2-Day Trip to Delphi and Meteora from Athens

Spectacular trip visiting the Temple of Apollo and the famed location of the Oracle and original Pan Hellenic games. Truly incredible site. This followed by the mind blowing Minasteries of Meteora. Truly a site to behold. Breathtaking scenery and the monasteries themselves were truly beautiful. Of course the tour would have been nothing without our incredible Tour guide Ave ( short name :))! Ave was incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about every location and Grecian history in general! His added details about the Grecian gods and their followers made the tour truly come to life. Thank you Ave!!! Only negatives are more about the food. The stop at the Restaurant at the sea was just bad. Bland, overpriced food. Maybe indicative of the region but just felt like a tourist trap. The food at the Hotel that evening was even worse. Why not take us somewhere nicer. I would have happily paid for it. Lunch by the Monasteries was delicious with a great view. Do better with the food Chat Tours! This is why I gave 4 stars instead of 5. Note: it is a long trip with about a 5-6 hour drive back from Meteora at the end.

We booked the two days tour to Delphi and Meterora in March 2022. When we booked it on viator.com, we noticed there are two different itineraries available. One will make a stop at Arachova village for 1 hour 30 minutes and the other has a stop at Leonidas Monument. We booked the first one as we like to see Arachova village. We started our two days tour on May 19, 2022 but there was no stop at the village as mentioned on the website. We talked to the tour guide Effia on the bus at around 6:00pm and showed to her the two different itineraries on viator’s website. At that time our itinerary was still showing on the website, she can be our witness. She helped us to call customer service to find out why. However the lady on the phone insisted there’s only one itinerary and could not find our itinerary with a stop at the village. She did not offer any help at all. When we pointed it out to Effia, we only wanted to clarify but not to make any complaints. If there’s a mistake on the website that misleads customers, we can accept an apology. We just want to voice out and clarify. However after we spoke to customer service at around 7:00pm, someone changed the itinerary on the website and deleted the stop at the village in order to cover up the mistakes and then emailed us at 7:18pm with a link for the updated itinerary. This is totally unacceptable and ridiculous. They make us look like a fool and don’t know what we paid for is a nonsense. Everyone makes mistakes and if they admit it sincerely, they can still maintain their goodwill but instead of doing so, they cheated and tried to cover it up. THIS IS BAD!!!! We are very disappointed with Viator’s service. We will put a very bad review on viator’s website. To run business successfully is by honesty, not by telling lies!!!!

What an amazing trip. They gave sufficient breaks. Everything was perfectly timed. My hotel was Amalia and I don’t expect it to be so good. The lady guide was awesome. I would definitely recommend this to all.

The sights and guiding were excellent, the restaurants that we were taken to around the sights was decent but clear tourist priced. The hotel stay and included meal were OK but not more.

Was a great trip with 2 very nice and great story telling guides. Only things....would have liked alittle more time in Delphi and we saw two monestaries but nunneries. Would have liked to have seen one nunnery and one monk monestary. Other than that was great!

We were picked up from our hotel without any problem. The bus was quite full because it was like a common bus for 2 tour operators. When we reached a place before Delphi, we transferred to the bus of our actual tour operator. The bus was also quite full because we (2-day trippers) are joining the 4-day, 3-day tour on their 3rd/2nd day. There is WIFI on the bus but the guide did not share this until we asked -- probably mentioned to all the 4-day or 3-day trippers already. The information given is like a continuing story from the 4day,3day tour which us (2day) have no idea of. I suggest that the guide he/she speak in the point of view that everyone on the bus are new - no reference to previous 2 days. After the transfer to the new bus, we went to Delphi. Unfortunately, there was a strike of the workers at the Temple of Apollo - it is closed. We were not able to see the temple up close. Instead, we walked to Athena's temple in Delphi where we can see the Temple of Apollo from afar. This is quite frustrating but this is not controlled by tour operator. We then stopped by the Spartan monument before going to Amelia Hotel in the outskirts of Meteora. It would have been better if the hotel was located in the Meteora center so we can already start admiring the monolithic stones as soon as we arrive. Anyways, dinner and breakfast was good. We then proceeded to visit 2 monasteries. The views on Meteora was really breathtaking. Despite the strike and some not so good experiences along the way, I still recommend this tour. I just hope the tour operator use these reviews to make the experiences of their future travelers more complete.

You spent most of the trip in the car and about 30-45 at the three stops. The tour guide was nice but only talked for a few minutes at each site and they gave you time to walk around. The hotel was nice and the included food was good. For non-paid meals and rest stops they took you to specific restaurants where options were very limited, not good, and pricey. Overall the Delphi and Meteora were nice to see but not worth it.

Joy was our first tour guide to Delphi. Instead of talking to the tour she talked to the driver the whole time. Finally got to Delphi and she talked which gave us limited time to see the sites. Then we were transferred to another tour. Our tour guide was much better but the hotel was just ok. Enjoyed the monetary but the guide did not check which one was open so we had to go to a different one. Wish we had more time to see the sites

The first 1/2 day tour to Delphi was too rushed and less than satisfactory. Then we joined another bus with the same company. It was a night and day difference. We spend 1-1/2 days in Meteora. Our tour guide Giota was excellent in explaining the history and kept us engaged.

Overall the trip was worth the cost, the time, and the length of bus travel. History and geology converge to give this trip a great perspective. The guides were very pleasant, and did a great job explaining why the areas are so important to Greece, as well as keeping us organized. Poor weather at Meteora (cloud & drizzle) challenged visibility, but that was just the luck of the draw. Viator did a great job. Thanks for the experience.