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We use our years of experience & local knowledge to organize the best private day and multi-day tours. Our focus is on quality without a mass market approach and our strength is first-hand knowledge combined with a highly tailored service to bring you the best of the many things Greece has to offer.
Athens, Attica, Greece

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Sally T
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5.0 of 5 bubbles
Apr 2023 • Friends
While we were in Greece we booked a tour with Warmpenguin Private Tours and Visilis was our guide. This tour company was very easy to work with. I highly recommend asking for Vasilis because he is extremely knowledgeable about Greek history and geography. I only wish we could’ve had him along during our entire stay in Greece. He took us in a very nice clean Mercedes van to the Meteora area to see four monasteries near Kalabaka and to Thermopylae to see the Hot Gates battle area. We also stopped for lunch at a wonderful Greek restaurant with delicious traditional meals. He stopped anytime we wanted to take pictures. It was a full day and a fun day.
Written 19 April 2023
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Thank you so much for taking the time to leave us such a great review. We are so pleased you enjoyed your tour with us. We hope to meet you again in the future. Warmest wishes from all the team at Warmpenguin Tours!
Written 19 April 2023
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mellyelliott
Houston, TX1 contribution
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Mar 2023 • Couples
Demetris was awesome! He was informative, hospitable, and really made us feel more like friends than work. He had great knowledge of everything, and took the best care of us. I highly, highly recommend going with him- I know we will on our next trip back!
Written 14 March 2023
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Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We are so pleased you enjoyed your tour with us. As a past or existing guest, we are happy to say that you also qualify for a minimum 15-20% discount on almost all tours booked with us in the future. We hope to see you again soon. Warmest wishes from all the team at Warmpenguin Tours
Written 15 March 2023
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Carleen V
8 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
May 2024 • Couples
We went on a tour of the Archeology Museum in Athens with Warmpenguin. It was excellent. The guide provided interesting details about the various eras of Greek history, art, and culture. She personalized the tour by answering our many questions. We were thrilled to be in the midst of such a great collection. This was a highlight of our trip. I highly recommend this tour and working with Warmpenguin.
Written 5 June 2024
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Thank you for your lovely review. We are so pleased you enjoyed your tour with us. It was great to host you in Athens & we all wish you a safe return home
Written 5 June 2024
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Chuck N
Marietta, GA60 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Sept 2023 • Couples
Outstanding private tour by driver Nicholas and tour guide Vickie. We toured the Athens Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum. Vickie gave an excellent historical commentary on each and pointed out many features we missed on our first tour the day before. I cannot recommend them enough - they are outstanding!
Written 29 September 2023
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Dear Chuck Your wonderful review was really nice for all of us to read. Thank you so much for choosing us for your tour! We hope to see you back again in the future. Best Wishes from all of us at Warmpenguin Tours
Written 29 September 2023
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AngK60
Berkhamsted, UK6 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
May 2022
Warm Penguin were excellent in helping put together a bespoke tour of various sites on the Greek mainland and time spent on the islands of Spetses and Hydra, and extremely flexible with any changes needed.
Dimitris my driver and guide was excellent, friendly, extremely knowledgeable, and helpful throughout my trip. I was well looked after, which being a solo female traveller was very reassuring. Would definitely use this company again for any future trips around Greece, thank you very much!
Written 1 June 2022
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Thank you for your lovely review. We are so glad you enjoyed your time with us. Warm wishes from all the team at Warmpenguin Tours!
Written 3 June 2022
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Kelly Alsberry
Strasburg, VA3 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Oct 2022 • Couples
Tolis was awesome tourguide. We had a wonderful day. We recommend this tour for anyone who has one day to tour Athens. Tolis also gave us great restaurant recommendation for restaurant in Athens. Thanks for a day of life long memories made!!
Written 19 October 2022
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Thank you for taking the time to leave us a review. We are so pleased you enjoyed your tour with us. We hope to meet you again in the future. Warm wishes from all the team at Warmpenguin Tours.
Written 19 October 2022
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journeymaid48
Fairport, NY1,122 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
May 2023
We took the Peloponnese private tour from Athens with Andreas as our driver and Thenia as our private guide. Thenia is absolutely fantastic as a guide. We learned so much about Corinth, Mycenae and Epidaurus. Excellent historical tour.
Written 11 May 2023
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Your wonderful review was really nice for all of us to read. Thank you so much for choosing us for your tour! We hope to see you back again in the future. Best Wishes from all of us at Warmpenguin Tours
Written 12 May 2023
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David S
Los Angeles, CA55 contributions
3.0 of 5 bubbles
Jul 2017 • Couples
This is one of them most difficult reviews I've written because while the tour guides themselves were personally wonderful, and the locations incredible, and the Owner of the company friendly (David McLaughlin), it was also our one experience on the vacation where we felt disappointed and perhaps scammed. I'll clearly say again that we felt that way, regardless of whether we intentionally were.

I initially wrote the company in May and we received a quick and friendly reply that yes, they could accommodate us for a July tour. In that very first email, we were told by that owner that "I can suggest a nice half way stop at the pretty nearby seaside village of acroepidaurus which would work well before Mycenae." So while we were just writing for a tour of sites, it was his initial emailed response that had me thinking how cool it would be for a nearby seaside village in between our two sites.

I replied that same day asking for suggestions that would include the sites of Myceanae and Epidavros. David replied with detailed and helpful information and wrote, "Tours (& we have one of those) will package that into food, wine, olive oil & coffee stops combined with off the beaten path places away from the tourists."

I replied a few weeks later that "I do like the idea of the wine, food, olive oil excursions. But our priority would be getting informative tours of Mycinae and Epidaurus first and then build the food/wine/extras onto those two components." I then asked for the price, and asked if it was for just a driver or a driver and a guide in the sites.

He replied saying yes he could do the tour (still no price on that), but that we'd need the driver (no price given), and we should have a guide on the site (no exact price given, but a range of what they'd cost if we went anywhere else). And this is the crux of my mediocre review: there seems to be an intentional or unintentional desire not to be specific about how much we are paying for what, exactly.

So I wrote back with the direct questions: "So what is the estimate for the total our costs that day? And what does it include?"

David's response was "The total cost for two persons is 318 euro (payment details below) & includes door to door return transfer & taxes along with a local educated English speaking tour driver knowledgeable about all the places you will visit. The tour is completely exclusive to your group. As the tour is flexible & you will arrive in July (when the sea & weather are warm) you will have the option of lunch & swimming at a small fishing village near Epidaurus (you can decide on the day if you wish & for swimming will only need to bring swim costume & towels with you). If you need additional guiding for inside the site of Epidaurus and/or Mycenae please just let us know if possible up to 5 days before the date of your tour." He also included how to pay via the internet/paypal.

Due to the first sentence including the subject "the total cost" and $318, I sent him that much. I took his use of "two persons" to mean the driver (person one) and the onsite guide (person two) because that's the issue we were just discussing.

He has since said that by "two persons" he was meaning us two people, me and my partner.

In hindsight, I can see that he is saying we can add an in the site tour guide (a bit confusing because we're getting a "tour driver"). And he writes that we'll have "the option" once we are there for swimming and lunch. And he writes that he'll need to know if we'll want a site guide.

Yet due to me having already said I liked the idea of them and wanting a total cost, I was under the impression we were getting the driver, the on site guides, lunch, and a trip to swim for 318 Euros, which is about 375 US Dollars.

Weeks before our trip, David wrote and said he'd need more money for the site guide. I was confused and said, I thought it was 318 for everything. He showed me how that wasn't the case. He replied that "The average additional cost per site for arranging an archeological guide on a private basis is 100 euros...."

Having already paid, and thinking that paying close to 400 dollars for a day was a bit much, I said we'd wait to continue. David quickly and politely offered to refund our money. He also referred us to his Trip Advisory ratings as proof of his legitimacy.

Because I too rely on Trip Advisor, I'm taking the time to thoughtfully be clear in this review.

So we decided to go with him obviously. I wrote back with my tail between my legs and said, Ok, but please give me the actual costs for this trip. He wrote back that the price per site would be 80 dollars for the site guide (on top of the driver's fee of 375. We then confirmed pick address and time.

On the day of the trip we packed for the swimming and were excited to meet our driver. She was so great, amazing really. We loved her. She took us to the first site about twenty minutes away from our Air BnB. She then handed us over to the site guide. That person was also really fantastic. We couldn't have been happier. We then got back in the car and drove to the second site. So great. You must visit Epidavros. Our site guide was the smartest and friendliest and funniest. Then she takes us back to the driver and are excited to see where she is taking us to lunch and swimming.

That's when we learn that the tour did not include either of those. She looked so surprised. We felt horrible. And we all four just sat there kind of stunned. We told them that we had paid close to 375 for a driver which is more than people in the US make working for a couple days. The site guide then needed her money too. And we were then forced to call the owner who told me that I never chose the option for swimming and lunch. We were all embarrassed.

And this is really the key issue: all of this could have been prevented by simply supplying us, the customers, with a detail itinerary/invoice/list of what we're getting and what we're paying for those items.

Jane Doe, Driver
Driving guide: 375.
Lunch: 50.
Swimming: 50.

Mary Smith, Site Guide
Tour of Myceana: 80.
Tour of Epidavros: 80.

Writing that out took 15 seconds. And it would have saved both confusing and discomfort.

Worse, we were practically laughed at when we returned to our Air BnB and told our local contact about how much we paid. He did a spit take, "You paid how much for a person to drive you to two places less than an hour away?!" He said we paid three or four times the amount any local guide would charge us for the sites themselves.

But did we have a great time at the sites? Yes.
Was the driver nice and awesome? Yes.
Was the site guide incredible? Yes.
Was David, the company owner responsive? Yes.

So it's a hard review to write for several reasons, one being that we had a great day. But we believe we overpaid. And we didn't plan out our expenses well enough because the manner of communication during the planning was odd, at times perhaps confusing more than it had to be.

If you asked me what my gut feeling is, I'd say that the owner is not out to rip people off. But the lack of a list/invoice leads to confusion that could easily avoidable were there to be a clear indication of what costs what, up front. I partially take blame for not asking for that weeks before we booked. Now I know.
Written 3 August 2017
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Md Samiul Islam
Leicester, UK6 contributions
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Perfect tour to see most of the Athens in one day. The car was awesome. Our chaffeur was very informative. Just loved this tour
Written 18 February 2019
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kbkern2018
Portland, OR1 contribution
5.0 of 5 bubbles
Dec 2017 • Family
We took both the Delphi and Peloponnese Warm Penguin tours and they did not disappoint. There were 7 of us traveling, aged 12 to 55, and we wanted everyone to be happy, so I must have emailed David a dozen or more times with questions about both trips. He was always so informative and cordial and provided prompt and detailed responses. We emailed a lot of different companies when planning our trip, and decided on Warm Penguin because they seemed to be invested in making sure the tour was perfect for us.

The day started at 7am, and our driver, Vasilis, picked us up at the house we rented (Villa Olivia in Athens, also highly recommended). Since it was early and we didn't have time to eat, Vasilis stopped at a bakery (the Bread Factory - yummy pies and pastries and bread to take home for later) on the way. We first visited the Corinth canal, and then ancient Corinth. On the drive up, Vasilis narrated the journey with lots of history and facts that helped make the tour come alive, so that by the time we got there we already had a sense of the era, people and historical significance. We toured Ancient Corinth on our own - it's a huge archaeological site with paths and markers that describe what you are seeing, and they had a lovely museum full of artifacts.

Then off to Mycenae, to the beehive tombs and fortress castle of Agamemnon. There we took a guide (Theo, who was awesome), visited the tomb and then climbed to the castle, where our guide provided detailed descriptions of the site, rooms, and what happened there when it was a thriving castle. Fascinating, and I recommend a guide for this site - it enriched the experience and helped us imagine what it was like back in the day.

From there we traveled through beautiful scenery to Nafplio, and the Acronafplion citadel high on the hill, and again Vasilis provided us with the backstory and history of how general Kolokotronis was imprisoned there, as well as occupation by the Turks and Venetians. Amazing views from there in every direction and the fortree was cool to explore. We ate lunch in the little town of Tolo at Maria's. Delicious and lovely people.

Our final stop was Epidauros, with the famous theater, still in use today! The acoustics are so excellent that sound travels to the top of the seats without any sound equipment. Make sure you stand in the middle of the stage and talk or clap. Amazing that it was built in the 4th Century BC and still stands today.

This trip crammed a lot into one day, but we never felt rushed or overwhelmed. Vasilis was the perfect driver - and very informative about the area and sites. He answered lots of questions and was a great narrator. His warm personality made us feel welcome and included on the journey, more like family than a driver.
Written 2 January 2018
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Dear Karen & company, From all of us, a sincere thank you for your very warm & kind words ! Every tour we have is different because every group is made of individuals. This is what we enjoy & specialize in, so we really do appreciate knowing that we were able to make the trip such a good experience for you all. This in turn makes a very important difference for us in our work. Wishing you all a Happy New Year & hope to welcome you back here in the future. From David, Val, Vasilis & all at Warmpenguin
Written 3 January 2018
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