2-Day Meteora Tour by Train from Athens

Fantastic tour guides, informative and fun. Would recommend to anyone. Highlight of our Greece trip!

Exceeded our expectations, train trip was great, accomodation was to, tour and tour guide exceptional.

The only thing I would have changed is to include a sunset trip on the first day. We booked it separately from the hotel as we wanted to get up to the monasteries as soon as possible and it was great - and not overlapping the morning trip practically at all! Maybe you could offer it as option for people booking the trip?

The tour was amazing ! Train ride was comfortable and provided a great opportunity to see the countryside. Driver was ready for us and waiting in Kalampaka at the station. The hotel was very comfortable and had a fantastic dinner and breakfast. We spent the afternoon hiking and were so glad we spent two days in this beautiful region. Our tour guide was unbelievably knowledgeable and the views from the 3 monasteries along the route were spectacular. Would recommend to everyone though fair warning, be ready to climb lots of stairs.

We visited two monasteries and a nunnery. Taking the train up the day before, we walked around the town and ate a late lunch. The views and the scenery were amazing and the history of area was interesting. Our tour guide was great, just expect to pay 3 euros at each place. We rode up on the train in A seat which made the trip more comfortable. Expect at the train station in Athens at night to have to haggle with the cab drivers some tried to charge 3 times the cost.

Everything was very nice. The site is breathtaking! The guide and driver were very well informed, friendly and helpful. Our hotel was beautiful. We had a fantastic view from our room.

The four hour tour through Meteora was amazing! The process to get there -- not so much! I booked the trip over the phone, then got an email saying first class was no longer available. So we agreed to second class. I then got a second email telling me we do not have hotel transfers in Athens, which was weird since the gentleman I booked with had asked for our pick up and drop off hotels. So we found our own transfers. Then I got and email saying I did not have to print my voucher. So we did not print them. When we arrived at the Athens train station there was no one there to give us our tickets. We got on the train and had to turn on our international phone plans in order to call Key Tours to find out how we were going to show the conductor our tickets. Apparently, at the bottom of one of the many emails we had received was one line with my name and .pdf and that is where the tickets were located. When we got off the train in Kalambaka, there was no one there to meet us. Again, we had to call Key Tours and have them arrange for us to be taken to our hotel. A taxi driver arrived and took us there. The next morning, we went on a great tour to see three of the monasteries. That was the best part of the two days. Meteora is an excellent destination. Just be prepared for a few setbacks along the way.

Get to Meteora any way you can. It is well worth any inconvenience. The train is slow, makes a bunch of stops, and of course, full of locals and fellow travellers. I was a solo traveller in second class and met a young German couple also going to Meteora to experience its majesty. The train is comfortable with overhead racks for carryon -- travel light -- and there is a food car with decent and reasonably priced sandwiches and drinks. Most people carry on their own food which is a pretty good idea. If you are travelling with others, then the trip will go faster but 5 hours is a very long time on this multi-stop train. It took less time to travel from Newark to Phoenix than Athens to Meteora although the food was better on the train. Kalambaka was charming, the hotel ok but I wouldn't want to stay there again Hotel Orpheus, and dinner and breakfast in this tour included which was ok. Despite the rain and fog February is NOT a prime month to visit, but better than not visiting, Meteora was one of the most jaw-dropping experiences ever. Do what you can to see it!

Everything met with our expectations, this is an incredible place and totally unique. Our guide was very knowledgeable and friendly. Unfortunately the 4 star hotel was sold out and our 3 star hotel was nice in many ways. The included dinner was not especially good though. October is absolutely the perfect time for visiting Greece, the temperature is just right and there are fewer tourists.

The trip to Meteora was one of the most wonderful tours I have taken in any country and is highly recommended. We were issued first class train tickets and picked up at the train station by a taxi and driven to our hotel. The hotel was nice especially the staff and the dinner and breakfast buffet were good. But what made the tour really special was our guide James who was born in the area and our driver. We saw five monasteries visually and visited three. All three monasteries we visited were really interesting. We met other people on the train who were doing an independent visit and they saw only one monastery while we saw three in one morning! The information and commentary provided by James throughout the trip was interesting and entertaining.