Top 13 Walking Tours in Crete

1.Knossos Palace Skip-the-Line Guided Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.8 · 1,380 reviews · 1.5 hours · from $104Our pick

Skip the line at Knossos Palace with a licensed guide, hear Minoan myths and engineering, and add the Archaeological Museum if you want.

“Our guide was great and we really enjoyed her extensive knowledge of Knossoss. Highly recommend this tour.”

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2.Walking “Food tasting tour” in the town of Chania

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 297 reviews · 2 hours 20 minutes (approx.) · from $105.26Top rated

Walk Chania on a 2.5-hour food tasting with bougatsa, cheeses, olives, sweets, raki, coffee, and local shops, ending at a grocery stop.

“Took my in-laws to Greece for the 2 st time and they had a blast even tho they didn’t speak English Christos was very patient for my wife to translate everything he was saying my recommendation is to skip lunch before because you will be well fed”

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3.Food Tastings Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 136 reviews · 4 hours · from $114

Taste Crete in Heraklion with Greek coffee, bougatsa, cheeses, olive oil, and wine on an 4-hour walking tour to Rocca a Mare.

“An absolutely delightful experience! Eva (our guide) was simply fantastic. She managed to transport us on a journey not only gastronomic, but also cultural. We discovered Heraklion, a lively city with a history linked to the Mediterranean world. If I had to sum it all up in one word: exceptional. Don't miss it!”

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4.PRIVATE Walking Tour with Lunch and Wine Tasting by a Sommelier

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 113 reviews · 4 to 5 hours (approx.) · from $193.50

Private Chania walking tour with coffee at Profiti Ilia, a sommelier-led tasting of 4 Cretan wines, and a lunch packed with local favorites.

“amazing. group was small and our guide was amazing! he brought us to local places we would've never gone and was so fun. he taught us so much about chania/greece and it felt like we were running around with a dear friend. we had a huge lunch at the end of the tour where we got to try different local dishes. 10/10. me and my other girl friend felt safe.”

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5.Rethymno Walking & Gastronomy Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 103 reviews · 3 to 4 hours (approx.) · from $107.63

Walk Rethymno’s old town for Cretan breakfast, olive oil and honey, phyllo workshop, mezedes lunch with raki and wine.

“We had an amazing experience with Michael on our tour of Rethmyno. The weather didn’t exactly cooperate during our tour, but Michael was unflappable and found an additional stop for us to take to escape the fast forming rain shower that flooded the streets. Our tour was intentionally kept small, which was appreciated, as it provided a more personalized experience. The tour description was spot on, but we found out that the tour is constantly evolving based on feedback to further improve the customer experience. We appreciated the small town and small business feel with the tour and loved that all of the locals seemed to know Michael. We would…”

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6.Old Town Walking Tour with Meal

★★★★★★★★★★4.9 · 73 reviews · 4 hours · from $205

Taste Rethymno Old Town with honey, olive oil, raki, and phyllo lessons, plus a Cretan breakfast and a lemon-tree meal.

“We did this tour on our first full day in Rethymno and are very glad we did! Our guide was so lovely and insightful, with plenty of knowledge about the town and history. The food was delicious and we really felt the tour gave us the inside info needed to navigate the better spots for food and shopping and avoid the touristy bits.”

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7.Chania Walking Food Tours Crete with a local!

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 61 reviews · 3 hours (approx.) · from $107.86

Taste Chania like a local on a 3-hour walking food tour with Stella, including bougatsa, filo, cheese, honey, olive oil, and lunch.

“We’ve done food tours before, we love to include them when travelling but the food on this tour was exceptional. Stella was an amazing tour guide and we loved it being only a small group. It was easy to hear everything she had to share.”

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8.Knossos Palace Guided Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 60 reviews · 1 hour 30 minutes (approx.) · from $72.41

A 90-minute English guided walk through UNESCO Knossos Palace, with licensed guide, headsets for larger groups, and skip-the-line ticket help.

“Our guide Joanna, enriched our visit to Knossos Palace in so many ways. She is passionate about the history of this place and certainly has a talent for storytelling. Her descriptions were very immersive and vivid, helping to understand what a visitor would experience entering the palace many thousand years ago. She is good at putting myths and scientific facts apart and presenting a realistic story of this site. We can certainly recommend it.”

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9.Full Day Samaria Gorge 10-Mile Walking Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 52 reviews · 14 hours (approx.) · from $48.06

Full-day hike through Samaria Gorge from the north coast to Agia Roumeli, with hotel pickup, guided 10-mile trek, and boat return.

“This made for a very long day, but was so, so worth it! The gorge itself was absolutely beautiful, and the early start was great, as it felt cool when the trail began, with lots of shade for the first half, but became quite hot by the end. The beautiful flowers, wild thyme, rugged rock, clear water, and little wooden bridges were breathtaking at every turn. The terrain definitely tests your ankles, and once you are out of the gorge itself, there is still a 2 km walk to the beach. However, we were very glad to have done it. Our 15, 14, and 10 year old kids said they’d…”

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10.Guided Walking Tour in Chania

★★★★★★★★★★3.5 · 39 reviews · 2 hours (approx.) · from $32Best value

A 2-hour Chania walking tour at 5:00 pm, blending craft districts, churches, and the Old Venetian Harbor with an English guide.

“The time of the tour was changed at the last minute with no explanation. The tour was supposed to be for 2 1/2 hours but it only took 1 hour.”

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11.Knossos Palace Guided Walking Tour (Without Tickets)

★★★★★★★★★★4.6 · 32 reviews · 1.5 hours · from $70

Skip the ticket line at Knossos with a licensed English guide in a small group, then pay the entry fee cash onsite. 1.5 hours.

“Our guide, Akrivi, was amazing, her English was perfect, she was very knowledgeable, polite and eager to help throughout the tour.”

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12.Chania Walking Food And Wine Night Tour

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 31 reviews · 3 hours (approx.) · from $144.17

3-hour Chania Old Town food and wine walk with Crete classics, olive oil and honey tastings, and a harbor sunset dinner.

“Stella was a very kind and helpful tour guide, it felt like she gave us an authentic Chania experience and the food places she chose were very great! She picked very local dishes as well and also asked for our input on some stops. My only comment is that it should be a little cheaper... Also could use more wine.”

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13.Heraklion Food Stories Walking Tour with 8 local-favorite stops

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 30 reviews · 4 hours (approx.) · from $116.54

Heraklion Food Stories walk with 8 local stops, sand-brewed Greek coffee, bougatsa, cheese tips, olives, and Cretan wine.

“Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and took us to some amazing coffee house and restaurants. We totally enjoyed or experience.”

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