Welcome to Magical Crete! You arrived here looking for something special, something extraordinary, something to will make your visit to Crete really unforgettable. You’ve come to the right place. Magical Crete, the memory creators, will do all that for you!
Meet Anoushka and Enda, the driving forces and combined brains behind Magical Crete and its Magical Mystery Tour program. Check out our blog for a stories, reports on activities, planned activities and much more.
What we do
Both Anoushka and Enda have years of experience as guides on the island. We both cut our guiding-teeth in the arena of mass tourism, and soon learned that this was not how tourists should or wanted to be treated. People come to visit this beautiful island, they want to meet its people and see and experience what they all call “The Real Crete”. But what is “The Real Crete”?
Many, many conversations with visitors later, we realised the everybody had their own idea of what “The Real Crete” is, and it dawned on us that what we were really being told is that the trips and tours on offer through almost all the main operators on the island do not represent anybody’s idea of “The Real Crete”. They do represent the most profitable trips and tours for the operators.
There are few, if any alternatives to what is on offer. The main message that comes across loud and clear is that visitors feel they aren’t being listened to. They get railroaded into accepting the 10 or so trips and excursions on offer as representative of “The Real Crete”. And those 10 or so trips and excursions are all that’s on offer. It doesn’t matter which operator you go to, they all offer the very same packages. Visitors are crying out for alternatives to the tourist traps they are being taken to.
We offer an alternative, not only in places to see, but also in how we operate …
What if …
- What if … rather than giving you a choice out of 10 pre-chewed tours we have, and do on our terms, we ask you what your interests are and create a unique, bespoke tour for you based on your terms?
- What if … rather than demanding you stand at the side of the road at 7.00 am and wait for us, we ask you what works for you and factor that in to the logistics of your day?
- What if … we limit the amount of people on your day to a maximum of 8 people of your choice?
- What if … You want to go alone and we honour your wish?
- What if … We simply put you first?
Sounds too good?
Why not give us a chance to prove that “too good” doesn’t exist? Fill out our questionnaire, or contact us first if you like, and we’ll talk with you and make all your concerns disappear in a puff of fresh thought!