Here are my reviews from Trip Advisor – My girlfriend, sister, mom and I booked private tours of the Acropolis area (“Half day Athens walking tour” on their website) and the full day Delphi/Monestery of Osious Lukas tour. We wanted small group tours to be able to ask questions, take pictures without feeling rushed and be able to move along at our pace. Sorry for the length of this review in advance – I will start with the half-day Athens walking tour. We had Michael as our guide and he met us promptly at our hotel, which was near the Acropolis. He was fantastic, probably the best single tour guide we have ever had. His English was great, he provided interesting information about the history of Greece in an entertaining way and was a wonderful guide. He took pictures of us along the way and made the walking tour fun and entertaining. We actually ended up going about an hour long (5 hours instead of 4), probably because of all our questions/pictures, and Michael did not complain or mind at all. The tour is a fair amount of walking and hills so be prepared. If you are in average shape you will be fine (I am overweight and my mom is 60 and we were fine). The tour starts at the Acropolis and you work your way up to the stop as your guide tells you about the history and explains the sites. You see the 2 theaters at the bottom of the site, walk through the main entrance, climb up the stairs to the top. You see the Pantheon, the Temple of Athena and other ruins at the top. Then you walk down, go back through the main entrance, walk over the Temple of Jupiter, back to their “central park” and to the stadium. There are a couple stops along the way to stop but bring water and comfortable shoes. Overall great tour and Michael was awesome.You see all the main sites of Athens in a half day. Now for the Delphi Tour. Our guide here was good, she was knowledgable, answered our questions and told some interesting stories but was not quite as personable as Michael. She wasn’t bad though. Our driver to Delphi from Athens (Apostolis) was great. He talked to us the whole way there about the history of Delphi/Athens/Greece, answered our questions and was fun and pleasant. The drive to Delphi is about 2.5 hours each way. When we got there we met our guide, who took us on a guided tour of the museum (about 45 minutes or so) and then to the Delphi ruins. That was the perfect way to see the museum and the right amount of time. She took us through the ruins up to the main temple area, which got to about the 2 hour mark of the tour, and she left after that, allowing us to walk up further (the temple is only about halfway up the ruins) on our own. We spent another hour or so walking around the ruins, going all the way to the stop to the stadium. Note that there are a lot of stairs and the climb is fairly steep at times so wear tennis shoes and be careful. A middle-aged lady fell at some point and broke her leg so be careful. After about 3 hours there we left and our driver took us into the town for lunch at a great family place in the town of Delphi. The food was great and the views of the mountains were even better. On the way back we stopped at the Monestary for a few minutes before they closed. Originally told them we did not want to stop there because we wanted to spend more time at Delphi but later changed our minds, Apostolis was very accomodating. That stop, combined with taking extra time at Delphi put us about an hour behind schedule and the full day went from about 8am until 7pm. Apostolis was again very accomodating and by the end of the tour he felt like a member of our family. I would recommend going to Delphi if you have the time in Athens, as it is very quiet, peaceful and beautiful and the time in the car allowed us plenty of time to talk to our driver about Greece and Greek culture. I would highly recommend PK travels based on my experience and if I am ever back in Greece I would want to try their 4 day tour of Olympia and Meteora. I would say that you probably cannot go wrong with anything you book with them (I swear I do not work for them). I would say the walking tour of athens is a must do and the Delphi tour is great if you have an extra day in Athens.
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