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Small Group Tour: Soap, Olive Oil & Beekeeping Experience

By Localtrips4U.com
10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is £51 per adult

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

  • Taste, touch, smell, and connect
  • Visit the heart of Peza Valley and experience a guided olive mill tour
  • Step inside a family-run soap workshop
  • Meet a real Cretan beekeeper
  • Meet the people behind the products

Activity location

    • Agia Pelagia
    • Agia Pelagia, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Ξανθουδίδη και, Χατζηδάκη 1, Ηράκλειο 712 02, Ελλάδα | **Please note:** This rate applies to self-arrival bookings. The meeting point is outside the [Cretan Sailing] office in Heraklion. Guests are kindly asked to arrive 10 minutes before the scheduled departure time.
    • Iraklio, Greece

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Small Group Tour: Soap, Olive Oil & Beekeeping Experience

  • Activity duration is 4 hours and 30 minutes4h 30m
    4h 30m
  • English

Please note: This rate applies to self-arrival bookings, where guests meet our team directly at the designated meeting point: the [Heraklion Archaeological Museum]. Guests are kindly asked to arrive 10 minutes before the scheduled departure time.

Language options: English
Starting time: 09:00
Price details
£51.19 x 2 Adults£102.38
Total
Price is £102.38
Until Tue, 19 May

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Return transport in a comfortable, air-conditioned small group minivan from Heraklion city and selected hotel areas
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    Professional local driver / host throughout the experience
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Guided soap workshop visit with live presentation of traditional olive oil soap-making
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    Guided olive mill tour with extra virgin olive oil tasting and local pairings
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    Beekeeper experience including honey production presentation and tasting of local honey products
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Light tastings during the tour (olive oil, honey, local pairings, seasonal bites where available)
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Bottled water during transport
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    All local taxes and VAT
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    Pick-up and drop-off service from designated meeting points or selected hotels
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Full meals or lunch (this is a tasting-based experience, not a full dining tour)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Personal purchases such as soaps, honey, olive oil, cosmetics, or other local products available at the venues
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Additional food or drinks beyond the scheduled tastings
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Personal service charge for driver, host, or local producers (entirely optional, but always appreciated if earned the old-fashioned way)
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Personal travel insurance or personal photography equipment
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Pick-up outside the designated Heraklion service area (private transfers may be arranged at extra cost, subject to availability)

Know before you book

  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

What you can expect

Crete has no shortage of tours. Frankly, what it often lacks is honesty. That is where this experience stands apart. This is not a staged attraction route, and you will not be shuffled through souvenir shops disguised as “cultural stops.” Instead, you step into the everyday lives of real Cretan families—people who still make soap by hand, press olive oil from their own groves, and care for bees as their parents and grandparents did before them.

In just half a day, guests experience three authentic worlds of Cretan craftsmanship—soap making, olive oil production, and beekeeping—guided by the very people behind the products. Small groups mean real conversations, not someone waving a flag while fifteen people pretend to listen. Add comfortable transport, genuine tastings, countryside scenery, and the chance to meet locals who still work with pride rather than performance… and you have something increasingly rare in modern travel: the real Crete, untouched, unfiltered, and unforgettable.

Location

Activity location

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    • Agia Pelagia
    • Agia Pelagia, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Ξανθουδίδη και, Χατζηδάκη 1, Ηράκλειο 712 02, Ελλάδα | **Please note:** This rate applies to self-arrival bookings. The meeting point is outside the [Cretan Sailing] office in Heraklion. Guests are kindly asked to arrive 10 minutes before the scheduled departure time.
    • Iraklio, Greece