Dates & Prices
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19
May
2024
25
May
2024
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EUR 2,199
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English speaking tour: This trip is being conducted in English.
Your guide for this tour
The tour guide for this trip will be announced shortly. Our guides are culinary specialists of the Mediterranean area, and are at least bilingual. Each of our guides is unique and brings their own personal touch to the trips, so you can discover the region as if you were travelling with a friend!
The indicated flight times and airlines may change, as we have to plan well in advance of the day of departure.
19
May
2024
25
May
2024
English speaking tour
From
EUR 2,199
7
Sep
2024
13
Sep
2024
From
EUR 1,999
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German speaking tour: This trip will be held in English.
Your guide for this tour
The tour guide for this trip will be announced shortly. Our guides are culinary specialists of the Mediterranean area, and are at least bilingual. Each of our guides is unique and brings their own personal touch to the trips, so you can discover the region as if you were travelling with a friend!
The indicated flight times and airlines may change, as we have to plan well in advance of the day of departure.
or
7
Sep
2024
13
Sep
2024
German speaking tour
From
EUR 1,999
or
21
Sep
2024
27
Sep
2024
From
EUR 1,999
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English speaking tour: This trip is being conducted in English.
Your guide for this tour
The tour guide for this trip will be announced shortly. Our guides are culinary specialists of the Mediterranean area, and are at least bilingual. Each of our guides is unique and brings their own personal touch to the trips, so you can discover the region as if you were travelling with a friend!
The indicated flight times and airlines may change, as we have to plan well in advance of the day of departure.
or
21
Sep
2024
27
Sep
2024
English speaking tour
From
EUR 1,999
or
Preferred date unavailable? You'd like to book further ahead in the future? Contact us
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Single Room Supplement
When booking online, you can choose the option "share room (if possible)". If no other participant chooses this option, you will be accommodated in a single room. The cost of the single room is EUR 320 and Feast will in that case pay 50% of the single room supplement, the rest will need to be covered by you. We will notify you approximately one month before the start of the tour.
What's included
All transfers during the trip (comfortable, air-conditioned minibus)
All described activities & entrance fees
Travel documents, detailed information and recommendations on what to take with you
All Meals as specified in the programme
Tour guide on site
Overnight stays in half double room (as standard) - single room available at an extra charge
Overnight tax
10 EUR donation to the VSocial Foundation to support community projects https://www.vsocialfoundation.org/
Lots of fun and experiences!
What's not included
Arrival and departure, transfer from the airport or railway station
Additional drinks
Tips
Travel cancellation and travel health insurance
FAQs
Can I cancel my trip?
If the traveller withdraws before the start of the trip or does not start the trip, Ventura loses the right to the travel price. Instead, Ventura may demand reasonable compensation from the traveller. This shall not apply if Ventura is responsible for the cancellation or if unavoidable, extraordinary circumstances occur at the destination or in its immediate vicinity, which significantly impair the performance of the package tour or the transport of persons to the destination; circumstances are unavoidable and extraordinary if they are beyond the control of the party invoking them and their consequences could not have been avoided even if all reasonable precautions had been taken.
Ventura has defined this claim for compensation to which it is entitled in the following cancellation fees. The calculation is made taking into account the time of the cancellation declared by the traveller up to the contractually agreed start of the trip, the expected saving of expenses and the expected acquisition through alternative use of the travel services. The compensation shall be calculated as follows according to the time of receipt of the declaration of cancellation by Ventura or the travel agent:
a) General cancellation fee (as a percentage of the travel price):
For bookings in the CLASSIC fare: up to 65 days before departure 20% from the 64th to 30th day before departure 25% 45% from the 29th to 15th day before departure from the 14th to 7th day before departure 60% from the 6th day before departure 80% 90% on the day of departure and in the event of a no-show
For bookings in the FLEXI fare: up to 65 days before departure 0% from the 64th to the 45th day before departure 10% from the 44th to the 30th day before departure 20% from 29 days before departure, the cancellation fees are identical to those of the CLASSIC rate
b) Special cancellation fee:
Special offers/specials, individually prepared package tours and group tours may be subject to special cancellation conditions, to which explicit reference is made in the respective service description or travel advertisement/offer and the travel confirmation in accordance with Art. 250 §§ 3, 6 EGBGB.
Ventura reserves the right to demand higher, specifically calculated compensation instead of the above cancellation flat rates, insofar as Ventura can prove the occurrence of significantly higher expenses than the applicable cancellation flat rate.
Do I need travel insurance?
We advise you to take out travel cancellation insurance, as it can always happen that you are unable to travel shortly before the departure date due to unforeseen illness, an accident or for other reasons. Repatriation assistance insurance is strongly recommended!
If you pay for your Feast trip with your VISA credit card, you are normally insured, but please ask your bank to confirm this. If you do not wish to take out insurance, Feast cannot be held liable.
Feast's travel insurance offer:
We offer 3 types of insurance (cancellation cover/all-round cover/travel cover) when you book online through our partner HanseMerkur. Of course, you can also contact other insurance companies of your choice.
The following links will take you to the insurance booking portal. After booking, you will receive your insurance documents and invoice directly from our partner HanseMerkur.
For Germany, Austria and Belgium, click here https://secure.hmrv.de/rvw-ba/initBa.jsp?baid=419&adnr=4562815&fTypId=0&locale=de_DE
For Switzerland, click here https://secure.hmrv.de/rvw-ba/initBa.jsp?baid=800&adnr=4577797&fTypId=0&st=HMINT&locale=de_CH&mId=21
You can book your travel insurance at any time from the moment you book your trip up to 30 days before the start of your trip.
Is the flight and transfer to and from the airport included?
No, all our tours include an individual journey in order to avoid unnecessary national bundled flights and to give you the opportunity to organise your journey individually.
We are happy to help you plan and decide on flights, train connections or intermediate stages.
If you need a transfer from the airport or train station, we can organise this for you.
What are the payment terms?
A deposit of 20% of the tour price is due upon receipt of the invoice. Please transfer the remaining payment no later than 21 days before departure. Bank transfers from Germany and other EU countries via IBAN and BIC are fast and inexpensive. You can also pay conveniently by credit card.
What happens if the minimum number of participants is not reached?
According to our terms and conditions, we can cancel the trip if the minimum number of participants is not reached up to 21 days before the start of the trip. As a rule, we will inform you one month in advance to discuss alternatives. You can then, for example, choose another date or an alternative trip. If these options are not suitable for you, we will refund the full travel costs already paid. However, it is rare that a trip cannot be realised. As soon as a trip is guaranteed to take place, we will highlight this on our "Dates & Prices" page.
When should I book my flight or train tickets?
You can start organising and booking your journey as soon as we have confirmed that the trip is guaranteed to take place. This happens at the latest approx. 30 days before the start of the trip. If the minimum number of participants has already been reached, you will of course be informed immediately.
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