The Real Cretan Cooking Experience
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From $102.82
190 reviews (4.95)
Price varies by group size
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Duration: 6 hours
Departs: Crete, Crete
Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Free cancellation
Overview
Join us and live an incredible journey through the Cretan cuisine and culture...
Tour Highlights
• Introduction and welcome drink
• Vegetable picking from the family garden
• Cooking class of traditional Cretan recipes
• Experience the use of the old wood-oven
• Hear the stories and origins behind each dish
• Wine tasting combined with cheese platters in Cretan varieties
• Tour around the theme rooms of the family house
• Introduction of the Cretan weaving tradition
• Admire extraordinary artifacts of the past and learn about the Cretan way of life in the previous centuries
• Feel part of a local family inside an embracing environment
• Enjoy the spectacular front and rear view of the cottage to the sea and the mountain
• Savor the freshly made dinner along with good Cretan wine
What's Included
All ingredients for your lunch
Commemorative gifts
English speaking, local driver/guide
Recipes & photos taken on tour are sent electronically via e-mail
Small-group cooking class
Transport by air-conditioned minivan/minibus
Use of apron and cooking utensils
Wine & Food tasting
What's Not Included
Gratuities (optional)
Traveler Information
- INFANT: Age: 0 - 2
- CHILD: Age: 3 - 11
- ADULT: Age: 12 - 99
Additional Info
- Dress code is comfortable clothing - good shoes
- Face masks required for guides in public areas
- Guides required to regularly wash hands
- Please check the pick up areas before you book this tour.
- Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
- Transportation vehicles regularly sanitised
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Face masks provided for travellers
- Gear/equipment sanitised between use
- Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
- Regular temperature checks for staff
- Social distancing enforced throughout experience
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Experience may be cancelled due to Insufficient travelers
- This experience requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
Reviews
Thought has been put into it all - from tastng wines to things to do whilst food is cooking.
Beautiful late evening views from the cookery school across countryside to the coast.
Good company with guests on the tour. A nice activity if you are solo travelling. The food we cooked was good too!
Top tip : Wrap up for evenings as mountain is air cooler.
During the tour we received a brief history lesson as we drove out of the city, we fed the family goats, prepared the meals before the family cooked them, had a wine and cheese tasting, received another history lesson and then feasted on the food we prepared with the family. All in all we tasted about 4-5 different wines and had about 7-9 different plates of different dishes. If this family did a different tour, we would’ve booked that tour had we had more time in Crete. Overall amazing experience, would book through them again if we come back to Crete.
There we met the cook, Diamond (sorry forgot how to spell her name in Greek) and her husband Jorge.
We had so much fun cooking healthy vegetable foods, and we learnt new tips and tricks
Yannis is very friendly and full of knowledge about many subjects. We had a tour of the family home, ate cheese and breadsticks. We do not drink wine nor eat meat yet our hosts were so kind to make us feel included every step of the way.
At the end we ate together and enjoyed ourselves especially the family of four from Boston they were hilarious!
Overall u highly recommend this cooking course if you are in crete especially Chania.
